Christopher H. wrote: > You know, I know that the expense of a new mold was emphasized, > but how expensive is it really? Are we talking a few thousand, > or like dozens of thousands? http://www.wunderland.com/WhatsOld/2005/WN.04.21.05.html > To date, all injection-molded Icehouse pieces ever made have > come out of the exact same mold, a "family" mold we commissioned > in 1999 at a cost of around $10,000. > [...] > What we need before we can make any more Icehouse sets is a trio > of new molds, each of which makes 5 pieces at a time, with hot > runner gating. And a new molding system like that is going to > cost tens of thousands of dollars to create, which of course is > way more money than we have available. -- Elliott C. "Eeyore" Evans eeyore@xxxxxxxx