Burn wrote:Let it be known, I murdered Amelie.
Accidentally.
Burn wrote:robofreak doesn't joke. He's all about the serious business of the internet.
ItIsHim wrote:My closet is filled to the brim with plastic children's toys. For myself
robofreak wrote:Modern technology however has rectified this by allowing a virtual master to be stored on the computer. I think they've been able to do this for several of the G1 molds and are working on doing it for others.
Burn wrote:Let it be known, I murdered Amelie.
Accidentally.
Amelie wrote:
Model companies like Mantic and Citadel have been doing this for a while now.
Midnight_Fox wrote:Amelie wrote:
Model companies like Mantic and Citadel have been doing this for a while now.
Speaking of, they need go ahead and pop the damn Thunderhawk in that scanner for their CAD machine. I bet that'd impact their slow downward spiral since 2004.
videriant wrote:Mold degeneration is a different explanation when referrign to G1 toys versus more recent toys.
For G1, the whole "collectors" and "reissues" world we know now did not exist back then so the original molds were not made to last, not stored for preservation, heck not even kept track of. Depending on the situation some survived better then others. The ones that were "lost", who knows what happens to them.
The manufacturing process Amelie describes above with a master mold is only cost effective when you're producing something in perpetuity. I don't think Hasbro has plans to do that with all the different molds they are churning out. It's a good question to ask Hasbro Q&A though.
Burn wrote:robofreak doesn't joke. He's all about the serious business of the internet.
ItIsHim wrote:My closet is filled to the brim with plastic children's toys. For myself
fenrir72 wrote:@ Hoosier
So in the Encore Bruticus and Piranacon's case, Takara and Hasbro just had sloppy QC manager/management. What a pity though if they took better steps prior to the re-issue.
It's like a slap in the face if K.O. companies do a better job than them.
Burn wrote:robofreak doesn't joke. He's all about the serious business of the internet.
ItIsHim wrote:My closet is filled to the brim with plastic children's toys. For myself
I haven't handled those figures myself either but, if there is a defect in the plastic, it COULD have been attributed to a defect in the mold that was overlooked or just ignored. Again as robofreak points out, the lowest bidder, can equate to; you get what you pay for. And in this case it could be a defective mold but it still comes around to the people in charge for either missing the defect or ignoring it. So, it is still basically a quality control issue.fenrir72 wrote:@ Hoosier
So in the Encore Bruticus and Piranacon's case, Takara and Hasbro just had sloppy QC manager/management. What a pity though if they took better steps prior to the re-issue.
It's like a slap in the face if K.O. companies do a better job than them.
f-primus-unicron wrote:so, there's no way to reproduce the mold from the existing toys? i mean many people still have a original g1 jazz in mint condition or even the KOs( how they do to make knocks of "figures without master mold?)
so i think is a conspiracy and takara and hasbro do this to make more money from the "only" existing g1 figures that remains
0_o
Burn wrote:robofreak doesn't joke. He's all about the serious business of the internet.
ItIsHim wrote:My closet is filled to the brim with plastic children's toys. For myself
f-primus-unicron wrote:so why they seid that they cant remake some tfs because they dont have the molds?
Burn wrote:robofreak doesn't joke. He's all about the serious business of the internet.
ItIsHim wrote:My closet is filled to the brim with plastic children's toys. For myself
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