Blasted Effing Blast Effects are Eating My Transformers!
- Thread starter MrBlud
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Exactly why I only use the blast effects for photo shoots then they go nicely back into a box.
Uh, question...
Three, actually.
1) I think I might have left Kingdom Rodimus Prime's in his trailer when I put it away. Not plugged in or anything, except what's left of the Matrix glow, maybe something else in that compartment if it fit, but the rest were kinda loose. Are they going to eat through the trailer or something?
2) Has Hasbro done anything to acknowledge or fix this yet? Or are they still sending out effects that are going to eat our collections if left unchecked?
3) Am I a sicko for thinking that if they are going to keep releasing toy-devouring effects that maybe Cosmic Rust effects would be kind of ironically cool, in a twisted sort of way?
It's not just blast effects that are a problem, any soft plastic MAY do the same thing to hard plastic it's near, especially if that plastic is painted, for some reason. The soft fins on Combiner Wars airplanes of all sorts (and POTP ones too like the Decepticon Powermasters) can do it. One of the reasons I was iffy on the soft plastic on the TFSS stuff and Ghostbusters as I could feel a tackiness where fins or hoses would touch plastic with paint. Nothing ever went bad, but that's because I kept things moving to avoid contact. Way too much trouble, and so when my fiascoes happened I was not that upset when I had to sell them. I am still very iffy on any Transformer with soft rubbery parts for that reason (Titans Return Weirdwolf and Mindwipe both had their softer plastic eat the surrounding stuff leading to hinges crumbling). I seriously considered the new Aerialbots and Fallen, but am holding both for financial reasons and also wanting to know if the fins/weapons are the same flexible stuff. It's even worse when the rubber part itself is painted. Then it can get sticky without touching ANYTHING...
Keep in mind this isn't limited to Transformers. I've seen old Masters of the Universe do the same thing with heads, legs, O-rings, etc. I've even seen an old eraser eat its way into a plastic desk drawer, looked like someone had spilled acid around a very old dry crumbly pink square, or a rubber snake dissolve the inside of a tupperware storage box.
Keep in mind this isn't limited to Transformers. I've seen old Masters of the Universe do the same thing with heads, legs, O-rings, etc. I've even seen an old eraser eat its way into a plastic desk drawer, looked like someone had spilled acid around a very old dry crumbly pink square, or a rubber snake dissolve the inside of a tupperware storage box.
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...excuse me a moment, please.
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...crap. I need to find where that box went.
...excuse me a moment, please.
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...crap. I need to find where that box went.
Okay, so Past Me is smarter than I gave him credit for. He put all the effects parts back into the plastic baggy they came in.
...well, almost all.
The two flames and the Matrix burst, which seem to be made of a harder material, were in the drawer of the trailer. I took those out and gave them their own separate bag, to be safe.
...I should take those broken pieces of the Matrix burst and give them to some guys I want to be "honorary Primes" or something, like OP did with Bumblebee and Rodimus in IDW.
Also, damn, but that tray is hard to get all the way back into that box!
...well, almost all.
The two flames and the Matrix burst, which seem to be made of a harder material, were in the drawer of the trailer. I took those out and gave them their own separate bag, to be safe.
...I should take those broken pieces of the Matrix burst and give them to some guys I want to be "honorary Primes" or something, like OP did with Bumblebee and Rodimus in IDW.
Also, damn, but that tray is hard to get all the way back into that box!
I'd recommend wrapping the blast effects in paper. Plasticizer shouldn't react at all with paper and as long as it isn't an ungodly amount, it should just evaporate through the pores.
I think I'm just gonna toss em. Wasn't all that fond of them in the first place, but if they're gonna damage other stuff in the bin, better to just get rid of them.
There's nothing wrong with using them, you just don't want to LEAVE them for a long period. For a picture or something they work great. The paper trick does work, though. For safety's sake I'd wrap them and put the in a drawer or something where they can just do their plastic off-gassing safetly. I have most of mine in a cardboard box separate from anything else, though I do have the parts from Saber and Deathsaurus separate simply because of what they are. They're behind them on a glass-bottom shelf so I can get them if I want them for something, and they aren't in contact with paint or anything else reactive.
On a very strange note, a building block set of an officer and trooper with a motorcycle and border station that a friend got me to repurpose into Ciaphus Cain and Jergen has had a similar issue with the officer's coat. The rubbery plastic is getting harder, and has leached so much plasticizer out that it soaked the little red cloth ribbon I had tied around the figure's waist. In THAT case, it didn't do anything. Whatever MegaConstrux and similar figures are made of does not seem to react with that chemical, giving it a bath in the sink with soap and water fixed it. Though the coat is still drying over time.
I'm probably way too paranoid, but melting plastic is just so annoying. When I had the hose on Ghostbusters Optimus stick to the light bar of his backpack (came right off but did leave a small dent in the bar) I knew this was going to be a problem and stopped buying any Transformer with rubbery parts that can't be set to the side.
On a very strange note, a building block set of an officer and trooper with a motorcycle and border station that a friend got me to repurpose into Ciaphus Cain and Jergen has had a similar issue with the officer's coat. The rubbery plastic is getting harder, and has leached so much plasticizer out that it soaked the little red cloth ribbon I had tied around the figure's waist. In THAT case, it didn't do anything. Whatever MegaConstrux and similar figures are made of does not seem to react with that chemical, giving it a bath in the sink with soap and water fixed it. Though the coat is still drying over time.
I'm probably way too paranoid, but melting plastic is just so annoying. When I had the hose on Ghostbusters Optimus stick to the light bar of his backpack (came right off but did leave a small dent in the bar) I knew this was going to be a problem and stopped buying any Transformer with rubbery parts that can't be set to the side.
Wait, they emit gas that'll ruin plastic?!?
How the hell is Hasbro still including these things?! It's practically criminal!
What sort of paper is ideal for keeping these in? TP? Paper town? 8x11 printing paper?
they don't emit gas that damages the plastic lol
I keep them in the box that came with the fire colors Triceratops fossilizer.
no, they secrete minute droplets of plasticizer that eventually evaporate. The gas itself won’t harm the plastic but if conditions are not conducive to evaporating, they’ll remain in the harmful liquid state
Yes, sorry, I didn't mean to cause a panic. I was referring to just that, the evaporation of the chemicals as the plasticizer leeches out. This is why a toy on an open shelf will often age better than one 'MISB' when it comes to these reactions. And anything porous works fine, I keep mine in an open cardboard box too, no problems so far at all.
Ah, I see.
I'm keeping mine in my Kingdom Rodimus box, which is itself in a plastic tub. So, probably not the best for breathing.
Is it only the rubbery blast effects? Or do the harder ones do it, too?
And I still can't believe Hasbro keeps releasing them without addressing the issue wait this is modern Hasbro, yes, I can.
Hell, I don't think I'd be too surprised at this point if they had someone come over to your house to break your old toys so that you'd have to buy new ones to replace them.
I'm keeping mine in my Kingdom Rodimus box, which is itself in a plastic tub. So, probably not the best for breathing.
Is it only the rubbery blast effects? Or do the harder ones do it, too?
And I still can't believe Hasbro keeps releasing them without addressing the issue wait this is modern Hasbro, yes, I can.
Hell, I don't think I'd be too surprised at this point if they had someone come over to your house to break your old toys so that you'd have to buy new ones to replace them.
Probably only the soft blast effects. They add more plasticizer to the mix to make them squishy.
Won't they eat through the container?