As a side effect of the clearup in the den, no less than five Transformer toys seem to have found their way to my desk.
Damn, I forgot how freakin' huge
Tidal Wave is. And while unpacking him from the bubblewrap he's been in for a year, I once again ran across the problem with one of his missile launchers triggering when changing to robot.
The cause, once I investigated, was a sub-millimetre miscasting of one of his parts. One pocket knife and a little plastic surgery later, he now works perfectly.
Ya know, TW would make an excellent stage costume for BotCon. It even might be possible to split him into the Dark Fleet onstage as part of the act.