Shaoshao Li

Shaoshao Li is an Autobot-allied human from the Generation 1 continuity family.
The franks, beans, and ketchup were already taken care of.

Shaoshao Li (李 蛸燒 Lǐ Shāoshāo)<ref>"Shāoshāo" is written as "蛸焼", meaning "octopus dumplings", and her full name is transliterated into Japanese as リ・シャオシャオ (Ri Shaoshao). On the toy packaging, her name is rendered in Latin characters as "Syaosyao" due to [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Nihon-shiki romanization|{{#if:||Nihon-shiki romanization}}]].</ref> is a Chinese woman who spent her childhood in the United States of America but retains a Chinese accent. She is athletic and trained in [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Kung fu (term)|{{#if:kung fu|kung fu|Kung fu (term)}}]], enjoys hot steamed buns, and hates bugs and ghosts. For reasons related to her ethnic background but otherwise a mystery, Shaoshao wears an unremovable collar secured with a [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}fulu|{{#if:||fulu}}]]-like padlock that reads "fortune" (福 fú). The [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Chinese characters|{{#if:hanzi|hanzi|Chinese characters}}]] is upside down, but becomes the right side up if Shaoshao lifts it to look at it herself.

In her childhood years, Shaoshao met and befriended Marissa Faireborn, her affection for the other woman growing close to obsession. In her late teens, she became a powerful Kiss Player and ended up partnered with Hot Rod. The two have a strong but somewhat volatile bond because they are both hardheaded. For instance, Hot Rod refuses to give up on fishing even though Shaoshao doesn't like to kiss him afterwards because of the smell, yet she also wishes he'd take her fishing with him once in a while. Apparently a decent singer, Shaoshao joined the E.D.C.-associated Kiss Players idol group for some time in her Transformer-related career and followed that up by becoming a Targetmaster agent for the Universal Peace Alliance.

Fiction

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Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

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Kiss Players

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Voice actor: Yui Kano (Japanese){{#if: |, {{{2}}}}}
Where there's foo, there's fire!

When Shaoshao was a child in the 1990s, her parents ran a Chinese restaurant in New York City. It was there that she met Marissa Faireborn and the two became good friends; indeed, Shaoshao seemed to have more than platonic designs on Marissa. Unfortunately for Shaoshao, Marissa only had eyes for the Autobot leader Optimus Prime, and Shaoshao came to resent Prime for "stealing" Marissa away from her. Soon after, Shaoshao's parents closed their restaurant and the family returned to China, forcing Shaoshao to leave her issues with Marissa unresolved. Kiss Players #23

In 2005, the body of the Decepticon leader Galvatron collided with the Earth, decimating the city of Tokyo and utterly shattering Transformer-human relations. The Earth Defense Command reverse-engineered Galvatron's remains to create man-made Transformers named "Autoroopers", and forced all Transformers off of Earth, keeping them from returning to the planet by surrounding it with an anti-electron field. Having hated Transformers ever since losing Marissa to Prime, Shaoshao joined up with the E.D.C. to fight the robots, and quickly developed a reputation as a rising star within the organization.

The following year, however, a new threat emerged in the form of creatures known as Legions, monsters created by Galvatron's Unicron-empowered cells, which had been dispersed into the atmosphere upon his impact and had fused with other lifeforms and objects. Galvatron's cells also provided the solution to this crisis: when they came into contact with certain human beings, these humans gained the power to fuse with other entities containing Galvatron's cells by kissing them. Given that their Autoroopers were the perfect candidate for this "Parasitech" fusion process, the E.D.C. began recruiting these "Kiss Players" and partnering them with the robots to battle Legions. Shaoshao was discovered to be a Kiss Player, and was not best pleased to be pulled away from her regular E.D.C. job and recruited into the E.D.C.'s Ne Squad, where she was forced to kiss the robots she so hated. She was easily the strongest member of the squad, able to boost her Autorooper's power to unheard of levels, and was greatly respected by her teammates, including the sociopathic Ringo Chikuma, who may have even had a crush on her.

