>>9793167It costs exactly as much to make new molds as to remake old molds. A tool was about 100k each 10 years ago. The actual sculpt of a figure can be purchased on instagram for about 1000$ maximum. In other words new designs are like 1% of the cost.
>they can still reprintLicensors are assholes and won't let you do that, because they believe its lazy.
>old collectors won't buyThis is a myth. If you have a 5 year gap, you've cycled to a new gen of kids. Even adults will rotate through lines so old figures do sell.
>companies don't do thisActually they do, they just get made fun of every time it happens.
Ex.
Iron man from vintage wave that was from an earlier iron man line
Iron monger was reused from iron man toyline
P-bandai everything
