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I asked, its 10-15k for articulated figure in china.They have their own moulds for all plastic joints cause theyre really basic, joints from these movie turtles are identical to joints from mirage turtles and many other figures and chinese have moulds for these.
60k might be in USA.
Not sure why would you use any toolings from other figures, its just sculpted Castaline proto thats sent to chinese to make metal mould and plastic inject figures, theres no tooling from other figures unless you want head swaps but we talk about movie turtles, they dont have anything from other figs.
It depends how moulds are designed, they have to fill whole mould with one colour of plastic so making new one just for extra head especially in diffent colour is expensive idea, preplanning must be smart here.
5cm mould of the figure without joints is about 4k but some companies are ready for deals that let them keep your moulds, when you want to take them to other companies afterwards they might charge you a lot more.IN other words, if you have relationship with factory and you know people... you can have it done cheaper.
NECA cashed over 1 million $ in 3 minutes during 3 days of presales.There was absolutely no risk here.Im surprised they didnt do more.
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