r/ExpectationVsReality • u/AlanaYoung1 • 16h ago

Exceeded Expectation Magicarp popsicle

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I totally thought the product image was AI and did not expect this to look that well

Edit: I bought this in a Korean convenience store. I just took a screenshot from a Japanese website because it was the first pic I found online.

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u/orcusgrasshopperfog 14h ago

I'm genuinely curious to know how exactly this was made.

I don't see any color bleed so it doesn't look like the individual parts are dyed. As in a solid white casting with the required parts dyed.

It almost looks like a multi-part over molding injection mold. 4 part mold with the eye manually placed. Or a five-part mold if the eye is molded as well... That's like between $80k low volume single shot mold to $150k for a high volume multicast mold. Add to that a food safe refrigeration system to flash cool the mold and cooling tunnels you're looking at easily adding another $400k to $650k a cold storage clean room environment for production... For an ice cream. That is absolutely insane.

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u/AlanaYoung1 14h ago

I have no idea how this was made but only the orange part is ice cream, all the applications had a chocolate - like consistency

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u/orcusgrasshopperfog 13h ago edited 13h ago

Yeah makes sense. A single shot ice cream mold then flash Frozen and inserted into multi-shot "chocolate like product" injection overmolds.

Either way still an extremely expensive process with a lot of overhead for an ice cream bar. Pokemon really does have selling power eh.

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u/MsAndooftheWoods 12h ago edited 12h ago

They're sold for a premium too, I guess that's why. Like most ice cream is only ~1,000-2,000 won here, but this is 5,900 won.

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u/orcusgrasshopperfog 11h ago

Yeah not all that surprising considering they probably had to invest about a million minimum in machinery just to start making these things. With 50% margins, they'd have to sell a half a million of these ice cream bars to break even.

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u/niberungvalesti 11h ago

And it's Pokemon so it'll sell 8 million within the first week.

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u/BeachBrad 13h ago

Individual frozen parts "glued" together. can tell by the tolerances around the fitted parts.

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u/orcusgrasshopperfog 13h ago

No way definitely overmolded. The fitting lines you see outlining everything is just the mold dams to prevent bleed when injection molding.