The Energon Pub

by **SpacerAM2** » Sat May 26, 2018 6:10 pm

yesterday the front connecting peg broke off hook's cab. holds fine in altmode. but when I connect scavenger as an arm it easily comes undone the cab. have to put the chest shield of devastator so it can hold together or else it won't hold at all. it does leave a small separating gap on the devatator's chest. that peg lasted almost three years. stressed both shoulder connector pegs on long haul 2 days after buying it. broke a small peg off mixmaster's mixing drum when I recently bought it 4 or 5 days after. not too long ago one of the two tabs on black jack's axe broke off when I tried connecting it to menasor's chest. the connector hand port suffers from stress cracking on alpha bravo, blades, votex. which happen all to be the same mold. the same issue with dragstrip , and offroad's port hand or foot hole connector. is it only me with these problems. it is frustrating really. Hasbro should do something about it if only they do?

News Credits: 295 · by **WreckerJack** » Sat May 26, 2018 6:21 pm

While I don't own Devistator I do own Victorion and the hexagonal peg that connects Rust Dust to be her chestplate is getting a little worn. Is that the issue you are having?

I think it is because it was never a good fit and I had to really press to get it into place. Plus over time use just wears things. I use it sparingly now so I don't hurt it. I wonder if a little floor polish could be used to build up the peg slightly or if that would just cause more problems.

by **SpacerAM2** » Sat May 26, 2018 7:17 pm

don't have victorion. don't know if floor polish would help. sorry.

News Credits: 42 · by **TF-fan kev777** » Sat May 26, 2018 8:07 pm

I've had no problems with Devastator, Blackjack, Offroad or Drag Strip, and I don't recall hearing about many of those issues from anyone else

I do have plastic fatigue on the copter bots from the Hand/Foot/Gun in the same areas that you do. It was discussed on these boards pretty early on and I've always gone really easy with putting the hand/feet on never bottoming out the peg. That seems to have kept it at bay for me. Alpha Bravo, Blades and Vortex have a little fatigue on them from before I knew about the issue and none of them have gotten worse since I've known to go gentle. I got the Victorion, Megatronia, Ruination and G2 Bruticus sets after knowing about the issue and none of those copters have developed any fatigue yet, so going easy seem to be working at least for me.