Quote Originally Posted by 1orion2many View Post
I have a few of the gold classics and have never considered them reissues, I can see where Goks coming from but still agree with you 5FDP. Were the gold classics ever called reissues or were they rereleased for markets that missed them?
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“If I remember it was simply that these items had sold so well and therefore to release them as ‘Classics’ some years later made a lot of sense because the cost was repackaging only. Tooling new products costs a huge amount, add the development cost, man hours, photography etc. The other thing that must be considered is the rest of the Hasbro folio of product and the new lines that need development! So I’m pretty sure its it was an amalgam of things.”
ex-director of Hasbro Europe Boy’s Toys division