>>9629557>about how Toy Biz didn't reuse molds as often as Hasbro.I didn't, you would be surprised how many toy lines used very cheap systems and parts that lead to molds degrading/breaking in as little as 5k castings, this processes is like anything else: Built right/costly it can last for decades, built wrong/cheap and you are on borrowed time
>but why is their material so different from other molds from other companiesIt's like everything else and it's how they are made and with what. Not all toys use the exact same plastic formulas nor paints correct? The casting/injecting molds and systems are the same way. In the past many companies including Hasbro and Mattel used Diecast for some molds of their toys as it was cheaper than lead based which were stronger but more costly, thing is diecast is incredibly unstable when put though that much heat and stress for hours at a time being used so you get wild out comes where the casting would warp or lose too much detail quicker than other parts, in fact a lot of collectors documented that with GIJoes as the molds would start to show deterioration over time even in the same casting run. I have no idea how well or not Toybiz ran things but a lot of companies were still using older quality casting tech in the 90s and 00s leading to some figures just being lost to time while others could still be used this very day. Companies started to prefect this in the late 00s/early 10s to where the castings would last a much longer time consistently both in how they were made and the processes in which they were made. Also as already stated molds could have been lost and/or stolen, but I just wanted to share a third outcome that gets overlooked
