>>9874776There has definitely been a large upsurge in QC issues since COVID. I'd been collecting for years and yes, rarely would get a figure that had an issue, but since COVID became a thing, almost every figure I've bought (and I've bought almost every figure released in this line) has had a QC issue. Maybe I'm just foreverial shit luck or something, but it's getting fucking tiring to have to exchange or deal with some kind of fuckup on $60+ fucking figures because oh, a leg is loose, or I need shock oil to fix this, or the paints chipped, or the faces are misprinted, or shit that can't even be exchanged like 17's off center MIR printing.
It's not solely these figures either, I bought two SAS FotNS figures and Kenshiro came missing half a fucking foot and Raoh came with the paint on his knee pad chipped off. QC everywhere has gone to shit since COVID.