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Originally Posted by generalzodlives
Some companies actually make replacement parts at the same time they produce the statue run. I don't know if that's the process XM uses or if they have to make full statues. What I do know is that they're having to go through the same process for Wonder Woman that they went through for Joker. XM needs to get their quality control for these 1/6 statues back to the level it used to be when they started with 1/4 statues.
These 1/6 statues are already more expensive for this scale. I have no desire to keep preordering, get the statue, find out it's messed up, put it back in the box, and wait for months to get a statue I can actually display. I've never had issues with XM's statues (and I own a ton of them) until this 1/6 line. Right now, they're batting .500 with Joker and Wonder Woman having big issues and Superman and Flash being ok (so far).
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Even if they did make some replacement parts with the first batch the portraits would have come out the same due to the bad batch which I'm guessing was a bad mold...
I agree they need to up their QC but this does seem to be a problem with companies once they start to get big. Too much product, not enough people to check on everything, a common problem with Sideshow... Even seeing it with Tweeterhead since they started to do a lot more statues... Not saying it's ok just that it is unfortunately common...
Back when XM was smaller they only had a few statues so yeah they could look through all the boxes before being sent out... those days a long gone...
I got lucky I guess, my Joker went together easily... but given I got mine like a month after you got yours, I was probably in the 2nd or 3rd batch... so either they fixed it or my hairdryer trick did the trick
