Breaking Transformers

[MV75]

Wait.

You were having a shower with your toys and you don't know how it broke, now the toy is supergluing itself back together?

[TheDirtyDigger]

Within the first minute of opening TFA Lockdown I snapped one of his hands off.

I don't have anything really against Hasbro because looking at it understanding that they have to minimise cost and the sacrifices that have to be made

Problem is TF's are now so popular they have to make so many so QC suffers. What we as adult collectors need to be doing is discouraging all children from liking and collecting TF's so that QC goes up and when we finally pass away from old age and incontinence the brand dies with us.

[Kyle]

I'm still upset I managed to break my legends Animated Starscream... *sob*

[Omega Supreme]

First off I mis read the topic's title and thought it said "Transformers Breadaking" I had these visions of a Tip Top Combiner, his nemesis could be Airazor.

Anyhow I have had many problems with TF's breaking, as im sure anyone that owns G1 figures has been through. I swear it seems like some of them break just by looking at them, although nearly every figure of mine that is broken has all been because a non TF fan attempted to transform them. As you may have guessed I dont like people touching them anymore Most of my valuable stuff I keep packed away nowdays.

I really like the Classics/Universe/Henkei figures because they capture the G1 look(most of the time) and I dont have to be so careful when having a transform of the toy, it also gives my friends something to play with instead of having the stress of watching them handling my G1 figures.

[GoktimusPrime]

I know what you mean Omega... as a kid I had many Transformers broken by other kids. I very seldomly broke my own Transformers. :/ As a result I hated sharing my TFs with other kids, but of course my mum would make me share and as a result, many TFs got broken. I would always demand the kid who broke my toy buy me a new one, but my mum would overrule me and it never happened. *sigh* So of course, other kids soon discovered that there was never any consequences for breaking my Transformers. (-_-)

[Tiby]

I fear breakage at all times. That's why I use the instructions whenever I get a new design. I used to think: "wow, these are tough enough for kids to really handle roughly" but then realised that really only applies to the Cybertron trilogy toys. G1 - antiques: I still remember when a friend broke my Optimus Prime's stacks ("It just broke" he said!).

Movie line, Animated, Classics, SWTF - not kid friendly in my opinion.

I think they are seen by manufacturers as just toys and therefore disposable. Shame. I doubt today's figures will be held with the same reverence 25 years from now.

[Kyle]

("It just broke" he said!).

How many times have we heard that excuse?

[liegeprime]

Not much in the breaking TFs but there is one in particular which really made me . That is G1Onslaught. This was still back in Philippines. I bought it second hand from one of the oodles of hobby and collectibles shop there and when I got home I was trying to combine him with the rest of the combaticons when i snapped off his left lower leg when I was putting it into position, the plastic just crumpled into pieces ( prolly due to age). I was so dissapointed coz even with superglue it just wouldnt get repaired. The plastic has this smooth finish that resists from it gluing back "as if new" so for the longest time I had my combaticons just as individual figures. When I migrated my toys here I left that particular onslaught back as I have already acquired 2 here one G1 and a G2 version. Perhaps I left it out of a subconscious way of blocking out a bad memory as well as I really was so keen that day to combine them only to have my eagerness squashed like a bug with his crumbling plastic leg.

Oh and digger, yes you are indeed going south shall i set up a meeting for you to sign on the dotted lines?... the boss will be so pleased of another acquisition to post in the infernal threads