>>10752326honestly, who cares. Companies already take care to use quality materials that have a known history for being durable, so whatever efforts you make (outside of keeping them from the sun and heat) is like 5% of a change over 10-80 years.
The toy you buy today is going to be the same toy you'll have years from now. 99% of flaws will be apparent as soon as you take it out and move the joints. There's not a lot of toylines with such shit plastics and paints that will decompose on you 1 or 5 years down the line. You can count on one hand the amount of companies/lines that a history of problems in the past 5 years.
So shit like my Mattel AMP suit i posted earlier? Toy was fucked from the get go. Weak plastic was physically moving when the joint would shift to a new position. Shit started showing a stress mark in no time and then eventually split, so the leg slides out from any movement.
That clear plastic cockpit? Still pristine, because Mattel figured out how to do clear plastics without shit hazing or yellowing since the 90s or 80s. Same shit with 99% of my toys that have clear plastic.
Despite being trained to baby reels and century old books at a university' library, this is how the majority of my toys are stored. The majority of toys aren't delicate pieces of shit, because they're designed to be durable. It takes a lot of effort to damage a toy.
If something IS poorly made that will release cancerous goo in 5 years? There's nothing i could have done to have prevented that, except inventing a time machine to tell myself not to buy it in the first place.
OH, and toys i know that do have an issue, i store seperately. My LotR toys are stored together wrapped in white paper, because plastic bags are shit and acid free paper wouldn't make an ounce of difference in preventing the plasticizers from leaking. Acid free paper i would use on something nicer, but only painted minis would benefit from that... outside of other paper products, anyway.
