[Boy Blunder]

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Originally Posted by TyranasauROSS

Boy Blunder - That stinks about Phoenix's hand break. Was their problems in the past with gold plastic having breakage issues?

For years, gold plastic was a bit of a death sentence for toys (specifically the swirly gold plastic, though it happened to other plastics with a metallic swirl). Not sure about other toylines, but Gold Plastic Syndrome (as it was dubbed by the community) was particularly prevalent in the Transformers line, from the 80s until relatively recently (less common since the end of the Beast Wars/Machines era, but not entirely gone). It has to do with the makeup of the metallic plastic, though it primarily affects harder (ABS) plastics, rather than the softer (PVC) ones that are used heavily in the Marvel Legends line.

Since it's the peg of the joint, it's hard to tell whether the break is due to stress - which would be weird, since I've only had the toy for less than a month, and haven't handled that joint all that much - or due to a flaw in the plastic, GPS or otherwise. Either way, time to go grab another one come payday.