Well there’s not much you can do considering the order’s been cancelled. If the 5 day period was still active you’d be able to update the payment but not anymore. Good news is he’s still available to reorder.

 

Blurr is still in stock. 1,444 units

Transformers Generations Shattered Glass Collection Blurr & IDW’s Shat – Hasbro Pulse

Just order him again  

 

Oh of course lol. I meant you can’t really update the order.

 

Kingdom Galvatron finally sold out. You better deliver GameStop . . .

(there's no way this mold isn't getting a repack so *shrug*)

 

One can still order both announced versions from BBTS as well, for what it's worth. Mine came from BBTS a few months ago and had the "wrong" shoulders.

Transformers War for Cybertron: Kingdom Leader Galvatron


Transformers Generations Selects Leader Galvatron

 

Hello, friends!

Did you forget about... ME?



We're in the final push, now...

 

Lol. No we aren’t. We will be in the final push in 2 weeks.

 

Sigh... Thanks. I'll open him right away then rather than store him waiting for space to display. I thought these were such a cool idea until I discovered that effect before it became known on the boards and then later of course when I remembered that this material bends under it's own weight super fast smh They're all in a pile about two feet from me with nothing else touching them. Keep thinking of just selling them since people love em but I don't know if I want to try putting them on ever again.

 

I know pretty much every Haslab project has been down to the wire, but I'm weirdly anxious about Star Saber - he's the first Haslab thing I've backed and I'd be SO SAD if he didn't go through, even if I already have his Masterpiece!

 

If you're ever worried, just look for "graph guy" (aka @TranslucentBag ) on the Victory Saber thread. Pretty much looks he's right on track.

 

Yeah, get that thing out. Maybe you got lucky but mine has paint damage in 7 different places where the silver paint transferred onto the blast effects. It's not very noticeable in pictures, at least.

I meant in terms of numbers, not time.  

 

I wouldn't worry about Star Saber not making it; if I'm remembering right, they add in the international backers afterward, and I feel like it has enough to be funded by now.

 

I think it might depend on how long the effects make contact with the parts in question. I've been taking photos with them for some time now and never had any problems that I'm aware of. I wouldn't want to leave them on for display though.

Maybe the type material you put them on is a factor too? I first heard about it causing problems with the silver paint of Siege Ultra Magnus' rifle, so I've been careful not to leave any making contact with silver painted items. Does they also cause problems with plain plastic weapons like Cog's rifles? This isn't something I've really followed, so I'm curious.

On a related note, don't let blast effects get in contact with the translucent plastic parts of the Centurion pack. One of mine somehow ended up in a box with them, and it got little specks of pink on it from either Megatron's mace or the energon cubes.

 

It is totally fine on unpainted parts, like the effect posts on Battle Masters, or any other unpainted plastic. But it very, very quickly damages painted stuff, like SS86 Hot Rod's guns and forearm pipes, Siege Cog's painted red blast effect posts, or 5mm sockets where the interior is painted (like Ultra Magnus's silver gun, from your example, or the 3mm points of his red-painted missiles). In the case of SS86 Hot Rod, it took only 2-3 days for paint to stick to the clear blue blast effects he came with and transfer onto them when I removed them. And when I unboxed my Rodimus Prime, the blast effects had been in contact with the silver-painted blade of his sword for long enough to eat patches of paint off them, which stuck to the blast effects, marring them as well.

No paint = you're fine
Painted = quickly damaged
Soft plastic (BW Megatron, TR Mindwipe) == Keep far away at all times

For reference, I tested these with my Siege\Earthrise Battle Masters for a period of several months and none of them adhered or were damaged by the attached blast effects. But in every case where I've brought this type of "soft rubber" plastic in contact with paint, it has damaged the paint very quickly. One of the most recent examples is Kingdom Core Vertebreak. I put his soft rubber "tail" in Core Starscream's hand, and it absorbed a ton of blue paint from the hand socket. Use caution, but know that if you're dealing with an unpainted 3mm effect post, you'll be fine.

 

GameStop came through and shipped out my Galvatron today. Please keep in mind that it was $49.99 when I placed the order and that was a day or two before it went on sale which prompted me to request a price match once I saw the sale and realized my order changed to "waiting on product availability".

Make sure they aren't touching each other either. The thing about plasticizers is:

You never know what they are nor how they will react with each other and other materials.

You never know if they vary from batch to batch (I don't know how the trees are for blast effects but even if every single piece was in the same batch, the material is volatile).

You never know when they will start to degrade and leech but they absolutely will. e.g. If you leave a bunch of different materials with plasticizers grouped together, they will melt. You have to keep them away from each other, plastic, silicone (even platinum cure functionally non porous silicone), etc. in order to prevent damage and/or staining. They can touch something that's completely inert like glass is but, nothing will stop them from breaking down even is stored individually in their own glass containers.

I think it's pretty fair to say that the plasticizers Hasbro/TakaraTomy have chosen are incredibly volatile though given how quickly they and paint/plastic are reacting to each other.


I understand that some stuff needs to be rubbery for longevity and safety laws but, it's long past time for toy manufactures to start using silicone given how frequently it is used in other products. That having been said, silicone is very different from working with plastics and there can be a lot of QC issues to watch for like air bubbles/pockets on the surface and/or inside as well as the casting being a lot smaller/larger than intended.

I remember the abject horror of seeing how the sword was packaged in my copy but, thankfully I didn't have an issue like that.

 

This makes me worry for my Rodimus that is in my BBTS POL right now. Is there any way of removing the paint from the blast effects without damaging them? The sword I'd think would be fixable if one can find the right paint.

 

That's going to depend on if it's been absorbed and/or chemically bonded.

 

I haven't tried, no telling what may happen if you add organic solvents like isopropanol or acetone to the equation; it would almost certainly further destabilize them. For now I've just set them aside so I can weep silently and not notice the damage excessively much.

 

^ This. If the blast effects are some variant/type of PVC, TPR/TPE, latex/rubber, and so on, alcohol will 100% degrade the material. How quickly and how much is a variable that no one can answer without the exact chemical makeup. Alcohol is fantastic for stuff like glass, stainless steel, ABS, platinum cure silicone, etc. but not for anything with plasticizers nor something porous like latex/rubber (oils attract each other, that's why the sebum on your skin/hair decomposes latex/rubber/foam pillows and anything else with a plasticizer).