Mine used to arrive like that as did other magazines I subscribe too. I took a couple to the PO and showed them and complained, and so far I have been getting all my magazines in good condition.
Got to spend some time with this build today. I got the body pretty much all molded and primed and ready for paint. I think I will go with yellow. Spent almost two hours cleaning up the parts today. There is a lot of flash on some of these parts.