mazingaspidey wrote:Has anyone actually confirmed that the legs are breaking? All I've seen are videos with people concerned about them, but no actual breaking yet.
A while back in the thread there was
a video by That Transformer Fan on Youtube, who had the same problem as I did. From what I understand he identified the exact same problem, also returned his Trypticon for a new one and employed a different fix to the one I came up with.
In fact if anyone's concerned about actually altering the components of their Trypticon (like cutting the springs) rather than just disassembling somewhat, and don't mind having a friction joint instead of a softer ratchet, check out
his fix for a modification that's less worryingly permanent. I think that's probably a good balance for people who aren't sure how widespread the issue is yet, and don't want to permanently modify their Trypticon until they're sure there's a good chance of theirs breaking, since with that fix you can easily just reassemble the hip ratchets and have him back to factory default if you decide to change it back.
And speaking of returning:
Kurona wrote:So if your Trypticon's hip thingy does turn out to be a dud one, what's the extent of the damage? Is it as bad as causing parts to fall off, or does it just become very loose and unable to support anything? Is it something you could viably take back to the store to return it and say "hey this is broken gimme my money back"?
I don't see why you wouldn't be able to return one if it actually breaks. Nothing falls off and it's not visibly broken unless you disassemble the hip, but it's clear something is wrong without having to do that. Chances are as long as you have the receipt and explain the problem, you'll have no trouble (I didn't have an issue, and Australian stores tend to have slightly tighter returns policies than American ones to begin with.)
Maybe even have another report or two open on your phone just in case, to show to your service-person if they want further proof (again I didn't need to do so, but it's good to cover your bases I guess). Basically as long as you haven't modified the figure yourself - i.e. playing around with cutting the springs before returning it, as I did (I seem to have been fine so far though, so fingers crossed) - I think it falls very reasonably under "figure broken through normal use" and from there I should think it would be a breeze to return. Or at the very least exchange, since I imagine most will still
want a Trypticon even if their first one breaks.
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