WTF is happening to my Joes???

So I moved my Joe collection to another room, however, something most troubling has happened. I go to grab Headman and only his upper body lifts up, the lower body stays right where it was. That is right, his rubber band snapped who knows when, but I have no idea how. Then I go to grab Zaranna and the same thing had happened. Same goes for Lt Gorsky, Dragonsky, Lady Jaye, and like two others. Problem is, these aren't even original Joes, these are from the more recent comic packs and Joe vs Cobra line. What the hell happened? How did the rubber brands break when they were just standing on the shelf and not touched???????????

they are old its dry rot
same as a car tire sitting in a junk yard

It's called dry rot and they will all do it eventually.

But some of these were bought last year.

a few people have said the newer O rings are not as good as the old ones. I'd just go and get a bag of them and replace them. Back when I was into O-ring joes I'd get a bunch of them to keep on hand to replace ones that would break.

Originally Posted by Echo7Solo

a few people have said the newer O rings are not as good as the old ones. I'd just go and get a bag of them and replace them. Back when I was into O-ring joes I'd get a bunch of them to keep on hand to replace ones that would break.

This... exactly. I have the same problem with all of the 'O'-ring figures from the last several years. Especially the troop-builder packs like Cobra soldiers... and those are especially crappy, because many of their upper bodies are glued together as well.

i keep a bag full of "o" rings just for this situation.the only worry is for the t hooks when they snap.. you've had it unless u got extras lying around.

Wait until he discovers that the plastic used throughout the 80's is decomposing and breaking down as I type this. I noticed that my ARAH collection seemed to become more and more fragile as the years passed despite my best efforts to retain factory fresh.

That was why I sold off everything. Didn't seem to be good business sense in holding onto things that would eventually crumble.

I had this happen to the Sgt. Stalker from the LRRP
comic 3 pack with Tommy Arashikage and CLASSIFIED SE, the o-ring just snapped off. I had replace them all with new o-rings.I guess they don't make them like they use to or as the saying goes.

Just be glad you can fix the 0-ring bands...imagine if this happned to your 25th joes...there is no replacement torso pipes availble lol...youd have to buy more regular joes or copies of the faulty figure to cannablize them for replacement parts