wait wait wait if you're going to call me out on this lets go over your statement here.
my math is wrong on a lot of that ? i named 4 things: plastic, tooling, paint and packaging
you then say ok maybe plastic(anyone can see that there is a lot more plastic used in the average ML fig compared to a MM)" and tooling (come on really look at all the detail on a ML fig compared to a Basic MM its no contest) so that's two out of four right there not "a lot", but then there are the other two, packaging its again a no brainer ML are bigger and therefor the packaging is bigger ie more cardboard and plastic, then paint, ML use more variety of colors and a hell of alot more just to cover those figs than on MM again that's easy for anyone to see, so how is my math off?
and when did i say there was a "relationship between cost and height" ?
its funny how some manufacturers are using the current world situation as an excuse to raise their prices to unfair levels while some like McFarlane toys are making it work with only slight increases, and don't play the "increased costs in manufacturing, materials and transportation" line to justify a 100% mark up from a year or so ago ( we were paying $8 for a two pack of MM a year or so ago) again other manufacturers are not doubling their prices.