The term "Repaints" conjures up the idea Mattel took unsellable figures, and repainted them a different color to bring some new life to try to resell them.
In the past company would de this, you could even scrap the paint off and see the original underneath.
(I had a superman toy as a kid, and originally it was a soldier repainted by the company and re-released, some paint was wearing through, and the underside you could see the army man’s designs underneath)
(The weird part is before that it was like pop or beer cans, I don’t remember all the detail, as I was young, but it started to fall apart, and you could see on the inside it still had the original can markings and logo.)
The funny thing is when my kids were little they had some of those wrist slapping bracelets, and the outer covering started to come off, and the inside was made from a measuring tape, which of course brought backing the memories of the old wind up Superman tank toy I had made from old pop cans.
Anyway, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A repaint is a toy, typically a figure or doll, that was created entirely from a mold was previously available; however, the colors of the plastic and/or the paint operations have been changed. Repaints differ from redecos in that repaints do not alter the actual placement of paint applications while redecos do.
Since molds can be expensive to create, this is often seen as a comparatively inexpensive way for a toy company to make many different toys available in a cost-effective manner. It is also an effective way for toy manufacturers to produce exclusive figures, chase figures or other variants.
One of the many franchises that repaint their figures is Transformers. Bumblebee toys are sometimes repainted the color red to resemble another Transformers character: Cliffjumper.
In the collecting of 1:6th action figures, repainting has several methods. They can generally be narrowed down to 3 categories: paint, pastel and wash.
The term repaint also refers to fashion dolls whose original manufacturer face paint is removed and then repainted by an artist. Repaint styles include highly realistic treatments, fantasy makeovers, and celebrity likenesses. These dolls are often OOAK (one of a kind), although some artists create repaints in small limited editions.
Ok here's my question for you:
Even though this article refers to plastic color changes as repaints, I still don’t see it being called that. Please share your thoughts. Am I just old and stuck in my ways, or should we come up with a new term for when they used the same molds, but different plastic color, and it not an old figure being physically “Repainted”?
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Originally Posted by Neophron
