I doubt he's die-cast. It doesn't make sense for a "limited-edition exclusive" figure, as producing him in die-cast would require the additional expense of making all new molds - and this guy is being sold at the same price as his plastic KISS red counterpart.

 

More likely he looks better because the plastic is now painted black, just like with KISS Convoy.

 

it is supposed to be die-cast btw. thats what, imo, makes this such a special thing. i know ftf isn't definitve, but they've said yes it is die cast.

It would be nice if he were die-cast, but the economics don't seem to make sense.

 

They didn't bother to make Autopooper die-cast and we know they have the molds to do so.

^Besides, do we really want this mold to be die-cast? There's already enough problems with the mold (back heavy, risk of the spoiler snapping off in time) in an all plastic version. Imagine what could happen if there's was a significant amount of die cast involved.

 

The way I see it, only a few parts of this figure should be die cast: the spoiler, perhaps the hood and (unlikely) those thing on the front of his legs.

I stand corrected: he is diecast.

 

http://www.TFans.com/talk/index.php?showtopic=58708

 

I'm surprised he isn't way more expensive (unless they did a run of diecast Ram parts before canceling Binaltech).