I know someone is going to say "gorilla hands". If you are that guy, piss off. I wasn't even touching the arm when the screw snapped and it fell off.
Fans Toys figures may look pretty, but they aren't made with much thought to actually staying pretty long-term. They are very much pose and place figures. I like my Hydra, but I don't want to buy anymore of their figures and would happily replace him with an Ocular Max offering. I want a figure that can be messed with, not one that's functionally a statue.
Sorry, shit happens... FT is not better than any other 3p company QC wise, but I heard they have good customer service, try contacting them. The one thing they are different from other 3p companies, is that their figures are not designed to play with and stay pristine. Their toys are generally pretty statues as @lordcryotek said.
Pretty sure that connection spot has ahas been a trouble spot for a lot of people, nothing to feel gorilla hands about. Its a flawed design,as it a pretty easy to shear off that bar.
Is it just Fanstoys or all of 3p? I tend to remember that for all the Hasbro bashing, all of 3p does not measure up to Hasbro's durability. For all the 3p items I own, I tend to handle with extreme care, as while there is some customer service, you can call Hasbro up or exchange at your local retailer.
Of all the breakages to possibly suffer... no for need replacement parts from fanstoys or having to deal with the pandemic mail either? Counter your blessings!
I hear you. FT's designs have been, for awhile now, stuff that looks very good on a shelf, and they do have great after-sales support. I can kind of understand how they got their reputation. But lately their stuff has articulation issues, minor QC issues, clearance issues, and pain-in-the-ass engineering. Their stuff sells out almost immediately, and older figures are selling for double or triple their original prices, which tells me that FT is either unable or unwilling to meet the actual demand. Their prices have been creeping up, not as bad as Takara but noticeably more than other 3Ps. FOMO has me agonizing over buying figures I don't actually like, and I'm tired of a small but rabid group of fanboys defending FT with increasingly inane arguments like, "who really poses their figures with a waist swivel?". This hobby used to be fun, about collecting toys I can mess around with, and Fans Toys is just stressing me out. I'll finish the two combiners I'm already in on, I'll pick up the Astrotrain I already preordered, and I'll maybe get Chomp to finish off those Decepticon Headmasters, but then I think I'm done.
I like that we can have varying FT opinions here. I feel like I need a bath after visiting the FT specific groups. I love them generally but things like this are too common and make it terrifying to transform anything. The item probably sold out 3 months ago and would cost $300 to replace if you could even find one. I’m more forgiving because I mostly pose and move on but if I wanted to play with them I’d don’t think I’d go FT.
guess it could be worse...maybe you can get a screw...but I sense that you're frustrated...starting a thread about it and all. Sometimes you just want your toys in tact when everything else seems broken. I dig... carry on...
I wasn't playing with it. I was putting it back in bot mode after having it displayed in jet mode for the past few months. That was, apparently, too much of an ask.
Depends on which Hasbro figures and which 3Ps, I'd say. Retail CHUG stuff is pretty durable, yeah, and some parts are designed to come off specifically so they don't break. And in the early days of 3P, yeah, a lot of it was pretty fragile. But these days I'd say most of the 3P stuff I've bought is as sturdy or better than the Takara MPs I've bought. And I'm not counting MP-44 or Hound, which I hear are a bit worse.
No. Anyone who thinks removing a broken off 1mm screw is easy, is either a magician or a Swiss watchmaker. I was able to somehow drill out the screw, but the screw hole is now about 2mm. A 2mm screw will not fit in the diecast armature.
I was being extremely careful. Following along with emgo's transformation video, just to make sure I did not put any stress in the wrong spot. In fact, I was not even touching this arm. I was turning the figure over when the arm quite literally fell off.
