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Originally Posted by Kirathis

How much of Kamakura is a new mold/sculpt? The male blue ninja is a repaint of the red and the female uses the Akiko movie figure body. I have begun to wonder if part of why they are issuing so many repaints is due to a cost associated with new molds. That thought makes me wonder whether we will see even more repaint and reuse to keep costs down with new molds requiring ever higher premiums.

Again, using Marvel Legends as a precedent, we've seen repainted and reused molds out the wazoo for a while – most of it handled quite well, honestly. Over the years we've also seen ample net-new figures dropped into the release schedule that were not given a premium markup simply because they were 100% new molds at their release. I'm not trying to argue with you. I'm just saying that if "all new" suddenly equals "premium" then Hasbro might want to rethink their business model.

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

... If they're going to go this windowless packaging, how about putting images of the toy from the photos they have taken on the box???? Sell people the toy through images on the box....

I thought the same thing when I saw the front of the box.