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Why are Dinobots so popular?

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Postby Saber Prime » Sun Aug 26, 2007 5:57 pm

Nemesis you're talking about casting. I would think it would be more exspecive and take more time to make an entirely new mold from scratch than the cast an allready exsisting mold.

Look at it this way. A brand new never before seen mold has to be made entirely from scratch. They have to design the figure, build the mold, then create the toy from that mold.

Now casting is the exact reverse. You allready have the toy so that skips the whole design stage and goes straight to makeing the mold for mass production. They cast the toy making a new mold from that cast rather than making the mod from scratch.

Now unless the casting process costs more than paying a bunch of people to come up with a new desigh and make a brand new mold from scratch it would seem casting is cheaper.

And heck I could make a cast mold from an old news paper and some startch (I've done it before in art class when I was in 6th grade) so Hasbro is tossing out some lies there.

More likely it's that they'd have to buy the original toys from the people they originaly sold them to in the first place for more money than they originaly were and/or can't track down any mint condition toys to use. They would't be able to just barrow the toys to make the casts because the toys would have to be taken apart, each piece cast seperatly, and the toy might be ruined by the casting process.

All the money would be spent on buying the mint condition toys to use for casting. Thoughs things are exspencive.
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Postby Nemesis Cyberplex » Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:13 pm

eh..maybe it is...It's been a while since I heard this. I think it was more of the risk of casting an old toy & it not selling....or even not meeting current toy standards. But given the fate of the G1 reissues, I'd, go with the risk of not selling.
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Postby Me_Grimlock_King » Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:59 pm

Predaprince wrote:
Ghaax wrote:
Moonbase2 wrote:
Predaprince wrote:
Moonbase2 wrote:
I think it is kind of funny, however, that the Dinobots in the cartoon are so dumb that they just sit behind a door til someone needs them.


That's because they are deactivated.


They'd open the door and the dinobots would immediately speak back to them. So either they reactivated themselves quickly or they tweedled their thumbs til they got the call. I thought it was funny anyway.


But did we ever see what the room was like? Maybe they actually had a luxus suite with 5 bedrooms and plasma-TV :lol:


Or, perhaps the room is empty and they enjoy the same living quarters as Bender on Futurama does.



"Me, Grimlock, say you all jerkwads!" *Grimlock then lights up a cigar and starts drinking*
Now THAT, I'd pay to see!
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Postby Silent_Magnus » Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:21 pm

Well, I never owned the toyss, but looking at pictures and such they seemed to be the of the better G1 toys. which must have been a plus to the popularity.

And a reason for them to stay in dino-mode a lot in the cartoon was because in Alt mode they were pretty much tanks, not a lot could hurt them.
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Postby Healthiest_Stomach » Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:05 am

One of the reasons I liked the Dinobots was they were good comic relief. When I went to see TFTM, the audience laughed when Grimlock put his nose in Kup's face. I thought they were funny on Quintessa also.
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