Albatross250 wrote:ALREADY SIGHTED AND AVAILABLE IN ASIA RETAILS?! (PH)
Yes it hurts my wallet very much
Ravage XK wrote:Well this is a huge disappointment. You'd think that QC would have caught this issue.
Is this a deal breaker for anyone?
Stuartmaximus wrote:whaa....? the Takara version?
Kurona wrote:We could also get a running change. Stuff like this happens all the time, right?
william-james88 wrote:Stuartmaximus wrote:whaa....? the Takara version?
No, the Hasbro version. He wrote PH for philipines, so that can only mean Hasbro version since the takara version only sells in Japan.Kurona wrote:We could also get a running change. Stuff like this happens all the time, right?
Yes it does. More reason for me to wait till after christmas for this toy.
Nemesis Destron wrote:william-james88 wrote:Stuartmaximus wrote:whaa....? the Takara version?
No, the Hasbro version. He wrote PH for philipines, so that can only mean Hasbro version since the takara version only sells in Japan.Kurona wrote:We could also get a running change. Stuff like this happens all the time, right?
Yes it does. More reason for me to wait till after christmas for this toy.
After Christmas...?
william-james88 wrote:Nemesis Destron wrote:william-james88 wrote:Stuartmaximus wrote:whaa....? the Takara version?
No, the Hasbro version. He wrote PH for philipines, so that can only mean Hasbro version since the takara version only sells in Japan.Kurona wrote:We could also get a running change. Stuff like this happens all the time, right?
Yes it does. More reason for me to wait till after christmas for this toy.
After Christmas...?
Yup, any money I get at christmas will be going towards what I hope is an on sale and fixed second run Trypticon
Burn wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Let's get back to talking about Burn's mammoth snout flopping...
Well I am Australian. It's kinda what we're known for.
Cobotron wrote:I'll wait for someone else to do a full explanation of the problem before I go into panic mode.
DeathReviews wrote:Can anyone confirm my suspicion that users are supposed to pull the hip joints outward slightly when rotating, so the plastic ratchets have clearance of each other? And the spring pulls the hips back in when released?
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:By the by, they're BIG, like the width of an earthworm.
ultraimpossibleman wrote:Grand innacurration and heavy mistakes !
Diem wrote:This is exactly the kind of nonsense I'm here for.
Qwan wrote:I can confirm that this is not the case. The springs aren't attached to anything so they wouldn't be able to pull anything together, and the rotation for the hips (basically a fully-enclosed giant mushroom peg with a ratchet inside) doesn't allow any leeway whatsoever for pulling the hips outward. The spring is definitely designed to be super-compressed and push outward, rather than extend and pull inward.
So sadly, that design isn't the case here - although I agree it would probably work quite well for a large figure like this!
Caelus wrote:[INCREDIBLY SMART STUFF]
for exactly that reason (and since I wasn't too sure what it'd do to the mechanism if one end wasn't sitting flat), but surprisingly it doesn't seem to be a problem so far - though admittedly I only tested it for a few minutes.Caelus wrote:cutting a closed coil off one end of the spring may not have the outcome that would be expected; for one thing the cut end of the spring may drag across the plastic like a needle on a record player.
ultraimpossibleman wrote:Grand innacurration and heavy mistakes !
Diem wrote:This is exactly the kind of nonsense I'm here for.
I wouldn't say it's too strong to do so, but it's definitely strong enough to be plenty difficult. I think maybe the spring bent outward a tiny bit while I was cutting it? But on the other hand, I put one of the springs under the corner of my bed for like an hour to try and compress it, and it made exactly zero difference. I guess that makes some sense when you think that the whole point of these springs (and most springs I guess) is to be flexible without actually being bendable, so to speak.Caelus wrote:Qwan; if I may ask, is the wire too strong to bend with needle nose pliers? Thanks!
No problem, and thank you! I've relied on figure mods (be they life-saving or just ease-of-use things) so often in the past, that I figured now I have the chance I should try and be part of the solution for once.nilocomic wrote:Curious to see the tutorial for cutting the springs. Thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention!
ultraimpossibleman wrote:Grand innacurration and heavy mistakes !
Diem wrote:This is exactly the kind of nonsense I'm here for.
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