(Evil and Chaos @ Feb. 01 2007,13:46)
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(nealhunt @ Feb. 01 2007,13:37)
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I'm not sure if the Eldar titans did, or if they added the weapons as part of the model development.
Since the Eldar Titans were just repros of models that already existed, designing new weapon models for them wasn't a problem, they could just be put right back into production after the list designers chose which weapons they'd like to have (They still had a limited production budget, so not all Eldar Titan weapons were brought back).
I don't know if the old Eldar titan molds included a separate basic titan/variant weapon mold or were a single mold with all the variants on it, but it was probably the latter. They could have added weapons to an existing basic titan mold, cut variant weapons off an existing comprehensive mold, or created a new mold with just the current weapon selection.
My best guess is that the old molds were Titan + lots of variants. Packaging would split the bits into a titan with random weapons (whatever the packagers grabbed - back when GW was willing to be more labor-intensive) and the "leftover" weapons would go into the variant packs. In rehabbing the molds to put them back into production they could have just filled in or cut the unused portions/weapons in the mold. That would give a fixed set of pieces with no sorting for packaging - 1 mold, 1 package. That would have been the cheapest option for everything from mold creation through production to packaging, but it assumes the old molds were basic + variant bits.
But in the end, I don't know.
