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Originally Posted by Bruticus82
Some of the molds that have been destroyed or lost by Hasbro/Takara include the original soundwave mold (they used the Japanese Soundblaster mold for the TRU reissue), the G1 Mirage and Wheeljack molds, and all the Dinobots.
However, am I right in assuming one can reverse-engineer a mold? Isn't that what companies do to make knockoffs? Take a casting of the parts of a toy and make a mold based on that?
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Funny story. Hasbro stated at Botcon 2004 that it's not so much that G1 Mirage and Wheeljack's molds were destroyed, they think that they were misplaced. They have a warehouse with 1000s of molds they used over the years from different lines and they feel it's possible it became mis-placed with all of that. Imagine like G1 Mirage's mold placed in a box along side Army Ant molds or their early WWF stuff...... who knows.
