>>5776974Swindle-anon here.
My onslaught had absurdly tight joints in the legs too, to the point I was a bit worried that with all the metallic swirl in the thigh plastic is a potential breaking point somewhere in the future. I'm not complaining about that, as the tightness translates to really secure legs in the combined mode. Swings & Roundabouts.
I also had a few issues with blast-off's tolerances. His neck peg just falls right out of place, and his feet wouldn't sit flat because the connector pegs were too fat; which results in the legs not tabbing together at all. in addition to that, it also really irked me how tight the nosecone assembly is and the likelihood of all that delightful metallic purple to just rub off through general wear and tear. I spent most of my evening last night with a craft knife and sand paper sorting his shit out. It really worries me just how loose that neck joint is on the very first print run of the mold.
Brawl was fine, and his soft ratchet on the waist clicks into place snugly and securly, but the mold itself is still shit. Fuck those shoulders, fuck the entire stumpy arm assemblies in general.
Vortex was the diamond of the set for me, and even he wasn't problem free. One of his rotors is super loose, but that should be fixable with a blob of superglue in the right spot and a bulldog clip clamping overnight.
I'm just super fucking disappointed with the entire set and having to fix something on pretty much every single figure. It's not what I expect when I open a box of premium painted takara goodness. I'd been looking forward to it for months, and it's the first time I've ever owned a complete bruticus. I never got Vortex or Brawl as a kid, so it scratched a special nostalgia itch for me, and the QC issues really robbed the joy of it for me.
