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

Void City Customization
Episode 036
McFarlane Toys Shoulder-Peg Transplant - How To
Disclaimer
I am aware that there are several different (yet extremely similar) ways of doing this transplant. This is just the way I personally have always done it, and have had 100% success-rate, with NONE of the issues suggested in some of the comments.*
In this episode, Dan goes into detail on how to dismantle and transplant a shoulder-peg out of a McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse action figure arm. He walks through it step-by-step, and completes the entire procedure on-camera, with detailed instructions on how you can do the same at home when customizing your own McFarlane action figures.
This video shows you how to solve the problem of the shoulder peg being too short to fit the arms into the new chest, or the opposite, the pegs are too long and stick out too far, and need to be shorter. This will allow you to still use McFarlane pieces, while also retaining full functionality and articulation.
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[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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