Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-28773666-20191114134809/@comment-27306930-20191117152559

I'm going to take back some of what I said. After talking to a friend that has a close friend in the plastics business, I was reminded that nearly everything in the injection molding industry is computerized now. The designs are all digital and vectored, and the physical production of molds is also high tech, using CNC and newer high-tech processes that I'm not sure I fully understand. Even the shrinkage is automatically corrected. Bottom line, what used to take days or weeks, now takes hours and minutes. I was actually shocked by how efficient the process has become.

So redesigning the internals and creating new molds might not be as big a deal as I originally thought it was. But I still agree with you, they're not going to do any major external redesigns.

P.S. Pedroh, I think I got an invitation to tour a plastics factory out of it. Photos to follow ...