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  1. tekering
    I'm glad you brought this up, 'cause I see Americans throwing around expressions like "six-inch scale" or "seven-inch scale" quite a bit, which strikes me as ignorant (on the part of collectors) and irresponsible (on the part of manufacturers). Exactly what scale are 6" to 7" figures intended to be?
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    The problem is as already stated: They'll never get around to making anybody from the actual bridge crews, 'cause this line will fail right out of the gate. 🤕 At a scale incompatible with any existing Star Trek figures, no collector is just going to buy "that guy from that one episode." They've already attempted it, no doubt, but major retailers aren't going to bite. Nobody with any business sense would possibly think it's a good idea. 🙄
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    Bat-trans-man? 🤔
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    Dear Mr. Volk-Weiss, As a life-long Star Trek fan and action figure collector, I am the proud owner of hundreds of Star Trek figures. I have collected the vast majority of the Diamond Select Toys line, as well as Galoob, Mego, Hiya Toys, and every Star Trek figure Playmates Toys ever made (in both the Prime and Kelvin lines). Hell, I even bought those two Discovery figures they produced! Suffice it to say, I represent the precise customer Nacelle is targeting. I was very impressed with the lineup you announced for your inaugural wave of action figures, displaying a thorough knowledge of the existing market by focusing on memorable secondary characters that never received figures before. If you were to produce these at 1:18 scale, they would complement the Mego, Galoob, Playmates, or Hiya Toys characters released at that scale, and would allow for affordable vehicles and playsets as well. If you were to produce these at 1:14 scale instead, they’d complement the largest number of existing figures in Playmates’ Star Trek line (both vintage and contemporary releases). However, if you chose the more detailed 1:10 scale, your line would complement the wide variety of high-quality Star Trek figures DST produced. There are several existing markets to tap into; hell, even 1:6 collections include high-quality Star Trek figures you could produce characters for. How could you go wrong? I now see you’ve answered this very question, by announcing your intention to sell figures at 1:12 scale. 🙄 Are you hoping to entice collectors with obscure Star Trek characters they can display with their Marvel Legends figures? Are you hoping Tuvix or Weyoun will appeal to Mezco, Indiana Jones, or WWF fans? Or are you expecting Black Series collectors won’t know the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek? 🤨 Regardless of your intentions, you obviously have no idea what you’re doing… which seems entirely in keeping with Paramount+ and the keepers of the franchise as a whole. 😒 Thanks for wasting our time.
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    Great news! I loved the first season. 🙄
  6. tekering
    So... 1:11th scale? 🤨
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    An entire wave of characters that never got figures of any kind before! I think it's brilliant. DST did both later TNG and movie-era uniforms, but I'd welcome a smaller-scale set. Speaking of which... Does anyone know what scale these Nacelle figures will be?
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    Gotham was a live-action cartoon, more absurd and fantastical than anything Tim Burton did with Batman. The Penguin is so grounded and realistic that a costumed crimefighter would look ridiculous in the show. Even the Christopher Nolan trilogy looks like a comic book by comparison.
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    Given the size, you wouldn't be able to afford it regardless... unless it's made of cardboard, in which case it would look lame anyway. 😒
  10. tekering

    Hi-Metal R

    tekering replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    You'll have to keep waiting. 1:72 is actually closer to HMR Destroid scale than 1:100 would be, but neither size works. 😐
  11. tekering
    You are correct. Moscato knows Tatsunoko stats aren't worth the paper they're printed on, so he's scaled the mecha up a whopping 150% this time... and even then, a 1:48 pilot figure just barely fits between the arms: "Tanku-Robo" stands 19.7cm tall in robot mode, which works out to a 9.45 meter battloid... much larger than the official 6.2m height. As a result, the model is roughly equal in height to a Master Grade Gundam kit, making it easy to customize with Bandai parts: As I've stated in the "Tanku-Robo" thread, I have a lot of niggling issues with this particular kit... but scale is not one of them. I couldn't be happier with the size.
