I like to give my own explanation of why figures are in different scales: It's the multiverse, characters that are too big or small, people on their universe were always like that.
McFarlane toys changed everything. I remember that even kids that wasn't on toy collecting want one of them bc the sculpt and design were so unique. Legends, meh.
Interesting side-note; upon purchasing a 2002-movie Spider-Man, I also discovered that "Marvel-Legends" -style figures made IDEAL drawing-models as well! Even the typical wooden artist-model can't beat ML in the articulation-department. ; )
Thanks for the video, Scott! I have a couple of 6-inch Spider-Man action figures (which have amazing articulation), but my Star Wars figures are all 3 3/4 inches.
this is a hot take at best. mvl may have influenced some domestic brands but the Japanese have ALWAYS been ahead of us as far as detail and articulation goes. also america is in love with 6 inch scale not the world. 6 inch vs 1/12 ill take 1/12 all day. however every scale has their strengths and weaknesses. also revoltech has been around for quite some time. i wouldn't use them as an example when comparing cheaply made domestic toys to high end import toys.
Like how you display those four Goblin figures... And to this date, that ToyBiz 2006 Hobgoblin is the best Hobgoblin by far due to how comic accurate the face sculpt are along with the colors and the glider. And yes, I am a huge Roderick Kingsley fan :)
I noticed those Build A Figures never seem to line up properly in the scaling. Mean Gene I saw recently who seems to be Vince with his exact Body. Instead of being smaller he is around same height as the Wrestlers making it awkward to interview. I'm wondering if they changed mind or just had the head sculp so figured would release with the Vince Body. I'm sure people were not happy that made Classics taller than the normal He-Man Figures haha. It really irks me when they show those joints especially when they don't match standing out more. Toy Biz is like the last Great line of stuff as didn't pay the Tooling Bills ;). I don't think I realized MOTU figures have more articulation. I remember WWF Rubber Wrestling Figures heh ;).
So like the word Hoover has come to be used in lieu of vacuum cleaner, when people buy another brand of vacuum cleaner they still call them Hoovers because that's how ubiquitous the name has become. I like the six inch Marvel Legends scale, it's small enough so that you can have many of them on a shelf but large enough so they can have accessories and details like faces that resemble actors, also the one inch equals one foot helps me judge whether I feel a figure is the correct size or not. When McFarlane started doing DC toys I'd hoped he'd use the Marvel Legends scale but he didn't and that's the reason I don't collect DC toys. Yes I know I'm being petty.
As a collector and hobbyist toy photographer, I'm happy to see so many similar scale figures. Being able to use the GI Joe Sgt Slaughter with a Mattel Hulk Hogan is fantastic. Sadly, kids today will never know the struggle of pretending your Playmates TNG Data fits in with the rest of your Galoob TNG bridge crew when your Galoob Data fell apart.
Every time I walk down the toy aisles of stores and see the toy lines I grew up with (Masters of the Universe, GI Joe, Super Powers, everything Marvel, Transformers) and toys I'd always desperately wanted (Dungeons & Dragons!) with hyperarticulation and actually resembling the cartoon characters on whom they're based (I'm looking at you, Transformers), I can't help feeling bitter. These toys just sit there unless we manbabies shell out the $30 each one costs now for some reason, because kids have little interest in anything but video games. I want to send a care package of these miraculous toys back in time to myself, circa 1985.
And your DC fit right in! That's why I still wish you were doing DC instead of the Crap we are getting from McFarlane! I have only bought 5 McFarlane DC since he took over.
Scott, you mentioned the Classics line was 6.5 inches so it was just a bit bigger. An in-joke back to the 80's where MotU outsized the rest of the toylines?
Marvel Legends= Star Wars Black, GI Joe Classified, Power Rangers Lightning. Also movie lines for Ghostbusters and Indiana Jones.... The one outlier though is Transformers R.E.D. while it was the hope to make highly articulated Transformers action figures, this one sadly, is mostly a failure, but they are still making them for some reason.
Would you really want him to? He would just bang on about how he had three independent sources. Then you will get three minuets of clip art pictures of crow which apparently he would happily eat if he was wrong. Then some bullshit about because he has a photo of motu classic figures on clearance and they stopped making the mini super deformed figures he was actually right all along.
@@polarboy5862 yes I do. I want to happy he is that Mattel just proved him wrong. He is after all, the biggest MOTU fan, so he should be super excited!
you speak of marvel legends but some of your pics are not from marvel legends. You took pics of amazing yamaguchi figures (japanese ones, that are better than hasbro ones) 3.30 in your video
It still annoys me when things are off that scale. When stuff is supposed to be a different scale like 3.75” or 7” it’s fine, but when a 6” Star Wars line doesn’t scale quite right with a 6” Marvel line from the same company no less, well that annoys me.
I’m shocked no one ever mentions the fact that the first Spider-Man Classics had pin-less double elbows, and pin-less legs!
Great video! Loved the history on Marvel Legends. This is the kind of content I’m looking for.
Batman: Dead End. Perfect Fanfilm with mixtures of multiple IPs
I like to give my own explanation of why figures are in different scales: It's the multiverse, characters that are too big or small, people on their universe were always like that.
Awesome vid. Love it when you do this “history/informative” stuff
McFarlane toys changed everything.
I remember that even kids that wasn't on toy collecting want one of them bc the sculpt and design were so unique.
Legends, meh.
