carytheone wrote:I'm going with custom painted factory leak. Didn't hasbro confirm the parts are gang molded?sol magnus wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Those are pins.sol magnus wrote:Sabrblade wrote:At the very least, those hand are definitely painted and not cast in blue.
You think? The screws are visible...
Okay. You know what I meant.
Yes, they were gang-molded, bafflingly enough. If they had gone with blue plastic, the hands would have been blue along with the calves, repair drone, and the struts underneath the trailer, which is all correct, especially for the original toy. However, it would have made the floor of the trailer blue too. Somehow, Hasbro decided THAT was a problem and decided to cast everything in gray instead to save the color of the floor but mess up the repair drone, struts, calves, and hands.
It looks like the hands are painted. The blue doesn't match the blue plastic parts that were cast as such, like the head and most of the legs. What's interesting is that the pins aren't painted. That could indicate a factory job, such as the gray plastic hand pants being first painted, then assembled. It could also mean that if they were painted after the fact by the leaker, then they are very good at customizations, being able to disassemble and reassemble pinned structures. We need more answers, unfortunately.
I'd also like to point out that the piece on the pelvis is now painted blue, which was missing from the initial renders from Hasbro and the at-show examples from NYCC 2019 last month. Looks to be the same color paint as the hands. Again, it's hard to tell if that's a factory job or a custom job.
The one thing that I think puts it in favor of factory applied paint apps is that the inner calves are left untouched. I would think a talented customizer could do those too. It's a very "Hasbro" thing to leave those unfixed, as it's probably the least problematic "wrong color" issue on the figure as a whole. Just a little bit of blue paint, by comparison, has fixed the hands, eyes, and details on the pelvis. Painting those calves too would hit the paint operations budget a lot harder.