Great video! I've bought my rubber legbands i varying sizes, so this weekend Sorceress, Roboto and King Hiss will be fixed and good to go. Thanks for this great tutorial.
Thanks so much for doing this video. I’ve just fixed Hordak with a new connector. The only real issue I had was getting the old connector out. It just disintegrated so had to spend some time digging it out of the legs.
Thank you for posting this. I will be fixing some of mine now. You can put that green skeletor in a clear container of hydrogen peroxide and sit him in direct sunlight for a few hours. Maybe more than one session for extreme yellowing.
thanks for the tutorial Dave, just bought leg connectors for all my figures and I think I'm gonna start this week with the first one, cheers from Mexico!
I ordered these and have repaired a dozen of my beloved MOTU figures. I am a pro MOTU hamstring surgeon now. All thanks to this great video. I filmed a few and while setting up for He-Man my Man at Arms leg snapped clean off. The rubber was hard and brittle. Emergency hamstring surgery for Man At Arms and He- Man had to wait. I had zero problems and credit this video for the fun and successful repairs. Thank you!
Thank you so much for creating this tutorial. I just fixed the leg bands on two vintage MotU figures, Jitsu and Whiplash, which I had bought on ebay. I usedt leg bands from a German seller on ebay and it worked out fine. 🙂
What perfect timing. I had just watched the hook and eye video and was going to head to the hardware store We call them Kelly Forceps or hemostats in the U.S.A.
This looks far more difficult than the other process. Much more fiddly, and probably more time consuming. I would be very worried about damaging the new rubber piece along the way, but I do want to give this a try. Gotta buy some forceps and those rubber pieces first. I have some excellent MOTU figures that probably need this kind of restoration. It looks like you need at least three hands to do this kind of thing, but I'm willing to to try this. Getting the rubber through the pelvis is the part I'll dread the most. While doing the o-ring method, I cut several o-rings in half via the twine pulling, so I hope this will go more smoothly. I appreciate you doing this one, Dave, as it does truly restore the figures 100% to their former glory.
This is as hard as it looks but worth it. I screwed up after the first try (wasn't using the same tools) but with a little force and perseverance I got it! Probably couldn't have done it without this vid, so thanks!
It does look very fiddly as you say but definitely worth it, ive got plenty of MoTU figures with loose legs so will definitely be purchasing some of these! Thanks for the tutorial Dave!
Nicely done, thanks for this. My son started playing with my old MOTU figures and the old rubbers just break easily - I mean the figures are almost 40 years old now so it's no surprise. But this might be game changing! Thanks for the easy tutorial. I'll definitely pick some up myself now.
I'd done my he-man years ago with the o-rings, sadly yesterday I found him with his legs broken again. These bands look far more sophisticated & I've ordered a pack of 5 from ebay. Thanks for the video 👍🏻.
I am glad to have found this video just in time. Using the screw technique for a nice condition half boot Skeletor was in the future. Thank you for this.
Thankyou for this tutorial I was using the hook and rubber O rings method but i going to try these ones as I picked a bulk lot of vintage MOTU the other week and most the runners have broken or become loose 😎👍🏻
I just got some on ebay and tried a few of the worst MOTU figures I still had stored. It is very hard. It is true that they possibly could get damaged by stretching the rubber enough to get the button end into the leg. Warming them in hot water does help get the old rubber out for sure. After I got the hang of it when done sometimes the figures were less stable than if you did it with the hooks and o-rings. I guess I can't remember the figures ever being very stable even new. Example: Thunder Punch He-Man is too heavy to stand because of the backpack.
I tried the o ring and hook method you demonstrated and I liked that OK; this looks to me like a more preferable fix. I'll definitely have to get some of these!
I have a modern King Greyskull, just from being on my shelf, decided to pick it up, and as picked it up his right leg fell off 😢...this are not like the 80’s versions, they don’t have O rings 😢 I don’t know how I’ll fix him ☹️ You make this look easy 😮 I’m always amazed at what you do. Great video 👍🏽✌🏽
Just got my bands today...I broke 4 from the head trying to shove it in with a sharp screw driver...so I switched to pliers and it worked...also the bands orderd on Ebay say LEA 2.0 on them made in Argentina..the bands are very rubbery and a bit fragile..I think if they were less rubbery and more plasticky they would not break as easy...one figure came out pefect...the other 3 I replaced are ok but not as tight as one would think...either way I'm still gonna use this product since it's the only one available for now...if someone here in the USA can mimick this product and make it better that would be great...anyway i used this video for reference and it helped very much..thank you...
