I want to share this oddball Power Droid I have come across recently  

One leg is the normal black color but the other is grey  :scratch:

I assume that it is simply the result of discoloration / fading with age or perhaps a result of less pigment in the plastic batch that the grey leg was molded in at the factory  

I have no idea to be honest - just never noticed a grey leg on a gonk before  










Has anyone ever paid enough attention to notice if there are gonk figures that have both legs grey ?

I know that the black legs are certainly the standard color and if the legs weren't miss matched on this one I am sure I would have never even noticed

Can't say I've ever seen a grey leg Poerr Droid before James, but to be honest it's not a figure I've had many of, so I haven't had many to check.

you could try a few things to check, like check inside the peg hole to see if it's grey. Sometimes when legs discolour the iside of the peg hole can retain the origial colour.

Poor box with two legs- now you're calling him odd
Just checked mine- no grey legs :scratch:

Never seen that before either. Could be he faced the sun sideways in a display (seen people put his like that) and that side faded. Is the inside of the leg as bad?

Usually when a plastic discolours it only does so on the surface layer and over time the discolouration goes deeper, for example if you where to slice a discoloured limbs in half the center would still bare the original colour, I've seen this several tines whike doing customs.
obviously in this case it would damage the figure so not a good idea. Also the pkastic used on the Power Droid legs is the same hard style plastic as is used on tge torso's and not soft like the usually limbs on figures so this may be different. A small scrape on the bottom of the foot could allow you to see if the grey is still grey deeper but again this would damage the figure.

In the past I have also found that sometimes when plastic discolours the effects of this are not present or not as much underneath painted areas. Your gonk has a couple of scrapes to the paint. Difficult to tell on my phone but the plastic on these scrapes looks black? What does it look like to you James in hand?

Thank you for the input guys

General Kahn wrote:

you could try a few things to check,  like check inside the peg hole to see if it's grey. Sometimes when legs discolour the iside of the peg hole can retain the origial colour.

It's the same grey inside the peg hole

DarthBerizing wrote:

Never seen that before either. Could be he faced the sun sideways in a display (seen people put his like that) and that side faded. Is the inside of the leg as bad?

The entire leg is uniformly grey , all sides and even clear up in the body where the gears are . I would think that , if the discoloration was due to sun exposure , the blue body on that side would be faded as well (and its not :scratch: )


I would lean towards it being the result of a poor batch of plastic mix at the factory that faded easily or even a poorly mixed plastic batch that didn't have quite enough dark pigment in it .

Regardless , unless someone has a Gonk with 2 grey legs , I am sure its just a oddity / fading / error or poor factory mix

Nothing rare or special - just a bit weird