Qwan wrote:Just make sure you don't bust the toy itselfBurn wrote:I really should get around to busting mine out of his box.MadProject's right, the cross piece is the same part as the entire base of the hip, so not only would it require a large amount of disassembly (if it even can be disassembled by the consumer; I'll have to look at that) but it'd also be two rather large pieces of metal/sturdy plastic. And given how much even the small 3P products tend to cost...MadProject wrote:Black Hat wrote:A 3P upgrade kit that replaces the "cross" of the ratchets (the bit susceptible to tearing due to the shoddiness of the materials) with either really dense plastic or ideally metal would be a great idea. Someone get on it.
I don't know how much that is doable. It should be one solid piece, so basically you'd have to change all the base for the hip
If it is possible though, that would be totally great! Certainly would be a good move for some 3rd party company or another, since it wouldn't even require any new engineering on its own, just copying an existing part. (And since there was enough demand for better combiner extremities that multiple 3Ps each made their own of those, I can only imagine that there'll be fairly significant demand for a replacement part that stops the figure from destroying itself immediately .)
Yeah, it would be kinda difficult. That said, if the pieces were slightly redesigned such that the "cross" and the mounting for it were separate pieces (such that the mounting piece would be plastic and the cross metal) it might work a bit better than having two massive chunks of metal.