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They toys say "Ages 5+". However no 5 year old I know can figure out the first thing with these and would destroy them in minutes. With all the toys breaking quickly, is there a class action on the horizon for Hasbro? This forum is loaded with adults breaking them. I would assume adults know what they are doing as opposed to a small child.

You'd be surprised at the number of adults unable to read/follow instructions.

Class action? That'd be retarded.

Instructions? These toys come with instructions?

Seriously I haven't found any of them any more difficult than anything we have seen before. I would say that for once the difficulty rating on the back of the box is actually indicative of what to expect. But so far I have managed to figure all of them out without the instructions and nothing has broken. Of course I don't have all the the figures in hand so I might find one yet that confuses me.

I also haven't picked up any of the figures that have shown any predaliction to breakage. Blackout might be the first one that I will have to worry over when I do get him.

megatroptimus wrote:You'd be surprised at the number of adults unable to read/follow instructions.

For once, we actually agree.

pittsburg_22_m wrote:They toys say "Ages 5+". However no 5 year old I know can figure out the first thing with these and would destroy them in minutes. With all the toys breaking quickly, is there a class action on the horizon for Hasbro? This forum is loaded with adults breaking them. I would assume adults know what they are doing as opposed to a small child.

I doubt there's a class action anything here. Toys break.
But yes, I foresee plenty of unhappy children crying their eyes out over these. However, most of the people I knew growing up, when I was a kid...they didn't care if their's broke. They just used the pieces for something else, like an add-on to their G.I. Joe playset or whatever.

Koloth wrote:I also haven't picked up any of the figures that have shown any predaliction to breakage. Blackout might be the first one that I will have to worry over when I do get him.

Instructions won't save you. He's absolutely infuriating. It's not a matter of mistranformation, it's a matter of those damned tabs get in the way, and they really shouldn't be there. There's still enough of a clip on there to hold the shoulders in place, I'm considering cutting the tabs on mine, because you have to stress the arms a bit to get them to swing around for clearance. (BAD design. I mean BAD.)

Sure toys break but some of these seem really cheap plastic destined to last one transformation (ie bumblebee). I can't get bumblebee back together like about 800 other people. The defective version. The last toy I broke was Jetfire Classic (like 3 of them...stupid cheap tabs!).

I always thought I was heavy handed, yet I never seem to get these problems outside of the starwars tfs, and they really are shite.

Autobot032 wrote:

megatroptimus wrote:You'd be surprised at the number of adults unable to read/follow instructions.

For once, we actually agree.

pittsburg_22_m wrote:They toys say "Ages 5+". However no 5 year old I know can figure out the first thing with these and would destroy them in minutes. With all the toys breaking quickly, is there a class action on the horizon for Hasbro? This forum is loaded with adults breaking them. I would assume adults know what they are doing as opposed to a small child.

I doubt there's a class action anything here. Toys break.
But yes, I foresee plenty of unhappy children crying their eyes out over these. However, most of the people I knew growing up, when I was a kid...they didn't care if their's broke. They just used the pieces for something else, like an add-on to their G.I. Joe playset or whatever.

Koloth wrote:I also haven't picked up any of the figures that have shown any predaliction to breakage. Blackout might be the first one that I will have to worry over when I do get him.

Instructions won't save you. He's absolutely infuriating. It's not a matter of mistranformation, it's a matter of those damned tabs get in the way, and they really shouldn't be there. There's still enough of a clip on there to hold the shoulders in place, I'm considering cutting the tabs on mine, because you have to stress the arms a bit to get them to swing around for clearance. (BAD design. I mean BAD.)

I agree about Blackout. MAddening to transform. I got mine transformed on accident, the instructions did nothing. On the plus side, I was able to get Ironhide back to vehicle mode just by futzing with him.