I can say I have had nothing but a positive relationship with FTC from day one despite all the negativity I read here on a daily basis. They've always been fair to me and owned any errors and communicated fine. I realize that hasn't been the case for a lot of you but I'm kind of a "treat em as you meet em" kind of guy.
I received Brainiac in the mail yesterday and the head is just stupid large. I confirmed with FTC that it is indeed a reused head of Lex which surprised me considering they knew of the size issue. I did fire off a constructive email regarding their quality lately and got a brief response that wasn't overly helpful.
Seeing Grundy this morning really bummed me out. You see, Grundy is the figure that I personally have been wanting for since Mego came back. I have had numerous conversations a while back with FTC about Grundy and even pushed for muscle bodies for that reason. I was floored to see a skinny Grundy with a Beatles haircut. He looks sad. I don't even wanna buy the head.
I have long ago accepted FTC's flaws and took this mindset: "I'd rather have a ton of mego's with some of them flawed then no mego's at all." (And all of the companies have flaws, not just FTC) But Brianiac and Grundy seem just negligent or blatant. They seem to show more than just a boo-boo in production. To me it seems like they just don't care enough to get it right and not addressing the head scale issue publically isn't helping them.
I will not turn my back on FTC and not stop buying the ones I like because I love this hobby and the fact remains a lot of them are still awesome. But with the Cdn dollar and shipping costs, I will not be spending my hard earned money on crappy made guys just to fill a collection.
I am seriously rooting for them to get it right.
I received Brainiac in the mail yesterday and the head is just stupid large. I confirmed with FTC that it is indeed a reused head of Lex which surprised me considering they knew of the size issue. I did fire off a constructive email regarding their quality lately and got a brief response that wasn't overly helpful.
Seeing Grundy this morning really bummed me out. You see, Grundy is the figure that I personally have been wanting for since Mego came back. I have had numerous conversations a while back with FTC about Grundy and even pushed for muscle bodies for that reason. I was floored to see a skinny Grundy with a Beatles haircut. He looks sad. I don't even wanna buy the head.
I have long ago accepted FTC's flaws and took this mindset: "I'd rather have a ton of mego's with some of them flawed then no mego's at all." (And all of the companies have flaws, not just FTC) But Brianiac and Grundy seem just negligent or blatant. They seem to show more than just a boo-boo in production. To me it seems like they just don't care enough to get it right and not addressing the head scale issue publically isn't helping them.
I will not turn my back on FTC and not stop buying the ones I like because I love this hobby and the fact remains a lot of them are still awesome. But with the Cdn dollar and shipping costs, I will not be spending my hard earned money on crappy made guys just to fill a collection.
I am seriously rooting for them to get it right.
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