CherryPopper

After the last MonsterLAN event where I took my recently purchased Guitar Hero World Tour kit, the poor drum kit was a little worse for ware. The cymbals were cracked underneath and weren't responding as well as they should have been and the red drum pad was pretty much dead. I guess letting a room full of gamers and a few real drummers loose on them wasn't the greatest idea.

But since it was still under warranty I decided to go through the returns process to try my luck at getting them replaced. I went through the activision website and it said to do the parts separately so the drum pads would have to be sent separately from the cymbals. So I sent each part off in their own package and hoped for the best.

Three weeks later (normally 2 weeks but we had Christmas in between me sending them), I got the new cymbals back, no questions asked. A few days later I got the drums back but instead of just sending me the drum pads that I had sent them they had sent me the entire drum box that you get when you purchase the game. The drum box includes a usb mic, drum pads, kick pad, drum stand, 2 cymbals and 2 drum sticks.

So now I have spares of the cymbals, drum sticks, kick pad, drum stand and a usb mic. I guess I can use the extra usb mic for some duet action and the extra kick pedal will come in handy with the new Guitar Hero: Metacilla comes out as it makes use of 2 kick pads on the drums.

At the end of the day I can't fault activision as they replaced the beaten to death parts without question and even did me one better by sending the extra parts. So finally I can get the band back together so we can pretend to rock out once again... well at least boxy and me can cause Rogue's lame and wouldn't join us in our rocking out on stage!!!