Masterpiece Cheetor confirmed

[Trent]

The topic of scale within potential MP BW toys came up in a topic on TFW2005. There's no definitive scale within the show as some characters seem to grow or shrink between episodes, but using heights given by the Japanese trading cards combined with the observations from the show, we came up with the following:



Taking MP Primal as the benchmark, who is 19cm tall, if we're happy with his height in the show as 2.5m, it means that every centimeter of MP toy represents 13.15cm. Using that same scale for the rest of the Season 1 cast, we end up with the following:

Blackarachnia - 2m (15cm)
Rattrap - 2m (15cm)
Scorponok - 2.1m (16cm)
Waspinator - 2.2m (16.5cm)
Airazor - 2.3m (17.5cm)
Cheetor - 2.3m (17.5cm)
Tarantulas - 2.3m (17.5cm)
Optimus Primal - 2.5m (19cm)
Tigatron - 2.5m (19cm)
Terrorsaur - 2.5m (19cm)
Rhinox - 2.8m (21cm)
Inferno - 2.8m (21cm)
Dinobot - 2.9m (22cm)
Megatron - 3m (23cm)

Wait. You're inventing a scale chart for Beast Wars? G1 fans have a "scale" chart that is somewhat official and it still leads to vicious arguments. That chart is a blight on the fandom and you want to introduce one for Beast Wars?

This will only end badly. Burn it. Purge it from the Internet.

[GoktimusPrime]

Although the chart is fan-made, the actual heights are based on official canonical material from the trading cards (I have these cards too). So those heights are canon, but how diligently animators actually stuck to those heights greatly varies between scenes and episodes. Even the G1 cartoon had an official scale guide but we know that animators frequently ignored it.

[Verno]

Any chance of some scans of those trading cards, Gok? They used to be online but the site no longer exists.

[Sinnertwin]

Hmmm... Going to need a Legends Class Primal to scale with MP10.

[DaptoDog]

Hmmm... Going to need a Legends Class Primal to scale with MP10.

Forget Beast Wars, Combiner Wars and any other wars. We now bring you Scale Wars!!!!

But semi seriously I think you may have touched on an interesting question. Since Primal's numbering puts him as part of the Masterpiece line rather than a separate sub line (like the Movie Masterpiece Starscream and Bumblebee) why is scale going to differ within a line? I know other lines don't have strict scale but Masterpiece has tried to be more standardised.

[Raider]

If we are going for scale does that mean that Primal needs to be a lot smaller than MP-10?

[griffin]

Hmmm... Going to need a Legends Class Primal to scale with MP10.

You could use this one...

They're all primates so it should be fine... right?

[Verno]

Looks fine to me

[Sinnertwin]

See?! Scale Wars are real! Oh, they're very real.
Using that image of the two, Primal is clearly far too big to be scaled accurately.
Sigh, Optimus Minor and some paint it is.
Pfft. Thanks, Takara

[Verno]

What part of 'the G1 bots scale with the G1 bots' and 'the BW bots scale with the BW bots' do people have trouble understanding?