Interesting side-note; upon purchasing a 2002-movie Spider-Man, I also discovered that "Marvel-Legends" -style figures made IDEAL drawing-models as well! Even the typical wooden artist-model can't beat ML in the articulation-department. ; )
Makes me miss Toybiz so much! So ahead of their time... =)
Thanks for the video, Scott! I have a couple of 6-inch Spider-Man action figures (which have amazing articulation), but my Star Wars figures are all 3 3/4 inches.
this is a hot take at best. mvl may have influenced some domestic brands but the Japanese have ALWAYS been ahead of us as far as detail and articulation goes. also america is in love with 6 inch scale not the world. 6 inch vs 1/12 ill take 1/12 all day. however every scale has their strengths and weaknesses. also revoltech has been around for quite some time. i wouldn't use them as an example when comparing cheaply made domestic toys to high end import toys.
Like how you display those four Goblin figures... And to this date, that ToyBiz 2006 Hobgoblin is the best Hobgoblin by far due to how comic accurate the face sculpt are along with the colors and the glider. And yes, I am a huge Roderick Kingsley fan :)
I noticed those Build A Figures never seem to line up properly in the scaling. Mean Gene I saw recently who seems to be Vince with his exact Body. Instead of being smaller he is around same height as the Wrestlers making it awkward to interview. I'm wondering if they changed mind or just had the head sculp so figured would release with the Vince Body. I'm sure people were not happy that made Classics taller than the normal He-Man Figures haha. It really irks me when they show those joints especially when they don't match standing out more. Toy Biz is like the last Great line of stuff as didn't pay the Tooling Bills ;). I don't think I realized MOTU figures have more articulation. I remember WWF Rubber Wrestling Figures heh ;).
So like the word Hoover has come to be used in lieu of vacuum cleaner, when people buy another brand of vacuum cleaner they still call them Hoovers because that's how ubiquitous the name has become. I like the six inch Marvel Legends scale, it's small enough so that you can have many of them on a shelf but large enough so they can have accessories and details like faces that resemble actors, also the one inch equals one foot helps me judge whether I feel a figure is the correct size or not. When McFarlane started doing DC toys I'd hoped he'd use the Marvel Legends scale but he didn't and that's the reason I don't collect DC toys. Yes I know I'm being petty.
As a collector and hobbyist toy photographer, I'm happy to see so many similar scale figures. Being able to use the GI Joe Sgt Slaughter with a Mattel Hulk Hogan is fantastic. Sadly, kids today will never know the struggle of pretending your Playmates TNG Data fits in with the rest of your Galoob TNG bridge crew when your Galoob Data fell apart.
What's even better is when Slaughter hot tags in Snake Eyes so he can beat the NWO down.
Every time I walk down the toy aisles of stores and see the toy lines I grew up with (Masters of the Universe, GI Joe, Super Powers, everything Marvel, Transformers) and toys I'd always desperately wanted (Dungeons & Dragons!) with hyperarticulation and actually resembling the cartoon characters on whom they're based (I'm looking at you, Transformers), I can't help feeling bitter. These toys just sit there unless we manbabies shell out the $30 each one costs now for some reason, because kids have little interest in anything but video games.
I want to send a care package of these miraculous toys back in time to myself, circa 1985.
Including Bandai's SHF, GS' figma and, Medicom's Mafex?
Scott is a fanboy and a doofus.
The one inch equals one foot scales makes so much more sense. No more squished body builds.
And your DC fit right in! That's why I still wish you were doing DC instead of the Crap we are getting from McFarlane! I have only bought 5 McFarlane DC since he took over.
Scott, you mentioned the Classics line was 6.5 inches so it was just a bit bigger. An in-joke back to the 80's where MotU outsized the rest of the toylines?
Marvel Legends= Star Wars Black, GI Joe Classified, Power Rangers Lightning. Also movie lines for Ghostbusters and Indiana Jones.... The one outlier though is Transformers R.E.D. while it was the hope to make highly articulated Transformers action figures, this one sadly, is mostly a failure, but they are still making them for some reason.
And now marvel legends it's the epitome of shoddiness and mediocrity.
Good afternoon everyone
I need a Playmates Star Trek size DC Superheroes. Too many 6 in figures that don't measure up to the late great Playmates Star Trek version.
Are you ever going to make a video about the Adult collector interview with Mattel? It was 3 weeks ago now.
Would you really want him to? He would just bang on about how he had three independent sources. Then you will get three minuets of clip art pictures of crow which apparently he would happily eat if he was wrong. Then some bullshit about because he has a photo of motu classic figures on clearance and they stopped making the mini super deformed figures he was actually right all along.
@@polarboy5862 yes I do. I want to happy he is that Mattel just proved him wrong. He is after all, the biggest MOTU fan, so he should be super excited!
Well you got your wish and it turns out if we are to believe scott he was right all along.
Articulation? Newbs!
Ok, so Microman isn’t exactly an industry standard (any more). It sure did have fragility, cost, scarcity, odd-ball IP…
TGIF
you speak of marvel legends but some of your pics are not from marvel legends. You took pics of amazing yamaguchi figures (japanese ones, that are better than hasbro ones) 3.30 in your video
Whenever I open figures and try to have them talk, I realize they suffocated whilst behind their plastic prison. 😅
It still annoys me when things are off that scale. When stuff is supposed to be a different scale like 3.75” or 7” it’s fine, but when a 6” Star Wars line doesn’t scale quite right with a 6” Marvel line from the same company no less, well that annoys me.