>>5312324>licensing fees, engineer the articulation, and sculptThis. Also, you can bring that cost down even more if you cut corners and skip QC, which definitely happened.
>>5312260>I legitimately think the skin tone and texture look better on this bootleg.As far as I can tell, it's the same as the retail release. I sort of wish they had used a darker shade though, I wasn't a fan of the pale green in the first place.
>How does the rest of it hold up?At least on mine, the waist piece isn't glued in at all, there's a bunch of chipped paint, and there are several areas where stuff is glued in crooked like the eyes and neck. It's fine considering it's a third of the price and that I was going to skip it in the first place, but yeah, there're some concessions.
