[Neoblackdragon]

With paint you need to have the manufacturing plant set up a system to apply it. Since this is a limited run, the custom setup is more expensive per run.

With plastic, you just use those pellets. Likely no more expensive than the other.

In order to do that for the Zeo ranger the below scenarios need to happen.

* Note I am angry at BOA so I will insult them. Please ignore those adjectives.

1) The gold portions are separate parts. A real professional company may do that to add to the overall build quality. But that means more assembly is needed. The Torso as opposed to be 2 parts is not 4-5 parts. That adds time and money.

Making molds is expensive. In this scenario, all the ranger teams have different molds. With the limited run BOA is trying save a bunch wherever. So pornstar female rangers stick around because they can reuse the molds. I don't know if any other figure outside this line uses those. If they do that would explain so much. Same when the male figures. They could be reusing another franchise molds.

2) They do what they've been doing but the plastic used is all gold. That means they need to paint all the figures the correct ranger colors. This is impractical, since the majority of the design is that ranger color. You'd need to apply enough coats to hide that gold. So now you also need various setups for each color. Before you only needed say butterscotch or white paint.

That's what is annoying. There is no reason they couldn't use gold paint. It's not that much more expensive in bulk.


BOJ seems to be professional. BOA seems to hate it's customers but wants money.