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Originally Posted by MUfan97

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 think it might be because in the past couple of years, there's been a bit of an explosion of the scale, in terms of the number of properties being represented in the scale, and the number of companies producing figures in the scale. It's created somewhat of a feeling(/realization?) that if [insert unexpected thing getting a figure in 6-inch scale] can get a figure, maybe everything can get a figure. So collectors of the scale have more of a pressing sense of wanting to get everything in the scale, and in many cases, getting multiple versions by multiple different companies, to compare and contrast their different takes on the source material. So, when they see a figure that looks cool, they hope it's 6 inch to fulfill that urge to see every possible character represented in every possible way, and when they see it's not their scale, they're disappointed. I'd imagine that if 3.75-inch scale were in a similar situation, some of its collectors would be exhibiting the same behavior.

That's just my theory, though. I'm not even sure I worded it well enough to get across my exact thoughts on it, but there it is.