>>5940215>that's just your small sampleSure, a small sample of a few dozen figures over a period of 4-5 years.
The only time I ever saw anyone physically break a DCC figure that had clear plastic was when he was hamhanding it, by twisting the joint at about 40mph. This was a video review that was posted on /toy/ and it was a hoot. Every other video that has talked about breaking one was always off camera.
Nevermind the fact that I've bought over a couple hundred other lines that have used clear plastics, and you know the only one that has ever routinely broken on me? 00's Microman.
There's no other line that has ever just randomly broken on me. I'm very careful with my figures and always unstick joints before ever handing them off to my nephews so they can fool around with them.
Anytime i have broken anything else, it was my fault and usually overconfident in the plastic (always an opaque plastic).
So if something was up with transparent plastic, it'd rear its head on me regardless, because i buy a ton of toys.
So what makes transparent plastic seem like it breaks more often? Confirmation bias.
You now how many threads we have on /toy/ about toys breaking? Dozens of claims every week and the majority of them are from just normal colored plastics. Figmas, Transformers, NECAs, Marvel Legends, and the list goes on and on. Yet no one really says "Opaque plastic is shitty".
It's a great example of your confirmation bias.
Oh, and how do i know those Microman figures are so shit? Because every fucking figure that used clear plastic broke on me, yet the ones using opaque plastic survive to this day. I never kept the broken ones long enough to see if the other plastic pieces transparent or not would break though, but they must have used the same plastics on licensed figures since they were made at the same time and even used the same shitty metalized plastics.
