Is it safe to be around plastic/toy for long period of time?

the best bootleg i have ever seen in canada is a sword from Dollarama that is a lightsaber (vaders) marked and a "power Samurai sword" using a modified power rangers logo and has a picture of a "Ninja" (not a samurai) who is Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden/Dead or alive... 3 plagiarisms in one place and all stupid

When I took this bootleg out of the package, I expected the neighborhood squirrels to all fall out of the trees, dead. He smelled like old cooking grease and the tears of children working in a sweatshop.


These were even worse, because GQkrillin tried to get rid of the smell with something, so they were a combination of toxic plastic and bleach or something.






This one had no notable odor.


The custom figure on the right smells kind of funny because I used Wildberry Starburst candy to sculpt his armor and other modifications as an experiment. I hated the flavor and he has actually aged much better than the other customs I was making from the same time period that I modified with Sculpey III. He sometimes sweats a brown, sticky mess, but I attribute that to Recoome beating the crap out of him.

Adam I'm glad I'm not the only one that does that lol I open my glass case prob once a week and take a good whiff. For some reason it makes me think happy thoughts like opening a new figure I just got in the mail or something like that but I love the smell of new figures. They should make a car sent that smells like that I'd love to get in my car and have it smell like the inside of my display case

They really make a car sent that smells like new figures?

I say the same thing all the time. I imagine the plastic of real manufactured figures is harmless, and taking whiffs of that for over 14 years has done me no harm. Bootlegs are another story. I have a few, including the Mexican Oceanus Shenron, but no odors come from them. And if there was, it would be drowned out by the great smell of Irwin and Jakks.

The "c" on PVC stands for chloride which can be harmful when it is heated or inhaled or comes into contact with skin especially from a manufacturing or casting standpoint. As long as ur bedroom isn't an oven you should be ok

This is the second post I've seen that asks a question about toy toxicity. I'm going to try and nip this in the bud. The new toy smell are solvents from the paint that haven't completely evaporated by the time u recieve the toy. These are not toxic but can give u a headache, like any strong smell. it will pass when the smell is removed and will not cause ladting damage. In some cases they can be plasticisers in rubbery toys which smell too, SOME of these are harmful but legislation is making it impossible to get hold of these commercially and the manufacturers are re-formulating to avoid them. On the topic if lead containing paint, it is only harmful if u ingest it. Lead paint is largely replaced nowadays, and even when it is used there are limits to the amount you can put in the paint (much less than 0.1%). On the topic if PVC, someone has rightly identified it contains chlorine. When it burns hydrogen chloride is produced which reacts with moisture in the air to produce hydrochloric acid. This is harmful and can inhibit airways and vision. Again, only harmful if you BURN it. Some plasticisers are used in PVC to make it rubbery, but I have already covered those.

Ultimately don't worry, don't burn the figures and don't put them in ur mouth.