[Crazy Jetty]

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Originally Posted by TimespliTT

if 6 inch figures were cheaper would you guys buy them?

i didnt start collecting action figures until last year when i started making money. during this first year i noticed people liking 3 3/4. for me i want something i can hold/play with and put on display and 3 3/4 doesnt do that for me. its just to small. smaller size, less detail, less articulalion. I would think atleast from my standpoint that bigger is better, if i could i would buy 1/1 scale figures.

after all the human race is 6 feet tall, not 3 3/4 feet, we must like being this size.

The thing is... a lot of Collectors are collectors.
Meaning, they collect. A lot. And collections take up a lot of room. Smaller figures take up less room. You can display almost three times as many 3.3/4" figures in the same area as you can 6" figures. And for MiB collectors, likewise the packages take up considerably less room.

So for many collectors, their preference towards smaller figures comes due to space. I don't collect MU, but I'd jump all over a DC toyline if Mattel scaled DCUC down to the 3.3/4" scale. For that exact reason.

Also, feet to inches really isn't a terribly good concept. If the toy companies that produced that scale were concerned about making the tigures exactly to scale with what they should be (Wolverine being 5", Jean Grey 5.6", Gambit being 6", and Colossus 7"), then your statement would make more sense. But as of now, Wolverine, Gambit, and Jean are almost always the exact same size, and we're lucky if Colossus is larger.
For them, at the 6" range, its not about converting human footage to inches. It's about a pricepoint, and the amount of plastic used.


That said, I'd kill to have a dinosaur toyline that converts feet to inches, as impractical as that'd be. A five foot long sauropod toy would be flippin' EPIC!