Yep. Most if not all Grunts have their neck peg glued in and it causes all kinds of problems. There was a similar but much worse problem with the Python Tele-Vipers: I had to replace every single neck peg of the five I got, they all immediately snapped in two with very little movement.
The head swap was so easy. I was like jut adjusting the tilt of his neck and the fucking thing just snapped off like he was an overpriced import. I do have spare necks an pegs from a cop and a greenshirt so I'm gonna try to boil and pop (did you have any luck with that?) later tonight when I won't be in Steph's way in the kitchen to do some hot water chemistry.
Yes! Tons of luck with that, indeed I do it all the time. I’ve even done Grunt peg swaps by heating the peg up and then digging it out of the glue with tweezers and a dental tool. A lot of headswaps require the whole peg to be swapped so the head doesn’t sit too high or low on the new body, and in fact swapping some pegs can fix the short-neck of guys like Leatherneck, and with the right ball sizes can facilitate swaps between Classified and other Hasbro lines.
Excellent. I think it might be easier with the tools I have on hand to swap the whole neck (goddamn, Grunt's a 50 dollar figure these days?) but hey, maybe I can make the most out of a busted figure somehow. What a wild defect in a figure. Wonder if someone along the line was just like "this peg doesn't look like it should move, let's glue ALL of them."
Again, while under IDW, the death of Snake Eyes, Throwdown stepping in, and Dawn having his memories was all Hama in the A Real American Hero title. Sean was never Kamakura in Hama's continuity.
It took me so much effort to get the head out of the neck on the cop and greenshirt because the barbell stayed in the head when I wanted it to stay in the neck. The head-attached-to-neck swapping on the cop and soldier was super easy, but separating the other parts needed so much heat.
Oh for sure. But I don't care and it still sucked hard and all of my complaints about it are still 100% unassailable. Fight me on the moon!
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Heh, you're right... we got the Red Fang Ninja, sorta the 'James Franco in Spider-Man 3' of ninjas from the Rise of Cobra line, and also the video game concept art for a Red Ninja about a month ago. There will be at least two more versions of Red Ninjas eventually.