The Energon Pub

News Credits: 1646 · Wed Aug 30, 2023 8:33 pm

Armada Prime is so goooooooooooooood. God I love him

I am the Senate!

I still love Hot Rod and Iaconus paired up like this

News Credits: 462 · Thu Aug 31, 2023 4:58 pm

As a word of warning, it's being widely reported across Reddit, TFW, and the TFWiki Discord of there being several copies of the new Legacy Nacelle figure having mold on them.

Not "mold" as in plastic injection, but "mold" as in fungus.

Anyone here who has a copy or will receive one soon should check theirs as soon as possible.

News Credits: 241 · Thu Aug 31, 2023 5:10 pm

Sabrblade wrote:As a word of warning, it's being widely reported across Reddit, TFW, and the TFWiki Discord of there being several copies of the new Legacy Nacelle figure having mold on them.

Not "mold" as in plastic injection, but "mold" as in fungus.

Anyone here who has a copy or will receive one soon should check theirs as soon as possible.

Welp, time to bust out that white vinegar and baking soda.

News Credits: 462 · Thu Aug 31, 2023 6:49 pm

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:As a word of warning, it's being widely reported across Reddit, TFW, and the TFWiki Discord of there being several copies of the new Legacy Nacelle figure having mold on them.

Not "mold" as in plastic injection, but "mold" as in fungus.

Anyone here who has a copy or will receive one soon should check theirs as soon as possible.

Welp, time to bust out that white vinegar and baking soda.

Update: Four separate reports of this case have also been found on Twitter, too.

News Credits: 462 · Thu Aug 31, 2023 11:10 pm

Photographic evidence.

https://twitter.com/ODArt10/status/1696467865606512924

https://old.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/165tkza/so_i_got_nacelle_from_amazon_and_he_has_these/

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Fri Sep 01, 2023 2:13 am

Wow, that's a lot worse than I was expected!

Emerje

News Credits: 101 · Fri Sep 01, 2023 5:24 am

WHAT IN THE NINE UNICRONS INTESTINES HAPPENED?

News Credits: 42 · Fri Sep 01, 2023 6:13 am

Holy Eeeew!

News Credits: 19 · Fri Sep 01, 2023 6:49 am

and that is why you should only reuse a mold ten times...

News Credits: 1646 · Fri Sep 01, 2023 12:04 pm

Mine just shipped... that's gross.

News Credits: 42 · Fri Sep 01, 2023 1:16 pm

I originally thought I got lucky, but once I saw the photo, on further inspection 1 have 3 small spots in the underside of 1 wing that I easily scraped off. Whew. If it would have been as bad as those photos, it would be going back to Amazon.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Sep 01, 2023 2:05 pm

How did they get fungus on them?

News Credits: 14 · Fri Sep 01, 2023 2:30 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Photographic evidence.

https://twitter.com/ODArt10/status/1696467865606512924

https://old.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/165tkza/so_i_got_nacelle_from_amazon_and_he_has_these/

Ohh… my!!!.

Glad I had no interest in Nacelle.

News Credits: 241 · Fri Sep 01, 2023 3:00 pm

bluecatcinema wrote:How did they get fungus on them?

My guess is poor ventilation and air filtering. A bigger question is what mold it actually is, especially considering it's a possible exotic pathogen. Hopefully Hasbro is on the ball with this one.

News Credits: 462 · Fri Sep 01, 2023 3:15 pm

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:
bluecatcinema wrote:How did they get fungus on them?

My guess is poor ventilation and air filtering. A bigger question is what mold it actually is, especially considering it's a possible exotic pathogen. Hopefully Hasbro is on the ball with this one.

Some on Discord have reported coughing and difficulty breathing after handling their Nacelles before they found the mold on their figures.

News Credits: 17 · Fri Sep 01, 2023 3:44 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Jelze Bunnycat wrote:
bluecatcinema wrote:How did they get fungus on them?

