Quote Originally Posted by griffin View Post
(I would normally focus on weights when comparing toys or looking at size-class shrinkage, as the altmode and kibble can make something deceptively bigger or smaller.)
Makes me think of Generations Sky-Byte's calves.

Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
Now weight is a tricky thing because we often think that these toys are getting lighter, especially with the hollowed out parts, but this isn't necessarily the case. Ben Yee did a weight comparison between the Combiner Wars Constructicons vs some heftier looking older Generations Voyager Class figures using a precision scale, and he found that the CW Voyager Constructicons were actually heavier than the older Voyagers without the hollowed out parts. Obviously just holding stuff with your hands isn't a precise means of measuring weights, especially when the differences are in milligrams.

Might put this down as a future pet project though, but I'll need to buy some kitchen scales first (might as well record both size and weight at the same time while I'm at it). If anyone wants to do their own tests and present their findings in the meantime, please feel free. My hypothesis is that Seaspray around the average size for a Legends/Basic/Scout class toy, but I'll get around to testing this hypothesis probably in the next school hols.
Super-nerdy here: In addition to weight, I guess a more definitive way of measuring across years should include other value-factors that could be missed by the scale - points of articulation, number of steps for transformation (some points of articulation need to be turned or rotated several times to make a tight squeeze), number of paint aps/tampos, number stickers (negs value?). I'm missing moulded detail here, but have no idea how we can quantify that (per square cm? lol). I can't be bothered with this, but it's not that much extra work for your average YouTube reviewer as most of them are fumbling with words as they're fumbling with their figs anyways.