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05-01-2020, 08:23 AM
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Actually, the parts are molded on trees like a model kit. Check out glow-in-the-dark Black Major Snake Eyes or GITD Snow Serpent for examples of what that looks like. IIRC 85 Snake Eyes was all on one tree, even including Timber.
Granted, I’m assuming BM and Hasbro use identical processes, but IMO that seems likely when comparing 80s style o-rings to 80s style o-rings.
Black Major saves expense by having the entire figure and accessories done in the same plastic in the same go. Hasbro rarely did this, of the OG 13, only Snake Eyes had the same plastic color for the head as the rest of the figure. The flesh color heads and bare forearms were a different color plastic. And the accessories were a different plastic as well, often a softer plastic rather than ABS. Since BM does it in one go, a BM Snake Eyes sword feels so different from a vintage one. Also, until the '90's plastic trees, a great deal of Hasbro's accessories were not done on a "tree" like BM, but were done using an individual extraction. Any accessory where you see little circles that serve no purpose aesthetically might be where the extractor pins pushed it out of the mold. Legos use the same technique.
A better comparison would be Red Laser, whos Viper figures use a different plastic for the heads and forearms. He started doing more of the OG 13 parts too, where flesh parts were different plastic. Unfortunately, his operations may be over thanks to shady dealing from his contractor in China.
Edit: upon further examination, some BM figures do use different plastics. He only sells complete trees of figures done in one
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