This has been box week. Really, really big, gigantic box week. On Wednesday I got my Sauron box. Damn, that was one big box. Open her up and son of a gun, Sauron is damaged. Well back he goes. I've gotten an RMA from Sideshow and he sits in the hallway waiting for UPS to take him back.
On Thursday I got my MR AT-AT signature series. Makes Sauron's box look like a shoe box. Big, gigantic, freaking monstrous box. My wife took one look at it and asked me with a glare, "Does someone live in their?" Then she stopped talking to me for a couple of hours, no joke. I left the box be figuring it would be best to let things settle down with the better half. She's cool today and expressed some curiousity as to what lived in the box so I finally opened it and not without a bit of trepidation. It looks like UPS tried their best to do what The Rebellion had a hard time doing, bring down an AT-AT. Here's a shot of the box. They wrapped brown paper around one end. It looks like they covered water damage caused when they dunked the box in Lake Pontchartrain on it's way here. Here's a picture and that's the good side of the box you're looking at.
As I was putting the AT-AT together I found two small pieces of resin on the base. Sh*t! Once I had the AT-AT attached to the base I went crazy going over it looking for where those two pieces could have come from. I found nothing. I breathed a sigh of relief and was ready to write it off as some left over resin from some other broken statue. Then I took a good look under the AT-ATs belly and darned if I don't find the damage. The jet engine like nacele was broken. Here I am pointing to it (go for it cap70, now you have a picture of my finger, do your worst):
Here's the damage close up:
Now I've got a sizeable broken piece but I'm only looking at two small pieces of resin. I look all over the place and can't find a damn thing. Where the hell is that big piece? I finally look inside the box and embedded in the protective styrofoam, and I do mean embedded, is the missing piece. I had to pry it loose with a tweezer. Here it is:
I literally had to pry that piece loose with a pair of tweezers. That's the most confusing part of all this. It was like someone shot that piece into the styrofoam from a gun. If it broke off during shipping thanks to UPS's careful handling I can see it rattling around loose inside like the other two pieces. I just don't see how this thing could have broken off during shipping and embedded itself like that. Oh well. I've contacted my dealer and I'm sure he'll make this one right.
Now I've got two freaking big boxes in my hallway and we're having a hard time getting around. Arghhhhhh!
