Just canceled my preorder with BBTS. This thing is an easy pass now. Since I stopped doing model building and painting, I won't have to worry about trying to fix this piece. Plus, for $1200 you should not have to even fix it. And I was also going to pull the trigger on Sideshow two foot tall Optimus Prime, but not now. Seems like a lot of big ticket items that have come out this year have just been total cluster____s! Especially with Sideshow which now makes me wonder if their entire model for doing business is out of whack--show great prototype get everybody to bite then production piece is total ____! Pretty sad when you think about it.