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Grimlocked · 08-26-2022, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Magnimus

It's just not known at this time. We still don't know what is causing this kind of discolouration (which is occurring sometimes right out of the box or over time after a figure has been available). Unlike "Gold Plastic Syndrome" where we had years of evidence and examples of products disintegrating, this current "yellowing" hasn't resulted in any known breakages yet, but there's no telling what the future might hold, unfortunately. At the best, you'll have an ugly figure on your hands. At the worst, it might develop into a breakage issue. It's just not possible to tell right now, and Hasbro is doing us no favours by refusing to address the consumer concerns about this.

That is fine as long as it's not breaking - some may call it ugly but it's just weathering to me at this point. Thanks!

CobraCommander · 08-26-2022, 01:31 PM

Another good reason to get rid of the window box, so you can't see the yellowing!

Hopefully this doesn't affect Bumblebee

delrue · 08-26-2022, 01:41 PM

See, what they need to do for the next movie is have Bumblebee white and then he gets painted yellow at some point and then the yellowing is an action feature.

CyberDragon10K · 08-26-2022, 03:05 PM

I recall hearing that the yellowing is due to Bromine being mixed into the plastic to make it fire resistant. Maybe the afflicted batches have too much Bromine compared to normal?

You see this more severely in old Super Nintendo consoles and the like.

Marcotron · 08-26-2022, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by CyberDragon10K

I recall hearing that the yellowing is due to Bromine being mixed into the plastic to make it fire resistant. Maybe the afflicted batches have too much Bromine compared to normal?

You see this more severely in old Super Nintendo consoles and the like.

So, who's gonna light their transformers on fire to test this theory?

Make sure to get it on video, make it a tiktok. That'll get the attention of Hasbro...

Tiffster · 08-26-2022, 03:34 PM

I work in plastic injection molding. If the factory uses regrind it sometimes affects color. Regrind is taking the excess plastic from a molding process (gates, runners etc) that get trimmed off the final part. This excess is reground and fed back into the injection mold to be used again. It saves cost and prevents waste but it could become contaminated. Not sure if this is what's happening or if the Virgin plastic is subgrade, or both.