fenrir72 wrote:Hellscream9999 wrote:fenrir72 wrote:I'm assigned in a tropical country mi amigo. That is a big factor I'd grant you that. But as stated in my other thread, the room where they are stored is under A/C at least 4 hours a day. Would you believe that I just transformed my Big Convoy just once since 2004 and left him in uber pose mode ever since? I was half expecting the "buster gun/trunk would be the first to give in ( I used Armor On on it) and the part in question ( left shoulder) never was exposed to added stress?
My first RID I purchased was in Orchard Rd Singapore in 2002. Not in the local TRU but a specialty shop as the former didn't carry them (Hb version Fire Optimus Prime/UM). It didn't take 4 months for the front wheels of Optimus to crack.I later sold both for the Takara version back in 2009.......the Takara versions are still uncracked would you believe?)
So this is a risk for all of us collectors, especially if assigned in the tropics.
Well, leaving a figure in a pose, for a long time can be detrimental to joints; happened to most of my Bionicle collection, most of the ball sockets have cracked or snapped as a result of not being exercised. While not a strict comparison, they are both ball-socket joint systems, so lends some insight to the issue.
I will say that ball diameter may have something to do with it... Big convoys shoulders have large ball joints, and dragstrips are rather large, but the 'standard' size and below never give me an issue - as even now, cyb cannonball has squeaky ball joints, but wreckloose doesn't
The pose on the left arm was the neutral arms down no stress. But I think you hit the bulls eye about the ball joint. It is hard@ss big.
Now for the extremity mold used the UW/CW line. Its good that the actual 'bot head is different from the socket head unlike the original combiners. UW Groove is hopefully safe but the torso part where the connection to the shoulder socket. It is a future worrisome issue a few years from now (for the Starscream mold). It's the translucent part that is clamped on the "shoulder/socket part".
On if this set is worth the purchase......I'd say yes, but the traumatized part of me is what's holding back the order now as he is sooooooooo good looking with the new retools and recolors (d@mn you Starscream!
Starscream is always the cause of dissent among the 'cons
Yeah, for whatever reason, 'standard' and smaller ball joints are fine, heck, my bw figures are still good (last I checked
) but once you get to about the size of the bionicle ball joint - actually they seem approximate to dragstrips shoulders
- the seem to go bad after a while, whether they were used or not - rook could be another one to look out for
But beyond anything else, I would have thought that large ball-socket joints would be prone to stress since the plastic is larger/thicker/denser than that of smaller ball-joints, and would thus be prone to stress - especially if you removed it; perhaps cracking is the stress skipping the middle phase
I am not a G1 fan, please treat my opinions as such.
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Now you got me all paranoid. 
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