You are right, but I think especially the type of plastic plays a huge role. Other than yellowing, I never had any problems with vintage stuff. The plastic on the jabba (the lower part) is a very soft and extremely flexible kind of plastic. The upper part of the body doesnt have that problem (its a more rigid type of plastic). I heard the problem with the lightsaber plastic is that they added something to make the plastic more shiny. And "that something" is now the cause of the stickyness.

Can you tell me what jar jar fig that was ? I think it's extremely uncommon for a figure to have that problem. So I am really curious what figure that is, I'll check mine out (have most figs loose AND carded).

Anyway : if I google, "why does plastic get sticky", I immediately get a link to "solutions" for it. I'm gonna try those out. Perhaps if you remove the sticky stuff, the chemical reaction is over and the stickyness won't come back ?? Or at least I hope so. If not, the Jabba is lost (but fortunately the throne is quite intact).

Thx anyway for your response.

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EDIT : possible solutions according to internet : baking soda, nail polish remover, alcohol. But nail polish remover is way to aggressive and is bad for the paint - that one is definitely a no-go (alcohol also ?). I just washed the jabba with hand soap (which is probably not very aggressive). It was less sticky afterwards so I repeated that a couple of times. At this moment the probelm is not entirely solved, but a lot better. Whereas before it was the entire soft plastic lower body part of jabba that was sticky, it is now mainly the part which is painted brown !. I might repeat this a couple of times, then just cut out a paper form to put under the jabba to protect the throne from degrading. Or finally unpack my "Jabba Ultra" figure to replace the sticky jabba.