Hot Toys Back to the Future II - 1/6th scale DeLorean Time Machine
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I'd love to take a vacation and do this!
Any idea how you'd envision this? Would it be more of a floating base/ground layer or would it look like the car itself is hovering with no ground/base below it? This can happen!
Agentbutterman
Freaked Out
Got mine today. The light feature no longer cycles and won't come out of regular lighting mode.
I put new batteries in and the lights kept shutting off randomly after a few seconds. Now the button does nothing and the car is just stuck on for non hover mode lighting. I took the batteries out for a few minutes and put them back in - the moment you put the last battery in it just turns on immediately and stuck on non-hover mode. Pressing the button won't cycle the lighting options or turn the lights off.
It also has a scuff on the back bumper. The scuff isn't a huge deal but really disappointing when you spend almost $1000 after tax and shipping.
I'm sending back to Sideshow for a replacement in hopes the next one is in better shape. I'm not hopeful I'll get a better copy but hopefully it won't come with a wheel hanging off.
It's sad when the 1:24 Diecast Back to The Future 2 Time Machine I bought on amazon for $26.99 still lights up and is in great shape after 2 years meanwhile this release is a sht show
EDIT: The lights also flicker and go off and on by just tapping on any part of the car
I put new batteries in and the lights kept shutting off randomly after a few seconds. Now the button does nothing and the car is just stuck on for non hover mode lighting. I took the batteries out for a few minutes and put them back in - the moment you put the last battery in it just turns on immediately and stuck on non-hover mode. Pressing the button won't cycle the lighting options or turn the lights off.
It also has a scuff on the back bumper. The scuff isn't a huge deal but really disappointing when you spend almost $1000 after tax and shipping.
I'm sending back to Sideshow for a replacement in hopes the next one is in better shape. I'm not hopeful I'll get a better copy but hopefully it won't come with a wheel hanging off.
It's sad when the 1:24 Diecast Back to The Future 2 Time Machine I bought on amazon for $26.99 still lights up and is in great shape after 2 years meanwhile this release is a sht show
EDIT: The lights also flicker and go off and on by just tapping on any part of the car
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davejames
Super Freak
Wow that sucks. Personally I'd much rather have a problem with the wheels than the electronics, as there's no easy way to get into the car to fix anything if they go bad.
Man what an absolute ***********. Broken wheels, shoddy electronics, broken hinges, short wiring, unglued seats, scuffs and scratches.
Pull your head out of your ass Hot Toys and recall the product. This is unacceptable.
Pull your head out of your ass Hot Toys and recall the product. This is unacceptable.
Sounds like a possible short in the wiring for the button which I don’t doubt. On one of my wheels, the lighting wire was crushed under the mechanism and I had to very slowly pull out and it was flattened. Luckily the two wires inside didn’t short.Got mine today. The light feature no longer cycles and won't come out of regular lighting mode.
I put new batteries in and the lights kept shutting off randomly after a few seconds. Now the button does nothing and the car is just stuck on for non hover mode lighting. I took the batteries out for a few minutes and put them back in - the moment you put the last battery in it just turns on immediately and stuck on non-hover mode. Pressing the button won't cycle the lighting options or turn the lights off.
It also has a scuff on the back bumper. The scuff isn't a huge deal but really disappointing when you spend almost $1000 after tax and shipping.
I'm sending back to Sideshow for a replacement in hopes the next one is in better shape. I'm not hopeful I'll get a better copy but hopefully it won't come with a wheel hanging off.
It's sad when the 1:24 Diecast Back to The Future 2 Time Machine I bought on amazon for $26.99 still lights up and is in great shape after 2 years meanwhile this release is a sht show
EDIT: The lights also flicker and go off and on by just tapping on any part of the car
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Hot Toys quality control here has been beyond disappointing. I didn’t even mentioned the misaligned front end. Not noticeable at least.
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Got mine today. The light feature no longer cycles and won't come out of regular lighting mode.
I put new batteries in and the lights kept shutting off randomly after a few seconds. Now the button does nothing and the car is just stuck on for non hover mode lighting. I took the batteries out for a few minutes and put them back in - the moment you put the last battery in it just turns on immediately and stuck on non-hover mode. Pressing the button won't cycle the lighting options or turn the lights off.
