If you only own 1then this is the one to own :)

I was 6 back in 81 when I got it.

The Buck Rogers range are lovely figures and well worth picking up

He seems to have suffered the most in the 12 inch range and CHiPs in the 8 inch

Sadly they didn't do a 12" Wilma figure, just the small 3 3/4 inch figure

Yeah it opens up buying a lot of figures I would have written off as ruined

I wonder if there was something blocking the dye on the ears? Finger grease etc?

It's weird which figures go grey, the CHiPs figures, ST, Moonraker are all notorious but it does seem to only be Buck in that range

Thanks, I hopefully will have a CHiPs Restoration next if the figure ever turns up

@@imarmodels The gray happens more to the Ponch and Jon figures than to the Sarge figure. He was released a little later, and Mego may have used a different plastic.

@@seventiesfan717 the Sarge seemed to never make it to our toyshops so don't know if he was short boxed or just they didn't sell well so shops didn't restock the line when he came out?

I was stunned at how good it worked.

Thanks, Mego figures are the best :)

@@imarmodels yea i love watching videos on mego i got my first ever one two weeks back which is the wolfman from this year hope to get some vintage ones at some point

The new Mego figures are great, I have quite a few videos covering them. The bodies are not as well produced as vintage type 2 Megos but for the price can't be beat.

I was amazed at how easy it was to do :)

@@imarmodels the Buck's head is in pretty good nick on mine , it's the just clothes are pretty stained , so I'll have to get the vanish on it ;)

@@paulsillence4182 yeah Vanish works well. The belt seems to mildly discolour the tunic but no where near as bad as it could have been. Once his tights are laddered then I don't think there's any fix for that though.

I think it must have been someone carrying an old grey Mego head whilst working at the plastidip factory and had just cleaned their car tyres. They remembered the head, pulled it out but their hands were slippy with tyre wet so the head went flying into a vat of plastidip and the rest was history... possibly :)

@@imarmodels I don't know, man. That explanation seems really obvious...

Thanks to the Gaming Toy Boy :) I have heard that it sometimes starts to fade after a year so will keep an eye on them but even if it does then doing the dip once a year is a small price to pay to have Mego's looking pristine again :)

That's a good point. Dipping would knacker the hair deffo. You could try carefully dabbing the plastidip on but it's not good at staying where you want it. I know Ilia goes grey but no hair there, does Kate go grey? Trying to think if I've seen a rooted head go grey. Good question :)

@@imarmodels Yes unfortunately my Kate figure has been facial gray for a while now. Not as vivid as the male figures but just enough to make her a zombie in training. I figured the hair part would be tough. I guess I could try to seal the hair off some way by pulling it back and taping a cover over it. But like you say the red goo goes everywhere.

@@Edgeofnight80s Did you ever try this? I'm needing to do an Invisible Girl figure. I'm spooked about the hair.

@@bartley3742 I have only done it on the male figures with painted hair. It works fairly well if applied more than once. I have not yet tried it on the female figures with rooted hair.

Yeah the colour transfers so if you used blue dip it would stain the face blue