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hello everyone im fairly new to the forums and collecting as well so i was wondering, the stress marks supposedly on every blackout, what should i be looking for? pics would be greatly apreciated!

thanks

nothing??

i dunno, everyone seems to say they check for them, but i haven't seen any pictures, and i don't see any "stress marks" on the toy i own. i'd say it would have to be seen while in helicopter alt mode, but i don't know where. course, the toy'srus 2 pack has blackout in robot mode...

"Stress marks" are usually white patches or streaks near a hinge or joint, caused by the plastic being nearly nebt or broken, and thus breaking down the dyes.

Mine doesn't have any either. The only thing I had to worry about was trying to get the automorph to work correctly. It's not hard when you understand it, but until you do....

I would recommend looking to the pegs that keep Blackout's side panels (his arms) attached to his body in either mode. I've noticed some white lines appearing on the pegs where they join to the rest of the toy. Those are the only stress marks I've seen, and they're minor at that.

I've had mine for about a week now. I only transformed him once from helicoptor to robot, and he's been that way ever since. No signs of stress marks. But then, I've only changed him once. Are there any particular areas where this happens? I mean, is it mostly the shoulder joints, leg joints, what?

Mine does not have any stress marks just like the rest of my movie toys.

I haven't seen any stress mark on my Blackout figure, and I've transformed him a couple times. Could be just a case of me not looking close enough.

I've heard about these stress marks, but still don't understand how they happen on Blackout myself.

Has anyone seen a tutorial on how to fix the automorph?

The automorph is the only thing wrong with mone so far. Really, it is the only thing wrong with a few of the toys so far. Blckout's head does hot flip around at all when I move the waist in line. Bumblebee has one leg where his rear window assembly does not move all the way back into place when creating his feet (like the other leg does). Ironhide's front and back part of his feet do not stiffen when deployed, causing a "splitting" effect when trying to stand him up on them. Every time I try to pose Leader-Prime's legs to anything other than standing straight up, the foot fenders automorph back to truck fender mode. The rest seem to work fine though...

No problems with mine yet either, but I just got him this weekend and the kids haven't seen him yet, but they will on father's day, and then we wil see what happens.

The Automorph thing doesn't seem to do anything on any of the ones I have, but thats ok, as long as nothing falls off everytime I transform them I am ok.

Valandar wrote:"Stress marks" are usually white patches or streaks near a hinge or joint, caused by the plastic being nearly nebt or broken, and thus breaking down the dyes.

Haven't seen stress marks on mine, but what I have seen on my own Black-Out is that there are lots of "cut-marks" on my Black out which are white colored due to the cutting.

^ It's more expensive to use more colors of plastic. More colors = more molds. However if they're already using the right color somewhere else on the toy, there's no excuse, they're just stupid. And why they'd make Blackout's hands the only bit of white on him is beyond me...

kirbenvost wrote:^ It's more expensive to use more colors of plastic. More colors = more molds. However if they're already using the right color somewhere else on the toy, there's no excuse, they're just stupid. And why they'd make Blackout's hands the only bit of white on him is beyond me...

That's not the only bit of white on him. the mini Scorponok is white too.


Woohoo! I finally figured out how to get the automorph to work perfectly!!

Hi guys, I just joined, so this is obviously going to be late. Anyway, my Blackout figure had those tabs that connect the shoulders broken off. I did notice the stress marks when I was younger, and it was only a matter of time before they gave out.