>>9880420From reading Mark’s commentary on Instagram, it sounds like the reason they got entirely new molds for Override and Cosmos is because TakaraTomy figured out how to fit all their parts on few enough molded sprues that they could make entirely new figures with the same number of sets of new tooling as if they’d been partial remolds.
See pic related. Here, when Mark says, “mold,” I don’t think he’s referring to the whole figure like when we all tend to use the word, otherwise what he’s saying doesn’t make any sense (SS Hot Rod having molds, plural? Override being four molds even though she’s just one figure?). He’s probably referring to sets of tooling that put all the parts on sprues molded in each plastic color.
So, it sounds like Override remolded from Hot Rod would’ve required four new sets of tooling to be made, but Takara figured out how to fit all the parts for the entire figure on that many sprues. And the same for Cosmos needing three new sets of tooling as a BB remold, but getting all his parts as a fully new figure out of that same number of sets of tooling.
My question is, does that mean they each have a lot less plastic used to make them than regular figures? After all, Cosmos’s arms are crazily hollow. Or maybe they just have fewer parts over all?
