pic related, all of those guys look fantastic but across multiple bandai and threezero purchases (and the one ccstoys item lol) i've gotten shitty tolerances, parts that wriggle or pop off too easily, too much/not enough/no glue on at least one part (the face in gurren lagann's case, which means a crucial feature is just useless on my copy), or just piss poor design (threezero ravage's tabs are so tight that people are breaking theirs, mine is fine so far but it's a timebomb) . i quit collecting mainline and 3P/MP tf because hasbro and takara kept putting out crumbly, overpriced, poorly designed stuff, but at least those transformed. maybe i should get into NECA, they may need boiled but they're a fraction of the cost of all this expensive shit that feels like i'm getting charged for the joy of having to take 30 minutes and a 3 page essay to fucking pose something.

am i crazy? am i just having a constant string of bad luck across multiple lines?