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Misassembled, yet easily fixable, shoulders on Scorponok.JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Is it just me, or has there been an abnormal count of QC issues this year? Switched parts on Cannonball and the Vehicons, weak plastic on some figures (like two Cannonballs and a Flareup in Japan)...
Nah, it's just me.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Misassembled, yet easily fixable, shoulders on Scorponok.JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Is it just me, or has there been an abnormal count of QC issues this year? Switched parts on Cannonball and the Vehicons, weak plastic on some figures (like two Cannonballs and a Flareup in Japan)...
Nah, it's just me.
Seibertron wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Is that doable? I considered trying it myself, but I wouldn't know where to start or even if it can be done.Seibertron wrote:they're repaints. No need to change the news story. All you have to do is swap the rear fenders for the Dread Pirate Crew Clones.
And is the Hasbro Car Vehicon rear fender compatible with the Takara Jet Vehicon mold?
They're swapped in the Seibertron.com galleries. All you have to do is pop them off and put it on the other one.
Huh? I wasn't the person who first brought up the fender thing.JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:I'm sorry, but Sabrblade is still correct.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Huh? I wasn't the person who first brought up the fender thing.JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:I'm sorry, but Sabrblade is still correct.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Noideaforaname wrote:I know I asked this before, but how many TFs can do a gunface sort of thing, where the robot head is replaced/covered/transforms into a gun? Not including instances where a bot can shoot/spit things with their normal noggin.
Rodimus Prime wrote:You can't make me disappear. I am not feet.
shajaki wrote:
wait... rewind is out already?
necr0blivion wrote:These galleries make me anxious for whenever FunPub is going to mail out the 2014 box set for non-attendees. Seriously, I want that Scorponok in-hand already. (So I can correct the assembly issues)
scorponok has assembly issues?necr0blivion wrote:These galleries make me anxious for whenever FunPub is going to mail out the 2014 box set for non-attendees. Seriously, I want that Scorponok in-hand already. (So I can correct the assembly issues)
shajaki wrote:scorponok has assembly issues?necr0blivion wrote:These galleries make me anxious for whenever FunPub is going to mail out the 2014 box set for non-attendees. Seriously, I want that Scorponok in-hand already. (So I can correct the assembly issues)
Sabrblade wrote:The back pieces of his armpits are each upside-down and on the wrong sides of the body.
To use Energon Scorponok for visual reference, it's the orange armpit pieces seen in these pictures, which are purple on the BotCon toy:
Notice how, in these pics, the pieces each have a slope that runs down the body. On the BotCon figure, since the pieces were swapped and attached upside-down, the slopes run upward on the figure instead of downward.
Thus, the big shoulder pieces are unable to fold outward all the way, making him look like he's constantly holding his shoulders in a mid-shrug position, as seen here:
Instead of like this:
The way to fix this is to simply unscrew both pieces with a small Philips head screwdriver, and reattach them on their opposite sides of the body in their correct positions.
But note that front half pieces of the armpits are NOT swapped (at least on mine, they weren't), so those may not need to be swapped either. Take note of their position in this pic (the blue pieces with the gold outlines behind the translucent yellow side cannons):
This is the correct position for these two pieces, and Ryan's figure seems to have gotten it right for these two pieces as well (which are now orange with a green outline):
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Seems to be a widespread case.shajaki wrote:thanks for all that! was this problem with all scorponoks (like 2013's hoist) or just some?
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
yeah... dont really know if im going to tackle hoists shoulders. i can probably live with it.Sabrblade wrote:Seems to be a widespread case.shajaki wrote:thanks for all that! was this problem with all scorponoks (like 2013's hoist) or just some?
Unlike Hoist, though, this one is easily fixable.
Midnight_Fox wrote:necr0blivion wrote:These galleries make me anxious for whenever FunPub is going to mail out the 2014 box set for non-attendees. Seriously, I want that Scorponok in-hand already. (So I can correct the assembly issues)
They started shipping them yesterday, some people have already gotten their confirmation e-mails.
Sadly, I'm not "some people".
necr0blivion wrote:Midnight_Fox wrote:necr0blivion wrote:These galleries make me anxious for whenever FunPub is going to mail out the 2014 box set for non-attendees. Seriously, I want that Scorponok in-hand already. (So I can correct the assembly issues)
They started shipping them yesterday, some people have already gotten their confirmation e-mails.
Sadly, I'm not "some people".
I didn't receive a confirmation e-mail, but that's okay. It just showed up at my door! Time to watch some UFC and scroll through this thread to see what fixes I need to do tonight.
Midnight_Fox wrote:SO JEALOUS!
Edit: So, uuuhhhh, I jumped the gun, it's been sitting on my front porch for like 3 hours.
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