Star Dancer / Cloud Dancer McDonald's 2004

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I have two copies of the 2004 McDonalds series here. One of these is Star Dancer. However Star Dancer is blue and not green. It is also blue in the accompanying brochure. After a few hours of searching I come across 3 photos on the internet, always in combination with Cloud Dancer. The Cuttie Mark is from Start Dancer and cloud Dancer, but the color and Cuttie Mark don't match in the slightest. Is this an error? Wrong green eye printed the wrong cuttie marks?

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Peppermint Truly said:
I found this website with a similar photo to yours. They seem to think the green one is faded. Could that be it?
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Thank you for your help with the search. Indeed, it says it would have faded. Now it can change with prolonged sunlight. But as far as I have been careful with physics, blue cannot be turned into green by light. The change of color should be uneven, right? Light cannot make contact with all spots with equal strength. In addition, the cutie markets are not affected, while they are the most sensitive to this. When something fades, a color becomes lighter, but not more intense. Instead of (partially) extracting a color, you cannot end up with this color. You can only achieve this color by adding more blue and yellow. Or am I thinking something wrong?
 
It's the aging and breakdown of the plastic of the toy it's self. Once the plasticizer starts to seep from a toy it releases in a yellowish tinge and toy that were once blue turn into this green colour. (Colour theory yay!)

So, while your thoughts are correct as far as sun naturally fading a toy, this does not apply when the toy has aged and lost (or loosing) it's plasticizer. This is basically chemical breakdown and why the change is seen all over and evenly over the toy.
 
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