About Us... or just me for now
TL;DR I am Pilk and I built a IFixIt-like website to provide guides to fix figures and statistics about certain figure's likelihood to have an issue.
About Me: PilkMilk
Hello, my name is Pilk (awful name I know), but it's most likely the one you know from Reddit. To give a little background on both me and why I am doing any of this, beginning with who am I. I am relatively new to collecting figures, started since maybe around 2021. It started with a Berserk figure that I thought just looked pretty cool at Target, then spiraled into a fervor to collect strange, nostalgic, photogenic, or just fun figures to pose when I am bored or needing to expel some steam.
The Issue I Think a Lot of Collectors Have
With all of that, it brings me to the reason I built this website. I have broken figures, these figures are expensive ($25 - +$100), and just like my figures I am also broke so I can not exactly buy replacements. Unfortunately, for as much as I want to fix these figures, sometimes it seems impossible to find tutorials or proof a fix would actually fix this figure, let alone the fact I have a hard time deciding which is the best fix and if all fails, will this permanent fix/augment actually do anything to help.
IFixIt is the GOAT
Finally, this leads me to this website: I built this website to provide as much information to the collectors as possible. I have taken deep inspiration from iFixit and their amazing guides on fixing tech items. From that admiration and my formal experience with Software & Web Development, I wanted to create something that works the same and hopefully help a lot of collectors to give their figures a second life.
The Point of All of This
My goal with this website is to do two things: provide users iFixit-like guides to fix figures, and provide "community sourced" data analytics on figures and brands. For example, a lot of people love Amazing Yamaguchi, but equally as many know that sometimes a certain line, figure, or something is riddled with QC (Quality Control) issues, so I would like to capture that data to then create statistics of how likely this figure would have an issue, where this issue is (loose joints, fragile pegs, or other errors), and many other important things collectors should see before buying a figure.