Yeah, the 2.0 was kind of a disaster for pleather deterioration, but interesting to hear the newer 2.5 is holding up. I will say though, it can happen pretty suddenly and without explanation. I've seen many times people saying "my jacket is fine" and then posting a day or two later "just checked it and it has started to to go off" - same with rubber bodies, especially some of the older HT rubber bodies from say 5 years ago. I protect my collection from temps above 80 deg F (try to keep it closer to 70 generally) and humidity of more than 60% - that does seem to help.
tbh, for the prices that HT and other 1/6 figs are these days, you would think that leather wouldn't be out of the question for leather parts. There are a few that have used real leather (one of the 1/6 Terminators,) but it still seems that pleather rules.
What's amazing is that with all this usage of pleather for so many years (and the material used for the rubber/skeleton bodies for that matter) you'd think they would have solved this deterioration issue and it would only pertain to figs from many years ago, but that's not the case (the ED209 old/new versions being an example.)
Cool, will have to check that out.
How many custom Indy sculpts have there been in the past 5-7 years? Seems like a huge number by now. For years there were few, but seems like a deluge in a good way - a lot to choose from. Yet interestingly I'd still argue there's no single "bullseye" Indy custom sculpt that is the go-to sculpt.