In truth, there was a more sinister reason behind Shaoshao's enlistment: E.D.C. commander Hitoshizuku Amaō's daughter had died in Galvatron's impact, but she had discovered that her daughter's essence had somehow been infused into the Legions along with Galvatron's cells. Experimenting with Legions, Autoroopers and Kiss Players who had outlived their usefulness, Amaō conceived of a plan to resurrect her daughter in a Kiss Player's body...and as the most powerful Kiss Player she had yet discovered, Shaoshao was selected for the process. Me, You, and the Spinning Earth

Responding to a Legion attack in Tokyo, Shaoshao fused with her Autorooper and set off in pursuit of a Legion who had disguised itself as a car. Unfortunately, the chase took too long, and no sooner had Shaoshao found the Legion and kicked it through a wall than her fusion time limit ran out, and her Autorooper messily regurgitated her. As luck would have it, the Legion had been in the process of terrorizing a girl named Atari Hitotonari, who proved to have Kiss Player powers as well, and fused with Shaoshao's Autorooper to destroy the creature. Kiss Players #1 Observing the conflict, Commander Amaō realized that Atari was even more powerful than Shaoshao, and immediately decided that she would take her place for her resurrection project. Unfortunately for Shaoshao, this meant that she was now surplus to requirements, and she soon became fodder for Amaō's experiments.

Awakening to find herself in a glass tube in the secret Genital System facility beneath E.D.C. headquarters, Shaoshao was horrified to see dismembered Legion heads consuming the remains of other Kiss Players all around her. She barely had any time to take this in before a Legion head above her own tube unleashed a tangle of tentacles on her, intending to eat her too. Shaoshao fought back, biting the tentacles, when suddenly, the Autobot Hot Rod came crashing through the roof of the facility. Kiss Players #2 The Legions all turned on Hot Rod and began trying to fuse with him, but Shaoshao saved him by kissing him, fusing with him and reformatting him into a new Ford GT body. Kiss Players #3 The pair proceeded to escape, although all Shaoshao could find to wear was a red [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}qipao|{{#if:||qipao}}]]. Kiss Players #29

Shaoshao and Rodimus went on the run, battling the Legion and vowing to expose the mysterious evils at the heart of the E.D.C. Kiss Players #2 Shaoshao remained unhappy with the fact that she still had to kiss a robot, but admitted that she would swallow her pride for the foreseeable future...and that just maybe, she did get a little something out of it herself. Kiss Players #5 She hated Hot Rod's smugness and lack of martial arts skills, and so she resolved to teach him some skills, only for Hot Rod to point out she could share her own abilities just by kissing him. Kiss Players #8 Shaoshao schooled him in the use of his tonfa, and the pair embarked on a long-distance drive as a form of training. Kiss Players #11

Investigating a large swarm of Legions converging on E.D.C. headquarters, Shaoshao and Hot Rod were shocked to discover that the creatures were being led there by Optimus Prime! Hot Rod mistakenly came to the conclusion that this Prime was an impostor (given that the genuine article was supposed to be dead; he had, in actuality, been resurrected by Marissa Faireborn's Kiss Player powers) and Shaoshao urged him into battle, seeking to reclaim Marissa from her "rival". Atari soon arrived to stop the fight and turn the Legions back. Kiss Players #3 The whole experience left Shaoshao feeling very stressed; she believed she heard Marissa's voice coming from within Optimus Prime during the fight, and thought the stress was making her crack. Kiss Players #14

