{"id":3583,"date":"2011-08-04T13:02:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T18:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=3583"},"modified":"2011-08-04T20:45:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T01:45:28","slug":"yellowing-plastic-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2011\/08\/04\/yellowing-plastic-strikes-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellowing Plastic Strikes Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of Hasbro&#8217;s\u00a0VP of Global Brand Management\u00a0<a title=\"indicating\" href=\"http:\/\/echobasenews.com\/interview-derryl-depriest.html\" target=\"_blank\">indicating<\/a> in a recent interview at <em>Echobasenews.com<\/em> that they had resolved the issue with yellowing of figures, it seems as though they still haven&#8217;t really addressed the problem (at least not yet).<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year or so,\u00a0collectors are very aware\u00a0of\u00a0extreme cases of this\u00a0on the BD # 58 Spacetrooper, \u00a0TVC # 14 Sandtrooper and TVC # 15 Clone Trooper (as well as some Clone Wars Clone Troopers to a lesser extent).\u00a0\u00a0 But now it&#8217;s being seen on the TVC # 52 Rebel Fleet Trooper&#8217;s helmet, and even the Clone Trooper helmet\u00a0in the AOTC Blu Ray\u00a0Commemorative set.<\/p>\n<p>Our friends at <em>Jedidefender.com<\/em> have provided a <a title=\"comparison pic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jedidefender.com\/image.pl?http:\/\/www.jedidefender.com\/news\/images\/1-08\/011Vin_YellowFleetTrooperHelmets01_Full.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">comparison pic<\/a> of this quality control issue on the Rebel Fleet Trooper and forum members <em>Rum Sleg<\/em> and <em>Nygmex <\/em>at <em>Rebelscum.com<\/em> <a title=\"also reported\" href=\"http:\/\/threads.rebelscum.com\/showflat.php?Cat=&amp;Board=TVC&amp;Number=4575244&amp;page=4&amp;view=collapsed&amp;sb=5&amp;o=93&amp;fpart=all\" target=\"_blank\">also reported<\/a> this problem recently as well.<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s it going to take for Hasbro to address this issue once and for all?\u00a0 Share your thoughts after <a title=\"the jump!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=129&amp;t=6523&amp;p=106491#p106491\" target=\"_blank\">the jump!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of Hasbro&#8217;s\u00a0VP of Global Brand Management\u00a0indicating in a recent interview at Echobasenews.com that they had resolved the issue with yellowing of figures, it seems as though they still haven&#8217;t really addressed the problem (at least not yet). Over the past year or so,\u00a0collectors are very aware\u00a0of\u00a0extreme cases of this\u00a0on the BD # 58 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2011\/08\/04\/yellowing-plastic-strikes-back\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yellowing Plastic Strikes Back<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21,39,16],"class_list":["post-3583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","tag-clone-wars","tag-hasbro-2","tag-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3588,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions\/3588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}