The Energon Pub

News Credits: 1 · by **Cybertronian** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:45 pm

Has anyone bought and/or found issues with their movie Elita-One?

While I am enjoying the one I bought for my birthday, I am unfortunately worried about her fragility. The metallic pink plastic is 1 or 2 shades away from having G2 gold plastic syndrome. I equipped her energon weapon and was shocked to see stress marks appear around the left "hand hole". Wondering if it was a fluke, I slowly equipped the weapon in her other "hand", witnessing this flaw develop first-hand.

Although I was happy to swap her weapons back and forth with my second (Universe/Energon) Arcee, I'm still worried about the stress issues in the metallic pink plastic parts. As one might expect, Arcee's gray missile loads and fires easier from Elita's nearly-translucent black launcher than Elita's pink one. This is partly due to it being from the original casting.

Please give me counteropinions.
-- Cybertronian. :BOT:

by **Decatron** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:47 pm

Haven't had any issues with mine.

News Credits: 972 · by **i_amtrunks** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:00 pm

Yet to see one, so no issues for me as yet!

by **Grahf** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:27 pm

I don't have any issues with mine, although I very rarely display her with the weapon.

News Credits: 1 · by **iron maniac** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:30 pm

Haven't had any issues with mine as of yet at least.

News Credits: 2 · by **TFBuyer** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:31 pm

No problems here. Sorry, dude.

by **zemper** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:37 pm

you could always buy a new one, at the price the toy is selling there. :grin:

by **Sarri** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:21 am

No problems with mine either. And I fiddle around with her almost daily. The only color faults she has are a two silver splotches of silver on her front, rear wheel in robot mode wheel (my MISB one seems completely fine). No stress marks on her weapon holder either. Missle Missle launcher shoots fine (almost lost her missle on her first shot).

What is the G2 gold Plastic syndrome?

by **Sportimus Prime** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:31 am

The only issues I have with my Elita-1 are that she is one tiny chick, and the gal has no hands. Otherwise, no.

by **Deadpool.** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:30 am

Cybertronian wrote:Has anyone bought and/or found issues with their movie Elita-One?

While I am enjoying the one I bought for my birthday, I am unfortunately worried about her fragility. The metallic pink plastic is 1 or 2 shades away from having G2 gold plastic syndrome. I equipped her energon weapon and was shocked to see stress marks appear around the left "hand hole". Wondering if it was a fluke, I slowly equipped the weapon in her other "hand", witnessing this flaw develop first-hand.

Although I was happy to swap her weapons back and forth with my second (Universe/Energon) Arcee, I'm still worried about the stress issues in the metallic pink plastic parts. As one might expect, Arcee's gray missile loads and fires easier from Elita's nearly-translucent black launcher than Elita's pink one. This is partly due to it being from the original casting.

Please give me counteropinions.
-- Cybertronian.

Seems like you got a jinxed one.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:59 am

Sportimus Prime wrote:The only issues I have with my Elita-1 are that she is one tiny chick, and the gal has no hands. Otherwise, no.

That's what you get for not reading the instructions, kiddos. Otherwise he would have known the tailpipe sections have parts on ball joints that can be twisted to reveal the (merely decorative) hands

by **Sportimus Prime** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:18 am

You call those hands? They're more like some diformity on this poor lady. As if being a mini-bike and upped by Arcee wasn't enough.

News Credits: 4 · by **SnapTrap** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:04 pm

Sarri wrote:What is the G2 gold Plastic syndrome?

In some of the past TF toylines, the gold plastic that was used disintegrates over time making the plastic brittle and breaks too easily. There are a number of figures in G1, G2 and a couple of the newer lines where the plastic fails.