Figma Repair

Ah, poor poor Kagami ;_; Good thing she was fixed.

hmmm, i dont have any broken figmas. just some broken old gundams.

Only figma part I've broke was on Kagami as well. Was trying to change her left hand and it broke. Had to super glue it back and let it set for a bit then used a needle nose pliers and took the piece out. One hand isn't much though since each figma comes with 5 sets of hands ^^;

kawaii! and I have a broken stand for my miku which I dunno how to fix lol!

The most common part of broken figmas are the hands .

When the ball are snapped from the hand and is stuck in the arm .

Its very hard to take that ball out from the hand >.<

Figmas are very fragile and should be taken care of .

Danny Choo's broken Kagami makes me sad... ;_; I have yet to get a figma...

Danny, try using hardware-grade epoxy putty to repair the joint. For example, Oatey's epoxy putty, when cured, is so rock hard I can't even drive a x-acto chisel through it! It's a great quick fix if you think about it.

upon ticking no, I'll probably brake one tomorrow.

Only have one figma and it's still intact :) But then again I mostly just use it for display purposes and am pretty careful when changing poses. Also, I didn't know Goodsmile had a replacement policy, that's kinda neat ^^

Aww~ poor Kagamin-min u_u~ Her shorter hair still looks cute on her~

I still don't have a figma xD; Too many to collect now lol

Kagami-chan's new hair does not look bad at all.

I own only two figma (Kagami and Kagamiku) and my main concern is to break them someway. I even spend some time preparing myself psychologically when I need to chenge their hands. ^^;

Oh my goodness, that last picture nearly had me toppling over from the sheer cute.

I didn't know Figma were prone to accidents such as Kagami's, but then I figured, you DO tend to carry them around - so I guess they get much more "exposed" to the elements.

It's a good thing they can be fixed nicely, :)

Kagami looks kawaii with shorter hair ^^ i havent broke any of my figmas, i dread the day it happens!
Goodsmile haz my respect, good to know they care about their products quality and customer satisfaction.

Nice to know that spare parts are available for purchase. Sadly, with the shipping cost, it might almost be cheaper to buy a brand new one...

Nice mod Danny XD

still haven't had one broken, for now i guess. The only thing that has been bugging me is how easily Konata figma falls apart. Neither Kagami nor Tsukasa fall that easily...and i mean literally everything of her face falls, wonder if she is a bootleg XD

HLJ was pretty nice to replace one of my Medicom figures, but I do notice that I have to report the damage within 7 days of receipt.

i have order 5x lucky star figma figures. I hope i don't break them :(
so what is the durability of the product self ??

Only thing broken is one of my kagami's hands. I think it wasn't manufactured right though. Oh well, at least there is 9 other hands that are fine! I'd be sad if her pigtails broke though, I don't have a replacement for that. Danny's kagami does look quite cute with shorter hair though!

If only they finally made replacement parts available through a US site. I'm sure there's plenty of demand. I've had Yuki's glasses broke but they were easily fixable with a tiny bit of super glue. Wish someone could import large amounts of spare parts and sell them to places outside of Japan though, I know I'd do it if I knew where to start.

poor kagamin.. but her new shorter hair looks cuter. My Konata's ahoge broke, I fixed it with epoxy putty and super glue. Kanu's right arm broke because of mishandling from an office mate. -_-*

aww poor kagamin T_T

I only have 2 figma right now Summer Haruhi and Cheerleader Mikuru and neither are broken, but I do get scared when changing hands, some parts feel so tight!! I try to be really careful though.

3 more figma on the way, Kagamiku was shipped a while ago(SAL takes so long but I'm a cheapie) and Waitress Mikuru and Waitress Tsuruya should be shipping soon too(though I probably won't receive them till mid June.

Don't know what I'd do if one of my Figmas broke... besides be sad.

One of the arm sockets on my Miyuki Figma broke. I glued it back in place but the orientation was slightly off. She looks a bit weird now :-/

Ive had my destiny gundam break pieces in transport, but some super glue later, and it looks A-Okay. TTGL was dropped, and he broke off one of his arm shields. I was able to fix that with glue too, and it is impossible to notice that it happened at any angle. Lucky breaks (eh.. eh?????) for me eh?

Wow Danny, this is your only break so far? You must take very good care of your littler daughters ^^; I've busted my share of hands and joints, so now I take extra care when I pose my figmas now.

Kagami looks good with the modded twintails though ^o^

I only got one and it is still in package so I don't have to worry about it breaking.

