IAmWillGibson Posted January 8, 2011 Posted January 8, 2011 I was looking through some of my minifigures today, and much to my dismay I found a higher number than I'd like that are cracked along the side of the belly. And not old figures: fairly recently-purchased. Zev from the rebel pack, a snow trooper, the dirtbike guy from that one World Racers set, a couple others... It bums me out, man. So my question, for those of you with more experience: is this just something that happens? Is there something I did wrong? Is a crack like this sort of a solid-state injury, where it happens to the point it is now, and wont get worse? Will a figure crack pretty much right away, or might more figures become split in time? And is there a way or a hope [or a need] of fixing this damage? Thoughts and opinions welcome! Quote
Lordofdragonss Posted January 8, 2011 Posted January 8, 2011 I was looking through some of my minifigures today, and much to my dismay I found a higher number than I'd like that are cracked along the side of the belly. And not old figures: fairly recently-purchased. Zev from the rebel pack, a snow trooper, the dirtbike guy from that one World Racers set, a couple others... It bums me out, man. So my question, for those of you with more experience: is this just something that happens? Is there something I did wrong? Is a crack like this sort of a solid-state injury, where it happens to the point it is now, and wont get worse? Will a figure crack pretty much right away, or might more figures become split in time? And is there a way or a hope [or a need] of fixing this damage? Thoughts and opinions welcome! Sadly this happens with new minifigs and bricks too... Plastic is just weaker than before... This is very sad for us. Quote
SpiderSpaceman Posted January 8, 2011 Posted January 8, 2011 I'd found in one of my brand new figs, when I turned the hand, a white stress mark appeared along the middle of the blue arm. other than that, yeah, I've got a lot of torsos cracked under the arm, and loose arms with that, but mostly on ice planet and backwards. I used to swap out arms and hands all the time, now I'm much more cautious Quote
Henchmen4Hire Posted January 8, 2011 Posted January 8, 2011 I have two that I can remember that have cracks along the side, and they're from the Fright Knights and Western themes. None of my new LEGOs have had any problems. Although, now I see what people mean by "Chinese plastic", sometimes it even looks a little transparent, like they use clear plastic and dye it whatever color they need it to be. Quote
Brickdoctor Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 It probably didn't come up if you did a search, but there is a topic here. Quote
MinifigFreak2010 Posted January 18, 2011 Posted January 18, 2011 (edited) I wouldn't be suprised if lego was switching out to cheaper minifiugre materials for more figures. I found out that, to my horror, that the collectible figures are made out of a cheaper plastic then the normal figures. When I began poking around here, I found a post about it. As far as what you did wrong? Question: did you do anything to put the figs in Harms way on purpose? Meaning, did you subject them to rapid tempature changes, damaged them using them, or other wise cause damage of some sort? if not, I doubt it was something you did. I quickly noted the cheapness of the collectable series 3 ones I got as soon as I poured the pieces out of the bag. The 3 I got are currently stored in the top drawer of my rolling cart and i'm now only planning on picking up a few more if I can find some at a good price on eBay b/c they're to cute to resist. Lego tried to pull a fast one on us and thought we wouldn't catch on to there attempted swith-a-roo. EDIT: oh, almost forgot. Follow this link and there's a post "legos made of Chinese plastic?" http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=50275&st=0 Edited January 18, 2011 by MinifigFreak2010 Quote
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