No.. and that's the real problem as I pointed out a few pages back. It's a very stiff almost ratchet joint which stresses the shoulder connector.
yeah, there wouldn't be much of an issue, imo, if they gave you specific instruction on what not to do
No.. and that's the real problem as I pointed out a few pages back. It's a very stiff almost ratchet joint which stresses the shoulder connector.
Well timcent has been very proactive in warning his customers. I can't say the same about sideshow, which isn't surprising. In any case mine is currently out for delivery. I'm excited and scared ****less.
This is the second message I've received from him. I don't have him in hand yet. The first message did not specify shoulder breakage. I guess my point is, the 2members on here are not alone. Unless they purchased from timcent and the message from timcent is a response to those 2 single cases....
I wouldn't be, it's not as if these are arriving broken. It's just not gonna do any extreme posing. Enjoy it.
I have just been on Hot Toys facebook page and this is all they talk about, even for other figures like Thor. So looks like a wide spread problem.
I wouldn't be, it's not as if these are arriving broken. It's just not gonna do any extreme posing. Enjoy it.
Wouldn't call lifting your arm in front of you "extreme posing"
does anyone have one with the shoulders not breaking?
this pic of instructions was posted a few pages back. Was it included in the box with spiderman?
does anyone have one with the shoulders not breaking?
I thought it was a joint design issue that isn't addressed in the instructions?Depends on whether you have dodgy shoulders.
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Very hard to describe this without doing a video (I don't do video).
But this might help. I don't think this is a radically different body, or that it's anymore flawed than some of HT's recent bodies. I just had a look at the stock Captain America Spangled body, it's arms are worse than this. They are extremely stiff and ratchet joint one way but are loose up and down, try to do anything even remotely extreme and they will break.
So what I'm saying here is this..
Fragile badly made HT body is made even more fragile and breakable by the fact it's Spiderman. Or course you are gonna try and position his arms as if web slinging. HT have gotten away with it for a while now with more sedentary licenses. This could be the perfect (plastic) storm. But I don't think the body is "faulty" per se, if it was it would be broken out of the box IMO.
And no, I haven't tried to bend his arms backwards, nor do i intend to, I
didn't do that with the Medi either. Not my thing.
Treat the TT shoulder like a balljoint and it will break.
I'm still none the wiser
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