I liked mine a lot more before the blast effects melted away part of the Autobot symbol on his shield :/
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?
I had mine in storage. Once I found out that the blast effects would eat plastic (via the shield being disfigured) I moved them all to a separate container.
Don’t store any of the soft plastic blast effects with other accessories/figures.
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.
So blast effects bad?
Well it would probably be the partial cause to why the tips of the Victory Leo cannons came apart on mine. But may have to pull a bunch off today.
I have no idea what happened on this post, but I think it merged some of mine and MrBlud's for some reason, and I really don't know how to undo it. D= -- LBD
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?
I had mine in storage. Once I found out that the blast effects would eat plastic (via the shield being disfigured) I moved them all to a separate container.
Don’t store any of the soft plastic blast effects with other accessories/figures.
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.
So blast effects bad?
Well it would probably be the partial cause to why the tips of the Victory Leo cannons came apart on mine. But may have to pull a bunch off today.
I have no idea what happened on this post, but I think it merged some of mine and MrBlud's for some reason, and I really don't know how to undo it. D= -- LBD
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