by Autobot032 » Thu May 31, 2012 12:29 am
- Weapon: Switch Blade Tail
And it strikes again...
This is a common problem, actually. Several mentions over at TFW, as well. The shoulders literally disintegrate and the arms just fly off on their own. One guy had his on display, never transformed it, just took it out of the package and this happened. Said he was in the room doing something else and he heard "pop clunk" and the arm was laying on the shelf. The other arm ended up falling off later.
The spring ends up forcing it right off.
This mold, this poor, unfortunate mold... If it's not the fragility of V.1, it's the Hasbro version's shoulders popping off.
The only way, it seems, to get a reliable and sturdy Masterpiece Rodimus is to get V.2 of TakaraTomy's. It has all the fixes of the Hasbro version, with none of the breakage problems.
What a costly mess this figure has turned out to be. I have V.1 and I've been fortunate not to have any breakage, but there are stress marks and I can see why it could break. Better planning should've been used in some spots. They tried to do too much in too small a space.
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