Action Figure Customization - McFarlane Toys Shoulder-Peg Transplant - How To

[@toddbrewer5616]

The undisputed KING of figure surgery! Well done, bro!

[@VoidCityReviews]

Hahahahah thank you! You ain't seen nothing yet!!!

[@MTB214]

I’ll be looking forward to the custom this will be for in a future video.

[@VoidCityReviews]

Video already recorded, just need to edit. Have like, 8 reviews, 3 podcasts, and 2 customs videos to edit at the moment, ha ha!

[@MTB214]

@@VoidCityReviews youtube is like a job. Lol

[@VoidCityReviews]

It really is. At least it finally pays though. Only took 2 years haha.

[@Jp99XL]

Nice man. Do u have a way to fix if the ratchets are a little loose?

[@Nozverah2]

What about elbows?

[@VoidCityReviews]

Elbows on these figures are pretty straightforward. Usually I just dunk the figure in the hot water, until it is very soft and pliable, and then I have a very small allen wrench that has a screwdriver handle so it's comfortable in the hand, and basically because of the tip of that thing is essentially a circle, you can use it to punch the peg out and then repeat on whatever figure you're going to swap with, and then what I like to do is heat up the two pieces of the arm but not the peg when you were putting them back together. Keeping the peg solid makes it easier to push it through and helps lock the other pieces into the correct shape rather than warp the peg around those pieces if they aren't in the right spot.

[@somarriba333]

When the shoulder cools with the cold water and sets, does the new joint feel just as tight as before with the original piece?

[@VoidCityReviews]

If done right and carefully, yes it does. I've had no problems on the figures I've done this for, three so far.

[@jonathanhodapp8735]

Do you think you could do the same with just 1 cut and re hear to separate the post then it cools and sets with full peg?

[@VoidCityReviews]

It can be done with a single cut. - Toast

[@Ragifoesmasher]

I've done this five or six times. Why do you remove parts of the bar/ post? I've never needed to. Also why do you cut the middle? I've always just cut one end and had no issues? Just wondering.

[@KevinBirtcher]

I don't understand removing material either

[@VoidCityReviews]

Just how I always found it easiest. Cutting one side only, in my opinion, puts too much stress on the other side when bending it to get the new bar on. Also makes it so you can switch the pegs in and out without reheating. Just my preference. No one HAS to do it this way, obviously.

[@maddrop]

@@VoidCityReviews sorry but that´s the wrong way. The arm will come off more easily.

[@VoidCityReviews]

@@maddrop it's not the "wrong" way, it's just not how you personally do it. I have had zero issues with arms coming off "more easily," as you say. Maybe you just did it wrong? As I said in an earlier comment, no one is forced to do things the way I do, I just post the ways I have had success getting them done, and I have been customizing these figures almost as long as they have existed as a line. To each their own. But again, just to reiterate, I have never once had an issue with arms coming off after doing this.

[@maddrop]

No need to remove any excess, makes no sense to lose that material. Heated plastic will have no tension, just re heat to put the peg back.

[@VoidCityReviews]

That's your opinion, and that's fine. I already explained to you why I do it this way. And I have had zero problems thus far. The peg still locks in place (far easier, I might add, and without having to pry the shoulder open to separate the peg cut), and it is far easier to switch them in and out moving forward if need be (especially in my case with this one where I didn't know in advance if the pegs I was going to switch would work with the figure I was using the arms for, I didn't know if I would need to switch them out multiple times). If *you* don't feel the need to remove material, don't do it. I'm merely showing the way that worked for me and has worked for me multiple times across multiple figures. There is more than one way to do this particular modification. Three, actually, by my count. This is just one of the ways. And it works 100%. With no problems, if done right.

[@goldenarts1545]

Hello I need your help, I'm trying to do same process on TDK trilogy Batman figure can you share Instagram? So I can share pics before actually doing my figure transplant?

[@VoidCityReviews]

Sure. It's void.city.toy.reviews