Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
Like you said, they're reverse moulded, which Takara(TOMY) don't do -- the closest they did was with reverse moulding the arms for the original G1 Optimus Prime mould, and they claim that it was really expensive for them to do this (and we can see that HasTak has milked that reissue mould more than any other to get their money's worth!).
I think that is just spinning things to justify why they are not reissuing certain molds. It is clear that it is fairly easy/inexpensive to recreate and mass produce molds at an industrial scale or we wouldn't have so many knock offs that are of comparable quality to Tomy's/Hasbro's.

The 3rd parties also seem to get up and running creating their own molds reasonably easy enough.

I think that is just an 'urban myth' that Has-Tak created to justify why they don't reissue certain figures. It could be that they simply couldn't be bothered to fix/recreate molds they don't readily have.