My Konata's antennae broke a couple months ago...;-; It happened when I cut my thumb on her bangs while pressing on the hair to try and get the hair and face to stay in...and I flinched and accidentally broke it...I super-glued it for a while but it broke off again when she fell on accident and it was lost forever...

dont have broken figma, but accidentaly broke my mikatan ponytail and stuck it wrongly with superglue. now it looks funny standing straight from her head. also have a broken stand of fauna which cant be fixed with any glue i tried till now including superglue. :S

Good thing she has a replacement for the time being...

Poor Kagami T^T Oh well it least she still looks nice.

I do like the short hair'd version but I am sorry that she had to go through that trauma.

My Konata figma's was decapitated and I had to drill a small hole and use a steel pin to keep the parts in place while I sealed the gap with a friend's Warhammer model glue.

I broke a nendoroid once. Luckily it was just the head joint and I could replace it easily.

oh nyan~~~

That's a creative way to solve the problem.

All my figmas have been fine so far

My Konata figma has many broken features about her like the neck joint is extremely lose and any toying (hehe) with her causes her to loose her head. The single hair strand on the top of her head also was too wide and caused her front hair piece to fall off so I tried cutting the excess off only to have it break completely off. Some superglue fix't it but she is basically a figure as she is only for display and not posing. I've also had minor issues with the front hair piece of other figmas falling off too easily.

Something I found really good for repairing plastics is "Plasti-Zap CA, from Pacer products.
It's a CA type glue specifically formulated for plastics.
Trick to using it though, is to use it on clean parts. (you have to remove any old glue) and once the parts start to bond, leave it for 24 hours before handling it. The glue actually melts the parts together a little, so you need to give it time to come to full strength.

I've used it on laptop cases made from ABS + PC to good effect.

My capsule toy figures are always falling apart. Tempted to glue them...

Twintails? Is that what they're called in the UK? So much cuter than "pigtails". :O

I don't have a figma yet, but my Miku nendoroid... One of her twintails is a bit loose.. Any ideas how to fix it, guys?

Also, that's pretty nice of GoodSmile with their quality guarantee.

Awww...poor Kagami :( Good thing she's all fixed up now. Had two failures with my figmas. One was a relatively minor one on an accessory, as just the hilt of Shana's sword snapped, which was easily fixed. The other was the very first (and still my favorite) figma I ever laid my hands on and much worse. Took Fate out of her box, moved her left arm a bit and "snap" her shoulder joint broke with hardly any pressure. Luckily, I was able to get her replaced. Fate 02 didn't have that problem, but I'm still paranoid whenever I first take them Figma's out of the box now.

Goodsmile will really do that! Wow! They are awesome!

Well, I can't seem to get my hands on any Figma, so I don't know what it's like to see an adorable Kagamin lose a twintail. On the other hand, I have a revoltech Gurren Lagann who's wrist joint broke in the box and the sharp fragments of it lodged into the plastic, thus making it impossible to move the hand around any more than the twisting 360' pin joint.

Ohh, that sucks. :( I haven't broken any figma parts yet, but I've broken three random capsule toys. Only fixed one so far, will need to fix up the rest sometime.

Broke my Mikuru's arm off at the joint trying to put the stand in the second I got her when released. Haven't fixed her since. Love Kagamin's new do.

My Tsukasa broke on the waist joint, fixed it up with super glue though.

haven't own any figma, both standing pin for my Saber Alter was broken by my baby cousin and the platform was made from plastic T^T

Awwww. Well at least she looks super cute with her new hair! ^^

kagami's shorter hair = OH MY JESUS KAWAII WIN GET.

and i dont say that about too many things.

I broke one of Miyuki hands several weeks ago. The ball join is still stuck inside it. It's been left there for a while now as I'm still too busy to drill it out. But I think I'll do it soon after reading this post Danny.
I've now learned never to 'twist' the hands to remove it. I now use an angled tweezers. A lot easier and leaves no marks if angled it properly.
BTW, it's a bad idea to fix it with a scalpel. I've learned the hard way T_T

I don't carry mine around, and I tend to be compulsively careful when handling them, so I haven't broken one yet.

And yes, that look is ridiculously kawaii for kagami.

~Nyoron

Short hair Kagami looks cute! But what about the Puchi one? leave it for more parts?
The puchi ones for me cost a lot. Lost an arm off one once, got really pissed ><; Found it about a week later.

Danny-san, the last picture is really cute~ ^^

my tsukasa had her hand break off from the piece that actually holds it inside her arm. it broke off in a clean way to make it impossible to get out.....so i had to buy another one.

Good job repairing this one! Now, I happen to know an ex-otaku who's stuff could use a bit of fixing too...

