[Ninjinister]

So I had this black-suit Spider-Man that I'd used for a custom (or at least the body... the head was repurposed elsewhere) that I no longer wanted to have. It wasn't very good and besides I have the official one now (FF Spidey).

Someone had told me to soak a figure in nail polish remover overnight and all the paint should come right off; I'd tried high proof rubbing alcohol before and it *still* ended up being a pain in the butt to peel it all off. So, I set Spidey's body in there last night and this is what I got in the morning: a bunch of rubbery pieces.

Maybe I should have done the research and find out what sort of chemical reactions could occur due to such an action. Being a guy, I had no idea what nail polish remover did outside of what the name implies. The saddest part though, is notice there's no torso. That's because it dissolved into the paint that came off. I don't know whether the body's made of a softer plastic or what, but that shit's completely gone! I was potentially going to look at the silver lining and use this method to soften a torso that had been giving me trouble even with boil 'n' pop, if these pieces ever hardened again, but once I realized there was no torso, I was devastated.

Thankfully this was a fairly common figure I'd only paid like $4 for on clearance for. Fair warning though! Don't do what was suggested to me! I'm lucky it didn't eat the cup I put it in!