>>5320317Are you being serious right now?
>Worse was that his left knee sheared off immediately upon removing the figure from the tray - that's going to require help from customer service to take care of.http://www.oafe.net/yo/necasup78sup.php>But now we get to the sticky wicket. Prior to receiving my Supes, I had heard many reports of breakage with this figure, particularly at the knees and elbows. There are rotating hinge joints at both locations, to go with NECA style ball hips and shoulders, a ball neck, cut waist, rotating hinge wrists, and terrific rotating hinge/rocker ankles.>I figured better safe than sorry, so I used hot water to work every joint free, not just the elbows and knees. And it was all going well...until I got to the last one, the left knee joint. In the photo below you can see the result. Even with a well heated joint, this knee snapped with very, very little pressure. In fact, it shocked me when it snapped, because it seemed like I was barely touching it, let alone putting any real pressure on it.>This was the only joint I ended up having trouble with, but that's probably because I went crazy with the hot water. Had I not known and merely tried working with the figure in a normal way right out of the package, I suspect the result would have been far worse.>This sort of widespread breakage is simply not acceptable. A broken joint is a worthless figure. I ended up gluing the knee in place so I could take the photos, but the figure will never be what it should have been.>This problem with extremely brittle plastic being used in joints is not new. We saw it with the first release of the Game of Thrones figures from Funko, and we are still seeing it - although less often - with the DC Collectibles BTAS figures. I'm pretty surprised to see this issue continue to hang around, and companies like NECA need to correct it immediately or face a longer term issue of dropping consumer confidence.http://www.mwctoys.com/REVIEW-112515a.htm 