
Originally Posted by
griffin
Having some experience in the plastics moulding industry, I know that you need really durable (reeeally expensive) moulds/tools to produce the hundreds of thousands of plastic parts Takara/Hasbro need to produce, compared to the couple of thousand that the bootleggers make (which are produced with much cheaper, short-lived moulds/tools, that they can replace cheaply as they are damaged/broken).