>>10036875Yeah, PVC is shit but it's *cheap* shit. From a consumer's point of view, it's playing Russian Roulette but you never know how many bullets there are.
That's pretty much the story of "how I lost most of my childhood Star Wars figures". For better or for worse, they weren't valuable by any means and I believe I can get them replaced "easily" enough, with help from some friends and with sufficient money, but it's still annoying and given that I still live in the same apartment with no AC, there's no saying for how long they'll last.
Meanwhile I have quite a lot of Lego bricks which are somewhat older than I am and they're good as ever, because they're made of ABS. Of course the white parts have yellowed, but they were already yellowed when I got them, and that is allegedly somewhat reversible (look up retrobright/retrobrighting/retr0brite), though that may understandably weaken the plastic.
It's starting to seem that the PVC problem won't get fixed unless governments across the world take drastic action, and considering that far more toxic chemicals are still legal in many places, I'm not keeping my hopes up.
But I encourage you to research the matter, share the info and...see if there are some toys that are made of ABS, besides Lego sets. I'm genuinely curious, because it seems that at least the action figure industry is dominated by PVC precisely because it's so cheap. Admittedly the "is not as hard as ABS" might sometimes be a desired quality, but it still doesn't explain why all major players often exclusively use PVC, or according to this one image I saw somewhere online, ABS for the figure torso and PVC for everything else.
