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  • monitor_ep
    Talkative Member
    • May 11, 2013
    • 7349

    Phantom Lib is truly limbless

    I just got in another order from EE and again the Venture Brothers Phantom Limb falls apart when I took him out of the package. Does anybody have a Phantom Limb that is still together?

    What I noticed was the hooks to the figures keep breaking so you cannot restring them together. It is a good thing I was going to use it as parts but I really wanted one that was together for a future Invisible Man.
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  • monitor_ep
    Talkative Member
    • May 11, 2013
    • 7349

    #2
    I cannot believe that I am the only person who has had this problems. I have bought 3 Phantom Limbs figures and when I got them in they were falling apart while still in there bubble.
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    • ubermanx
      Career Member
      • Jul 3, 2013
      • 946

      #3
      Have two and both broke ...

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      • monitor_ep
        Talkative Member
        • May 11, 2013
        • 7349

        #4
        Well I contacted Entertainment Earth and they are going through and send me a 2 non-broken Phantom Limbs. I hope they do because I have plans for a custom I really want to make.
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        • comicmike
          Persistent Member
          • Sep 22, 2009
          • 1824

          #5
          mine broke too

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          • wise guy
            Career Member
            • Dec 29, 2014
            • 892

            #6
            I did'nt buy these, are they Emce bodies ? I have had many Emce bodies fall apart
            including Commander x, Red Panther, and Capt. Canuck right out of package.
            Broken hooks too.
            Last edited by wise guy; Aug 18, '15, 9:57 PM.

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            • BATMAN89
              Mego obsessed!!!
              • Jul 20, 2010
              • 3395

              #7
              I bought 2 Phantom Limbs for the clear bodies and for the clear limbs I added to the 7 mil dollar man.
              The hip pins broke on both, and I used flesh colored pins to replace them.
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              • Capt Kirk
                Museum Patron
                • Jan 15, 2005
                • 140

                #8
                This happened to every Phantom Limb I own - although EE was very prompt in sending replacement figures, they ALL came apart at precisely the same place as yours. I finally asked for an SMDM figure as my replacement, and that one actually stayed together - kinda reminding me of the castle in the swamp from The Holy Grail...
                NO SINGING!
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                • knight errant00
                  8 Inch Action Figure
                  • Nov 15, 2005
                  • 1766

                  #9
                  I just got one and had the same problem. I contacted EE and they asked for a photo of the broken figure. I sent it, and haven't heard back just yet . . .

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                  • monitor_ep
                    Talkative Member
                    • May 11, 2013
                    • 7349

                    #10
                    I just got in 5 more Phantom Limbs and one is in great shape while the others are falling apart.
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                    • darkbros
                      Persistent Member
                      • Jul 3, 2012
                      • 1356

                      #11
                      i just bought two from Amazon. Not only were the clamshells off the figures ( held in place by white file folder naming stickers!) but yup, I pulled the first one out, and broken arm! Went to sit him down and the rest of him fell apart.
                      Opened the second one and both his leg pins were busted, and his legs just flopped in his suit.

                      what it looks like to me is the same DUMB execution of the rubber bands inside the figures....The bands were DOUBLED UP, thus putting too much stress on the hip and arm joint hooks, causing the arm hooks to stretch out
                      (they are thin metal) and the hip pins to break ( as the plastic isn't correctly molded thick enough at the hook
                      like OEM mego). The CTVT devil I bought from a member here was the EXACT same way, and the hip pin
                      on it also broke.

                      I have enough OEM mego hip pins that I'll repair these pretty easy, and I'll be replacing the
                      arm hooks with correct OEM mego arm hooks.

                      But it is VERY disappointing that in the 21st century, somethings just didn't get manufactured better
                      than they did in 20Th Century.
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                      • knight errant00
                        8 Inch Action Figure
                        • Nov 15, 2005
                        • 1766

                        #12
                        Just got my replacement from EE . . . all four limbs hanging loose and held in place only by the costume.

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                        • TrekStar
                          Trek or Treat
                          • Jan 20, 2011
                          • 8346

                          #13
                          From the sounds of these, I think I'll play it safe and skip getting them.

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                          • darkbros
                            Persistent Member
                            • Jul 3, 2012
                            • 1356

                            #14
                            agreed, I bought two, not buying anymore...
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                            • knight errant00
                              8 Inch Action Figure
                              • Nov 15, 2005
                              • 1766

                              #15
                              To be fair, EE is sendign me a third at not charge, and they're trying to check them over first and try to find an unbroken one. I appreciated it and tole them no more after this -- it's not worth their time or mine at this point. But I do appreciate the customer service.

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