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Originally Posted by Leo Primus

They have released almost a dozen versions of this mold in the past 10 years. They got their money back in spades.

I'm not too sure it's quite that simple. Retool costs for an older mold can be quite high and depending on the cost of the likeness rights, if they wanted to do the chair and other accessories they may have needed to keep production costs down, especially with inflation and that whole supply chain problem. I can't imagine that didn't factor in. I can still not see how a new torso block to change the entire neck and that black neck seal out for a more accurate neck sculpt would have broken the bank. I mean if you're going to do it and pay all that money for the likeness and you want it to be accurate but not update the body much to save costs at LEAST that torso needed to be updated for accuracy. I suppose it will sell regardless, I mean I'll get the chair version so I can have him unmasked and battle damaged like the end of the film. Just seems to be a somewhat missed opportunity is all.