Tsutsukakushi wrote:Yotsuyasan wrote:Rated X wrote:If Fanssproject isn't going to use it for characters who are actually supposed to be scout scale...
Well, let us look at that statement for a moment..
"Scout Scale" is a term that applies to toy lines, and is not used in fiction, so we have to discount show accuracy and assume you are talking about how characters are supposed to be represented in toy form.
I had the Stunticons when I was a kid, and I definitely remember the limb-bots being smaller then Autobot cars, typically represented in "Classics" style lines as Deluxe class figures, but larger then Mini Vehicles, to which the analogue in modern toy lines would be the Legends class.
Hmm... What comes between Deluxe and Legends... Oh, I know! The Scout class!
So go figure. Going by Rated X's demand of characters who are "supposed to be scout scale," Fansproject got it just right.
And given how the gestalt compares in size to the other two combiners I own (Maketoys Giant Type 61 and a Fansproject augmented Bruticus), they also got the scale just right!
So... everybody is happy, we all agree, and it is a holiday miracle that will lead to world piece, right?
The FP Stunticons are not scout sized,They are almost deluxe sized. they are all 1/4 inch shorter than the average Hasbro deluxe. Each FP Stunticon is about Five inches tall. 1.0 deluxe Rodimus is 5 inches & a Quarter inch tall.
I agree with Rated X,All of the original scramble city limbs-bots varied between legends & commander sizes. So having the FP Stunticons limbs bots being around Five inches tall each,gives them all a proper toy scale.
I am simply not a fan of those TFC & Warbotron combiners,all the toys are in extreme oversized scales. I don't need my combiners three to Four toy sizes bigger than the originals were. I can understand the need to go up maybe one size scale bigger. but going up three maybe Four whole size scales bigger is kinda entering the realm of ridiculous.
I can see discussion has been brewing while I was working. To clarify what I meant by the "scout" size is the original Munitioner/Explorer figures which were designed to team up with energon scout molds Blight/Stormcloud. I have always considered those two to be scout sized and the FP Stunticons are the same size.
Sure the original G1 limbs were smaller than Autobot cars. That was stupid in the 80's and it's still stupid today. Theyre all cars so just make them the same damn size like the cartoon. Classics and anything made to go with them should model that scale. Toyworld got it right. Fansproject instead chose to match Bruticus's scale. But Bruticus was an upgrade set meant to enhance a set of crappy scout sized figures. Menasor was a scratch built project and had no need to match old upgrade sets. FP Superion was dwarfed by Bruticus, so they all their combiners were never in scale with each other to begin with. They need to get with the program. It doesnt have to be TFC big, but at least go deluxe on the damn cars. Thats my opinion.