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Post by Stuart? on Jul 28, 2017 6:34:47 GMT -5
This is really starting to bother me with Mattel figures. It seems like every figure I buy, there's something wrong with it. Today I just got the Network Spotlight Helmsley in the mail and opened it to find blue paint chips on the forehead and the waist joint is frozen. I'm not too worried about the head as I was planning on swapping it anyway, but does anyone know a solution to the waist problem?
Hopefully Mattel sorts this out sooner rather than later.
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Post by PJ on Jul 28, 2017 6:41:29 GMT -5
Elbow grease. Just try and twist it normally it will snap free. I guess you can try and heat the waist figure with a hairdryer to loosen the glue strength if you are having trouble turning it as is. As for the paint chips I don't see how that could happen seeing there's no blue paint on that figure.
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Post by Stuart? on Jul 28, 2017 6:45:27 GMT -5
Elbow grease. Just try and twist it normally it will snap free. I guess you can try and heat the waist figure with a hairdryer to loosen the glue strength if you are having trouble turning it as is. As for the paint chips I don't see how that could happen seeing there's no blue paint on that figure. Thanks bud, just got it loosened up with a hair dryer. The chips are more grey now that I've looked at it more closely. (Mods can lock this thread up if they want)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2017 6:56:33 GMT -5
There's a moral to the story, support your stores. They'll then order more product and you won't get lumbered with crappy quality issues, granted, that wouldn't help the waist issue
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Post by Sizzle on Jul 28, 2017 7:02:02 GMT -5
I haven't seen it as much with more recent figures. That figure was made during the worst time for Mattel QC.
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Post by Stuart? on Jul 28, 2017 7:04:11 GMT -5
There's a moral to the story, support your stores. They'll then order more product and you won't get lumbered with crappy quality issues, granted, that wouldn't help the waist issue I got it from Toys R Us' website.
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Post by poindizzle on Jul 28, 2017 7:38:41 GMT -5
Watch out on that Summerslam Balor elite! I thought the odds seemed high for this, but two at my local TRU had two right thighs. That has to be a more common error if two made it to the shelf for what I assume was their first time stocking it.
That, and I finally saw an Elite 46 Rusev in person the other day and it had black splatter all over his forehead and the eyebrows mostly chipped off. We aren't out of the woods yet.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2017 8:27:13 GMT -5
There's a moral to the story, support your stores. They'll then order more product and you won't get lumbered with crappy quality issues, granted, that wouldn't help the waist issue I got it from Toys R Us' website. In store is the only way to go in my opinion
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Post by Jack Mattel on Jul 28, 2017 8:32:36 GMT -5
Although unfortunate, this is what you get with mass production. Not giving mattel a pass. They still make great figs overall
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Post by Medieval on Jul 28, 2017 8:53:10 GMT -5
I can find something wrong with every figure and honestly it has been that way since 2011-2012. Just got NS Brock basic yesterday and his right leg is longer than the left. Same problem with a few Brock basics I have. And almost every figure I open has a loose something. Granted it can all be fixed. I have just accepted that if I wanna collect this line I have to deal with it.
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Post by PJ on Jul 28, 2017 10:48:07 GMT -5
I can find something wrong with every figure and honestly it has been that way since 2011-2012. Just got NS Brock basic yesterday and his right leg is longer than the left. Same problem with a few Brock basics I have. And almost every figure I open has a loose something. Granted it can all be fixed. I have just accepted that if I wanna collect this line I have to deal with it. That can be said about every mass produced toy line ever made.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2017 11:17:02 GMT -5
I can find something wrong with every figure and honestly it has been that way since 2011-2012. Just got NS Brock basic yesterday and his right leg is longer than the left. Same problem with a few Brock basics I have. And almost every figure I open has a loose something. Granted it can all be fixed. I have just accepted that if I wanna collect this line I have to deal with it. That can be said about every mass produced toy line ever made. Remember collecting Starting Lineups in 1989 and finding a figure like Andy Van Slyke who is holding a bat and for that bat to not be bent 45 degrees? Impossible, always a problem.
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Post by CampCornette on Jul 28, 2017 11:24:44 GMT -5
That can be said about every mass produced toy line ever made. Remember collecting Starting Lineups in 1989 and finding a figure like Andy Van Slyke who is holding a bat and for that bat to not be bent 45 degrees? Impossible, always a problem. Did you also have Doug Drabek and Sid Bream?
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Post by Medieval on Jul 28, 2017 11:32:42 GMT -5
I can find something wrong with every figure and honestly it has been that way since 2011-2012. Just got NS Brock basic yesterday and his right leg is longer than the left. Same problem with a few Brock basics I have. And almost every figure I open has a loose something. Granted it can all be fixed. I have just accepted that if I wanna collect this line I have to deal with it. That can be said about every mass produced toy line ever made. Very true well besides lego.
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Post by PJ on Jul 28, 2017 11:52:00 GMT -5
That can be said about every mass produced toy line ever made. Remember collecting Starting Lineups in 1989 and finding a figure like Andy Van Slyke who is holding a bat and for that bat to not be bent 45 degrees? Impossible, always a problem. The worst thing about the batting Andy Van Slyke was he was a left handed batter but his figure was a right handed batter. The 1990 figure they portrayed him slinging into a base with batting gloves on both hands. He very rarely even wore batting gloves. Then his 1995 figure they put the glove on his wrong hand because although he batted from the left side of the plate he threw with his right hand not his left. So many things were wrong with his Starting Lineups
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Post by WCWThunderRosa on Jul 28, 2017 11:56:35 GMT -5
Why would that figure have blue paint on it? There's no blue anywhere on that HHH. Weird
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Post by Purple Reigns on Jul 28, 2017 12:15:14 GMT -5
QC isn't them checking every single ing figure to see if anything is wrong with it. They're mass produced toys, not food.
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Post by Arik Cannon on Jul 28, 2017 12:18:25 GMT -5
My exclusive red AJ Styles came in the mail last Saturday. Immediately after I took it out of the package the right arm fell off right at the bicep. Only a matter of seconds I'm talking
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Post by maske2g on Jul 28, 2017 12:22:40 GMT -5
I've found it to be much better recently after a dreadful 2016
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Post by SporeSpam on Jul 28, 2017 12:22:49 GMT -5
My Helmsley has like, leftover plastic on the arm. Makes it look like he has a tumor or something. It's really gnarly.
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