Quote Originally Posted by FFN View Post
The plastic used by Hasbro is the same as the plastic used by Takara and TakaraTomy. The difference is Hasbro didn't paint the plastic.

And when BT Meister was released, there were complaints of his inconsistent hues of white (some panels were more of a creamy off-white than true white)
Yeah, I remember when I got my red version of Meister (Zoom Zoom ) and was looking at it in the box, it was so apparent that the front was plastic instead of metal I had to dig out my white version to be sure I hadn't been duped with a hybrid BT with Alt parts (cos I didn't know back then that there was no red Meister Alternator). I've got Argent Meister in my hands now... it's basically perfect cos the whole shell is painted.

BUT ZOMG, I thought Japan was infallible?!?
Interesting to consider the comment above by Kyle about KP which I completely agree with (except for comparing HR to OP - as far as molds go they are at opposite ends of the spectrum imo). It took TAKARA merging with TOMY to make the BT/KP line profitable again. :P