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All right, I know I'm one of the most critical of LC because I've been with them from the beginning.

So I have to give them credit with Captain Canuck. I don't know when the shift in quality happened, but the plastic feels much more durable and pleasant to hold compared to Vampi and Sonja and Trese. The articulation is smooth. He is a joy to pose.

I love the metallic red paint and pearlescent white. Everything's clean and punched in.

I don't know if this was a Canadian $100 figure, but eight hands and the weapons still beat out what a lot of our old traditional companies are throwing in these the days.

I think there are some proportion and gapping issues, but since I'm a dynamic poser I can live with it.

Solid effort. Now I'm curious to come back around and check out Liefeld and some other upcoming offerings.

Would love to see if he could bring his female characters up to par.

Are they still calling these 1/12? He dwarfs my recent Legends, but he isn't quite 1/10. And I know the Liefelds are bigger.
 
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Okay so I gave my Yeti and Bigfoot a full disassembly in hot water and I’m really glad I did because every stuck joint came loose and I learn a bit about the internal construction in the process.

An issue that many people might come across is that where the peg end of a ball-peg goes into its socket, such as the shoulders sockets in the upper torso and up inside the diaphragm, the socket may be a bit warped and misfired so the friction on the harder ABS ball-peg is really high and the peg could snap if forced.

When I disassembled the legs of the yeti, one hip that was initially frozen stiff wouldn’t stay connected back together after reassembled because the socket in the hip ball that a securing peg in the thigh fitted into was misformed. I had to leave the hip ball sitting in boiling water and let it slow cool so the socket would release all the material’s internal stress and slowly flow back into its normal shape, then reassemble the hip ball and thigh so that the thigh could smoothly swivel.

Since the full heat baths and now everything has fully returned to room temperature the figures are moving well, no sticking and nothing coming apart, but the ball sockets at the neck and abdomen have a faint tightness so I might have to get some shock oil eventually or disassemble it again and lightly sand away the nubs but for its size and weight the tightness is not a terrible thing to have.

I’m now regretting not getting one of the great wolves again but more confident of getting another LC figure in the future.


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Okay so I gave my Yeti and Bigfoot a full disassembly in hot water and I’m really glad I did because every stuck joint came loose and I learn a bit about the internal construction in the process.

An issue that many people might come across is that where the peg end of a ball-peg goes into its socket, such as the shoulders sockets in the upper torso and up inside the diaphragm, the socket may be a bit warped and misfired so the friction on the harder ABS ball-peg is really high and the peg could snap if forced.

When I disassembled the legs of the yeti, one hip that was initially frozen stiff wouldn’t stay connected back together after reassembled because the socket in the hip ball that a securing peg in the thigh fitted into was misformed. I had to leave the hip ball sitting in boiling water and let it slow cool so the socket would release all the material’s internal stress and slowly flow back into its normal shape, then reassemble the hip ball and thigh so that the thigh could smoothly swivel.

Since the full heat baths and now everything has fully returned to room temperature the figures are moving well, no sticking and nothing coming apart, but the ball sockets at the neck and abdomen have a faint tightness so I might have to get some shock oil eventually or disassemble it again and lightly sand away the nubs but for its size and weight the tightness is not a terrible thing to have.

I’m now regretting not getting one of the great wolves again but more confident of getting another LC figure in the future.


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That sounds like a lot of work to enjoy a figure you're dropping a c-note for.
 
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That sounds like a lot of work to enjoy a figure you're dropping a c-note for.
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Maybe, but a boil bath and reassembling feels acceptable to me since it’s not any critical structural problems or finish issues that need correction. The paints are excellent and no chipping or slop, and nothing needs to be adjusted with a hobby knife or file (any slight adjustments to the ballpeg nubs is more a symptom of living in a cool climate than QC issue.

It’s no perfect piece like the InArt Batman but for my peace of mind I’m satisfied with doing the disassembly while being confident it will all go back together without issues.


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Maybe, but a boil bath and reassembling feels acceptable to me since it’s not any critical structural problems or finish issues that need correction.
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See, to me having to totally disassemble my toy before I can safely move it is a structural, or at least QA issue. Running some hot water over it, ok, I still don't feel like I should need to do that, but it's a quick and minor thing. Totally pulling it apart and putting it back together? That's a lot. And if anything goes wrong in that process, is LC going to say "oh we totally understand" or are they going to say "well you pulled your figure apart, you knew the risks".
 
That’s fair, but also one of the really beneficial aspects of the design choices here too, since about 90 percent of the figure can be boil and popped (something I also like about a number of Revoltechs) it offers an option to adjust and repair in case something is amiss.

In contrast some of the manufacturing choices of mass retail figures could be construed as intentionally awkward so that you’d rather double dip on character variants because the construction prevents doing some obvious swappable parts.

An example that comes to mind is that you have to get three Animated Spiderverse movie figures of Peter/Peter B, but if you’re dropping £75 on three figures that could have all been done in a £35 single figure with swappable parts.

I’m much happier for a hundred dollar figure to have the option to be dismantled and reassembled than when I used to collect Play Arts, which all cost absurd money, were extremely low numbers of production and availability, and had major QC errors in about 1 in 4 that couldn’t be fixed without major surgery.


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I don't know what they did with Captain Canuck but he just worked out of the box and feels like nothing else LC. So I hope that's a sign of things to come with the line. It would win me back as a regular.
 
Nothing they have made lately gets me psyched for a figure like their old customs. Just look at this thing.

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