>>8619278For me it was the elbows and shoulders on pic related. The o-rings for both joints were this sparkly black plastic that was manufactured poorly. They were extremely cheap, every one I bought would break. Oddly enough, the Steel Mill T-1000 and Motorcycle T-1000 didn’t have those problems. It’s just those first two.
What I did was hang on to them. Then when the Ultimates came out in 2015, I bought them, swapped them out with the old broken 2010 ones and returned them LOL
I’ve done that with various Predator (Dutch in particular), Robocop and DC figures over the years. If they break, I hang on to them, wait for NECA to do a 2.0 or ultimate rerelease and then just return the old figure that broke. I make sure I tell the customer service person to “please see to it that this broken product goes back to the manufacturer, and not on the shelves”.
If breakage wasn’t an issue, there wouldn’t be so many videos, forum posts and images of all the damage. The proof is in the pudding. Look, I love NECA’s sculpts, their artists have real talent, but the quality control on 86% of their products is just down right bad. Yes, you’ll get the occasional figure that is perfect out of the box (never had a problem with any of the NECA IT Pennywise figures), but most of them do break. It’s not exaggerated.
