Seibertron wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:SW's SilverHammer wrote:shajaki wrote:why is it that the botcon and TFCC figures suffer from such rampant QC problems?FracturedKoi wrote:My Rewind came misassembled, his hips are pinned in backwards!
Wasn't there a rumor a few months back that to cut costs the club doesn't pay for QC or something like that
A more likely explanation is that we as collectors are far more weary of slight errors, as we're paying a premium to get these figures. And the errors themselves are the same as what you can expect from regular retail, from loose joints to misassembled pieces. We just don't scream bloody murder when that happens with regular retail as they're easily replaced
Actually I heard the same thing about Quality Control. I experience a much higher percentage of problems with the Club exclusives and BotCon figures than I do with regular retail figures.
I thought of this just now: with production runs downsized from regular retail, isn't it possible for the QC to be downsized (but not eliminated) as well? I'm reminded of the whole Henkei Thundercracker and Skywarp debacle, which were similar in nature and had QC mishaps up the wazoo. True, Universe Starscream was indicative of things to come, but those two releases and only those two truly stand out.