This has to do with Gold Plastic and Shiny Paint on the toys from the Beast Wars and Beast Machines lines. I've recently been doing some reorganizing and re-shelving of my collection and as a result, have been forced to Transform some figures from those lines due to spacing issues on the shelves.
First, I've had a few figures break on areas which are made of Gold Plastic (I'm not even going to mention BW TM Megatron). One problem is with Beast Machines Striker. You can see below two parts have broken: on the left being a peg broken off and stuck in a hole; on the right, the part that clips to the ball joint has broken off.
I've had a similar issue with the 10th Ann. BW Dinobot. Here, the hole in his hand where one clips his weapon into place has broken on the rim.
Can anything be done to prevent or avoid breakage with figures like these who have Gold Plastic? Also, can anything be done to repair breakages such as these?
My second issue is regarding chrome or Shiny Paint (I don't know the appropriate term). Bottom line is that its chipping and/or flaking off on many figures from the BW and BM lines. Here's one of my worst, BW TM Rattrap:
There are a few other figures that this is happening too like BM Ultra Jetstorm. And I just started to see it on Battle Unicorn's ax:
As with my previous questions, is there any way to avoid or even repair such things?
My only thought is to take every figure that has Gold Plastic and\or Shiny Paint off the shelves and vacuum-sealing them into permanent storage. Which would be a ridiculous shame.
Sadly I think the toy was bent right out of the box. It never transformed the way it should.
