>>5828698>>5828702>1) Takara toys literally cost twice as much or more. The fact that you don't take this into account is ludicrously stupid.>2) The two companies use the same designers, the same molds, and the same factories. >3) Hasbro figures are completed up to a year before Takara ones; Takara has more time to go in for additional retooling in the rare occasion they choose to since they can offset the cost of retail with increased prices.>4)Prices of individual items work differently in Japan than the US; individual items don't have to fit into rigid pricepoint, so paint and retooling doesn't have to fit within a single budget. The "effort" meme is being willfully ignorant of the realities of how this works. Hasbro Computron is toy accurate, so whining about it not having matching colors is pointless since that's what he looks like, especially since the Hasbro version has new hands and feet.
