Image lifted from Kaiju Korner.. Anyway was wondering wear you can get clear doll/toy stands like the one on the far right where it just goes on the leg. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fmr4KTp1cD0/Uc8WZE-0ZzI/AAAAAAAAepU/ZieyiSz0rfo/s900/sofubi+(3).JPG
I found these ones on eBay, though I'm sure there's other hobby stores they can be found in. Not sure if this is exactly what you're lookin' for. https://www.ebay.com/itm/121892295315 Edit: Found various here - http://www.collectingwarehouse.com/Product-Home-Page/Doll-Stands-by-Kaiser/
Those look like simple 18 inch stands. the collecting wharehouse will probably have what youre looking for. However, the selection is limited sometimes when it comes to those clamp stands.
You can get the Obitsu stands with the piveting arm at hobbylink. https://www.amazon.com/Obitsu-MLST-A01C-Body-Clear-Stand/dp/B002T3TXEK or pay more for the convenience of amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Obitsu-MLST-A01C-Body-Clear-Stand/dp/B002T3TXEK
Just be careful in rare cases soft vinyl and acrylic are enemies. I've had soft doll shoes melt on similar hard plastic stands. Check them regularly and remove at the first sign of melting.
Wasn't there some kind of issue with soft vinyl and rubber bands as well? Interesting how soft vinyl interacts with other things...
Many of the earlier M1Go releases came bagged with a point card rubberbanded to the wrist/fin/talon/etc of the toy. Those that stayed in their bags too long all ended up with dissolved rubberbands and discolored wrists/fins/talons/etc.
Acrylics? Really...Okay I think the one I ordered was acrylic. My house doesn't get too hot but that would be fucking terrible for the two to fuse together.
it is really something that happens most frequently when soft and hard plastics are touching. It happens quite often with dolls. Plasticizers in soft plastic (to make it pliable or bendable) will migrate out into harder plastics that are touching it. Very cool chemistry lesson-very scary (and expensive) toy lesson. haha. -------------------------- More science here: http://blythelife.com/index.php/2012/09/21/the-cause-of-doll-melt/ In many causes of reported dolls ‘melting’, it’s usually the hard plastic (e.g. pullring, head) touching the soft plastic (e.g. legs that can bend). The type of plastic used to produced the flexible legs of Blythe contain additives known as plasticizers. Plasticizers are what give the leg plastic the flexibility and ability to bend over and over again without breaking. If you were to try to bend the plastic of a Blythe’s head like you do her leg, the plastic used to produce the head lacks the plasticizer additives, the plastic would break instead of bend. Plasticizers can migrate out of the plastic. This leads to the plastic being less flexible and more brittle. If you’ve ever seen an old electrical cord, you will have seen something that used to be flexible that has now become brittle and hard. Plasticizers can have reactions with other types of plastic, if they are touching. Normally plasticizers can remain ‘stable’ for years and years before migrating out, but several factors can come into play and cause the plasticizers to migrate faster. The two main factors that increase plasticizer migration are: Exposure to heat. Heat makes molecules move faster and that makes the plasticizers migrate out faster. This also applies to exposure to direct sunlight. Exposure to pressure. If you were to stretch an elastic band (which contains plasticizers) over a long period of time, it does become brittle (and snaps!) faster than one that isn’t stretched continuously. If you rest something against the softer plastic, this can also cause plasticizers to leech out. When plasticizers migrate out of an electrical cord, we normally don’t notice it. Cords are generally touching things that wouldn’t be harmed by the plasticizers. But when we put a doll on top of another doll’s legs, we notice it when we pick up our dolls.
Definitely not trying to panic anyone-I would say just check the shelves regularly. I have thousands of plastic things touching thousands of other plastic things. I've seen this happen 2 or 3 times. The "migration" only occurred when soft plastics met hard plastics.
As Missy pointed out, it is the plasticizers themselves that are of a concern. They are an additive to plastic that helps it 'flow' in layman's terms, hence allowing soft plastics (among other things) to bend and be flexible, as well as elastic (returning to their original shape). Generally, keeping a close eye on things is enough. You really only have to worry about very soft materials - generally on a scale much softer than modern sofubi toys; think old style rubber toys or chewtoys. [This is exactly the reason why it became more of a concern in baby toys in recent decades, alongside things like water bottles; there is leachable content]. So, for doll collectors it is more of a concern, but you can see it occasionally in our world. The elastic bands on the M1 toys are similar. Provided your toys are open to some air, i.e. a shelf or standard cabinet (not something air tight in other words) it will definitely lessen the possibility of this happening. Basically, the plasticizers will eventually leach no matter what you do, it is a regular part of material aging. The best thing to mitigate is allowing them to breathe, and, as Missy pointed out, be wary of having other sensitive plastics in direct contact for prolonged periods. Rare, but obviously a concern when you are investing in a collection to keep for a long time.
