Bizarrely, I just learned something new about myself on TFWiki. I invented Gold Plastic Syndrome. That's right - all of you with broken Black Zaraks and G2 Slingshots... it was me! Bwahahaha! (Well, not really.)

(From TFWiki): "The earliest use of the term that can be found in the alt.toys.transformers archives dates to September 2002 in a post by user Sky Shadow".

And this was my post back in 2002:

"I have a MOC Pretender Monster Slog sitting on my desk, just begging me to open him.

However, if Slogs suffer from Gold Plastic Syndrome (i.e. the sort of brittleness that will make me want to cry) then I'd rather not put myself through that sort of torment.

So if anyone has any experience with GPS Slogs (or Bristlebacks, for that matter) could you please let me know? Maybe it's time we came up with a comprehensive list of diseased GPS Transformers.

I know about Black Zarak, Pretender Roadblock and G2 Slingshot. Who else needs to be quarantined?"