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Post by tragichero on Jan 25, 2019 5:23:06 GMT -5
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Post by kingdom2000toys on Feb 9, 2019 18:24:33 GMT -5
I like gold but don’t know about this... a little much. |
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Post by Robot Bob on Feb 19, 2019 18:47:34 GMT -5
I don’t get the appeal of these all-gold ones. Also makes me wonder if they will one day spectacularly succumb to the gold plastic syndrome.  (Though I am sure that’s a thing of the past...right?  |
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Post by kingdom2000toys on Feb 21, 2019 12:18:19 GMT -5
I don’t get the appeal of these all-gold ones. Also makes me wonder if they will one day spectacularly succumb to the gold plastic syndrome. (Though I am sure that’s a thing of the past...right? I know what you are talking about, but I have never actually seen this occur. I know plastic colorants used. Depending of the combination used they all breakdown eventually. A metallic blend always starts to deteriorate. I haven’t heard of or seen any new technology that improved it. I worked for Prestone anti-freeze years back. They make their products in the big YELLOW jugs. For a short time they made Silver jugs. They did a ton of testing with different combinations of the colorant. And they found the Metallic colors degrade much quicker than any of the non-metal colors. Hence the silver jugs were changed to gray and were made for a limited time only. (Sorry for the Segway.) |
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Post by Robot Bob on Feb 22, 2019 16:25:50 GMT -5
I don’t get the appeal of these all-gold ones. Also makes me wonder if they will one day spectacularly succumb to the gold plastic syndrome. (Though I am sure that’s a thing of the past...right? I know what you are talking about, but I have never actually seen this occur. I know plastic colorants used. Depending of the combination used they all breakdown eventually. A metallic blend always starts to deteriorate. I haven’t heard of or seen any new technology that improved it. I worked for Prestone anti-freeze years back. They make their products in the big YELLOW jugs. For a short time they made Silver jugs. They did a ton of testing with different combinations of the colorant. And they found the Metallic colors degrade much quicker than any of the non-metal colors. Hence the silver jugs were changed to gray and were made for a limited time only. (Sorry for the Segway.) That’s an interesting anecdote... I know gold plastic is brittle on some 1990s transformers. I have some first hand experience with it - the reissue Reideen Chogokin (circa 2000s?) has gold plastic around the head instead of the original’s yellow plastic. I’ve owned two copies of this reissue and the plastic falls to pieces now, very delicate. |
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Post by kingdom2000toys on Mar 4, 2019 16:49:31 GMT -5
I know what you are talking about, but I have never actually seen this occur. I know plastic colorants used. Depending of the combination used they all breakdown eventually. A metallic blend always starts to deteriorate. I haven’t heard of or seen any new technology that improved it. I worked for Prestone anti-freeze years back. They make their products in the big YELLOW jugs. For a short time they made Silver jugs. They did a ton of testing with different combinations of the colorant. And they found the Metallic colors degrade much quicker than any of the non-metal colors. Hence the silver jugs were changed to gray and were made for a limited time only. (Sorry for the Segway.) That’s an interesting anecdote... I know gold plastic is brittle on some 1990s transformers. I have some first hand experience with it - the reissue Reideen Chogokin (circa 2000s?) has gold plastic around the head instead of the original’s yellow plastic. I’ve owned two copies of this reissue and the plastic falls to pieces now, very delicate. Yep - I don’t have any toys to show this but I’ve seen it with other things, so the logic seems to apply. I wonder how good the 3rd party KO Dinobots are doing it with “chromo” plastic parts. Or even all those rare limited addition “Lucky Draw” figures. I’ve seen them on YouTube, but never knew about the quality. |
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