Certain figures are sticky. What is the cause?

[Derek.McManus]

I have never encountered this problem before could it possibly be oils released from the moulding process?

[Mr. Challenger]

My Papo spinosaurus is sticky too, but I don´t know why 

[PumperKrickel]

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[Roselaar]

My Papo Spinosaurus has the same problem. Never heard about it happening to Collecta figures though, that's a troubling bit of info...

[BlueKrono]

Never had that happen before with any of my figures. Got a Nessie one time that was oily when removed from the packaging. When I tried to wash the grease off with soap the paint started coming off. I was very frustrated. But I think that's different than what's happening here.

[Halichoeres]

Never had that happen before with any of my figures. Got a Nessie one time that was oily when removed from the packaging. When I tried to wash the grease off with soap the paint started coming off. I was very frustrated. But I think that's different than what's happening here.

I'm not sure that isn't the same thing. I think the process of plastic degradation, sufficiently advanced, will begin to take the paint with it.

[Shonisaurus]

Never had that happen before with any of my figures. Got a Nessie one time that was oily when removed from the packaging. When I tried to wash the grease off with soap the paint started coming off. I was very frustrated. But I think that's different than what's happening here.

I'm not sure that isn't the same thing. I think the process of plastic degradation, sufficiently advanced, will begin to take the paint with it.

So from what I see are unfortunately deteriorating these three figures. You have to apply matte.

[CityRaptor]

I'm not sure that isn't the same thing. I think the process of plastic degradation, sufficiently advanced, will begin to take the paint with it.

I think the paint rubbing off through use before that happens is way more likely. Besides, colors degrade a different way:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Photodegradation

I also think that we can be glad that golden plastic is not used when it comes to our kind of figures:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Gold_Plastic_Syndrome


Interestingly I have some JP figures where the stickyness seems to vary. Sometimes they are less sticky. Probably has to do with the climate.

Oh and another hint: Be careful with lamps, depending on how much heat they produce.

[stargatedalek]

I have a mechanical koi that was sticky and the rubber was tearing and falling off just from sun damage.

[terrorchicken]

plastic going bad...the bane of toy collectors, whether they are dinosaur figures, action figures or dolls.
the only animal figures Ive had that had it were 3 British Museum marine reptile figures(the painted ones), I figure they were pretty old. Had a few dolls have it too. Ive had success rubbing alcohol on them but its a process youd have to repeat again as the plastic will just keep degrading.

[CityRaptor]

The fact that it is already happening to some Jurassic World toys does not exactly predict a positive future for those.

[PumperKrickel]

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[CityRaptor]

Expect for the Basher & Biter Indominus Rex, I hope. I own that one.
It also means that unbroken samples will be expensive to obtain for future collectors.

[PumperKrickel]

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[Reptilia]

What do you guys exactly mean with sticky? I have my Papo Spinosaurus which in fact leaves a different feeling than my other Papos when touched, but I don't know if I'd say it is sticky. My Papo Baryonyx also seems to be like that, but maybe it's just the shiny finish?

[CityRaptor]

Sticky as in if you ate candy and did not wash your hands after that.

[Reptilia]

Ok, so it's not like that cause I don't have to wash my hands after I handled my Spinosaurus or any other model I own. Even though I touch my figures rarely and not for so long, admittedly.

To prevent any damage I suggest not to expose them to direct sunlight, as said before. I also don't display my figures in the hot season, my room gets particularly heated so I put them in a storage box and keep it in the coldest room of the house until the end of the summer.

[ceratopsian]

Perhaps it's not just sunlight involved.  By chance, earlier this week I happened to open a box in which I had stored my toy farm and zoo animals - mostly Britain's scale models - that I had as a young child.  So they will date from the mid to late 1960s I guess.  My parents packed them away years ago and eventually delivered them to my house.  I hadn't opened them since.  Then a few days ago I bit the bullet and opened the box, as we're doing a lot of decorating and clearing.  I had two giant pandas - I noticed one of them was slightly sticky to the touch.  Also I had several trees (again Britain's).  They had gone very sticky indeed and I threw them out. Sadly the sticky trees had damaged the stable block - so I threw that out as well.  The other animals seemed unaffected.  Just trying to decide now whether to store them in the loft - or be brave and take them to Oxfam!!  The box hadn't been stored anywhere warm.

[PumperKrickel]

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[ceratopsian]

Yes, I'm sure you are right about vapours in a confined space.