In the wake of this event, Shaoshao and Hot Rod returned to their fugitive lifestyle, with Shaoshao growing more and more irritated with Hot Rod's tendency to go fishing and come back smelling of raw fish. Kiss Players #17 Shaoshao couldn't believe it when he even wasted time making himself a new fishing rod, though it proved useful in battle when Hot Rod revealed it could transform into a set of blasters. Kiss Players #20 While the pair were fishing on Tokyo Bay Bridge, they were attacked by a mass of Legions, and Shaoshao refused to kiss the stinking Hot Rod until the situation absolutely demanded it. Through this latest mental fusion, however, a startling truth was unveiled: Shaoshao discovered that it was Hot Rod who had thrown Galvatron into space and inadvertently caused the devastation of Tokyo, and that he had given up the Matrix of Leadership to Ultra Magnus and come to Earth to try and redeem himself for his misdeeds. Shaoshao's anger at this discovery caused the pair's fusion to come an end, and Shaoshao was hurled into the river! Tonight's Big Catch!? Reflecting on what she had learned, Shaoshao concluded that she did not care about Hot Rod's guilt or pain: she was merely using his power to get Marissa back. Kiss Players #26 She did not expect him to steal Marissa's underwear for her, however! Kiss Players #29

When Shaoshao and Hot Rod spotted the figure of a young girl, dressed all in black and bleeding, riding on the shoulder of a Legion, they thought she might be a Kiss Player, until Hot Rod discovered she was giving off no body heat. Kiss Players #32 They saw the girl again as more and more Legions began to converge on Tokyo, and Hot Rod began to suffer from nightmares plagued by images of Megatron that gave him the urge to destroy. Shaoshao exploited this, whispering in the sleeping Hot Rod's ear for him to kill the "impostor" Optimus Prime for her. Kiss Players #35

Following the Legions to the E.D.C. headquarters, Shaoshao and Hot Rod discovered that they were once again being led there by Optimus Prime and Marissa. And once again, consumed by the destructive impulses of their Galvatron cells, Prime and Hot Rod began to battle. The pair are able to settle their differences, and together with Atari, they ventured into the depths of the E.D.C. building to discover the truth. Kiss Players #38 Back in the Genital System once more, Shaoshao and the others discovered the remains of Galvatron, before a door suddenly came slamming down and separated Atari from the rest of the group. Commander Amaō appeared and explained to Atari her plan to resurrect her daughter (the ghost girl Shaoshao and Hot Rod had seen), beginning the process just as the others burst into the room. Atari fought back against the process, however, and was able to thwart it, causing all the Legions, Autroroopers and other Galvatron cells to be absorbed back into the Decepticon leader's body, which she then hurled back into space. With this action, Shaoshao and the others lost their Kiss Player powers, Hot Rod reverted to normal, and Optimus Prime slipped back into death once more. Me, You, and the Spinning Earth

White Diamond once happened upon another Yellow, Blue, and Pink.

Following the deactivation of the anti-electron field, the Autobots returned to Earth in early 2007, but Transformer-human relations were still in tatters. Ultra Magnus came up with the idea of a Transformer-human singing group to try and repair relations and spread goodwill between the two races, and to that end, Shaoshao joined with Marissa, Atari and cassette Transformers Glit, Sundor, and Rosanna to form this group, the "Kiss Players".

While on their world goodwill tour, the Kiss Players arrived in North America to perform at Brave Maximus, but just before the concert began, three mysterious glowing orbs appeared before the Kiss Players, and telepathically spoke to them. Introducing themselves as the Sparkbots, Star Dust, Angela, and Zangetsu, they instructed the three girls to kiss them. When they did so, the girls and Brave Maximus were suddenly whisked off through time, rematerializing at Sherman Dam in the year 1985, where they witnessed Optimus Prime's historic battle with Megatron atop the structure. Kiss Players #39 The Sparkbots explained to Kiss Players' that the "Allspark" had been scattered throughout space and time, and that their mission was to recover its fragments by kissing Autobot leaders from different time periods, starting with Optimus Prime. Kiss Players #40 Sparkbots Volume 1

Shaoshao was selected for the next mission, and travelled with the Sparkbot Zangetsu to 2005 to witness her old partner Hot Rod transforming into Rodimus Prime and throwing Galvatron into space. Time then shifted to the year 2010, and Shaoshao kissed Rodimus at the Galactic Olympics on Athenia to recover the second Allspark fragment. Kiss Players #41

The mission: to explore strange old worlds, to seek out heroic leaders and Allspark fragments, to boldly go where rarely a woman has gone before.