That sucks that her twintail broke like that, but that's an awesome and quite resourceful mod there, Danny. ^_^

Kagami looked so sad in that first picture. Good thing she was fixed.
Although I must add that the colors aren't really the same exact shade...
Kagami does look cute with her shorter hair though.

Yea i have a broken one, poor miku broke her neck ><
Just thinking about it gives me shivers, with her head just sitting there TT

No figmas broken so far. Intend to keep it that way as long as possible.

My Hayate is still intact... perhaps the reason is that I've only move her around for about quad of times since her acquisition... ^^;

>< I have the same problem... except its for the other twintail. My friend's attempt at trying to fix it made it worse. The adhesive he used didn't adhere quick enough and ended up clogging the ball joint. Nothing I can really do about it now...

Oh I see... fixed it with a puchi nendo. It does look cuter, but what if you don't have a puchi Kagami handy? >_<

I proke the leg of my miku figma trying to exchange the parts now one part of the joint is stuck I decided to super glue the leg and now I cant pose her but I never really did.

I recently broked one of my figma saber's hand~
Though it's still usable i gues.. Most of the joint clamp of the hand is still intact..

Hope my Rin wont' suffer any damage..

Great timing~ Replacement parts for Saber xD Maybe i should go get one too if i can~~

Danny just ask for a new Kagami! ^-^ Maybe one on the way in your post now...

I have 14 Figma so far....

And I experienced the same problem on my Figma Hiiragi Kagami.... just a few days after having her... fall down from my shelve... and both the twintails broke... I cannot think off the way Danny solve his problem and at that time while under devastating circumstances... I just decided to use Super Glue... and now that twin tails permanently stay there - but cannot move anymore...

Also experience the same thing with Figma Izumi Konata... her tiny single hair on top... easily broke off - the overall head/hair part is very heavy... so anytime that Figma fall down... I have to keep on looking for Super Glue...

I only love to carry around Figma Hiiragi Tsukasa (my favorite so far) - her hair is short and even if she fall down by accident... nothing to worry - as I believe nothing will be broken... so Figma Kagami and Konata just stay on my shelve on their Figma Stand for now... only Tsukasa and Haruhi and Yuki that I will take out for dinner or sightseeing the most...

As for the complains about Figma... of all the 14 that I got so far... I think I only have issues with Figma Nanoha Tamakachi... her joint is disappointing - too soft, not easy for her to stand properly without the stand, and one of her front hair, got a little skretch that the color is a little ruined.

The shop where I bought it is from different country... bought it during vacation, so its impossible for me to buy another air ticket and visit that shop again for the sake of complaining about this Figma to them... at the end I think they will just say to me "We just selling, any problem with the item, not our problem - and anyway you bought it many months ago - why complain now"

Is this problem about Figma Nanoha Tamakachi worth to be reported to Good Smile directly? I bought it few months ago... didn't know then that we can actually complain to GSC.

I agree with the others - the shorter hair and red ribbons actually add to her charm. And now she's unique! xD

I doubt mine will ever break... I've only changed their poses once or twice since taking them out of the box. I'm afraid of joints breaking when I swap hands for example . So I don't do that... Basically they're being displayed like stationary PVC figures.

I have 18 figmas.

And so far...

1.) I've had Shanas head snapped off her neck joint.
2.) The hole in my Wonderfest Suzaku's back be too small and snap the peg off the figma stand.

Other than that, I haven't really had any problems other then the waist on my Koizumi being SUPER loose that the lower half of his body would just fall off if I adjusted the legs slightly. I fixed this by wrapping electrical tape around the ball of the joint to make a tighter connection.

Oh, and the front part of konata's hair is VERY loose as well.

But yeah, only two mishaps out of 18 figmas so far... "knock on wood"

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poor kagami good thing she had dr danny to repair her.

I have a thrashed Strike Freedom and Blue Frame 2nd L, so I took parts fom both and cobbled them together. Restoring them would have been easy, but I got both kits ages ago and some of the parts were missing by the time I dug them out again. :'(

I'm glad my Kagami is still okay. But I have to admit that the shorter pigtails look absolutely adorable. <3

That's a good solution, she looks cute with her short hair and red ribbons.
I had my Tsukasa her left arm snapped off because it was twisted in a weird way when she arrived, so I tried to twist it straight again.. and then it snapped -__- she was my first figma, bad first experience.
And a few days ago my kanu arrived and I snapped her L-shaped pin by accident because it just wouldn't go into her back.. luckily I didn't have any problems yet with my other figmas, I try to be really careful.