A legband replacement on a figure with furry pants is quite easy. Try a figure like Man-E-Faces next time. It's horrible 😉 Thanks for all the great videos, and keep 'em coming 👍
03:50 - They're called Locking Forceps, and are sometimes known as 'Haemostats', as they can be used to clamp arteries shut temporarily, during surgery.
Great Video. Those where the bands I emailed you, about a couple of months ago, to see if you used them before. I'm glad to see what you though about them. I might pick some up for figures I have.
I wonder how they did it in the original factory. Was the pelvis plastic newly molded so still soft? I worked in injected molded plastics years ago, and some of the assembly we did wouldn't have been possible if some of the things we assembled weren't freshly molded and still pliable. At the same time, the pelvis is a much harder plastic and also painted. Was the joining bits the last step so they were the only ones needed to be soft and flexible? I wish someone made a documentary about the process!
What a great video . Just saved my 1st skeletor . I just picked up a huge haul of vintage toys part one is on my channel . Once ive gone through them all there maybe some spare parts helpful to you how can i send them. I based in the UK also
Thanks. Someone else said forceps which look quite similar. What ever they are called they are very useful for doing this. Rounded tipped are best. I can now change these really quickly, just take a bit of practice.
As long as the rubber lasts I would guess. I've not had any issues with them at all. The repair makes the figures they same as they originally were. Cheers
Love your channel, I watch it everyday,I always find something interesting and very useful. However I haven't been able to use any of your techniques. But I'm eager to to do so. I've seen multiple videos and how to's to fix motu legs,but I was wondering if you had a way to fix the legs on the remco lines? Awa,Warrior Beasts,Lost world of the Warlord,and the various lines that Remco made using the same molds and parts. I think they'd make great videos.
Thanks. They are not figures I have ever owned or worked on. I'm sure they are fixable. Maybe take a look at my Golden girl leg repair video. That is a fix for a different broken leg issue. Cheers
Hello can you explain please when your putting the new band inside. Do you go through the 1st big hole or is there a smaller hole???? I'm having a argument with a supplier over 5 bands ive bought and there to big for the figure and the legs are so so floppy???? Thank you
I bought a pack of these and made a first attempt on Hordak the other day. I found it nearly impossible to remove all of the old rubber from his legs. I ruined the first band from putting too much pressure on it. I cut a bit of the "head" on the next band and made it fit in the leg, but mind you this was very difficult. I was not impressed by the result at all. His legs still seems very loose and he will for sure need a stand. Maybe it was just the old and hard rubber or some problem with Hordak? I'm not too impressed with the (expensive) product so far.
Practice and patience. Don't force them, and take it slow. Picking the old rubber out is important. And you can do it on all figures. Check out my wonderbread he-man video to see them used again.
Great video. I recently discovered that my french He-Man has an entirely different kind of leg connector: it is brown and inserted in a T-shape directly into the leg (not into the hole as seen in the video). Does anyone know if there is a good way to fix those?
So i just purchased some of these leg connectors and waiting for their arrival. Looking at the video again but what about placing the connectors in hot (not sure about boiling water) in order for them to soften up enough to help run trough the groin area and to also insert in the peg in the leg hole? Wonder if hot water would damage the connectors? And you put the legs in boiling water for 30 seconds, you show they become flimsy/soft, but that doesn't cause any damage? Thanks for this video, hopefully my son will be able to play with full legged vintage he-man figures soon!
Hello all. I recently bought the leg bands, but they were to big. The size of my leg band is 2.5cm (1 inch). Can you tell me the size of your leg band? Thank you
I got some of these leg connectors and have been busily replacing any broken figures or those with very loose legs. Dave, do you find even after installing the new rubber bands the figures legs are still a little loose? What I mean is the legs don’t feel as strong as they did when the figures were first opened.
Cant get the 2nd leg on. Rubber snaps before I get get it on. Also, when pushing through the croch, the piece in there breaks as you're squeezing through with the string. I give up.
No. You need a special "girl" piece of rubber. It's smaller but looks the same as the males. This method also doesn't work on ALL the figures. EBay definatly has both male and female rubbers explaining which figures they work on.
There are shorter connectors for the female figures, but it works the same way. It was a little more difficult with Evil-Lyn in my experience, but I got it done.
