Has anyone had issues with the latch inside the wing sowing mechanism on their TVC TIE Fighter snapping over time? This is the latch on the inside of the pylon, surrounded by the spring, that holds the wing in place and which when lifted, causes the wing to come off. There is a hooked end to the latch that snapped off.
This happened to my first TVC TIE fighter after about a month, so I returned it and got a new version, only to have it happen again after about four months... My TIE has been displayed standing on its wings on a shelf and I’m not using the “blast off wing” feature at all. I’ve not had this issue with older TIE’s with the same feature, including TIE Interceptors.
Not wanting to get another TIE Fighter, I just unscrewed the model, removed the springs, and stuck the wings back in with a little masking tape to keep them in tight.