>>6064022What you're saying is literally complete and utter bullshit.
Casteline and other waxes have much different hold to form than injection molded plastic, and the path from one to the other is fraught with quality loss. When the Casteline is finished, a master cast is made. That copy suffers from degradation versus the original. Then that master cast is sent for mold tooling. The tooling suffers from degradation versus the master cast, and further degradation distances it from the original sculpt. Then you have the injection molded piece, which carries with it a much different expansion and contraction principle than any of the other materials used thus far. Wouldn't you know it: more degradation. As the piece enters into a cooling phase, you get disproportionate contraction based on volume. In other words, it's a lower quality malformed version of a mold which is a lower quality production piece created using a master cast which is a lower quality form of the original sculpt.
5% is the best bullshit number you can come up with? 5%, on a tooled mold that must produce tens of thousands of units. 5%, on a mold that in all likelihood will see reuse for another project, bringing in even more wear.
If you are talking the first batch of maybe 2000-3000 unit pieces, MAYBE we're talking 10% quality reduction. That's why low volume toy producers get such quality products out: because they stop pretty quickly and don't bang the fuck out of their molds. When you get into Hasbro numbers of production, you need to fuck right off with your lowball figure.
This:
>according to everyone I've talked to.leads me to believe you're one of those fwooshfag pieces of garbage that live like parasites on the backs of toy makers at cons, and feel as though you're some sort of true behind-the-scenes buddy element of the industry. You buy toys, faggot. That's the end of your input: "I bought this toy that someone made".
