Wow, the plastic looks awfully thin/brittle in this image. I'd genuinely be terrified to transform the figure, without fearing it'd accidentally snap in half
Same. They fooled me once on Victory Saber, wasn't letting them fool me twice!
Doubt it considering these haslabs seem pretty much complete products that get tweaked a slight bit after getting funded. Haslab unicron had a number of issues with breakages and the tweaks they made made it worse (no lower teeth paint for some reason, leg shells don't fold inside the legs like on the earlier prototypes, etc)
Haslab's notoriously shitty quality control makes me wonder if Hasbro thinks fans backing Haslab figures will buy them no matter what/regardless of poor quality?
Yes, but the gold plastic syndrome issue despite being called gold plastic syndrome was more the cheap plastic used in certain figures that became freaky brittle in the span of like a year or 2 after release rather than the plastic's color. It affected a lot of, but not all figures with gold plastic, and in some cases depending on figure batch you occasionally would get lucky and not have it just fall apart if you breathe on it. Transmetal megatron's bronze plastic isn't affected by GPS, it's the fucking nearly black dark brown used for most of the figure that's what gets it and the connection around the torso's also tight and ratcheted. put those together and it explodes just the same as cheap thin plastic does. Almost every figure nowadays is made of some kind of sparkle filled or swirly plastic and it's always got me kinda worried about longevity even if in most cases GPS doesnt rear it's head again save for exceptionally rare cases like the takara version of motormaster from combiner wars. Already went over all that before though lmao.
Discolouration on the plastic can be easily fixed, this concerns me more. It's too intricate to design and 3d print a new piece on my own so a 4th party will need to figure out a fix.
I'll have to do that first once I get some time.
I haven't had much trouble with my Haslab stuff so far prior to this. The biggest issue is things like looking for a place for them as they're too large and in terms of Star Wars, out of scale with what I usually collect.Haslab's notoriously shitty quality control makes me wonder if Hasbro thinks fans backing Haslab figures will buy them no matter what/regardless of poor quality?
...actually, I guess they're correct on that front
It can arrive more yellowed and broken than a secondhand copy of the figures the bundle's remaking which is ridiculous. The project also got "value speculators" slurping up those original copies so stuffs more expensive now as a whole thanks to this thing.
oddly the attachment seems to be broken for me, but yeah the recent rise of impact/magnet switches in collector figures and kits with LEDs across the board is a very odd one.
That reminds me, I found out a few days ago that apparently megatronus has a cracking issue too on the legs, supposedly due to them being a little tight on one mushroom peg. Mine hasn't done that yet but I'm wondering if the plastics in general are just even more shit than before in some areas.
Could someone please explain the admiration for Blokees? To me they look like inferior Transformers without the crucial gimmick of full transformation.
