Toys broken while in your possession

[5FDP]

I shudder to think how many of mine would break straight out of the box especially now since I buy 99.9% online. Think I'll just leave them all in the box. Ignorance is bliss

[snaketales]

I shudder to think how many of mine would break straight out of the box especially now since I buy 99.9% online. Think I'll just leave them all in the box. Ignorance is bliss

Schrodinger's transformer?

[iamirondude]

well now my protoform starscream is falling apart. i just put his weapon in his hand and it fell off. what a rip! it should be able to last more than a year.(i had it mosc and decided to open it. it's never ever been in sunlight)

[Bidoofdude]

well now my protoform starscream is falling apart. i just put his weapon in his hand and it fell off. what a rip! it should be able to last more than a year.(i had it mosc and decided to open it. it's never ever been in sunlight)

Just out of curiosity, did his thumb piece just break off as well? It seems to be quite brittle.

[iamirondude]

yeap it sure did and when i went to move the arm up to have a better look it fell off.

[liegeprime]

Most of the TFs in my list are GPS sufferers which would explain they're downfall. Others are just suffering from Brittleness of the plastic prolly due to age of the toy.

7 years ago - G1 Roadblock's innerbot - I got the toy (from ebay) when it arrived, was too excited didn't heed that it is a gold plastic tf tried to pose the little innerbot and that arm snapped.... glued it in place and never played with the innerbot again, always just the innershell pretender now... this also happened with my G1 Skyhammer's innerbot - I bought an extra innerbot to compensate but I don't manipulate the little guy at all.

Same thing with Pretender Monster innerbot - G1 Bristleback - I was being careful but there seems no way of going around the darn GPS - transformed the innerbot from bot to beast mode and the leg snapped in pieces - had to scramble to the floor to find all the pieces so I can glue it all back together in place. Needless to say I've stuck the thing in beast mode - actually in limb mode, and finally after 7 years found a spare (which I fixed as well) to keep in bot mode.

Mutant Beast Soundwave - I have been warned that the toy is absolutely all in gold plastic - tried to eveeeer so gently transform from gator to bat mode and a whole section of his chest snapped. again glue in place and now he's forever stuck in bat mode. At least the glue holds all of em.

Last year , with God Ginrai - that tab for his leg that locks godbomber to his feet in combined mode snapped while I was trying to play with the toyafter years of not playing with it. I tried to glue it but yeah, the tab just isn't going as strong as it used to , so I bought an extra God Ginrai from a fellow member here, kept that in its box and as for my first Ginrai - he's forever in combined mode with Godbomber.

Years ago I managed to acquire an incomplete Metroplex - while at play and transforming him to base mode, the middle torso connector snapped and he ended up in two segments - upper and lower. Heavy glueing and days of not moving the toy he is now left in Philippines - still incomplete , transformable to a degree but you cant twist his torso at all anymore. Ive since acquired 2 more complete Metroplex. Im thinking of passing that one up to this kid I know, mebbe.

Admittedly this one is a preTF - MicronCondor - blue hue - arguably Garboil hehehe. His plastic started to turn brittle around the leg joint where it joins with the body at the tail part. It crumbled when I transformed him and not amount of gluing has kept it in place, this figure Ive retired...

Another pre tf - Micron Microx - Pre Reflector - Ive had it even before I got my first TF (Soundwave) around 1984. Havent played with it much since the joint are quite loose from all the play it got waaay back when I was a kid. then one day I decided to clean it a bit and tried to separate the 3 figures (it was in camera mode) I pulled one figure and the metal strut of the middlebot(pre- Viewfinder) snapped away with the robot I tried to disconnect.... I was really annoyed coz for yeaaars Ive had this toy, and to think it snapped at the metal portion not the plastic bit, grrrr. no amount of g;luing could connect it back but Ive kept the figures (for sentimental reasons) in combined camera mode and remains on display in my G1 shelf.

Another figure which Ive abandoned back in Phils in G1 Onslaught - my first onslaught - his leg plastic seems quite brittle and has crumbled at the knee joints when I played with it, glued it but it still keeps crumbling so I just kept the figure but in broken pieces. Ive since got 2 more Onslaughts and am very careful with the legs when transforming them coz I think the plastic in them feels brittle.

My G1 Shockwave's arm snapped at the right arm joint while gdmetro was handling it. The toy is old so I didn't blame him at all. Of course he was flabbergasted heheheheh. I was aware he was handling the toy with such care, so I didn't get angry at all wasn't his fault after all. Good thing though co member Bruticus (who was present at the time remembered he had an extra junker he sold to me which I harvested for the part that snapped off. Now my Shockwave is all good again. I certainly am not in the mood to look for another G1 Shockwave not with all the KOs proliferating around nowadays. Bought mine 7 years ago loose on ebay and the electronics still work well.

[griffin]

During the big overhaul of the collection at the start of the year, I came across a number of broken figures, and ones that I broke while moving or cleaning the toys.... which is really depressing to see all in one spot like this.

(gonna have to get myself some good glue... and buy a lot of replacements)

A Tripredacus missile/wing, a Pretender beast gun, and the tail-wing on Gen2 Terradive.


The posts on two Spychanger guns... which is something for people to be careful putting into or out of their fists.


TF2 Voyager Starscream's arm, at the plastic "pin" that makes the shoulder.


Leg fin from the JP GO! combiner.


And one of the combiner head-pieces... the good one too.


Noted before, but this is a photo of two of the three that now have broken jaws.


Kissplay Auto-trooper bonnet/head-cover, that leaves a big hole in car mode.


Side mirror snapped off the Alternity Skywarp, when it fell off the shelf.


TF2 (2010) Leader Starscream - brown plastic tab broken off the shoulder.


Alternity Megatron with a broken tail-light.


Two of my MP Convoy Megatron guns, broke rather easily at the rivet joint, as the plastic loop is rather thin and weak, so if it is tight, or gets tight as it gets older, it can break quite easily if you force it. Unfortunately for me, the brown version has only been released once.


And in the last week, a bumped into one of the display cases, knocking a couple toys off...
One of the capsule figurines, which I'm finding are very fragile for plastic. They seem to be as brittle as 20 year old sun-damaged rubber. And this was the only Shockwave I had too, as they were the hardest to find in the set of 12.


And my "noooooo" moment - the toy I only had for about two weeks, and paid US$40 for... JP Advanced Dino.
Some of my toys are posed in fancy poses, but means they fall over too easily... and this was one of them.


I hope that wasn't too painful for anyone...

[CBratron]

Schrodinger's transformer?

Nice one.