Why does Mattel keep casting skin tone parts black?

To remain a billion dollar business. The figures suck and im glad even the sheep have come to realize it. I buy some of the cool elites which are fewer and far between. But it's a tough pill to take each time i buy one. I remember mattel stating they'd never have mixed skintones on figs. "Expect more".

It ruins a lot of otherwise great figures, turning must buys to easy passes. It's cheap, and it looks cheap. They aren't doing a good job matching the tones. Any figure with a singlet top that comes out now is pretty much ed.

It makes sense to someone which I'd assume is a money aspect. Doesn't bother me long as they colors march

I don't know, but it annoys me when I play with my figs, I need to use them very lightly,

To cut costs while keeping their profit high. Maximising returns is what makes them rich and one of the highest grossing toy manufacturers in the world.
It cuts costs yet we pay more. Hmmm

weve been voicing our displeasures for months about it. many of us have to physically repaint our painted flesh due to out of box QC. its ridiculous. i really wish they would stop doing it.

I understand people say that it comes down to money, I really do, but I just have a hard time believing that black paint is so cheap for Mattel when in theory it seems like it'd be cheaper to cast things in white or something lighter and then put the darks over them. Not even thinking about attires, I feel like the skintone itself on someone like Seth Rollins might have to be applied more times so as not to let the black behind it show through. It wouldn't make sense to me to cast Seth Rollins in his White Ranger attire in black and then try to put the white over it, so it doesn't make much more sense to try and do that with the skintone colors. Why is black so cheap? I'll never know. But it feels like it'd be cheaper to cast it in a lighter color and then put the other colors over it instead of the opposite. Or does that just work for customizers?

You all remember jeremy.com where Jeremy Padawer would converse with the consumers to try and put out the best & most wanted product on the shelf? Now we have to wait until a convention and we get told "Here this is what you get and you get it because I liked it, not you"

It depends on the amount of paint they need to use. Black is probably a color that the plastic can easily be purchased in. Trust me, someone at Mattel did the math. If it's cheaper to cast, say, Bret Hart's torso in black and just paint the skin tone parts, that's what they're going to do.