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scottg10 said:
BVW said recently these were made to scale with the DST line by design. I don’t believe these were ever going to be 1:12, they just did a really lousy job of communicating on this.
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I'll have to find it, but he did state at one point that these were scaled to be SWB scale. So he either lied/was mistaken then, or he's lying/mistaken now.
 
Seeing as how Art Asylum Star Trek figures were one scale. Then DST TNG figures were another scale. Not sure what later DST Star Trek figures had going on scalewise. Playmates was all over the place toward the end. I'd rather have Nacelle just do their own thing and not try and have their line fit in with the scattershot of scales we'd previously gotten.
 
Ashtalon said:
Seeing as how Art Asylum Star Trek figures were one scale. Then DST TNG figures were another scale. Not sure what later DST Star Trek figures had going on scalewise. Playmates was all over the place toward the end. I'd rather have Nacelle just do their own thing and not try and have their line fit in with the scattershot of scales we'd previously gotten.
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Yeah, DST was all over the place, so whatever Nacelle produces won’t fit with everything DST did.
 
Every old article I'm finding says 1/12, and 6 inch. And Brian saying they're using SWB as their guiding light, so I don't know. Maybe I misinerpreted what he meant, but I swear I saw a comment where he said (maybe Instagram?) that it would scale with Black.

Not seeing where he said DST was the intention the whole time (not doubting that he said it, just can't find it).
 
If your two options are scale with other non-Trek properties at 1:12 or scale with the previously successful Trek properties at 1:10, it seems a lot more likely that those who bought Trek before would embrace your new line if it allowed for extension/expansion of existing collections. (I point to when NECA did the Simpsons Guest Stars line, which matched the scale of the Playmates - that got them sales of 30+ figures from me that they wouldn't have gotten; compare that to Super7 doing their own thing, which was not compatible even if they had some new characters - so I skipped that).

Matching the 1:10 scale of DST doesn't preclude doing their own takes of the main cast in their line (and pulling in new folks). I suspect the number of people buying Jellico to add to their TNG display out number those who wanted Jellico to be paired up with Obi-Wan. Is it more likely he was referring to Star Wars Black as the level of quality/price more than exact scale?

If they also rectify the scale discrepancy between the OT and TNG/DS9 lines by producing OT figures in 1:10, even better - I will rebuy the main OT cast and would also rebuy the Wrath of Khan through Undiscovered Country style uniforms. I'd love an OT line that truly scaled with the TNG and later lines.
 
RicksNerdLife said:
Every old article I'm finding says 1/12, and 6 inch. And Brian saying they're using SWB as their guiding light, so I don't know. Maybe I misinerpreted what he meant, but I swear I saw a comment where he said (maybe Instagram?) that it would scale with Black.

Not seeing where he said DST was the intention the whole time (not doubting that he said it, just can't find it).
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He made this statement in a recent post on Instagram, some time after the Wave 2 was solicited. In the past he would say 1:12 sometimes and 6 to 7 inches other times. At a panel sometime before October 2024 (I don't remember which one, watched in on YouTube), he said 1:12 and 7" at the same panel.

1:12 and 6 to 7 inches doesn't really jive, it doesn't account for characters shorter than 6 feet and there aren't a lot of characters who are 7 feet. 1:12 and 7 inches doesn't really jive either, he is basically saying 1:12 and 1:10 at the same time. I thought maybe they were going for the "heroic scale" as Hasbro calls its Marvel Legends, which isn't true 1:12.

The reason I think this is all poor communication versus intentional misleading is because of an email exchange I had with him in November via the Star Trek Ideas email address. Including the relevant part of my email and his response below.

And yes, I sound like a total nerd in this email... 🤓 Also, I suggested Captain April in the likeness of Gene Roddenberry's (as seen in the Star Trek Encyclopedia), not Jellico. So, total nerd confirmed...

Part of my email:
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His response:
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I dunno. Uhura seems about neck-high to Kirk and is the same height as the lady-cow who is neck high to the bull-man next to her. I feel that's a more reliable measure than a red line drawn across a table.

But I guess that means confusion does continue, sooo...
 
...I feel like you're missing the purpose.

It shows that the figures are well under 7 inches, and perhaps 6.5 at most. NOT to scale with Diamond. Closer to GI Joe Classified. Hence the second picture.
 
I guess? I mean, that one figure is 6 1/2", but it also seems like he's a shorter character. I'm afraid I know nothing about Biker Mice.

I may've lost the thread, though. Is the theory now that the Star Trek figures are 1/11 scale?
 
William Shatner is 5 feet, 7 inches, according to most sources. If his figure is 6.5 inches, that works out to close to 1/10. How that really compares to DST, don't know... Need to pull some of the figures down and measure them.

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