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mooncake623 wrote:Does anyone have problems popping the shoulders back together? i popped to transformed it and it was fine. transforming him back the left shoulder just wont pop in that round black tab just wont go in the indented circle... is there a trick that I don't know of? been watching reviews everyone just seem to pop it right in. anyone else have this issue?

Thanks in advance

I had difficulties with that bit at first too. I hate to tell you this, but it's just the simple matter of "the peg goes into the hole". Just rotate the thing until if fall right in.

Still, whay would you want to peg that soulder in in the first place? At least, that arm can have a better positionning for better and more dynamic poses.

Yeah the shoulders had me sweating at first i was just checking the articulation and the left one popped out and i couldn't get it back in i had to transform him into a gun then back again before it fit again for some reason .

I had a problem with pushing the legs in to form the gun handle it was so tight i didn't think they moved.

The only minor problem i have is that the scope on his wrist is a tiny bit slack other than that i cant complain.

Autobot Genocide wrote:Yeah the shoulders had me sweating at first i was just checking the articulation and the left one popped out and i couldn't get it back in i had to transform him into a gun then back again before it fit again for some reason .

I had a problem with pushing the legs in to form the gun handle it was so tight i didn't think they moved.

The only minor problem i have is that the scope on his wrist is a tiny bit slack other than that i cant complain.

put a bit of clear nail polish on the inside of the slot and it should hold a lot better. The left leg on mine was a bit tight at first but it's find now.

I finally got around to transforming my Hegemon. Never again. Staying in robot mode until Im 6 feet under. Those tabs on the hip kibble are BS. You get one pegged in and it pops out the other. Way too many tabs that have to be perfectly alligned. It takes the fun out of transforming. I gave up trying to tab the gun together. But it looks so good in my collection, no regrets.

Rated X wrote:I finally got around to transforming my Hegemon. Never again. Staying in robot mode until Im 6 feet under. Those tabs on the hip kibble are BS. You get one pegged in and it pops out the other. Way too many tabs that have to be perfectly alligned. It takes the fun out of transforming. I gave up trying to tab the gun together. But it looks so good in my collection, no regrets.

The trick is to just pop off the hip kibbles and plug them back in at the very last step. This way, there's no troubles.



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Now... I cleaned the thread of the silly bickering and unlocked it.. If it happens again you both will receive 2 warnings, one for last time and one for continuing the argument.

I had to open up the left leg on mine. Transformation was leading into breakage territory because it was so doggone tight. I saw what it was once opened, so I just put it back together and left upper two screw looser than the rest. Voila! Fixed it. He transforms without any issues, now.

Weird thing...my trigger works, but the first time I pulled it, there was a clicking noise. Now..nothing.

A while ago, I used a loose pin from one of my junker used for customising.
The trigger is now pinned in place and work wonderfully.

Thanks for posting those fixes daimchoc !

I did the canon fix and it worked like a charm (no hammer needed, I just pressed the pin in with a screwdriver). I fixed my arm joints by actually just tightening the 4 screws on each shoulder as I had a feeling, after looking at its internal workings, that that may do the trick and it did. I'm sure I could get them tighter with some superglue or nail polish, but they seem to be holding just tightly enough now, including with the canon arm extended out .

Now I just wish his canon shoulder could pivot out instead of being stuck flush against his body (an unfortunate side effect of the way he's engineered). It always sits pressed in at an angle and looks a bit odd, but it's not too bad (especially now that the canon is posed away from his body).