Hi guys.

My brickforge order just arrived. I'm really happy with the savage mask, but it's way too tight. Is anyone else's the same? Now it would appear I'll have to get another Wolverine head to use without the mask, unless anyone knows how to remove a head by force.

Thanks.

I'm not familiar with that particular one, but I've had similar problems with other headgears. This should work for just about any headgear:

Remove the head and headgear from the body.

Grab a hairpin or similar implement.

Insert the looped end of the pin into the head until it touches the inside curve of the head.

Grab the headgear in your other hand and pull the two apart, keeping the pin against the inside of the head.

The head should pop right out.

Failing that, try opening a loop on a paper clip enough to be wider than the hole - probably squished into a triangle - and wedge it in. That will let you pull the head equally from both sides.

Edited October 23, 201311 yr by EternalBrick

This happened to me. 2 months later and it's still stuck. I had to get a new head.

The old trick I used to use is to take a LEGO Goblet, which fits around the outside of the minifig head base, and then pull. The non-use of the outside of the head meant there was usually still enough clutch there to out-do the clutch of the headgear.

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That said, this was official lego to official lego, back in the day. Not sure if this 3rd party mask is too tight, even for this trick.

That's an excellent trick, WaysofSorting. I'll have to remember that the next time I find myself in that situation. My daughter likes to assemble minifigures somewhat randomly and this sometimes results in one of the older and worn heads to get stuck in a helmet. Normally, I just try putting the whole thing on different torsos until one neck provides more resistance than the headgear. Your way sounds better, especially since the goblets tend to have a pretty good grip to them.

What I do is pull it at an angle. That way the head doesn't slide off the neck.

Thanks for the suggestions, but this thing is stuck on tight. It's a vacuum in there.

My friend told me when something was stuck on tight to try a using a rubber glove, as you get a lot more grip. It worked, but considering the small scale of the mini figs, it may not work. Worth a try though.

Get an old torso, apply a thin coat of varnish (nail varnish works) on the neck, let it sit and just before it's fully fully dry shove it in the head, wait a sec and pull. If the head gets out, it's easy enough to remove from the varnished neck as you'd have enough group on both elements to "break the bond"

Edited October 25, 201311 yr by nivremis

I had that same problem and it was stuck for months! Finally I somehow managed to get it off with a brick separator... I really wish I could remember exactly what I did differently that time as opposed to all of the hundred or so other attempts that didn't work, but I can't.

Once it did pop off, though, I snipped the "chin bar" off and filed down the edges that were left. It doesn't get stuck anymore, you can actually see Wolvie's mouth when the mask is on, and it looks more like the version seen in the Lego Marvel video game and on the variant Wolverine #1 cover parody that ran a month or so ago.

Get an old torso, apply a thin coat of varnish (nail varnish works) on the neck, let it sit and just before it's fully fully dry shove it in the head, wait a sec and pull. If the head gets out, it's easy enough to remove from the varnished neck as you'd have enough group on both elements to "break the bond"

Does this ruin the head? Can you remove the varnish from it?

I destroyed one Lego head already with the Savage Mask from BrickForge and nearly destroyed a second one with the replacement Savage Mask they replaced. I didn't have a good experience with this vendor.

I destroyed one Lego head already with the Savage Mask from BrickForge and nearly destroyed a second one with the replacement Savage Mask they replaced. I didn't have a good experience with this vendor.

I just requested a replacement helmet, which I intend to sand the inside of a bit in the hopes that that'll help.