My god you're right! It's like this one time back in 1984 when I bought a toy called Gears who cost the same as a bunch of other mini Autobots, only Gears was shorter than all the other ones! What a rip off! I'm going to write to the consumer watchdog about it immediately.
Plus Lugnut is bloody wide - much wider than your average Deluxe, which is where a lot of the plastic goes, along with his great big mace.