Thanks Lawrence, I just watched a couple of videos on you tube and theirs seems to be fine. No signs of dots etc. Wonder if its a defect
Are the black spots staining or actually rubber deterioration ?
The dots seem to line up where the black stripes might be, so I'm guessing it's staining. I have 3 of these bodies, & I don't think any of them have that problem with the upper body (the legs & feet might have staining), but I don't cover up the upper body. It's too nice a body to cover I reckon. I'd simply use an alternate body if I want to have it fully clothed.
Although, I don't think I've experienced any of my rubber figures deteriorating, so I don't really know what it's supposed to look like when it does. Maybe it is rubber deterioration, & I simply don't know it, but I'm going to stick with my guess of it simply being stains from the tracksuit.
Edit: Yes, the reputation for these bodies aren't the best, but I still think the bodies look, feel, & work pretty good. Having said that, one of my bodies has a bit of the tan overcoat peeling near the arms, which is kind of a bummer. The boxed bodies sold separately, & I think the later batch of these figures, had the bodies covered in some kind of tan overcoat. There were some earlier bodies released, without the overcoat, which I think are the better bodies. They feel safer to pose, since that overcoat is missing, which means no peeling overcoat.
I think that extra layer might have been to better match the colour of the head sculpts.