The Kiss Players adventures through the timestream soon led them to the year 2011, where they fell into the clutches of the Quintessons. Even the power of [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Moe (slang)|{{#if:Moe|Moe|Moe (slang)}}]], despite transforming Shaoshao into a catgirl in a maid's outfit, was not enough to spare them from the Quintesson judge's verdict of "not guilty." Fortunately, Optimus Prime and Goldbug came to their accidental rescue, and the Kiss Players' voyage continued. Kiss Players Picture Story Show

Shaoshao's next challenge was a tough one: She went on a marathon kissing session through time, obtaining fragments from Star Saber, Dai Atlas, and four different incarnations of Optimus Prime, which particularly disgusted her. Kiss Players #44 Things continued to proceed smoothly until the Kiss Players began obtaining Allspark fragments from Transformers participating in the Beast Wars. At the point of the Allspark fragments' emergence, an enigmatic, invisible force began appearing to steal the fragments away, Sparkbots Volume 2 culminating with the fragment Shaoshao recovered from Fire Convoy. The Kiss Players gave chase across the timestream, but Brave Maximus wound up crashing into the "Wall of Time", Kiss Players #47 and the team was scattered across the multiverse. Kiss Players #48

Shaoshao found herself in a parallel reality, on a deserted Cybertron during the Transformers' search for the Cyber Planet Keys. Pursued by a swarm of Scrapmetal, she was rescued by Vector Prime, who opened a portal with the intention of helping her to return to her home dimension. From the portal, however, a giant golden hand emerged, which seized Shaoshao and dragged her off through time. Kiss Players #50 Sparkbots Volume 3 The hand, it transpired, belonged to Primus, god of the Transformers, who had gathered the other Kiss Players, and who had also been responsible for stealing the Allspark fragments away—because the Sparkbots were in fact, servants of his nemesis, Unicron! The "Allspark" that the Kiss Players had been gathering was, in fact, Unicron's shattered lifeforce, and the Sparkbots were attempting to resurrect their deceased master. Sparkbots Volume 4 Thankfully, Primus was able to trap Unicron's lifeforce within the Earth, but he would not answer Shaoshao when she asked what the Kiss Players' future would be. As his last act before he transformed into a golden sphere, Primus returned the Kiss Players to the present day 2007, mere moments after they had left on their adventure. Realizing that her future was not defined by Primus or any god, Shaoshao vowed to make her own future, at last accepting Marissa and Optimus Prime's relationship and moving forward. Kiss Players #51 Sparkbots Volume 5

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Some of Hot Rod's exploits with Shaoshao Li were witnessed by Hot Rodimus of Cloud World and SARA as they visited this spacetime. The latter Transformer was a bit weirded out by the whole thing and the innocent SARA later proposed kissing her companion, an idea Hot Rodimus shot down. Wandering

Legends comic

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Shaoshao was one of the many women brought to the Legends World by Tigatron using the ultra-drill in an attempt to get women who liked him better than Springer. It did not work out, as all of the women brought over eventually swooned over Springer. LG19 Springer

After 15 years: Dignity!

In her own world, Shaoshao eventually left Earth Defense Command and became an agent for the Universal Peace Alliance. In her duties she was equipped with Master-Braces that let her use Masterforce to transform into a Targetmaster form and fire blasts of Jinchōkon Power. LG45 Targetmaster Hot Rod In 2021, she was given a mission by Spike Witwicky to covertly travel to the Legends World and recover six mutated Targetmasters before Megatron learned of them. Mutant Targetmaster Birth Chapter Being in need of a partner, Shaoshao contacted Hot Rod who joined her on the mission, LG45 Targetmaster Hot Rod though she was annoyed that his new Headmaster form actually made him weaker since he didn't have a transtector. Targetmaster Chapter Prologue

