Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Dead Metal wrote:I am notecing that with a lot of TFs at the mo!
Chosen wrote:Dead Metal wrote:I am notecing that with a lot of TFs at the mo!
People complain about the same damn stuff with every toyline. The complaints are just in greater volume thanks to the movie popularity.
I've heard the same complaints at least as far back as Energon, and similar issues (chrome flaking) even further back to Beast Wars. This is not new, this is not Hasbro suddenly deciding to suck, it's the price you pay for collecting mass-release toys intended mostly for children.
Chosen wrote:Dead Metal wrote:I am notecing that with a lot of TFs at the mo!
People complain about the same damn stuff with every toyline. The complaints are just in greater volume thanks to the movie popularity.
I've heard the same complaints at least as far back as Energon, and similar issues (chrome flaking) even further back to Beast Wars. This is not new, this is not Hasbro suddenly deciding to suck, it's the price you pay for collecting mass-release toys intended mostly for children.
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Dead Metal wrote:But why do they decide to mold a part in clear plastic just to cover it completely with paint?
Redimus wrote:Tes and no.
I have 200+ tfs from pretty much every toyline there's been. Ive never bought one I've flet motivated to take back to the store until the movie.
Now I've been cursed with two diferent versions of the same damn charecter i wanna bring back to the store.
Chosen wrote:Dead Metal wrote:But why do they decide to mold a part in clear plastic just to cover it completely with paint?
Molding the roof of a car in a solid color and having a separate piece of the mold for the clear windshield and windows is probably more cost-prohibitive, hampers the design of the figure, or considered a choking hazard if it breaks. It may very well be all of the above. And if Hasbro keeps the mold in solid plastic and paints the windows, people complain about that, so it's a lose-lose situation as far as pleasing fans go. Which is not their main intention as Hasbro employees like to remind us at Botcon so much.Redimus wrote:Tes and no.
I have 200+ tfs from pretty much every toyline there's been. Ive never bought one I've flet motivated to take back to the store until the movie.
Now I've been cursed with two diferent versions of the same damn charecter i wanna bring back to the store.
Don't quote collection numbers as if I haven't been around the block much, heh. I've owned at least as many myself (mine just tend to change hands every so often). One individual experience is nothing. These are toys manufactured in the hundreds of thousands. Aside from certain universal problems (gold plastic, TM chrome, fading, and even these don't always happen), not all figures will be perfect or imperfect.
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
tom brokaw wrote:my real gears, 08 BB, thundercracker, leader prime, grimock. leader brawl, and many other of my figs have piss poor paint jobs on them
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Redimus wrote:There's a third option.
Go back to the store and demand a refund or repaint. Especilly since one ofthe little bits on yellow plastic on his shoulders has disapeared without a trace as well.
Infact I still need ot get my money back for the old Bumbles too, cuase mine suffered the little snapping peg issue too. Sadly I lost the recipt for that one.
Redimus wrote:Just got Deluxe '08 BB, and I like it. But I've begun to notice a whole selection of paint related defects.
I mean really Hasbro, I'd expect better paint jobs than this from knockoff companies.
Also the yellow paint isnt exactly a brilliant match for the plastic is it?
i_amtrunks wrote:Redimus wrote:Just got Deluxe '08 BB, and I like it. But I've begun to notice a whole selection of paint related defects.
I mean really Hasbro, I'd expect better paint jobs than this from knockoff companies.
Also the yellow paint isnt exactly a brilliant match for the plastic is it?
The paint is what stops 08Bumblebee being one of the best figures of all time. He is still the pick of the movies figures in my mind, but has ever such a long way to go to reach the standard set by half the Cybertron and Beast Wars lines.
In their effort to make as much money per figure, Hasbro really shot themselves in the foot with the movie line figures.
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