Batteries in MISB Toys

[GoktimusPrime]

It is my extreme reaction to an Energon Scorponok who decided that 2am was the perfect time to constantly repeat his noises.

Heh, that gimmick is pretty darn annoying. Ditto G2 Megatron (although after a while you get used to handling him without setting off his sound gimmick). When I discovered that EN Scorponok's gimmick was no longer working properly, I just thought to myself, "No great loss there." For some odd reason, my internal monologue voice sounded like Jack Black at that exact moment. Weird.

Otherwise, open them up and put them back in box (BIB??)

It would be MIB (Mint In Box): i.e.: a toy that's in mint condition in an unsealed box.

The button batteries should be fine to leave, it's the "regular" AAA, AA, C, etc batteries to worry about.

No, Im afraid the button batteries can still cause damage over time... Or at least this has been true for some secondhand TFs that i have bought with button batteries...

Me too. I wasn't sure about this, so I looked it up on the web and apparently watch batteries can leak if they're left in a watch that's not on. i.e.: watch batteries in watches usually don't leak because they're in constant use. Watch batteries left in an inactive toy over an extended period of time may leak. They probably have a less chance of leakage, but I'm not willing to risk it.

Having said that, 100% of toys I opened with watch batteries still have fully functioning electronic gimmicks, including my oldest TF with watch batteries - Laser Optimus Prime. I've never taken the batteries out of that toy and the gimmick still works fine. Those batteries would've been sitting in that toy for over 13 years now. But yeah... better safe than sorry.

[primatives]

Just wondering does the Encore Omega Supreme and Sky lynx comes with batteries? If so I'll have to remove them.

[GoktimusPrime]

Batteries are not included with those toys.

[1orion2many]

Now I'm going to have to go through all my toys to check the batteries after Skyshadow posted a link

[yoshi594]

Went through the old posts to find this nifty thread. Anyway, I have in my possession a MISB Armada Supreme Class unicron from a current non otca member. I know the amazon version already had the batteries inside with the little plastic things to stop the batteries from depleting, but does the armada version have the little plastic things as well?

A better question would be, Are the batteries already installed in this unicron? I might keep this one MISB as I already have one on the way from BURN

[griffin]

Went through the old posts to find this nifty thread. Anyway, I have in my possession a MISB Armada Supreme Class unicron from a current non otca member. I know the amazon version already had the batteries inside with the little plastic things to stop the batteries from depleting, but does the armada version have the little plastic things as well?

A better question would be, Are the batteries already installed in this unicron? I might keep this one MISB as I already have one on the way from BURN

How'd you find this topic, but miss the recent topic alerting people to the problem, or the battery list itself which was included in several weekly news emails in the last couple months. The answers you seek are in those two topics.
I can't remember if all versions of Unicron had the plastic slip in them, but they all had their batteries included with the toy. They were all button cell type, which were always included.
(and as noted in the first link above, the plastic slip doesn't prevent the batteries from leaking or even depleting, as it only separates two surfaces out of the 3 or 4 joining contacts - any battery touching another will still corrode/leak/deplete, but the plastic slip just prevents a complete circuit from accelerating it)

So how about spending 10 hours writing up a list of the toys that do have batteries and what type of battery Gok?

Could be a useful resource to those that may overlook a figure with batteries in it. The button batteries should be fine to leave, it's the "regular" AAA, AA, C, etc batteries to worry about.

Yep, I wanted it to be a useful resource, but since the list took me a lot more than 10 hours to compile and post up, I can understand why he didn't. It's there now though, for all fans to use.

[yoshi594]

How'd you find this topic, but miss the recent topic alerting people to the problem, or the battery list itself which was included in several weekly news emails in the last couple months. The answers you seek are in those two topics.
I can't remember if all versions of Unicron had the plastic slip in them, but they all had their batteries included with the toy. They were all button cell type, which were always included.
(and as noted in the first link above, the plastic slip doesn't prevent the batteries from leaking or even depleting, as it only separates two surfaces out of the 3 or 4 joining contacts - any battery touching another will still corrode/leak/deplete, but the plastic slip just prevents a complete circuit from accelerating it)

Found it through the trusty forum search
Thanks for the links Griff and your battery list is awesome.
Ugh...My G2 starscream and ramjets battery box...need to find them and take out them batteries ><...probably leaked by now, over 10 years now i think lol.