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[kirbenvost]

Start to finish, it takes about 4 to 6 hours to do a gallery.

And now I know first hand just how much work it is, and my MP Skywarp gallery was nowhere near the quality of any of yours! You do a lot of great work for this community, and we all really appreciate it.

On this particular gallery: Holy epicness Batman! I am excited as heck to look through this in full detail later. Work prevents me from drooling over everything in detail, but I certainly will get to it ASAP.

[mattyc1007]

Uh like Ryan points out. Gold Plastic? What are we gonna do, I dont want this figure turning into a pile of dust especially in one of the main areas of the fig, Has Has/Tak fixed Gold Plastic Syndrome yet?

Anyway Awesome Shots Ryan 15/10 stars for ya

[MrMunkeepants]

thanks for the good quality gallery, but when are we going to see bot&alt mode comparisons to Masterpiece SS?

[JelZe GoldRabbit]

Uh like Ryan points out. Gold Plastic? What are we gonna do, I dont want this figure turning into a pile of dust especially in one of the main areas of the fig, Has Has/Tak fixed Gold Plastic Syndrome yet?

No guaranties, but they are aware of the problem and changed the formula of the plastic. And only the shiny gold plastic with swirls will crumble.

[Seibertron]

Uh like Ryan points out. Gold Plastic? What are we gonna do, I dont want this figure turning into a pile of dust especially in one of the main areas of the fig, Has Has/Tak fixed Gold Plastic Syndrome yet?

No guaranties, but they are aware of the problem and changed the formula of the plastic. And only the shiny gold plastic with swirls will crumble.

Yeah. Like the one on this particular Leader Class Starscream.



http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... 1965/2/28/

[Counterpunch]

Uh like Ryan points out. Gold Plastic? What are we gonna do, I dont want this figure turning into a pile of dust especially in one of the main areas of the fig, Has Has/Tak fixed Gold Plastic Syndrome yet?

No guaranties, but they are aware of the problem and changed the formula of the plastic. And only the shiny gold plastic with swirls will crumble.

Let's not start any rumors.

You really have to have an understanding of the particular polymer that was used and the process that it underwent for the molding.

It's not the inclusions, nor is it a result of the swirling that causes GPS. It's a specific fault in the polymer creation process (very likely linked to the particular dye and mix of the plastic).

[Ultra Magnus]

Awesome Gallery of an awesome figure BEFORE it's out in stores, intellectual, scientific conversation about metallurgy and plastic polymers? Could a 'Bot ask for more? I love this place!

[Starscream]

As the new owner of this figure, I wouldn't worry about GPS. I am pretty confident that it is not the same gold plastic that we have been victim to in the past. It has a similar hue, but it's not exactly the same.

This doesn't have the same amount of swoopy-goopy that the original GP seems to have

[JelZe GoldRabbit]

Uh like Ryan points out. Gold Plastic? What are we gonna do, I dont want this figure turning into a pile of dust especially in one of the main areas of the fig, Has Has/Tak fixed Gold Plastic Syndrome yet?

No guaranties, but they are aware of the problem and changed the formula of the plastic. And only the shiny gold plastic with swirls will crumble.

Let's not start any rumors.

You really have to have an understanding of the particular polymer that was used and the process that it underwent for the molding.

It's not the inclusions, nor is it a result of the swirling that causes GPS. It's a specific fault in the polymer creation process (very likely linked to the particular dye and mix of the plastic).

Still, it's not so much of an issue anymore as Hasbro has confirmed. The latest real case was Beast Wars Neo Randy from 10 years ago, and possibly RiD Megabolt. The chance is still there, but much smaller now.

[Swiftknife24]

It's takes so long to post galleries of toys released over a year ago (Premium Jazz, Barricade and Bumblebee), but this is posted *before* the release of the toy?

Explain.

Start to finish, it takes about 4 to 6 hours to do a gallery. I do galleries first based on which ones I think will perform the best and generate the most traffic. Newer figures are always a priority over older figures. FYI ... I have posted 314 galleries in the past year. It's a ton of work but I love it.

The premium figures from the last series were what I call "rainy day" galleries. We already had how many different versions of the figures that were released as Premium toys? They're not big traffic generators because you weren't really seeing something new with those figures. I think around the time those were coming out, I was getting a lot of TFA prototypes which took far greater priority than figures that had already seen multiple releases and repaints.

Sometimes Seibertron.com itself gets in my way of working on galleries in a timely fashion. I spent three months earlier this year redesigning the site, restructuring the site's database, and rewriting a ton of code from the ground up. I didn't work on any galleries during the time, which is why the figures at the end of Universe were missed such as Ratchet and Hot Shot.

I also have a life outside of Seibertron, a career, a family, and friends. Sometimes my personal life prevents me from doing galleries as soon as a figure comes out. Or basement floods. Or server crashes.

I always have a rainy day list. I work on this list when I've caught up with a line or when there's a lull between series or releases. I'm currently working through the rainy day list right now. I've got about twenty galleries waiting to get posted to the site over the next couple of weeks. I'm currently working on posting the Premium series galleries. I'm trying to get to the Club exclusive Seacons and Nightbeat that I started over a year ago but never finished before the next onslaught of ROTF starts appearing.

My goal is to get to 2,000 galleries before the end of the year. I've got less than six weeks to do 75 galleries.

Ah, I see. Just seemed funny how the galleries were so close! Didn't mean to be ignorant, it really does seem like a lot of work, so kudos to you!

Great work too!