After happening upon a Sharkticon, Shaoshao and Hot Rod concluded that it had been cloned using a Targetmaster and followed it back to its creators, Scourge and the Sweeps, who were in possession of Blowpipe. Their successful capture of the Sweeps netted the duo jobs with the local police force. LG44 Sharkticon With Hot Rod granted a transtector by the police, the two then confronted Scourge and used Shaoshao's Targetmaster form to defeat him and recover Blowpipe. Unfortunately, they also learned from the battle that firing Shaoshao's gun mode would convert her clothes into energy and leave her in the nude... again. LG45 Targetmaster Hot Rod Blowpipe was then stolen by Kickback, but he was defeated and Shaoshao and Hot Rod reclaimed the Targetmaster. LG47 Kickback When Blowpipe started vaporizing inorganic material with plasma energy bursts, Shaoshao was upset that said inorganic material included her clothes and doubly upset that Hot Rod used her as a human shield. To keep Blowpipe under control, the duo was forced to induct Triggerhappy into the police force. LG49 Targetmaster Triggerhappy

...never mind.

When Hot Rod and Shaoshao investigated Misfire and his Targetmaster Aimless, the Decepticon revealed Aimless's mutant ability was time manipulation and attempted to blast Hot Rod, only to hit Shaoshao and wind back her age to that of a baby. Hot Rod defeated him and had him return Shaoshao to normal, though she was upset with her partner for not leaving her a bit younger. LG52 Targetmaster Misfire She was around when Hot Rod was reunited with Blurr and Kup, wondering who both of them were, then helped defeat the Sweeps a second time. Late Xmas Present Chapter Spike later came to the Legends World and allied with Slugslinger and Caliburst to eliminate all the Transformers using anti-electrons and plasma energy, enraging Shaoshao who demanded to know why he was working with Decepticons. He argued that Shaoshao herself used to hate all Transformers, but she made it clear that she had gotten past that part of her life and turned on Spike, teaming up with Sue Faireborn and White Lune and using their immunity to plasma energy to defeat Slugslinger. LG55 Targetmaster Slugslinger

Shaoshao took refuge behind Trailbreaker's force field when the three Autobot Targetmasters attacked, LG62 Targetmaster Windblade and cheered when Topspin repaired the damage to the city caused by Windblade. LG66 Targetmaster Topspin When Devil Z attacked, Shaoshao teamed up with the other Masterforce warriors in the Legends World to defeat him, combining her gun mode with Sue and White Lune's into a massive weapon for God Ginrai to wield. LG-EX Grand Maximus

With Hot Rod, Shaoshao felt the rumblings of Majin Zarak's arrival, the creature having been summoned by Scorponok to the Legends World to help destroy it. She gathered with the other members of the police to prepare a response, but didn't notice Flywheels stealing the keys to their jail cells. Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One As Firebolt, Shaoshao helped Hot Rod fire on the giant beast as part of a collective effort to banish it through a portal to elsewhere. Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two The Legends World ended up destroyed, but Shaoshao and her friends managed to escape to their proper time in the G1 World, where they ended up at Beast. There, Shaoshao tearfully saw Sue and Marissa reunite. The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 1

By 2038, Shaoshao had acquired another Firebolt suit and accompanied Hot Rod when he was called to the Zone Planet to fight Violengiguar in the guise of the Powered Masters. LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part One There, they continued to fight when Unicron Neo revealed himself to be the second Dark Nova and sicced Novaroids on the Autobots. The two ended being no match for the powerful Vok Galaman, but Shaoshao watched on as Hot Rod was revitalized as Rodimus Prime by the power of an Energon Matrix. However, they were soon confronted with the fact that Dark Nova had already absorbed Megatron and became the Star Giant. LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part Two The conflict ended in the Autobots' favor and, by 2039, Hot Rod and Shaoshao worked together as law enforcers, including one chase to foil Hooligan. Epiloge

Generations Selects Special Comic

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The wisdom of old age is warm legs.

