Hot Toys Common and Known Issues and Quality.

[BurningRage]

I bought a MIB DX Indiana Jones this year and the holster belt disintegrated as soon as I touched it. The new Alien Warrior and BvS Batman has some peeling problems reported.

[BurningRage]

Originally Posted by rykerw1701

Couldn't agree more with this post. There's some new 1/6 players like Qmx coming up, but nobody has the history of success with headsculpts like Hot Toys.

But all my statues are comic related, except for the Batman '66 line.

Enterbay is pretty good with headsculpts. Their BD Terminator is the best Terminator head sculpt imo. They mostly do NBA now though. Blitzway is pretty good too with K.A Kim's Fight Club and Ghostbusters.

[joy_division]

Originally Posted by BurningRage

Enterbay is pretty good with headsculpts. Their BD Terminator is the best Terminator head sculpt imo. They mostly do NBA now though. Blitzway is pretty good too with K.A Kim's Fight Club and Ghostbusters.

That is 1/4 though...

[mickey]

Originally Posted by Tbolt

Yeah...The re-issue didn't take all that long to fall apart either.

I thought Hot Toys don't do re-issues...

Originally Posted by BurningRage

I bought a MIB DX Indiana Jones this year and the holster belt disintegrated as soon as I touched it. The new Alien Warrior and BvS Batman has some peeling problems reported.

Yeah? That's one of my concerns. I wish their Avengers and Star Wars line won't have those issues...
I read that some Ironman has paint issues... I hope it's not too bad.
I hope that years after I bought one, they won't break once I start posing 'em again .

[joy_division]

Originally Posted by mickey

I thought Hot Toys don't do re-issues...

They did a Die-cast Robocop, so they did a second version of this, complete with soundbites - even though it is not audio from the film.

They have done plenty of rereleases, particularly from Aliens, Predator, AVP & repaints galore from Iron Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgxKc8hUUq8

[mickey]

Wow! That is good to know!
I'm just getting into this line, and I missed out on a lot.

[Bustajesse]

Ed-209 (original and reissue) - cracking rubber dome
John Conner - peeling leather coat
Plastic Mark III, Mark IV and V - Pink panties ( red turns pink)
Swat Gordon - Neck staining
Alfred - hand staining from coat
DX01- Disintegrating PERS
DX02 - Melting rubber suit (final run corrected)
DX 89 Batman - Disintegrating PERS
DX 89 Joker - Super floppy legs, orange shirt rips, broken buttons
Harvey Dent - Disintegrating knee joints
Batman Returns Bruce Wayne - Yellow,staining shirt from glue
Han Solo - yellow staining from glue
Alien Warrior 2.0 - rubber rips on head
King Leonandis - Ripping arms
Gamora - Ripping arms
Sleeveless Thor - Ripping arms
Dutch - Ripping arms
Hulk - Staining shorts
Suicide squad Joker - staining shorts and coat
Sandtrooper - breaking straps, lost studs broken ammo pouch
The comedian - melting rubber vest
Tumbler- sticky wheels, broken flaps broken lights
89 Batmobile - easily scratched, 50% scratched from factory
DX Bespin Luke - weak glue, belt pieces lost, magnets fall out
BVS Superman- suit melts in armpits, some have yellowed
BVS Batman - Peeling suit
Bane - Staining from brown sweater
Spider-man - staining black head
Stormtrooper - broken ankle sockets
Batman begins - broken foot sockets
Zod - Broken ankle sockets

That's what I can think of off the top of my head but there are so many more. The problems I listed are more common and not just 1 offs. Basically they use extremely poor materials that are not meant to last.

[mickey]

Originally Posted by Bustajesse

That's what I can think of off the top of my head but there are so many more. The problems I listed are more common and not just 1 offs. Basically they use extremely poor materials that are not meant to last.

Are you familiar with Square-Enix's Play Arts Kai line? Their joints easily breaks as well due to the use of poor materials... Are Hot Toys close to Play Arts Kai's poor material quality?

[joy_division]

Majority of problems that you have listed happen with any company. Staining will happen when dyed clthing is put right next to the body. This was the case with Enterbay's Leon & his beanie as well as with Damtoys' Gansters kingdom Spade J Memories
As for bodies that have no articulated joints in the arm, don't be an idiot & pose the hell out of them, use your brains
PERS has nothing to do with disintegration over time. My DX09 pers brok an eye the second time I posed it. And if your two face/Harvey dent body is week, just get a new body!
If you are losing pieces, take better care of your items!
Oh, & my IM Mk. V still has RED panties, my first HT figures Dallas & Kane - are still in superb condition, which is all the more surprising as the whole spacesuit is made out of rubber
Yes, there have been mistakes - The comedian & Batsuit Begins come to mind because of the oil leaks, but that is unfortunately a side effect of using rubber. Without mistakes, how can you learn & improve?

[Bustajesse]

I've actually never heard of a company that has had as many issues with their product as Hot Toys. What makes matters worse is they offer virtually no customer support. You better hope the retailer you buy them from has excellent customer support. Many of the problems happened for people right out of the box. Hot Toys Learn? Lol look what happened with Ed-209. They did the exact same thing.

The problems I listed vary from severity (not all mine, ones I have read over the years, but I did have a couple of the issues). Some are minor some are major. Many of these figures retailed for over $220 USD + shipping + tax. Unacceptable IMO. Many of these issues happened right out of the package or within a few months of shipping. These are not even one off problems with QC, there are multiple instances of all of the problems I listed.

I'm just advising people starting off, don't drink the kool-aid too fast. This company has a monopoly on the 1/6 market. They have turned a fun hobby into overpriced statue collecting. I'm not disputing that they have some of the most realistic sculpts and paint application, but don't plan on having them for longevity.

Or just chalk it up to user error, whatever.