weird

If it can melt just like that ... should we now start thinking of keeping a little fridge in our bedroom for these type of toys ? Geeeee ...

well, bummer - had no idea toys could spontaneously melt! glad I accidently came across this info.

It isn't spontanous or anything. It's just a chemical reaction of jelly/jelly/tpr.

It's an easy solution. Keep your jelly/tpr toys in individual bags.

NEVER let your toys touch eachother! It can and will ruin them

Pure silicone can touch other pure silicone, and all will be fine. Same with glass, metal, and wood. Any combination of those can touch each other without melting.

Normal hard plastic will only melt in high temperatures -- much higher than they will likely experience in your sock drawer -- or if exposed directly to fire, electricity, or I suppose some kind of acid. Plastic resting against plastic doesn't cause a chemical reaction -- look at the plastic utensils in your silverware drawer, for example.

However, materials like jelly, PVC, TPE, TPR, and silicone composites are full of chemicals which exist for the sole purpose of making the materials involved soft and pliable and bonded to one another. When they touch, the chemicals try to extend that bond to other toys, because chemical composites can't tell the difference. They'll also try to bond with the silicone in pure silicone toys, "melting" those as well. Fire and heat are not needed for this process. It's all chemistry.

Keeping each toy in a separator bag of its own will protect your toys from each other, and will also keep lint off of them. Personally, I keep my TPR toys each in an individual bag AND in a container separate from my silicone. I own no jelly. My silicone toys still have separator bags, just so I can avoid cleaning them all every time I use one. Silicone really likes lint.

Hope that helps.

So much info in this thread! I'm looking forward to purchasing this rabbit and it's good to know more about how to care for it.

Probably a chemical reaction. D:

oh, wow!!!

This is why you shouldn't buy toys made of gross materials like jelly If they'll melt in a drawer, they'll also release gross chemicals into your body when you use them. I've had chemical burns from jelly toys before and will never use one again.

What bummer, good to know about TPe that it doesn't do well with hot temps

wow lol

WOW...I had never heard of this happening, thank you for the information.

I always keep mine in the plastic packaging they come in. No problems.

This happened to me before, Big mistake putting them too close to another toy.

Whoa, scary!