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Originally Posted by boombatty

I would like to pint out that in the upcoming (maybe) pack of Antman w/ Moon Knight the Moon Knight mold is the re-issue of the same mold that was used for Vision, etc. meaning that retired means about as much as it did to Michael Jordan, Randy Moss and George Foreman.

Having said that, this means the mold still exists and has not been mothballed, destroyed or otherwise. Assuming that to be true it would be of no surprise for Hasbro to "un-retire" the mold. In fact after the announcement of retirement I remember seeing the mold at least two more times in production.

First, I never said the mold was destroyed. I said according to Hasbro, it was "retired", which meant they would no longer use it for new toys.

As I mentioned in my earlier post, some figures using that mold were already too far along the production schedule when Hasbro made that announcement; so they were coming out one way or another regardless. Based on when the first promotional pics showed up, the original production run of Ant-Man/Moon Knight was most likely produced during that time frame. The real question is why has it taken so long for it to be released to retail (assuming it ever makes it there).

By the way, no new characters have been done using the DD v1 mold since that announcement, either.

But hey, there is some precedence for reverse-engineering a new mold from an existing toy (usually when the toy is in demand but the original mold was too degraded, lost or destroyed). It's how Takara was able to re-create the G1 Soundwave mold from the Soundblaster version.

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Originally Posted by Spacemafia

Didn't they just rerelease moon knight? Like last year? Like a coupe of waves ago?

Not to my knowledge. The last time I saw the single-packed Moon Knight as filler was back in late 2011. And that could have simply been a matter of the retailer finding old stock in the back room.

I suppose someone could research the full case assortments for 2012 and see if he was listed.