Toys broken while in your possession

[vorox4251]

ive only had a couple of figures ever suffer major damage.
the supreme devastator from ROTF is one of them. one day while combining him, the connector for scrapper (within scrapper) broke as i tried to connect it, and luckily i was able to super glue it into a position that would allow it to still hold.
i have also had my ROTF sideways break, as the wings snapped, due to the nature of the clip being clear plastic, i asssume.
but the most recent one was TR galvatron. as i will admit, i generally have to cart things around in my bag, and walk places, and i, with the figure in the bag, was knocked back, fell over and landed on the bag, it also resulted in the destruction of my phone, but the major issue for the figure was that the hinge that holds the canopy on snapped. i have been fortunate enough to find some ways to keep it attached, but no permanent solution. the best i have found is to remove the pin and wedge the bar thae hinge was on into the rest of the hinge, or to place it within the square port in his back.
EDIT: i will add TR wolfwire as well. the back panel hinge shattered

[griffin]

My TF4 1-step Galvatron.... the main gear for transforming the toy (you twist the top of the truck to transform it) snapped off, so now it can't transform, and doesn't look good in either mode (the front/chest must have been spring loaded, as it won't go down now).
There were so few Decepticon toys in the TF4 toyline, and one of them in my collection broke first.
Typical.

[Thurmus]

From the video reviews, it looks like twisting it all the way will force the chest down, the the tab that locks in under the cab locks the twist mechanism from spinning back and holds it in place.

If you get pliers, can you twist the black tube on the back until the chest gets held flat?

[griffin]

Rearranging several shelves of toys yesterday so that the Rescue Bots toys were all together... and POTP Optimus fell about a metre onto a hard surface...


Had to use pliers to straighten it back out, but it has left a light blue stress mark.

And this was my 6,000th toy in the collection too...

[M-bot]

Rearranging several shelves of toys yesterday so that the Rescue Bots toys were all together... and POTP Optimus fell about a metre onto a hard surface...


Had to use pliers to straighten it back out, but it has left a light blue stress mark.

And this was my 6,000th toy in the collection too...

Get a hot hair dryer on that, stress marks should all but vanish, as well as soften the plastic enough to gently bend it back into shape.

[snaketales]

If you can get the head off, an alternative would be putting it in a cup of just boiled water for 3-4 minutes until the plastic is slightly bendy, bend it into shape then put it in cold water to harden it.

That’s my preferred method - a past attempt at using a hairdryer warped some surrounding parts for me.

[griffin]

A couple more losses to the collection...

The rubber hose on 20 year old "Universe" Bludgeon is now rock hard and brittle. (same as the rubbery accessories on the UK Actionmaster motorised vehicles)
I haven't checked the much older Gen2 Combat Heroes yet (the first release of these air-firing toys).



And the foam covering on the Rumble/Frenzy headphones (Music Label from Japan), also crumbled to dust, so I cleaned it all off (only took a damp cloth).