>>11035100Already existed years before collector lines used them.
LEGO and Hasbro used prints in the 00s, not for faces, but it's the exact same tech. It's also a budget cutting feature, since it takes the place of multiple paint apps into a single application.
And i mispoke about pinless. I meant seperate joints from the sculpt itself, like you see on Revoltechs, Figmas, and Figuarts. It was also considered a premium feature in the mid-00s, despite being adopted by McFarlane in the early 00s and again in the late 00s.
I'll even bring up diecast, which has long been considered a premium feature and still tauted as such, despite Hot Wheels being 99¢ for decades while there have been decades of inflation and cost increases. See also
https://is2.4chan.org/toy/1718613165799107.png which shows diecast is much more cheaper than plain old high pressure injected plastic.
All this just shows most people have no idea what is costly or not. People just look at more expensive figures and think because certain features are on them, that it must cost more. It's a false perception.
Again, Barbie shit proves that having clothes is budget
>ib4 a shitty wire drives that price up by even 5%I can't imagine it being more expensive than bendy limbs, which are budget as fuck too, despite requiring molds.
You'd make a better point trying to argue the microcloth used on the capes... if we were in 1994, when microfibers were a new thing. These capes would be considered costly and premium. Today? i get microfiber cloths with my fucking HDMI cords and USB C cables for no reason at all.
There's nothing about the capes that points toward it being costly except for peoples ignorant perceptions.
I mean, look at you, thinking that fucking cloth and wire being used by companies like Mafex would somehow bring those costs down for another company. Cloth and wire isn't a patented technology controlled by a single company or holding company like DVDs or SSDs.
