Confused about Predaking and Volcanicus size differential (Power of the Primes)

[Tilarta]

Vinegar Protocol active.

[FruitBuyer]

It's called centre-piece figures. It's not that Predaking, Devastator or Omega Supreme are that much larger, it's because they're a large and visible marketing figures. Kids that aren't into Transformers will see them and may be interested because BIG ROBOTS is cool.

Just move on the scale thing, HasTak know it's not in scale and never had any intention of making them scale. Just like how movie Bumblebee has so many Leader class toys even though none of them scale.

[GoktimusPrime]

Also remember that bigger and dearer toys are:
* Manufactured in smaller numbers
* Harder/slower to sell

Being more popular characters, by keeping the Dinobots at a smaller price point it means that they can manufacture more of them and they are likely to sell better. Having the Dinobots sold separately also helps because it means that those of us who didn't want to double up on yet another CHUG Grimlock could easily skip it and go for the others. And yeah, there are some fans (like me) who couldn't care less about the Dinobots combining.

I think that Hasbro absolutely made the right choice here. And as Fruitbuyer said, it's more to do with Predaking being the flagship toy. It's the reason why Combiner Wars Devastator was much larger than say Bruticus.

[BigTransformerTrev]

And yeah, there are some fans (like me) who couldn't care less about the Dinobots combining.

+1

I think that Hasbro absolutely made the right choice here.

Given the size of the Dinobots in most fiction, from G1 to the Movieverse, and taking into account the different scales of the dinosaurs, I would have much preferred to have Snarl as Voyager class and Sludge as Leader class. I suppose Slug could have been a Voyager too, which works for the fictional representations but not the real life size of a Triceratops.

Of course this would have negated the combiner gimmick that was featured in the online cartoon. But as stated - this gimmick did nothing for me when applied to this subgroup anyway.

[Sinnertwin]

Scale is just a matter of perspective and squinting

[ChlorHex]

You might wanna consider 3rd party options instead if scale is your thing, Tilarta.
Just be prepared to fork out quite a bit of dough for them.

[FruitBuyer]

*Megas XLR theme song plays here*

So, in order to attract casual sales and for the sake of having a display only toy, they're losing my sale and potentially the sale of other core Transformer fans who are looking for scale compatibility?

As far back as I can remember, the Predacons and the Dinobots have always been rivals, in the comic, animated show, Transformers Earth Wars and Power of the Primes machinma, they're always fighting in team based warfare.
So it is only natural to expect someone who has both sets to put them together and thus, an inconsistent scale format is a colossal mistake, especially when comparing their combined forms.

In this specific case, the solution is quite simple, all I have to do is get a G1 reissue set of Predaking instead, as I think their scale in combined form is close enough to what I want.
Currently exploring some trade/purchasing options towards that goal.


I'm not exactly a fan of third party options when it comes to Combiners, because in most of the cases I've seen, they're even worse then the official toys in being abnormally large.
My brain is already going into research data overload just trying to remember all the names and size comparisons.

In most cases, I can't even find a video or photo showing the third party products together with either Victorion/Torchbearers or Volcanicus/Dinobots, so I have to guesstimate.
FYI, those are the ones I use as my scale benchmark, since that's where my significant collecting started.

You greatly overestimate your worth, if this was was such a bad idea then it would have died after Devastator's release. Instead they've released Predaking and have Omega Supreme as well; hardly the actions of a decision that alienates their fans.

You need to accept that Hasbro does not cater to people like you 100%. You are part of their target audience but if they only catered to the hardcore then Transformers as a franchise would be considerably smaller than it is now.