[The Heat]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

Look at Spiked Tail's hips. If they're brown then that means they were painted over and it'll very likely break at the hips, this happened to my first Spiked Tail and every one I've seen reported broken through Twitter. I got another one that had the appropriate vanilla colored hips and that one was fine except that the left wrist joint can unplug at the gauntlet but thankfully it plugs back on firmly and holds. I'd really advise on not ordering one online because then you can't inspect it and the dangerous brown hips seem common enough that an online order could definitely have them.

Oh man, I didn't get a chance to get back to this thread and see your reply before I'd purchased one. Fortunately mine ended up being fine despite having the brown hips you mentioned.

Before I even attempted to pose him I applied liberal amounts of heat from a hair dryer to loosen the joints up. I also ended up getting a really loose left hand at the gauntlet joint, but the super glue trick worked wonders to keep it from slipping off.

I guess I really lucked out on this one!