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Originally Posted by Neoblackdragon

Now the expense of the figures. Some of these elements would not require a significant expense. An accurate Red MMPR head wouldn't have been more expensive.

A correct paint job wouldn't be more expensive. Grey belts was unprofessional. The interior of the morpher not having black paint would have been forgivable if they were consistent.

Weapons are a mixed bag. They would have to make a new mold. They couldn't really reuse them. The issue was how they handled it. Again unprofessional. The con red ranger getting a cheap little sword. Okay fine. But then how they went about releasing the others was unforgivable.

A lot of this shows they simply do not care how they present themselves to their customers.

Agreed; BoA has made it quite obvious they don't give two shiitake mushrooms about how they're perceived by the consumer-base. Companies who do give two mushrooms about their base don't typically employ borderline-extortion tactics in order to coerce customers into buying their goods. BoA wants to slide its johnson down our throats and have us thank them for it afterwards.

In regards to cutting costs and expenses, the examples you stated could indeed be the result of cost-cutting measures. It really just comes down to what costs were cut and how they impacted the manufacturing process. There are many variables associated with production lines, not just material costs. Did the new BoA regime re-locate the production process to a new factory with less-skilled/experienced workers? Fire QA/QC personnel? Any one of these hypothetical changes could potentially result in production issues similar to what we've seen over the last year or so.