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05-18-2012, 05:03 PM | #1 |
Cobra Soldier
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In china? Or do they end up back at Hasbro? I have heard stories about so and so mold is broken but what do they mean? LIke some guy over in China dropped it in the factory? Does anyone know which are still viable and usable? I wonder if the 83 base set is still laying around somewhere.
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05-18-2012, 05:05 PM | #2 |
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A lot of them have been melted down as scrap metal. From what I understand, almost every O-ring mold was sold for scrap, as well as pretty much all the vehicles. I think they said the Flagg's mold was dumped in the ocean.
The molds wear out after a while, just like any other machine. I think that's mainly what they are talking about when they say a mold is broken. |
05-18-2012, 05:11 PM | #3 |
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Yeah, they're gone. The figure molds (that weren't shipped off to India for the Funskool figures) were in China. The vehicle molds (also that didn't go to India) were in Rhode Island. Some original molds that were refurbished or re-tooled are in China.
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05-18-2012, 06:06 PM | #4 |
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That last Coke can you just drank from might have been where the molds went to.
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05-18-2012, 06:11 PM | #5 |
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They're being cared for by "top men".
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05-18-2012, 06:13 PM | #6 |
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05-18-2012, 06:14 PM | #7 |
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Finding the inverse seems to my problem
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05-18-2012, 06:43 PM | #8 |
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05-18-2012, 07:06 PM | #9 |
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05-18-2012, 08:10 PM | #10 |
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Several dozen were lost in the mid-90s when they were shipped back to Rhode Island and the cargo container sank (casualties included SE v2 and Torch). A bunch of molds (notably, later year vehicles) were ruined when Hasbro had a warehouse fire in the mid-90s. Funskool got a bunch of molds for their use, but took care of them so poorly, more than half became unusable (like the original Skystriker mold and Lifeline). And around the launch of 25th, Hasbro did not deem the old figure and vehicle molds as useful enough to keep around, and started getting rid of them. After all, the Club has been the only venue for O-ring figures, and even that isn't a big market anymore.
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