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06-25-2009, 11:15 AM | #21 |
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If you want something to be in scale, the Human alliance toys seem to be the way to go. From what has been posted, the bots are scaled to the 2 inch figures. So far we will see Bumblebee, Sideswipe, and Skids with Arcee, each will include a figure.
Now myself, I am all about the 1:18th scale and have been asking in Q&As to see them make a line for that scale, but nothing yet, which prompted me to make my own Movie Bumblebee by growing the deluxe using Hydrospan. What I have seen done in the last crossover contest here and my own endever, the scale is not that bad. If you take the extream size vehicle, like the F-22 thats at TRU, and match build it to Starscream using the same conversion design as the new one that came out, He will not be as tall as those Shogun Warriors from the '70s. It can be done and would be hell of cool. And if the price point is an issue, so what. I would rather pay $100 for a 1:18th scale Optimus Prime figure and $50 for Bumblebee than that crap they are passing for Devistator. If they only would think of the possibilities that scale would offer. Easy crossover play value, proper scaleing, and custom foder. If they can release the Falcon at the $150 price point and it did so well, why not venture the Transformers in our scale, if anything, at least do one to test the market like with Sam and Bumblebee. The could take the current HA Bumblebee figure and upscale it to the Joe scale, that way the engineering is already there, they just need to make a new mold of it. I just hope someone over in China will do just that as a bootleg oversize set. I absolutely agree. Plus, a true to scale F-22 and F-15 would not be all that big as many seem to think. A 1:18 scale version of them would be 3.4 and 3.5 feet long when in their Jet form. Transformed into their robot form, they would only be about 2 feet tall each. That is for the Big vehicles. A Peterbilt 379 semiin which Optimus Prime is, would only be 1.38 feet. Not big at all. Transformed, he would probably be just about a foot tall. Again, that is the large scale stuff in the Transformers line for the most part. The price points would not be all that expensive either and compared to scale comparison, we are paying more now for the stuff that is out now compared to what it could be. It is not like you would army build Optimus Prime nor Starscream. Here is a comparison below, It proves that it does not take up as much space as everyone tend to thinks. It just takes up a little corner in a room like the rest of our toys. Perfect example, spatially, The true to scale 1:18 stuff does not take up all that more of space than the G.I. Joe stuff. The 3x2 foot kitchen island is split roughly 50% either way. Here is an organized spacing system:
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06-25-2009, 08:52 PM | #22 |
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Kiddy? Yeah, but also extremely well written and full of shoutouts to the original. When Ratchet yelled at Wreck-Gar, "You wouldn't dare do something that stupid!", the slightly insane robot, voiced by Wierd Al Yankovik (because Eric Idle was busy with Spamalot) replied, "I am Wreck-Gar, and I DARE to be stupid!"
Even I couldn't believe how awesome that was. kinda frustrating.
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06-25-2009, 10:32 PM | #23 |
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Probably because the TFs started from two different toylines, and both were on different scale. The toys from the same lines are mostly in scale with one another, but there's some exceptions of course. But a 1/18th scale TF, while it'd be neat. would be undoable. A figure now $10 would be at 70 bucks or more at that scale. A big guy like Omega Supreme would be about a thousand dollars, and Fort Max or Unicron? They'd be larger than your actual house. |
06-25-2009, 10:44 PM | #24 |
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yeah but the prices would be outragious, TF's are already expensive as it is, i cant emagine how much more they would cost if they were in 1/18th scale or bigger.
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06-25-2009, 10:51 PM | #25 |
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Boo... TF's can't be to scale, otherwise Megatron and Prime would never stand eye to eye. |
06-25-2009, 10:58 PM | #26 |
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I agree that 1:18 probably wouldn't work, however the Alternators line proved that 1:24 scale works very well.
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06-25-2009, 11:05 PM | #27 |
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There are always going to be exceptions. Well, why not 1:24 scale? My point is, that as a Hardcore collector, I would love to have a set of Transformers toys that don't look silly when they are side by side, I want a semi truck, a sports car, motorcycle and yes even a jet, to look normal when they sit on my display case. I am even willing to compromise, make starscream the size of a semi truck or tank, just don't make him the same size as camaro.
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06-25-2009, 11:06 PM | #28 |
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If you enjoyed buying all your Transformers for no less than 20 bucks.
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06-25-2009, 11:19 PM | #29 |
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06-25-2009, 11:22 PM | #30 |
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ultimately, these are toys for children to play with and stimulate the imagination. if that imagination can pretend they are actually alive robots, it can pretend they are whatever size they want...I know, I did it as a child. anyone who has lost all semblance of imagination, it's probably time to wrap up the toy buying. they don't need to be in scale. |
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