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[Beastformers]

Recently came across a post on Instagram from a Spanish collector showing the Battle Beasts Tiger* with at first glance glow in the dark details. Here: https://www.instagra.../p/C_klJx2NGIZ/

Luckily the description that came with the post was clear and it turns out that the details glow/reflect due to the use of an UV / Blacklight.

 

I´ve seen and learned quite a bit about the Beasts over time but my first reaction to this was ¨I´ll be dammed¨ lol and obviously had to test it myself.

 

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Amazing, right?

 

Never knew about this and it´s an interesting gimmick that´s now ¨unlocked¨ because it are not only the Tigers that show this reflection but many more Beasts. Not surprisingly I also checked the Rabbits.

 

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But there are many more and rather extreme ones like Brown Lion;

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Wondered how he came to find out because there are days in my life I don´t shine a blacklight on every item I can think of but apparently he tried to use this blacklight / UV light in order to attempt to ¨Unyellow¨ a Clear Carp. That didn´t work but it resulted in this interesting discovery.

 

 

Guess if you´re a Battle Beasts collector it´s time to get yourself a Blacklight and find out yourself!

Might be an idea to get yourself some unique decoration just in time for Halloween lol

 

Enjoy the Beasts!

 

* The Tigers used here that glow/reflect, and also in the Instagram post from the Spanish collector, are the normal Common BB Tigers the BDC Version doesn´t seem to have this effect due to the use of a different paint.

[lowkeytoygeek]

I too saw that post in Instagram! Pretty cool stuff

I'm not familiar with how the UV light actually cause the neon colorization, like, is there other variables than base color hue/lightness, but gotta try this on my beasts and other figures if I ever buy an UV light.

[Beastformers]

https://science.hows...black-light.htm

It´s probably got something to do with the presence of phosphorous levels in the paint, or anything else within the paint that´s causing this.

There are rumors about the paint that´s used for the BB back in China and that they´re not really the most healthy ones when being applied so this might be related to this.