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[arforbes]

I remember when I was a kid I used to play with my M.U.S.C.L.E. men in the pool. It was great fun, the figures would sink to the bottom and I would have to dive to get them. They also fit perfectly in my CONSTRUX robots which I also brought in the pool back then.

Anyways, I remember leaving a M.U.S.C.L.E. figure in the pool one time for about a day and when I went to retrieve him, he was slightly lighter in color than when I put him in. So I had a thought that the chlorine was maybe bleaching the figure.

I was right. I ended up taking a chlorine tablet and putting it in a little margarine container with water so the solution would be concentrated as hell. I let the figure sit overnight in the super chlorinated water.

The next day he was WHITE!!! That's right folks, a completely white M.U.S.C.L.E.!!! The plastic was a little rough from the bleach, which was the only down side. But I was thinking, if I just let the figure sit in the water for about maybe a week to a month, I'm sure it would turn white eventually without harming the plastic since the water in a pool in much more diluted.

So if anyone has a pool and an extra M.U.S.C.L.E. figure, try it. It's fun! I am going to do it again just to see if it will really work this time without damaging the figure's smooth plastic.

I'll let you all know how it turns out!

[RubzOne]

Yeah I know what you mean, I use Super Orange to clean my MUSCLES and I actually was cleaning my transformer decoys one time and I let them soak usually in the solution (which is diluted with water) for about 5 minutes, then I hit em with a toothbrush. Well I forgot about them and they sat in there for about 2 hours, when I remembered them I was like "oh crap" and I ran in there and they were totally light I was so pissed cuz it was like 6 of them which I had just won off ebay. Well I took them out and put them in a bag where I keep all my other decoys and they returned to normal color??? Really weird...

[arforbes]

So my neon green M.U.S.C.L.E. has been in the pool for half a day and he is already lighter! Can you believe that? This is great, before long, he will be completely white!!! I hope!

It won't be long now my M.U.S.C.L.E. friends. Hahahahaha!!!

[Doctor Dew]

i just got a couple of Muscle aucitons in and one of the guys has his legs cut off at the ankles. it made me happy to know someone obviously had some fun with the guy. but now i also think i will try and bleach him and see how that turns out........


woo-woo!

[arforbes]

i just got a couple of Muscle aucitons in and one of the guys has his legs cut off at the ankles. it made me happy to know someone obviously had some fun with the guy. but now i also think i will try and bleach him and see how that turns out........


woo-woo!

Cool, it looks as if you have found yourself the sacrificial M.U.S.C.L.E.!!! Right on!

Can't wait to see how mine turns out!

[Doctor Dew]

me too.
I'll have to post pics when I "FINISH HIM!

[musclemenkids]

This sounds like fun there's one guy ive never liked the look of, i dont have a pool but there's plenty of household bleaching agents lying around the house.....MY EYES! IT BURNS MY EYES!!!

[jkaris]

I want to bleach my muscles too, but there are too many layers of fat covering them. How did you guys get past the cellulite?

[GRANDTHEFT]

The muscle i found on a soccer field can been partly exposed to the weather i'm not sure how long he was there for but the area that was uncovered by the dirt had turned white , the rest of him had turned alot lighter also, i'm actually not sure now if his original color was flesh or salmon,



this summer i might ductape a muscle on my roof ( i wonder if he'll turn red from sunburn ?)


mischa

[arforbes]

The sun also does a good job of bleaching the color right out of M.U.S.C.L.E.'s. It works pretty fast also. You only need to leave the suckers out in the sun for a short period of time before you can't tell which color they originally were! SWEET!!!

My figure is still in the pool, two days now. He's lightening up very nicely! Haha!

[Doctor Dew]

I want to bleach my muscles too, but there are too many layers of fat covering them. How did you guys get past the cellulite?

ouch. that was bad man.

i loved it.

hahahahahaha.

[Adamantiumwulf]

I have a red figure that I won in a lot off of ebay and the front of it looks like it was left in the sun to long. The front was turning white and the back is almost as red as one fresh out of the pack.

It would be kewl if you could turn them white and make them somewhat tranclucent like some of the exogini.

[Krangala]

Well?, how did your experiment work out????

I Might just do that to a double (Once I have sufficient quantity) with common household bleach......

