Marvel Attacktix Design Flaws

[AWOL]

Not sure if this was ever brought up, but after me and my brother played numerous Attacktix matches this weekend, I noticed that some of my Marvel figures were having problems staying intact.

For instance, Web Striker Spidey has a weird design in his arm that, when you press his arm back for a strike, his arm twists, his torso pieces come undone a bit at the neck, and his arm comes out of the socket. Same thing I noticed with Fist Striker Hulk. His arm twists, and his torso pieces crack open a bit at the neck. Just for the sake of maintaining playable integrity of these figures, I had super glue their shoulders so their swinging arms don't twist out of the sockets when making an attack.

I attribute both of these flaws as figure design flaws. Anyone else have this same problem with Marvel figures??

[ionicdesign]

Wolverine with the poking claws has a hinge on the attacking arm that is too big for his chest often causing the chest to burst.

[greyelephant]

I noticed the thing with Spiderman the most simply because I use him the most. I've broken around 4-5 of his arms off. Very hard to get them back in.

I remember at TixCon one of his arms came out and I even had Webhead try to get it back in. He couldn't get it either. It takes a lot of prying to get it back together.


With Wolverine it's funny how a figure that gets such little use and little impact on it can fall apart so easily. I had his body fall apart as well on me.




The worst is Darth Vader from S1 or S4. When he explodes he goes everywhere. Lightsaber goes flying, arm goes flying, head, and chest. He's a pain in the tail fin to get back together.