Poor thing...but atleast you're very good at handycraft work like that ^^. Actually one of the reasons I don't buy figmas; I tend to break my new action figures within the first hour, so I decided not to take the risk

My figma who has suffer most, ist my Konata. Her Ahoge was broken and her stand is broken^^"

Also has my Haruhi a broken arm. It´s broken at the joint... Now she looks like Lelouche when using his Geass^^"

I broke my Itsuki's hand once, didn't bother me too much though, since Kyon, Lulu and Spinzaku uses the same hands so had lots of spare. ^^ btw this post reminds me, when is the next figma theater. ^^

Good, look you also have some repair skills, I owe some Figmas and one of my worst nightmares is that one of them is boken some day...

Nothing broken yet...where'd you get the aftermarket parts? :P

only figma part i've broken so far is Miyuki's hand, drilled out the joint, it was no big deal

Kagami looks alot cuter with the shorter twintails!~

Have yet to get my first figma...If I collect figmas, I would just display them and prevent myself from touching them unless it's necessary in case I break them since I do not control the amount of force I exert with my hands :P

so kawaii with the new tails

but yeah i have like 4 broken and no repair pices avalible

Poor Kagamin =(
she looks like she could use a bath though! ^-^

I broke my Code Geass Lelouche figma just a few days after I got him. I was going to pose him before I went to bed, and when I went to change out his hands, one of them broke clean off, and left the post inside. We tried to get it out with a screwdriver and needle-nose pliers, but were unsuccessful; we ended up having to melt the plastic out with a hot needle. His arm is in a little Kleenex cast right now until I decide what hand I want to glue in there permanently. Poor Lelouche!

I've remained lucky so far. No broken figma's. I'd like to keep it that way lol

I like this mod. This makes me wonder about further figma modifications that can be made.

I think Kagami's tails are easy to break. Needless to say, I also broke them.

I haven't experienced any broken figma ^^;;;

Btw, how 'bout retailers who aren't official dealers and only bought and resold the items from other dealers?

no figmas broken in my collection.

Poor kagaminnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
but now she has a new look :)

uta la wea que lata :(
arregla la monita po danny :)

Haven't broken any of my figmas yet *knock on wood*. However, I only have 3.

I carry a figma or two around with me alot and just this weekend I took Haruhi (Summer Uniform) with me to the beach and somehow managed to break of one side of the yellow hair ribbon.

Super glued it back when I got home and it seems ok for now.

Danny, ponytails and hand joints are easy to break. Prevention is better than cure, so the stuff I've got from Japanese version of GSC site tend to be useful for figma owners:
http://quentinlau.blogspot.com/2008/10/figma-care.html
Hope it will get it across to those who have or are planning to have figmas.

LOL. It was bound to happen since you carry your Kagami around with you so often. I was actually surprised it didn't happen sooner actually. I was also surprised you don't have an extra Kagami that you keep sealed away for these mishaps. Perhaps you could have just asked Max Factory/Goodsmile for an extra Kagami figure?

Nice solution though with the hair.

I don't have a Figma quite yet but I am hoping to have at least two in the near future. Sorry that Kagami had to go through that experience but I will agree that she looks kawaii with the shorter hair.

My konata figma is broken on the leg joint because falling from my desk T-T, and Rin's twintail also broken when I came back to my room in Indonesia (currently studying in Singapore)... Dunno who done it (possibly my little brother)... Fixed with CA glue for now.

Why GoodSmile wont give us extra joint aside from extra hand for backup? It shouldn't cost them too much, right?

aww Poor Kagamine~~...gahh cute~~ Shorter hair??!? ^^
I will eventually break one of my figmas..>__<

It looks much better with shorter hair anyways. ^^

Wow, Danny, you really kept to your word. I've remember you said Kagami would be your favourite for a long time when some mentioned you kept changing your favourites. Though the joint broke, the bright side is she has a new cuter hairdo now! :D

Oh poor little Kagami.......... but she look cute on the new twin tails ^_^

Thanks for the info, customer satisfaction guaranteed~~~~

At least there are replacement parts lying around...that should put life back in my figma...

My Kagami is safe, however, Tsukasa lost her hand when I tried switching it out for a different one. All my Figmas are in a box right now since I had to do a desk move, but they'll be back out soonish.

My Miku broke T_T
But Kagamin's new hair looks really cute ^-^

Kagamin's twin tails broke for me once too
My step-dad fixed her by using a weeny drill and a tiny screw to fix it back on

Since my figma is on my shelf for display only, so not break it yet...
Good to know that if the paint is too bad can be replace too!
Thx

I broke the shoulder joint on my Ryoko Asakura Figma(T.T) I'm so upset>.<

Only casualty so far is my Rin Figma, whose arm I snapped off 5 minutes out of the box. Luckily, Zap-a-gap and a little filing down fixed that problem. It's like I put a metal pin in that broken joint.

