>>11578898Hasbro has always done that, like with these "Authentics" GI Joe figures with 3 POA each (but well-sculpted) that were only $8 each.
Even in the 80s Hasbro sold basic mini-bots Transformers like Bumblebee and made it a point to make them prominent in the cartoon so poor kids could feel like what they got was every bit worth the same as the bigger ones to the Transformers story.