Transformers Shattered Glass Blaster In-Hand Images

I suppose it is good they are not using all the plastic they used to

Sponge

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fig is fine, a little annoying

so it is not me that received a box that seemed smashed, after looking at the shape of the box, i wondered if that was intentional

PlanckEpoch

Toy QC, or QC in general for most consumer products, is typically done with a randomized sample. That means either during production or after production of the batch samples are randomly picked out of that production batch. The idea is to get an unbiased sampling of the batch population for overall quality.

Say if you pick out 20 in your sample batch. Maybe 1 or 2 products at most have some kind of flaw. That's actually okay. It means the probability wise the vast majority of your batch is perfectly fine within the parameters of that factory or the product specifications for quality. However, if like, 10 out of your 20 samples have flaws, then it's likely that the entire production batch is flawed and needs to be resolved.

Examples like that mis-molded Blaster handle happen BECAUSE items are sampled randomly. Toy companies simply don't have the money to check each and every figure in a 20,000 item production batch. These aren't precision products.

I'm into firearms and I shoot firearms as well. Each and every gun is fired after production to check if it works and there is no safety issues for that particular firearm. There's physical proof of this, at least with handguns. Every time you buy a handgun you get a single spent casing fired from said gun. Proof that a QC check was performed. Likewise precision instruments like scientific instruments and scopes for firearms are all tested as each and every one needs to be guaranteed to work as specified by the company selling it.

The catch? Guns and scopes are expensive. You're paying someone to check each and every product in your production run and those costs are passed to the consumer.

Finally here's the truth whether you want to believe it or not. If you don't want to believe then it's a you problem and you might want to think about buying a ticket back to the real world.

90% of what we fans call "Quality Control" issues are probably parameters that Hasbro isn't actually considering an issue in quality. Quality for them would be probably like plastic completely filling the molds. Figures properly assembled. Figures that pass stability checks. Proper paint schemes.

Looseness in figures is annoying but I would imagine are already factored into the process. These are toys being made here, not precision instruments. That's the harsh reality here.

This reads as legitimate. That said, things like blast effects melting paint/plastic and widespread yellowing seem like QC issues of note. But Hasbro has responded on the yellowing. And has responded somewhat on transparent plastic hinges being brittle.

I've never quite understood the collector fascination with loose joints. Tight joints lead to breakage. I avoid NECA because of this. If they're so loose that a figure can't hold a pose, I understand the complaint. Goldar's wings in Lightning Collection are flawed. But some people get upset if joints wobble when you shake them and I never understood that if they hold a pose.

IgnikaMarcus

Alas.
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I knew him well

The comics are meant as advertising for the toys. Someone goofed last year and purple-tape happened. At least they were consistent with using purple, but gave red a small cameo to try to slap a band-aid on the issue of not showing off red in the first place.

Also, it's noteworthy that we see Flamewar for a few panels in this issue, so all sg toys have made appearances.

IgnikaMarcus

Well, it's Takara who contracts the factories, so……

And to avoid quoting the text wall.
@PlanckEpoch, interesting, and enlightening.
However, my previous employer didn't operate like that.
At least not entirely.
And they make mass produced items such as storage bins, trash cans, shelving, Christmas tree stands, etc that you can find in the likes of Walmart and Dollar General.
They may have taken samples for each item, but this is how things generally worked for us.
Us line operators had to check every piece that came off the belt.
If we got a bad one, it got tossed.
If we got multiple in a row, that meant something has gone wrong inside the press that needed to be fixed.
If we got one where we weren't sure, we had to call our QC personnel to come over and make a decision.

So, I will concede that the Vietnam factory has a different QC process.
But if it was my former employer (it's Dinesol, btw), if a piece like that came out, it did not leave the building in a package.

The items your former company makes are also significantly less complex than a toy with multiple sprues that need to be pressed, with pins and paint applications that need to be hand assembled in a line process. Apples and oranges.

PlanckEpoch

Toy QC, or QC in general for most consumer products, is typically done with a randomized sample. That means either during production or after production of the batch samples are randomly picked out of that production batch. The idea is to get an unbiased sampling of the batch population for overall quality.

Say if you pick out 20 in your sample batch. Maybe 1 or 2 products at most have some kind of flaw. That's actually okay. It means the probability wise the vast majority of your batch is perfectly fine within the parameters of that factory or the product specifications for quality. However, if like, 10 out of your 20 samples have flaws, then it's likely that the entire production batch is flawed and needs to be resolved.

Examples like that mis-molded Blaster handle happen BECAUSE items are sampled randomly. Toy companies simply don't have the money to check each and every figure in a 20,000 item production batch. These aren't precision products.

I'm into firearms and I shoot firearms as well. Each and every gun is fired after production to check if it works and there is no safety issues for that particular firearm. There's physical proof of this, at least with handguns. Every time you buy a handgun you get a single spent casing fired from said gun. Proof that a QC check was performed. Likewise precision instruments like scientific instruments and scopes for firearms are all tested as each and every one needs to be guaranteed to work as specified by the company selling it.

The catch? Guns and scopes are expensive. You're paying someone to check each and every product in your production run and those costs are passed to the consumer.

Finally here's the truth whether you want to believe it or not. If you don't want to believe then it's a you problem and you might want to think about buying a ticket back to the real world.

90% of what we fans call "Quality Control" issues are probably parameters that Hasbro isn't actually considering an issue in quality. Quality for them would be probably like plastic completely filling the molds. Figures properly assembled. Figures that pass stability checks. Proper paint schemes.

Looseness in figures is annoying but I would imagine are already factored into the process. These are toys being made here, not precision instruments. That's the harsh reality here.

IgnikaMarcus

Well, it's Takara who contracts the factories, so……

And to avoid quoting the text wall.
@PlanckEpoch, interesting, and enlightening.
However, my previous employer didn't operate like that.
At least not entirely.
And they make mass produced items such as storage bins, trash cans, shelving, Christmas tree stands, etc that you can find in the likes of Walmart and Dollar General.
They may have taken samples for each item, but this is how things generally worked for us.
Us line operators had to check every piece that came off the belt.
If we got a bad one, it got tossed.
If we got multiple in a row, that meant something has gone wrong inside the press that needed to be fixed.
If we got one where we weren't sure, we had to call our QC personnel to come over and make a decision.

So, I will concede that the Vietnam factory has a different QC process.
But if it was my former employer (it's Dinesol, btw), if a piece like that came out, it did not leave the building in a package.

Both very enlightening! Interesting indeed.

IgnikaMarcus

No. Eject is the red one. The purple one is Rewind in the comic.

And thus EIRRIP was born.

PlanckEpoch

Something tells me you don't understand but.

Not how the QC process works lol.

Toys are not QC'd the same as precision products.

IgnikaMarcus

Well, I've worked in a plant that makes plastic products before, so I'm going off of my experience.

Would you care to elaborate further?

@IgnikaMarcus, I'm inclined to believe you. It will happen. Qc is not Hasbro's strong suit XD

PlanckEpoch

Something tells me you don't understand but.

Well, I've worked in a plant that makes plastic products before, so I'm going off of my experience.

Would you care to elaborate further?