...transformed BW Grimlock today... broke a bit of gold plastic. Fortunately it's not hugely important, it's part of the hole at the back of the robot leg that pegs into the raptor chest. Now that part of it has broken off, it doesn't peg in very solidly, but it still holds in place. It's not as bad as when one of his robot feet's heel spurs broke off. *sigh* Needless to say that I very rarely handle toys w/ GPS. I was transforming Grimlock ever so slowly and carefully and still managed to break part of the gold plastic! Gah.

Shortly after that happened, I had this scenario appear in my mind...
MC: "Welcome to BotCon, and our first guest from Hasbro is the person who introduced gold plastic for Transformers!"
Crowd jeers. Anything not nailed down is thrown at the guest.