Two tone Thundering Turbo?

Neil UK · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 3:20 pm Post subject: Two tone Thundering Turbo?

I have seen a few of these now but this one seems the most pronounced. I keep on hoping they will be Jungle Fighters but they never are Sad

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Does anyone know if they made two-tone games or is the top plastic just sun damaged?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rare-col.....240%3A1318

Neil.

tanatron · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:27 pm Post subject:

Hi Neil, I think that its a plastic "decay".
As for the Jungle fighter , from the same seller ( I'm pretty sure you already bookmarked it):

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Tomytron.....240%3A1318

What amuses me is that this decayment still happends on modern day plastics.I have bought few years ago 2 temperature\agrometers LCD displays from Oregon Scientific.Well they now blend very well with the fornitures having turned from white to light brown.

Alex
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Rik · Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 12:07 am Post subject:

Yeah, it's definitely some kind of deterioration of the plastic. I used to think it was alway UV/sun damage, but sometimes the plastic is affected all the way through, so it must be something else in those cases (UV/sun damage will do the same thing on the surface.)

His is either pieced together from two different games (maybe it had battery corrosion and he replaced the bottom half to fix it), or one half was made from a different batch of plastic...

I don't think there was ever a two-toned Tomy game...

Rik

Neil UK · Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 3:59 pm Post subject:

What about Shark Attack? That was two-toned (in the UK anyway).

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TOMYTRON.....240%3A1318

Neil.

tanatron · Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 10:29 pm Post subject:

As a matter of fact the japanese version ,Jaws, it's even three-toned ! Shocked

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Rik · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 9:51 pm Post subject:

Oh yeah, forgot about that one... That's actually a good 'shark' color scheme...

The 3-toned one though is another example of the plastic changing it's color for some reason. The battery door looks correct, so I'd guess it's either been replaced, or the plastic of the body was made from a different batch of materials that does this weird color-changing thing...

The plastic is usually more brittle when this happens too, although you have to try to break it to prove that.

Rik