It also has a scuff on the back bumper. The scuff isn't a huge deal but really disappointing when you spend almost $1000 after tax and shipping.
I'm sending back to Sideshow for a replacement in hopes the next one is in better shape. I'm not hopeful I'll get a better copy but hopefully it won't come with a wheel hanging off.
It's sad when the 1:24 Diecast Back to The Future 2 Time Machine I bought on amazon for $26.99 still lights up and is in great shape after 2 years meanwhile this release is a sht show
EDIT: The lights also flicker and go off and on by just tapping on any part of the car
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I'd send it in. Better now when they still have plenty of stock- after all the next one you get could have something else wrong with it. Keep trying until you get one that is perfect I guess?
When it comes to electronics, Hot Toys isn't just not up to snuff, they are actually way behind the times.
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What sucks is that each replacement is yet another gamble of either another problem or a worst problem. I feel like we’re all just guinea pigs of a social experiment to see how much “fault” we can accept from an expensive product that we really want.
Agentbutterman
Freaked Out
Yeah I'd definitely recommend cycling the lights a few times a day for the first week or so after getting this thing.
Mine were working fine for the first half hour. I cycled a few times and checked everything out, then I carefully closed the car door and all the lights went off. At first I was like "hmm maybe thats a feature where the lights go off when you shut the door? But wait, it can't just be where the lights only work with the doors open. That doesn't make sense". I started clicking the button and half the time it wouldn't register or it would turn on but only for a few seconds. So I replaced the batteries with yet another set of new batteries and it was the same thing. I took out the batteries and placed them back in a few times to make sure they were secure and again same problem. I started tapping the hood of the car and the lights came back on. Once they came back on that was it, I was no longer able to cycle the light modes or turn it off. Only way to turn the car on or off was to take a battery out or put the battery back in. From that point on it was just stuck forever in regular ON mode and sometimes flicker power on and off when tapping on the car.
I know Hot Toys has had a few flops with quality but has it ever been this bad? I can't help but wonder how widespread these issues are and how bad the materials used must be. I can't even imagine how much it would cost Hot Toys to do a full recall and fix the numerous issues these products have. The shipping alone on all those big heavy boxes would be costly just by itself. I wish I could hope that Hot Toys would fix this as I've been waiting since the MK1 sold out (I missed out on the MK1 bc my job at the time didn't pay well enough for me to spend that kind of money on a DeLorean barbie car). I also feel stupid for almost rather having a broken one than not having one at all. Once this sells out it'll still be thousands of dollars on the second market despite it's issues I'm sure.
fkn hot toys man...
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I don’t recall any issues. Mine was just fine at least. Comparing the two side by side, there are just so many fitment issues with the 2nd/new one. The fit and finish are just bad on the new one.
Some examples (Delorean 2):
Panel gaps, paint chips from rubbing, misaligned wheel well, door sticks out and not flush.
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Some examples (Delorean 1 from 2016):
None of the panel gap issues or misalignments or panel rubbing. Everything is flush.
None of the panel gap issues or misalignments or panel rubbing. Everything is flush.
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Rondesmo
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If we remember correctly, shipping and cocoon issues aside, there wasn’t so much QC issues on the 89 Batmobile.
Mine was absolutely perfect in any way and 100% of the electronics worked perfectly during the decade I owned it.
Maybe there is a new factory which doesn’t work as well as the 1st one…
Mine was absolutely perfect in any way and 100% of the electronics worked perfectly during the decade I owned it.
Maybe there is a new factory which doesn’t work as well as the 1st one…
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Well I discovered recently that a headlight and the internal lights have stopped working on mine. Hopefully fixable. In particular because I'm now considering copying you and getting the Jazzinc Batmobile and in such a case would need to sell my Hot Toys. Ever since I actually contemplated getting the Batwing and the size and price of that suddenly the Batmobile neither seems all that big or all that pricey. And I think it might bother me to have an '89 Batmobile (Hot Toys) but not the '89 Batmobile (Jazzinc).
I wanted a Delorean too and initially this was massively tempting but not if it's going to be a QC ticking timebomb.
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