Hi folks! I'm moving across the country. My car is getting shipped and I'm flying. I have limited carry-on space and I'd rather not ship them or put them in checked luggage. I'm allowed to leave some items in the back of my car...would my little plastic buddies be ok in a car for a week? (It's a hatchback, not a trunk, if that matters).

 

How is your car being shipped? Is it in a closed container, or an open transport like Ultra Magnus? If it's the latter, and you've got at least a week before moving, put a figure or two you don't care much about in the car and see what happens. Park in the sun whenever you can for a worst-case scenario.

 

Interesting question. Wonder if anyone would be willing to experiment and melt one to finf out the melting point

 

Generally you'd have to worry about soft plastics fading and deforming due to direct sunlight. Packing them carefully and covering them in a blanket should cover that. As for heat, I wouldn't imagine melting would be a problem.

 

Absolutely don't leave any boxed toys you care about in a hot car because the windows will warp like crazy in more than a few hours of heat.

The rest of your stuff will likely be fine if you keep it out of direct sunlight. It's long term exposure to heat, cold, water, and light that screws this stuff up.

 

Imagine this for a second. Transformers and other plastic toys aren't transported in air conditioned truck trailers in the summer time.

You can imagine how hot it would get in the back of a trailer in 90 to 100 degree weather. Plus they travel across country like that which takes several days at a time.

So contrary to other posts in this thread, heat should not be an issue at all.

Now prolonged direct sunlight would be a problem as far as fading goes.

 

These things are shipped in big metal boxes across the pacific ocean on boats that takes a month or two in that heat. They will be fine if you put them in a box in your trunk or just keep them out of direct sunlight.

 

If you are worried, don't risk it mang.

 

Thanks so much for the responses! It's open transport, but almost all my figures are loose. I'll be super bummed if anything happens to them, but it's not a super valuable collection or anything (they just make me happy).

So I guess I'll pack them and see how it goes...I'll report back if there's any catastrophic damage.

 

Haha, well, that picture didn't exactly help with the worrying! Looks like they used a heat gun for this, though.