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    Ah, but you forget Japan is The Land That Time Forgot. Newspapers still sell, ATMs remain inaccessible on weekends and holidays, even fax machines are still manufactured here. A significant percentage of the population still won't use the Internet, either out of fear or a stubborn refusal to change... and some of those people still head corporations, or national government positions. 🙄
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    I've painted my first 1:48 ATAC trooper...
  14. tekering
    I remember the Matchbox battlepod being a lot bigger 😅 Beautiful outdoor photography!
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    Frankly, that's irrelevant to the stated goals @505thAirborne has outlined. To assemble "a squadron of Legioss fighters (Hasegawa or WAVE quality) in 1/48 scale," the vintage Aoshima kits have been found wanting. I totally get that. However, there remain no modern alternatives available. Trying to track down a resin kit like Moscato Hobby's Legioss would be cost-prohibitive, and is at a different "1:48" anyway. So, unless you're content to wait and hope another company produces injection-mold kits at the size and style you're after, your best bet is 3D-printing your own. As I've experienced over the past few months, there are tremendous advantages to 3D-printed miniatures. The biggest, of course, is having absolute control over scale. Every Macross fan knows the headache of trying to establish logically-consistent scale within any hand-drawn anime production. Mecha was drawn to illustrate the story on a scene-by-scene basis, with overworked and underpaid animators simply doing their best to ensure a coherent narrative. Often there were no established dimensions to work with, and even when studios provided such statistics, they frequently contradicted onscreen evidence anyway. Geeks like us will nitpick any visual inconsistencies, and apply our own head-canon so it all makes sense. When merchandise is manufactured, designers have to make similar decisions, which is why we end up with massive discrepancies in pilot and mecha sizes even when the stated scales are the same. 3D-printing your own models allows you to match the size of whatever mass-produced kit or toy you want to complement. Furthermore, just about everything you'd possibly want to print has already been modeled for you, and there is a wide variety of software available for manipulating 3D models, making it easy to adjust proportions, add or change details, and basically customize your ideal mecha. You're only limited by your own resources. Personally, I think Sentinel has already produced the definitive 1:48 Legioss, so I see no need to print my own... but that's purely subjective. ☺️
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    Mixing and matching the products of different companies rarely works out well... Apart from the different aesthetics each company brings to their product lines, you'll find a great deal of disagreement about what "1:48th scale" means...
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    I always thought the proportions were awkward and ungainly... ...compared to the model kits, at least.
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    How lucky you are, then, that Aoshima is constantly re-issuing their 1:48 Legioss kits: The Toynami "Masterpiece" toys were based on Aoshima molds, so they ought to scale perfectly. 👍
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    I was just thinking the same... If anything, it's worse. 😒
  20. tekering
    In hindsight, using a mysterious alien biomass as a power source might not have been the brightest idea... 🤨
  21. tekering
    Fine, I'll do it myself. 🙄 A length 184¼″±1½″ can be interpolated from the original blueprints, based on the stated 10′ 0″ wheelbase. The blueprints state the width as 8′ 1″. The Medicom versions I have are just over 10 inches, making them a reliable 1:18th scale, meaning the ThreeZero works out to 1:48th scale. 🔒
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    ThreeZero's promotional material begs a few questions: Okay, great. Exactly what scale is this "small-scale" vehicle? Could you define that for us? Why are you pretending this is from 2049, when it's clearly from the original 1982 Blade Runner? You're even using a background still from the original film as your primary promotional image (the PAN AM logo is a dead giveaway)... Is this some kind of attempt to skirt around copyright issues? 🤨
  23. tekering
    WOW! $329 is a very reasonable price, if the Kickstarter succeeds. Pledge your support now!
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    That's the KitzConcept, of course. The pornstar mesh bodysuit is a dead giveaway. 😝
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    Oh, I like the sound of that. It definitely helped Godzilla Minus One. 👍
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