By 2050, Shaoshao had helped in the manufacture of the Selectors, a new breed of Transformer created to serve humanity. Volcanicus comic 1

During the subsequent Selector rebellion, Shaoshao, Atari and Marissa were shocked to learn from the Technobots that the Cybertron Alliance would be siding with the Selectors against humanity. Shaoshao tried to stop Hot Rod from leaving but to no avail. Volcanicus comic 2 In the wake of the battle of Neo Scramble City and ensuing Angolmois-fueled apocalypse, Shaoshao comforted a collapsed and corrupted Hot Rod. Abominus comic 2

Kre-O online manga

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Wall-Li

Shaoshao and Atari were among the humans who witnessed Megatron's demand for all the blocks of Earth. Defend the Blocks! Autobots, Dispatch!

Legends World

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While explaining what Transformers series he liked to Rattrap, Tigatron used Shaoshao and Ai as examples, causing Rattrap to realize he was only into Transformers when cute girls were involved. The Bishōjo Fan Gap

Renegade Rhetoric

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Dr. Shaoshao Li was part of the People's Liberation Army Paranormal Taskforce, where she developed anti-Cybertronian technology. When a group of Decepticon Go-Bots infiltrated an Arbco scientific conference in Wuhan, China, in search of a new model of exosuit, the taskforce revealed themselves and showed that it was a trap for the Decepticons. They managed to take down Rumble before turning him over to the Autobots. Renegade Rhetoric (2), 2016/07/14

Toys

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Kiss Players

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Featured image on icanhasdimsum.com.
  • Hot Rodimus × Syaosyao (Kiss Players, 2006)
    • Accessories: Bamboo steamer
  • Known designers: Yuki Ohshima (concept artist){{#if: |, {{{2}}}}}
Shaoshao is a 1:24-scale PVC figurine of her in her red [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}qipao|{{#if:||qipao}}]]. Her head is movable, but given the thinness of her neck joint (thanks to the separate collar piece), it's probably best not to try and force it to move much. Unlike the other two Kiss Players girls, Shaoshao did not come with any interchangeable limbs, and consequently, she is permanently in a seated (and panty-revealing, *eyeroll*) position, munching on a meat-filled steamed bun from her bamboo steamer. This does not, however, prohibit her from sitting in the driver's seat of most Alternators/Binaltech toys in their vehicle modes.
She was only available with her Autobot partner Hot Rod, the second release in the Kiss Players toyline. The set also came with a CD containing episodes 11-20 of the Kiss Players radio drama and the exclusive 10-minute story, "Tonight's Big Catch!?"


Legends

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Why yes, the punk is feeling 福.
  • Targetmaster Hot Rodimus (Targetmaster Hot Rod) (September 30, 2017)
    • ID Number: LG45
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Legends Firebolt is included with Targetmaster Hot Rodimus, transforming into a double-barreled gun based on the original Firebolt toy.


War for Cybertron: Siege

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Like a reverse panda.
  • Firedrive (Battle Master, 2018)
    • Hasbro ID number: WFC-S1
    • TakaraTomy ID number: SG-01
    • TakaraTomy release date: February 23, 2019
    • Accessories: Cannon, 2 "Fire Blasts"
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Part of the first wave of Siege Battle Masters, Firedrive is a new mold which transforms from robot to "Duo-Charge Electrostatic Photon Cannon" in 5 steps. As a part of the C.O.M.B.A.T. System, Firedrive includes two "Fire Blast" effect pieces that can be used to simulate the blaster mode firing, and can slot onto the various hardpoints found on other figures and weaponry from the same subline to simulate blaster fire or explosions. The outer peg of the effect parts can also attach to 5 mm ports. The actual gun barrel piece can detach from the back, revealing a 3 mm peg, and connect to Firedrive's arm like a cannon. Due to the size of the piece compared to Firebolt, attaching Fire Blast parts to the barrels will cause the figure to become too unbalanced to stand.
Unlike most Firebolt toys, the arms are white (unpaintable) plastic instead of black, due to the fact that the limbs are molded with the cannon. The white plastic is also a much softer plastic than the black plastic that makes up the body, with most instances of the white plastic hinges being forced out of shape by the much harder black plastic until it no longer reliably holds together.
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