>>11022745>>11023110Steel molds are a standard for toy manufacturing, because high pressure injection molding wears shit out fast if it's not steel.
And it has to be quality steel too, because it's that intensive.
I don't know about the sales for their McStatue-phase in the early 00s to mid-00s, but once they got back into mass market toys (Prince of Persia, Halo) in the late 00s, they definitely needed to use steel molds.
Also, Five Nights at Freddy's was their biggest line when they started making their legos from 2015 til 2019. Bigger than 90s Spawn, bigger than Halo. And making lego definitely needs steel molds, because 98% for blocks is reuse.
And the money they made off of FnaF is how they were able to afford the DC license (even after using part of that profit on Game of Thrones, Call of Duty, Fortnite, etc).
