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Just in time for the Haslab to drop, here's a comparison of the G1 and my preferred modern set, the MP scaled TFC Toys set.

Taken for an older TFsource article I contributed to

Released in Diaclone in multiple markets, and as Gig Trasformer in Italy, but sadly passed over for Transformers likely due to the lack of alt mode and reliance of being piloted mecha. Fantastic pull-back-and-go Transformations that preceed the Jumpstarters and Battlechargers.

My childhood Magnus became a guinea pig, I used a technique adapted from @Tallus76 on Twitter. Peroxide cream (you can get this in 20-40% strength) which you coat over the toy, and then seal it inside a transparent plastic timber, and leave it in direct sunlight for a few days (turning the box, and the figure inside the box to ensure every part gets sunlight). I don't know if its the heat or the light that is the biggest reactive agent (or even the airborne peroxide) but this is the best result I've had, having previously tried yellowed Lego, smothered, in a plastic ziploc bag (I felt the creme transferred onto the bag too easily).

I would clean up and remove stickers first, and definitely avoid painted areas (the die-cast painted white has survived, but the cheap chrome paint on the radiator in the v2 Taiwanese Magnuses just came straight off), and I would even consider disassembling the figure so you can just treat the affected parts.

Punch is next as I want to see how plastics other than white take the treatment. I'm building up confidence and then eventually I will take on the thighs and lower abdomen on my G1 Fort Max.

Apologies for the glut of Missing Link content, but this is what's new, current, and exciting.