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Why Repaints? - TFSource Article

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Why Repaints? - TFSource Article

Postby Maz » Tue Sep 16, 2014 3:34 pm

Why repaints and remoulds? Why can’t every Transformers toy be a completely new mould and something brand new to enjoy and explore? We all know the answer to that already. The money involved in creating fresh toy sculpts – the engineering, tooling and design required to birth just one new Transformers toy – is such that the company responsible counters that by ensuring they get the most out of that mould by way of repaints and re-moulds/re-tools. The more the merrier. But that’s not the question we’re asking this week, the question is, what makes us buy them?

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Re: Why Repaints? - TFSource Article

Postby RiddlerJ » Tue Sep 16, 2014 3:51 pm

Who was the twelfth disc?
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Re: Why Repaints? - TFSource Article

Postby Jelze Bunnycat » Tue Sep 16, 2014 4:00 pm

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RiddlerJ wrote:Who was the twelfth disc?


I'm guessing it's the Japanese version, or a custom of Ramhorn, as I'm spotting a repaint of the rhino that he never got.
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