XM Studios Magneto

[marker2037]

Mine was shipped. I should have it this week.

[loricstone]

Originally Posted by marker2037

Mine was shipped. I should have it this week.

Marker....PREPARE FOR GLORY!!!!

[Rainy]

Originally Posted by wanderlai

You guys that still don't have yours yet I feel for you. Being in limbo like that must suck.

Got it few weeks ago and to be honest Mark deserve an apology.
This thing is heavy and I can imagine shipping few piece per week could be a tough chore

[The Mule]

Hey Rainy, great pics and glad you came to your senses, lol
Yeah, shipping these out is no joke for an individual, people tend to forget about it.

[Mace Handowan]

Great pics Rainy. I have also received my Magneto a few weeks ago. However, upon inspecting the statue I have noticed that there is an unusal large gap between the suit and the collar piece of the statue.



Taking a look at your pictures, there is a huge difference. Not only is your collar piece sitting much closer to the V-shaped bars, there are also no "texture" holes between the upper end of the suit and the collar.



I have already contacted XM Studios with regard to this issue, but Bryan told me that this is not considered a faulty piece but more a "slight variation". In my opinion, this is clearly a faulty piece where the factory tried to cover up a production mistake by adding additional "texture" holes and elongating the V-shaped bars. This is definitely not the quality I am expecting from XM Studios and I currently have a total of 6 XM statues in my collection.

What is your opinion? Would you accept such a piece? Right now, I am more than unhappy...

[built2shred]

I'm not seeing the issue.... both pictures look fine to me, only different I can see is on one picture they didn't run the dots all the way to the collar and on the other they did... which one is yours?

[Mace Handowan]

Mine is the upper one. These "texture" holes were added afterwards as these are normally not there, at least I never seen them on other pieces where pictures were posted on these Boards. Take a closer look at the V-shaped bars. The one on mine are way longer as there was some additional length "added". You can also see the huge gap when you compare the distance between the clasps on the left and right side to the collar piece. On Rainy's piece, these sit flush with respect to the collar, on mine there is a considerable gap. I mean: Come on, they added some additional holes and they did not do a good job there either if I might say so...

[built2shred]

Originally Posted by Mace Handowan

Mine is the upper one. These "texture" holes were added afterwards as these are normally not there, at least I never seen them on other pieces where pictures were posted on these Boards. Take a closer look at the V-shaped bars. The one on mine are way longer as there was some additional length "added". You can also see the huge gap when you compare the distance between the clasps on the left and right side to the collar piece. On Rainy's piece, these sit flush with respect to the collar, on mine there is a considerable gap. I mean: Come on, they added some additional holes and they did not do a good job there either if I might say so...

I just looked at mine and you are correct the v-bars are a lot longer on yours.... looks like they made a mistake at the factory and tried to fix it.

[The Mule]

Can you take a few more pics from an upper angle? I can see the added holes and the collar looks somehow rough right above the V-shaped metal thing, but I don't see the gap

EDIT: nevermind I got it, you don't mean a gap like a hole, but the fact that the collar is further away from the V-thing and clasps. Yup, I see that too

[built2shred]

Yep the collar should been placed lower, whoever put the collar on had it way to high and then tried to fix the mistake which didn't turn out to good.