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MUfan97 · 06-21-2017, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Louise Belcher

What's with that stupid scale war?! When I was a kid I had toys from each scale (12 inch Barbie and Action Man, 6 inch X-Man action figures and 3.35 inch SW Padme). The only reason to be scale nazi is to have toys compatible with playsets and vehicles which Hasbro makes NONE nowdays.

Eh, true enough, though most people DO have a scale where they feel more ensured of quality. Sure, 3 3/4 inch has a lot of articulation problems that arise, but for me, they feel more solid in my hand than the few 6 inch figures I grabbed before giving up. I'm sure 6 inch collectors have similar reasoning, and they're perfectly entitled to those preferences, but I do seem to find them becoming...Oddly greedy. Like, it's not enough that they have a dozen lines in their preferred scale, whereas we are very lucky to get one, but they feel that they need to rob us of what little we have, and it's annoying.

It's like if a person stuck in the desert for days encountered someone who had only been there for an hour, and the second guy was wanting the first dude's water despite still being perfectly hydrated.

06-21-2017, 12:14 AM	#71
MUfan97 Toa of Fire Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: At your mom's house Posts: 1,897	Quote: Originally Posted by Louise Belcher What's with that stupid scale war?! When I was a kid I had toys from each scale (12 inch Barbie and Action Man, 6 inch X-Man action figures and 3.35 inch SW Padme). The only reason to be scale nazi is to have toys compatible with playsets and vehicles which Hasbro makes NONE nowdays. Eh, true enough, though most people DO have a scale where they feel more ensured of quality. Sure, 3 3/4 inch has a lot of articulation problems that arise, but for me, they feel more solid in my hand than the few 6 inch figures I grabbed before giving up. I'm sure 6 inch collectors have similar reasoning, and they're perfectly entitled to those preferences, but I do seem to find them becoming...Oddly greedy. Like, it's not enough that they have a dozen lines in their preferred scale, whereas we are very lucky to get one, but they feel that they need to rob us of what little we have, and it's annoying. It's like if a person stuck in the desert for days encountered someone who had only been there for an hour, and the second guy was wanting the first dude's water despite still being perfectly hydrated. __________________ I was born, I had a good time, I was vaporized by a bomb.