Black Hat wrote: When in a hole, stop digging.
Listen, man. I'm not here to protect your feelings. If me criticizing what I see as an overblown reaction offends you, that's not something I can control. You decided to come into an otherwise rational discussion guns blazing, and you got the reaction that justifies.
It always starts with one. I was the first to mention the Alpha Bravo mold's fragile HFG port, and sure enough it turned out to be a widespread issue.
That's weird, since I have every single version of that mold released in Combiner Wars and didn't experience a single issue with any of them - again some people having an issue (even a lot of people having an issue) does not mean most or all will have it. Sometimes this stuff is a bit of a gamble, and if you don't want to risk it that's your call - but that still doesn't necessitate the level of doom-saying your first comment contained.
Look at the break. This is clearly the result of inferior plastic. It's not a one-off QC error, it's a straight up design flaw. I will be very surprised if this isn't the first of many such breakages.
I have looked at the break - it's impossible for us to know exactly what caused it, what he was doing with it when it happened, etc. Just looking at a picture and pretending like you can accurately guess exactly what the issue is doesn't convince me. Maybe there was a bit of flashing stuck in the mechanism that prevented it from moving, and cause it to bend the plastic cross instead of turn properly - I certainly don't know, and I don't buy that you can know from a couple photos that this is a major design flaw. If it's the first of many such breakages, that sucks - rant away - but until then, what's the point?
Perhaps, but at that price point I would expect it not to destroy itself through normal handling. This is a very expensive figure, and for the amount of money customers are paying for it, it shouldn't suffer that sort of issue.
Well, the world doesn't really function on what "should" be. Obviously in a perfect world, every product regardless of price would arrive perfect and entirely functional - but that's simply not the case. The trade-off for having mass produced items that don't cost thousands of dollars to own is that they can't always get the individual attention and QC examination needed to maintain perfect quality for every single copy. You can expect a product not to have any defects for anyone who buys them, but unreasonable expectations will only leave you feeling bitter when they're not met. It's far more reasonable to expect the number of impacted items to remain low than it is to expect them to be nonexistent.
Anyway - if you had made your point the way you did in this comment instead of all the
this is flat-out unforgivable, Hasbro should be ashamed, not to make sh!tty products, If this is the sort of crap we're gonna get"
kinda stuff.
I don't think anyone here WANTS this to be a widespread issue, right?
We're all fans. We're all upset to hear this is a possible issue we might have to face. Still makes the most sense to wait until we know just how likely it is for us to face that problem, which I still prefer to hold out hope for until it's proven otherwise.
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What a shame. This is why im partically done with collecting, things are so expensive yet the plastics used etc dont justify the cost at all.
