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weepel99 09-01-2004 10:34 PM

TMNT MOC and bugs :)
 
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 09-01-2004 10:46 PM

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 09-02-2004 08:27 AM

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 09-02-2004 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Spitfire666xXxXx
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 09-02-2004 09:12 AM

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!

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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 09-02-2004 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Midnight_kitsune
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 09-02-2004 04:31 PM

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 09-02-2004 06:46 PM

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 09-03-2004 08:21 AM

Never happened to me.

OA 09-03-2004 03:54 PM

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

weepel99 09-11-2004 11:37 PM

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

-Jeff

tOkKa 09-12-2004 06:57 AM

-->> ..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 09-13-2004 04:19 PM

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.


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