My Kagami broke in exactly the same place! Although, it CAME broken through the door, not sure how it happened since the box was undamaged. It's been a while since I ordered it from Hobby Search though, not sure they'd listen to me if I wrote back now. I plan to try and fix it myself soon anyway

Aw...nice photo, it really portrays her sadness...
But with the shorter hair, it looks as though she simply got a haircut! Lemons -> Lemonade, I'd say! ^ω^

ive gotten a few bad (though not something completely terrible, i guess) end product from GSC prolly due to bad QC, but since you've put that word out Danny, that gave me back a little confidence into GSC ^^

so, how does minor defects like paint scratches or bad paint finish go? my Lala has black shades on her white suit prolly cuz the white paint was too diluted or not enough, Horo has a scratch on her skirt. Think i should send it back for replacement or something? :P

haven't had a broken figma; hopefully I wont have to go through it!

Don't have any figmas :( but my mom has broken one of my Nendoroids when she was mad at me.

I don't have a figma so I don't really have any problems with one.

Can't say that I know what its like to have a piece broken since my figmas are still in their original boxes. Same goes for the shinkis.

Have broken some gundam kits before and simply got a new one or the MG version to replace it.

I make my own replacement parts

nooOOO poor kagamii!!!! nothing super glue can't fix!!

My first figma, Evil Wizard Yuki, had the shoulder joint break off after I was re-attaching the arm, since swapping hands gave some trouble. Eventually glued it back on, so her left arm has limited movement.

Then my Haruhi, packed her out of the box, wanted to swap hands and *crack* hand broke. Thank god I got these hands a couple of times with Yuki and Mikuru. Managed to get the balljoint out and fix her up.

Swapping hands have become my new fear. How do you lot do it?
Twirl and pull or just pull?

*puts on small kids voice* I BROKED MY SWABER EXWALIBUR AND HER HAND =( *CRY* *end small kids voice* but yea =P happened when i was trying to put it in her hand (used too much force i guess lol) =P.

I received my 2nd figma yesterday (Fighting waitress Mikuru), and I was getting very nervous putting her together and swapping hands over. The fittings seemed so much tighter than they are on my figma Kanu.

I tend not to carry them around much or change poses very often so hopefully will avoid a breakage.

broke quite a few, but they were all GKs, havent had any snapped part for my PVCs. I guess it's easier to fix Gks since they are made from resin, and I've been working on GKs for quite some time...

Even though it's easy to repair GKs, but it can be a bitch if the GK isn't build by you, and the section that was broken had a non-basic color, so you have to trial and error the mixture color, as the color sometimes may alter a bit when dry.

I remember the first broken GK that wasnt built by me, it was songstress Lacus, and the color was metallic light tortoise, took me almost a week to get the mixture right.

I haven't broke any figmas (yet) but I have broke my gurren lagann revoltech the glasses broke off easy fix right? wrong sadly I don't think I can repair it anymore because while I was gluing the peice back together the glue bottle broke ruining the clear plastic T_T I guess I gotta get a new one

Yes, I've broken a figma before. I broke my Lelouch figma's neck piece while trying to
change the regular head to the Zero mask. The neck piece was stuck in the head pretty good so I tried to bend it and...snap! Don't have much common sense do I? >w<

I never knew they sell spare parts for figma
This is so cool ^.^

well i never broken a figma or my nendos but i did chip there hair pieces. i chiped nedo mikus hair pigtails and figma miku v.v ^^;

I Broke my Kagami(also my first figma) a minute after I got her out of the box.Her whole arm snapped off when I used too much force.Some sticky tack keeps it in place so I can still move her.I'm really careful with my other ones so far shes my only figma casualty.

I broke my figma kagami too , at the neck joint when i was posing her head looking down, and im now using super glue to stick back it, hop the operation will success, but she may not move her head anymore. T_T

define 'extremely bad paint job'.. b/c i would order a lot more figmas if i knew they were guaranteed to come with great paint jobs.. maybe more than i should, lol..

I don't take my figures out with me, though some have fallen off my desk. Fortunately those are only the small gachapon ones. Good to see GSC are willing to replace broken ones.

What's terrible. Is that I read this article this morning.
An hour ago someone slammed a door... and my own Kagami figma fell from a reasonable height and one of the tails fell off.
I am...way too sad right now. ;_;