>>8050891The comic packs from the the GI Joe Vs Cobra lines used rubbery plastics on the classic molds. see
>>8050170>>8051028They actually lost a lot of the molds, which is why there was such a limit on what they've actually reproduced.
As for source, a lot of the 00s websites i went to are gone. I personally have talked with Hasbro reps at conventions about this too, but think about it logically. Molds wear out over time and shit happens as they age as well, including just breaking apart. They've had to go back and physically do shit to the molds to get them to have crisp detail (again).
These are steel molds, so it's not some rubber shit that you can just recast. IF you need to recast it, that's a brand new toy and all the costs associated with it. It's not like the old GI Joes were even done in 3d, so they just can't resend the file to create a new mold. Shit needs to be scanned, modified and all the tweaking that still requires a sculptor to do.
>If a guy at home can 3D print...Most of that is just simple statueshit or heads. They need to engineer it and take into account the fact that they're using different materials. Nevermind the paints that will need to be applied.
>That was then, this is now.Doesn't matter, because to reuse an old mold requires a lot of physical artistry to fix the molds.
Unless they're just doing an easy as fuck pump and dump....
>>805103025th style aren't modern and would be considered retro today.
Who knows what Hasbro is doing with the retro line until it comes out
