Delta Magnus wrote:Seibertron wrote:Seibertron wrote:Delta Magnus wrote:Remember what happened to Blades and Alpha Bravo? Well it just happened to Groove too. The first two times I just assumed it was a problem with that particular mold and could be avoided by not buying the Helicopters, but now that UW Groove is broken as well I'm convinced it's a line-wide issue. There's two non-mutually-exclusive possibilities here- one possibility is that the plastic just sucks. The other possibility is that the bizarre choice to make the 5mm ports hexagonal made them more prone to fractures. Or of course it could be both. Either way I want my money back on these f*ckers.
I'm done buying official combiners. I gave you a chance, HasTak, and you blew it. You burned me one too many times. I guess you really do get what you pay for- it's 3rd party only for me from now on (at least with combiners).
What happened with Blades, Alpha Bravo and Groove? Can you provide a link to where you talked about that?
Did the store where you purchased the set from help you out?
I pinged them an email when Blades broke and they said they'd source a replacement leg directly from Takara. Unfortunately it hasn't arrived yet and Groove already broke on me. I've asked them for a refund now, they haven't responded just yet.
Did you pay with Paypal? Credit Card? Lots of options to get this fixed or get your money back. If you've waited a few days and haven't heard back from the seller, I would send them another message. If you don't hear back from them at that point, I would pursue different options with Paypal or your credit card company to initiate a refund or chargeback. It sounds like you got a bad batch, though I haven't transformed my UW-03 Defensor set yet, but I haven't had any problems like this with my other Hasbro Combiner Wars or Takara Tomy Unite Warriors figures yet (I own them all and as you can see from my galleries I have transformed many of them many, many, many times for comparison shots and put them through the ringer with posing them in action shots).