:lol: They don't say anything else because destroying the latch mechanism is probably the only sure way to get it to let go!

I'm curious to see if this procedure will work in the real world, I've had this problem, but always managed to get my toys apart without all that much trouble. :

I always figured there ought to be a way to drill a hole in the case in order to depress the backside of the claw rocker . . .

. . . but there's so much crud in the way and so much going on inside that cubic that I abandoned the search. 8-o