[arforbes]

Well, the Green M.U.S.C.L.E. that I had left in the pool lightened up very nicely, but not as much as I had hoped. I have come to believe that it is sunlight that lightens M.U.S.C.L.E.'s better than a bleaching agent like chlorine in a pool.

Here's why I think so:

I got frusterated with the fact that the figure was not lightening fast enough, so I put him in a cup with a chlorine tablet for a super chlorinated solution for faster bleaching. It ended up effing up the figure's plastic a bit. So as an experiment, I cut him in half.

Why in half, you ask? So I could see how far through the figure the bleaching went. I noticed a layered effect. The figure was a very light green all the way through, which means the sunlight penetrated the whole M.U.S.C.L.E. and bleached evenly throughout it. But the surface layer, it's "skin" you could say, was white from the chlorine only. This means that the chlorine water cannot penetrate the entire M.U.S.C.L.E. I figured this would happen, since plastic is not very absorbant.

So if you want to bleah a M.U.S.C.L.E. figure completely, you'll have to leave it in UV light for a long time. I am in the process of leaving another M.U.S.C.L.E. figure on my roof in the Arizona sun for as long as it takes, becasue I cut up the "TEST" subject.

So those are the results of my Bleaching Experiment. Failure the first time, but most likely success in sunlight only the next. I want that "Completely White" look. I hope it works.

I also believe that bleaching the neon figures, green and orange, would be the fastest and easiest way to go. They are light already and would probably lighten up much faster in the sun.

[ShujiYomo]

Anyone have success in completely whitening a muscle?

[arforbes]

Nope, I got too anxious and put the one I was sun bleaching in chlorine water and effed it up bad.

[EVOM]

I have a #81 that was salmon that was left out in the sun for a while, he`s a cream color now. I`m going to leave him in the sun for weeks when I find a good spot for him. I`ll let You guys know how it turns out.

[Kendaman]

I left one outside but my dog just ate it lol

[TheOrgg]

In the spirit of exprimentation, I just sac'd an orange skinny guy(033) and a dark blue Pyramid Sunshine with a dullen'd tip(does that happen to all of them? do they come like that? All of mine are...) to Mr. Sun on a windowsill(standing on top of a CD case to get out of the shadows).

I'll let ya'll know how it goes, and I'll rotate 'em next sunday.

[THEGODBEAST]

Here's some ideas:
Try laying them on foil in the sun.
Could you use a UV light to do it in a more controlled setting?
How about a tannning bed?
What about covering tiny long strips of tape across them for a stripped effect? It would leave the color under the tape, however, bleached out (hopefully white) everywhere else.
Would a super light coat of cooking oil help it to absorb deeper and/or faster?
I love doing this type of stuff.
I used to strip the gold and silver off vintage crapped out C3PO's and DeathStar Droids. It revealed that Kenner used multi-colored plastics for all the parts on these droids. I had ones with one green arm, one red arm, a white leg, a black leg, cream torso, and yellow head. Any color of the rainbow was what was underneath the metalized paint!
Good Luck to all you Dr. Frankensteins!
THEGODBEAST

[Adamantiumwulf]

I`m going to leave him in the sun for weeks when I find a good spot for him. I`ll let You guys know how it turns out.

Put him in the back window of a car. It is cool enough that the inside of the car shouldn't get hot enough to melt him and he can catch lots of rays.

[jkaris]

Put him in the back window of a car. It is cool enough that the inside of the car shouldn't get hot enough to melt him and he can catch lots of rays.

Haha, depends on where you live. Sacramento in the summer would turn him into muscle goo!

[arforbes]

Put him in the back window of a car.  It is cool enough that the inside of the car shouldn't get hot enough to melt him and he can catch lots of rays.

Haha, depends on where you live. Sacramento in the summer would turn him into muscle goo!

Here in Arizona too!

[Adamantiumwulf]

of course in the summer it would. It is winter now so a perfect time to start.

The summer in Georgia would make him into a mucsle puddle as would most places.

[THEGODBEAST]

Has anyone tried using a double boiler to melt down the plastic of a muscle? Most plastics change color (burn) when melted with direct heat, however, when I was in college, in sculpture, I melted fishing rubber worms and made baby dolls from a plaster mold (actually baby doll skins, because I only coated the mold rather than filling it). If that works, I could melt the original plastic and pour it into the Satancross mold I will have and wa-la! Instant original Satancross!
HUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM??????????????
THEGODBEAST