Previously my fear of corrosion lead me to hate putting batteries in my transformers. For fear of forgeting about the ticking battery fluid time bombs inside erodeing away in a few years.

Upon explaining this to my family they insisted that it only occurs in hot or damp areas. So there should be no trouble useing batteries in transformers.

My questions are. Do you display your transformer toys with batteries? And do you think corrosion is a issue?

 

I think I've had batteries in RiD Prime since I got him back in 2001...

Better check that now.

 

After buying a few Bots that people did leave the batteries in and seeing the damage it caused I'll never leave batteries in them.

 

Even though you get free batteries out of the deal, I pretty much object to any toy having them installed. "Try me" features can't really be helping sell many toys... I foresee a lot of MISB toys 20 years from now having battery corrosion as a result.

 

Cybertron Optimus has batteroies that's about it.

 

I take out the batteries, unless I use the lights and sounds a lot. The button cells don't corrode as much, incidentally, so it's only the ones with the AA batteries you need to watch.

 

I take them out when I don't use them for awhile. I should actually take them out of my movie toys soon and reissue Galvatron.

 

Unless I'm using the lights and sounds often, I'd take them out.

I live in a tropical country, and I've never had AA batteries leak on me, except in the case of a pair that were left untouched in a forgotten Walkman for... 2 years?

 

You have to watch all types of batteries. I have had to throw away every type of battery, even ones that were still in the package from the store. They will all eventually corrode given the right conditions and time.

So, if you have them for display, I would remove the batteries.

 

Well, usually TFs only come with the watch batteries anyway, so most of my toys only have them and the ones requiring AA or AAA batteries remain empty...because I don't have that many spare batteries  

 

My battery-capable TFs - G1 Omega Supreme, Cyb Supreme Starscream, and two Movie Leader OPs - have never had batteries in them for long. I'm wary of 'Try me' features as a lot of the movie toys I see in shops now seem to have dead batteries already.

 

I remove any and all batteries (usually to stash and use later in something else) because I can't stand lights/sounds in my TFs... I blame Armada Jetfire.

 

i normaly take them out, but dont worry about corrosion.
i stand them loose, so its more an annoyance of them going off.

 

don't mention that gun....please....that things is still a going, goes off randomly every day and i can't find the thing

 

I think I have two, maybe three Transformers with non-watch batteries in them: Cybertron Optimus Prime, Leobreaker, and... those are the only ones I can think of. Does Cybertron Scourge use AAs or watch?

I usually leave the batteries out because while I like lights, I really hate sound chips. The few who keep their batteries are the ones whose sound chips make sounds I actually like. All two of them.

 

AA, AAA, C and D types I *always* take out if I am not using the 'bot (or any toy or electric gadget for that matter.)

Cylinder-shape batteries are the one most common to leakage and I've even had a couple of them explode...luckily nobody was near them at the time!
Just last week I had to pry open a display digital camera at work for the AA batteries in it had leaked...and they had only been in there a few days. Thankfully the camera wasn't damaged, just a q-tip and some rubbing alcohol got the battery compartment clean  
And I don't exactly live in a warm or humid climate, so I doubt that matters much.  
Batteries will leak eventually. Just don't let it be in your TF's!

 

Just a FYI, if you've got a toy where the batteries have leaked, and the toy no longer works.. Just take a little automotive chrome polish to the battery connectors inside the toy (both the possitive connector, and the negavite spring). The chrome polish won't harm the plastic either, but it'll eat right through the layer of battery fluid covering the connectors. Put a bit on a cloth, and simply rub the corroded area's clean.

Stick in a new battery, and it'll work just fine.

Leaked batteries don't actually wreck anything, they just simply just cover the connectors in a crusty layer of battery fluids, preventing any newer batteries from being able to have a good contact with the connector. An easy fix  

 

Yeah, I better take the batteries out of my G1 Soundwave.

What? Those aren;t batteries! Those are weapons!!!

awwwwwwww