TMNT MOC and bugs :)

[weepel99]

Is it just me or have other people had problems with buying carded vintage TMNT figures on ebay or any place really only to find dead bugs stuck inside of them.

I'm 2 for 3 so far that I've bought on ebay. I've got a small beetle stuck under some tape and a small roach stuck in a weapon compartment on 2 different carded figures. I guess the opening at the bottom of the bubble allows for little critters to freely crawl into the inner contents and get stuck and die. Now if I could just get them out somehow.

-Jeff

[Spitfire]

Must have bought them from a exterminator haha I dont know what u can do but shake the boxes until the bug falls out or gets lose enough to get it out. Dont leave it in there because it might decompose the stuff around it along with itself :o

[MrPliggins]

Hmm this has never happened to me with all the figures I have bought on ebay. I wonder though, I should check the figures in my closet becaue they've been sitting in there for a few years.

[Jed]

Must have bought them from a exterminator haha I dont know what u can do but shake the boxes until the bug falls out or gets lose enough to get it out. Dont leave it in there because it might decompose the stuff around it along with itself :o

Em, if they bought them from an exterminator why would there be bugs in them? I woulda thought an exterminator's house would be relatively free of bugs :P

[Midnight_Tanuki]

It's a marketing ploy! Free with the purchase of TMNT, you get your choice of Rocky the Dead Roach Sidekick, Frances the fly, or Bob the unidentified clump of insectoid body parts! Collect them all!

Em, if they bought them from an exterminator why would there be bugs in them? I woulda thought an exterminator's house would be relatively free of bugs

see the Scumbug toy :P

[Jester]

It's a marketing ploy! Free with the purchase of TMNT, you get your choice of Rocky the Dead Roach Sidekick, Frances the fly, or Bob the unidentified clump of insectoid body parts! Collect them all!
ha!!!! very funny.....well played my friend well played....

[Eidiot88]

Whoa, glad to see I'm the only one this has happend to. I bought a Mondo Gecko MOC from eBay, it has a little fly/nat or something stuck on Mondo's head. I tried to shake the package but I didn't wanna damage it so I just left it alone. This is the only figure out of like 15 from eBay that had a bug in it.

[weepel99]

All 3 came forom the same seller. I'm sure it has something to do with where they were stored. I'm going to hook up the air compressor and try blowing em out :)

If anything the bugs decompossing is a good thing. They will break apart and then maybe I can get them out if the air compressor doesn't work.

-Jeff.

[cqb101]

Never happened to me.

[OA]

Wow, that sux..ive never actually looked for bugs before; just asumed there wouldnt be any...but what are the chances really. :)

[weepel99]

Okay make that 3 carded figures with bugs in them now :) I'm 3 for 8 now.

-Jeff

[tOkKa]

-->> ..oo tastey.. :P

..i'd carefully examine the pack and see where the heck the buggy got in.. you maybe able to dislodge the bug.. outta there..

[cowabunga14]

Ewwwwww.The cockroach might give ya rabies.Next thing ya know there's gonna some arachnids in the packages.Talk about a scropion sting.How freaky.Good thing the figures can't get moldy.I don't mind having a loose collection cuz I don't want a diseased action figure.