[User897]

This is NOT going to make the defect a "valuable" toy later on. That is absurd. It IS a defect because it is something that went wrong during production. There may be some idiots that will try to sell it on eBay as a "rare variation", but that is complete hogwash. It IS the end of the world for those of us that have been waiting literally for YEARS to get the damned thing, only to discover online before even receiving it, that they screwed up YET AGAIN! DST simply does not care, and tries to cut corners in different ways with each release, because they can't even stick with the same factories each time. Look at the re-releases of the standard and AGT Enterprise-D. They told us that they were built from the same exact components as the 2008 releases, right? Yeah, sure, but they were assembled by a different factory! The result? The audio playback is too fast, making Picard and Riker sound "chipmunked!" They couldn't even bother to make sure they sounded the same. Like the sound, DST was once again in a hurry. They take years of total inactivity, then suddenly burst into action and drive everyone nuts, only to get sub-par ships in the end. Like a band-aid over an open wound, you can't just put a sticker on the thing and call it a day. A recall is in order, but DST are simply too cheap to do it. Plus, since they are a "specialty" company (I use the term very loosely here), they would claim that their overhead just wouldn't permit them to set up an exchange program. I call bull****. Just for once, I would like to receive an electronic starship from these jackals that I can put on the shelf and admire, with nothing to piss me off. The last time that happened, was after getting the window decals placed on my 2008 standard Enterprise-D. Absolutely ridiculous.