My guess is poor ventilation and air filtering. A bigger question is what mold it actually is, especially considering it's a possible exotic pathogen. Hopefully Hasbro is on the ball with this one.
Some on Discord have reported coughing and difficulty breathing after handling their Nacelles before they found the mold on their figures.

At this point that could be psychosomatic. I don't want to be dismissive of experiences, but I would also caution against a panic. Some of what I've read so far is breathless in another sense of the word.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Fri Sep 01, 2023 3:47 pm

If you've ordered or recently received the Amazon Exclusive Legacy Evolution Nacelle you may want open it right away. Numerous fans that have him in hand are reporting a "fungal growth" or "mold" on the plastic, particularly on the wings. As you can see in the images below from Watcher Graphics and TheGeek100 along with others chiming in on social media this isn't a minor issue. It's highly recommended that both Amazon and Hasbro customer service are contacted by those that have this issue, however minor your case may be, so they can track issues and investigate them. Thanks to Seibertronian Sabrblade for brining this issue to our Energon Pub forums.

Feel free to add your experiences with this figure in the forums, even if you've found no issues.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Sep 01, 2023 3:51 pm

NACELLE ALSO ENGINEERED THE HATE PLAGUE?!? NO! NOT THE SPORES!!!

News Credits: 1 · Fri Sep 01, 2023 4:01 pm

But seriously, this is more disturbing than real life instances of MISP Cosmic Rust infections. We eventually got another MP Megatron, but in MW Starscream's case, it seemed like some some sort of curse the mold suffered for trying to escape Skyquake's GPS.

Not sure how this makes me feel about falling behind on a lot of online exclusives lately. If this is from improper storage somehow related to Amazon's s#itty TF exclusive distribution, maybe this will be the straw that breaks the Carbombian camel's back and gets Hasbro to stop giving them so many.

Here's hoping Nacelle isn't just patient zero in what does turn out to be a toy-demic.

News Credits: 17 · Fri Sep 01, 2023 4:04 pm

Bumblevivisector wrote:But seriously, this is more disturbing than real life instances of MISP Cosmic Rust infections. We eventually got another MP Megatron, but in MW Starscream's case, it seemed like some some sort of curse the mold suffered for trying to escape Skyquake's GPS.

Not sure how this makes me feel about falling behind on a lot of online exclusives lately. If this is from improper storage somehow related to Amazon's ------ TF exclusive distribution, maybe this will be the straw that breaks the Carbombian camel's back and gets Hasbro to stop giving them so many.

Here's hoping Nacelle isn't just patient zero in what does turn out to be a toy-demic.

I thought some people had reported the same from Pulse, which hasn't shipped yet in the US, as far as I know. In any event, I would expect it to be upstream of Amazon if it's on the plastic. These are sealed box releases, after all.

News Credits: 388 · Fri Sep 01, 2023 4:40 pm

None on mine, thankfully. It does make me a rich leery about ordering another one to keep MISB, though.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Sep 01, 2023 6:35 pm

Bounti76 wrote:None on mine, thankfully. It does make me a rich leery about ordering another one to keep MISB, though.

I can already see the wiki entry in ten years' time: "Nacelle is practically impossible to find sealed, since practically everyone who bought it back when it was released opened the toy as soon as they could because many copies came from the retailer infested with fungi"

News Credits: 11 · Fri Sep 01, 2023 10:43 pm

"I remember when the cordyceps took over. It all started with the Nacelles..."

Fri Sep 01, 2023 11:33 pm

In all seriousness that's quite concerning. I'm no toy engineer nor an expert on storing plastic but I'm quite befuddled that this even happened.
Guess I'm glad being grumpy about the darn thing being an Amazon exclusive (and missing out on the Pulse stock) saved me from getting a potentially spore-riddled Nacelle.
Do hope this issue is resolved, though, I do still wish to amass more Seekers...