[Jay West]

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Originally Posted by ukmu

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Shocker looks great. Also two things-good and bad.

Bad first- the "animated 6" line for the kids" could spell the inevitable doom for beloved scale. I know every year at Toy Fair and SDCC someone is ALWAYS shouting Chicken Little and the sky is falling and this is surely the end of days. I don't know if THIS is the writing on the wall, but it seems likely with these our scale could become redundant to the powers that be.... Also, they all had on LEGENDS T-shirts on. I know our 3.75" are also now under that umbrella term...but we all KNOW what they are talking about. Lastly, when he introduces the ML 6" he calls it the "bread and butter" of their Marvel license. True, but it still stings to hear. Bad medicine.
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I think the 6 inch kids line really is a pretty telling development. It's been out for a few years now and started when Hasbro shifted their 3.75 5 POA animated Spidey figures to 5/6 inch 5 POA figures. Now we've got Spidey, Avengers, and GotG animated/kids lines with 5-7 POA articulation going for $8.

Soooo the old conspiracy theory is Hasbro prefers 6 inch scale. I mean we went from everybody making 3.75 to the scale almost dying out. Justification was 3.75 was for kids or plastic is too expensive to make 3.75 and more money is made on the 6 inch scale. Well the kids lines debunk both of those justifications. We have kids 6 inch scale so that scale is not just for collectors. Also we've got articulated and decently sculpted 6 inch figures going for $8. While they may not be the style we are used to, most of us would by these figures in 3.75 as is. Sculpt, articulation, and paint apps as is. There's is no economy where 3.75 of plastic going for $8 is more expensive to Hasbro than 6 inches of plastic going for $8.

So it seems like the conspiracy theory of Hasbro preferring 6 inch seems pretty justified. It's not a collector thing anyone because the kids line is 6 inches. It's not a price thing because 6 inch figures are going for $8. So what is it?