TFs Q/C problems archive (already damaged in the packaging)

[MV75]

Must have been made right on "beer-'o-clock" on a friday arvo. The guy who made it thought close enough.

This is actually quite funny. I'm still giggling at it. "wHy mY ShouLdeRs NoT FiNisHeD?"


Ah drat, VP beat me. I was looking it up on the net while posting to check if your toy was "unique" Seems to be so far.

[GoktimusPrime]

BTW, I believe there's already a thread for this sort of thing

I thought so! I used the board's search engine for "quality" on thread topics, but nothing came up, and obviously because the thread uses the abbreviation "Q/C"! How elusive!

Mods please merge.

I also did suspect that this panel might have come from Henkei but having never seen one before I wasn't sure. Quite strange that the "ROD" is missing. So it appears that I have a Henkeiverse Hot Shod. ;p

P.S.: How do you think this could've happened? Wouldn't Takara's factory (which Hasbro also uses) have separate production lines for Takara and Hasbro products? :/

[Lint]

This is actually quite funny. I'm still giggling at it. "wHy mY ShouLdeRs NoT FiNisHeD?"

Hehehe

Yeah Gok I think you have one of those beer-o-clock exclusives which every collector should be proud to have. It would have been 500% better if it actually did say JA ROD though.

[kup]

P.S.: How do you think this could've happened? Wouldn't Takara's factory (which Hasbro also uses) have separate production lines for Takara and Hasbro products? :/

Yeah which means that Hasbro's cost cutting is even more shameless - They are likely to be paying the factory and workers the same as TakTom would but are cutting costs in production to maximize profit.

[MV75]

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Wouldn't hasbro be paying more then for what the end product is?

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If that's still the case, they'd have an identical product as henkei then as they're paying the "same" for it.

[Prime_217]

my ultimate bumblebee is made from parts that are different colours. some are the correct yellow but then some are more orangy and it really annoys me because he looks awful when displayed in car mode so he has to stay in robot mode which to be honest is a let down.

[MV75]

Wow, overall that wideload looks really bad. Like it was sneezed on.

Look at the drivers window. Ewwww. And the rear grey over blue. Oh lordy!

You should join us in looking over toys a bit better. I was lucky to have 4 brakedowns last week to choose between.

Oh, and that ultimate BB, that sucks because it would be very very difficult to pick in package.

[Autocon]

red paint spray?hmm did someone loose a finger!!

[Golden Phoenix]

P.S.: How do you think this could've happened? Wouldn't Takara's factory (which Hasbro also uses) have separate production lines for Takara and Hasbro products? :/

Why bother. Your making pretty much the same thing for different times. They probably popped out the Takara stuff, and then got straight onto making Hasbro's stuff while the machines are still set up for the Hot Shot mould. The only changes would be the colours and the change with the rear gap + lack of guns. Or the other way around, depending on which was done first
With something like Dinobot or one of the other physically identical moulds, then its just 1 change
I think it is only efficient, and reasonable

[Jetfire]

Hmm.. freaky but in a cool and rare way. Nice find!