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Foxywba 05-14-2015 12:13 PM

Rubber head General traag
 
hi I've just brought a general traag which has a rubber head and arm just wondering if anyone has any insight to this as thought only 10 backs had the rubber ??

papa_smurf73 05-14-2015 01:02 PM

Sounds like a bootleg to me.

Candy Kappa 05-14-2015 01:33 PM

smells bootleggy.

slashpieturtlemix 05-14-2015 01:46 PM

Yeah I never heard of a rubber traag :O

Foxywba 05-14-2015 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Foxywba (Post 1458618)
hi I've just brought a general traag which has a rubber head and arm just wondering if anyone has any insight to this as thought only 10 backs had the rubber ??

No it's not bootleg,card and bubble are spot on,just seems one those strange things toy company's do i guess,I have a Leo with rubber arms

tmntman 05-14-2015 02:38 PM

Do you have a figure with a rubber limb, as in you have opened it and the limb is flexible or is the limb just a different shade/sheen and you are assuming it is a different material?

I would assume it is that latter and the difference in appearance is the result of the plastic aging differently.

eastlos217 05-14-2015 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by tmntman (Post 1458727)
Do you have a figure with a rubber limb, as in you have opened it and the limb is flexible or is the limb just a different shade/sheen and you are assuming it is a different material?

I would assume it is that latter and the difference in appearance is the result of the plastic aging differently.

agreed. a lot of the time its the residue of the plastic.

Foxywba 05-14-2015 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by tmntman (Post 1458727)
Do you have a figure with a rubber limb, as in you have opened it and the limb is flexible or is the limb just a different shade/sheen and you are assuming it is a different material?

I would assume it is that latter and the difference in appearance is the result of the plastic aging differently.

Surely if the plastic was different due to ageing wouldn't whole figure be the same or if just the limb or head would it change in stages and not whole thing

Discogod 05-14-2015 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Foxywba (Post 1458747)
Surely if the plastic was different due to ageing wouldn't whole figure be the same or if just the limb or head would it change in stages and not whole thing

Depends. Different parts of the figure will use different plastics, and individual parts can possibly use plastics from different batches than other parts of the same toy.

Candy Kappa 05-14-2015 03:22 PM

So, you have them in the package, how are you sure it's rubber then?

Rubber arms Leo have been debated and debunked to death.

papa_smurf73 05-14-2015 03:38 PM

Its definitely not rubber my dude. I didn't realize it was still in package. If anything it has aged.

go_ninja84 05-14-2015 03:42 PM

post a pic if the figure is moc im pretty sure you have been falsely informed only "rubber" figures produced were the 88 figures (4 turtles, Shredder, Splinter, Rocksteady, Bebop) and only the heads were soft.

who did you get the figure from? probably the work of footballorangeguy

james 05-14-2015 03:45 PM

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Hey guys,

This is the Traag in question, I had it for a while and it has gone from me to Foxywba, rubber on the left and plastic on the right, photos taken in the same place in the same positions, visually the same material properties as the '88 rubber heads that everyone loves to mention, check them out for yourself and say what you think


Attachment 9084

Attachment 9085

Foxywba 05-14-2015 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by go_ninja84 (Post 1458770)
post a pic if the figure is moc im pretty sure you have been falsely informed only "rubber" figures produced were the 88 figures (4 turtles, Shredder, Splinter, Rocksteady, Bebop) and only the heads were soft.

who did you get the figure from? probably the work of footballorangeguy

Lol orange football guy gets about abit doesn't he whats situation with him? Does everyone hate him ?

Powder 05-14-2015 03:57 PM

It's not rubber, it's degraded plastic. Fact. This whole "rubber parts" thing is Footballorangeguy's big bullsh*t scheme to convince morons into paying twice a figure's worth for one that is actually in lesser condition. So yes, everyone hip to that hates him.

go_ninja84 05-14-2015 04:00 PM

he scams everyone charging 100+ for figures claiming they are "rubber" taking advantage of new fans

you can tell a hard plastic figure by a seam that runs along the sides where the 2 molds met in the injection process

Foxywba 05-14-2015 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by go_ninja84 (Post 1458786)
he scams everyone charging 100+ for figures claiming they are "rubber" taking advantage of new fans

you can tell a hard plastic figure by a seam that runs along the sides where the 2 molds met in the injection process

What's the process of making rubber heads ?? If hard head were made like that

Foxywba 05-14-2015 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Powder (Post 1458784)
It's not rubber, it's degraded plastic. Fact. This whole "rubber parts" thing is Footballorangeguy's big bullsh*t scheme to convince morons into paying twice a figure's worth for one that is actually in lesser condition. So yes, everyone hip to that hates him.

So no other figure was made with rubber parts at all baring first ten backs ??

Powder 05-14-2015 04:12 PM

The rubber headed '88 figures (sans... April, I think? One of them didn't have rubber, if memory servers correctly) are the only ones to have a whole rubber appendage that isn't otherwise stated on the packaging. There are turtle variants that have rubber backpacks you fill with water so they can be used as squirt guns, but besides those kinda gimmicks, there are none. FBOG is just a scammer who falsely advertises.

Foxywba 05-14-2015 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Powder (Post 1458797)
The rubber headed '88 figures (sans... April, I think? One of them didn't have rubber, if memory servers correctly) are the only ones to have a whole rubber appendage that isn't otherwise stated on the packaging. There are turtle variants that have rubber backpacks you fill with water so they can be used as squirt guns, but besides those kinda gimmicks, there are none. FBOG is just a scammer who falsely advertises.


Yeah I've haven't brought of fbog but I have seen his stuff before and always seems to have loads different types of cards which figures appear on,what about Leo samari figure didnt he have a rubber head ??


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