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Originally Posted by bmorr

ive used 3-d plastic printers before, and let me tell you it is not feasible for this application. Not only is the machine thousands of dollars but the raw plastic sheets are way more expensive than an already made figure. Your better off just buying it at retail. Costs are why there are little to no factory jobs in the states.

I see 5 years from now someone opening kiosks in malls wherand e you sit down and have your head scanned printed. They then stick the head on a standard buck, much like the majors do now.
Eventually like the carts that used to peddle photo tshirts they get pushed out when it becomes cheap enought to do it at home. I mean you can already do it for $50 or less now that the machines have dropped from tens of thousands to thousands.
Heck you could use the software that they use to age missing persons to make kids figures of themselves as adults.

The only real factor limiting it right now is the cost of the medium. The tech is already done. What price point do you think it would work at?