[RKillian]

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Originally Posted by trebleshot

So how many toys have you made and how much did it cost you to do it?

Not fair to compare one person to a billion dollar international corporation. I have been working on doing it and so far it looks like the bulk of the cost is in the tooling. The figures themselves are actually pretty cheap to produce. What's difficult, for a person, is having enough money to order enough figures to overcome the tooling costs without pricing the figures out of reach. You may get them for a buck each but you have to buy 50K of them...in a country where the median pre-tax salary is $50K. Again, though, you're talking one person making one fully-tooled figure. If you reuse tooling on the scale that Mattel does, sharing 3 bodies across 10+ figures, the explanations that they throw out at us start to fall apart. But you'd have to dig a little deeper than 99.99% of people hanging out on forums do. I used to think maybe licensing was a big cost but there's so much licensed garbage and so many wasted licenses out there that some of them must cost 5 box tops and a self-addressed stamped envelope...