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MOTUC Battle Cat: too small?
Poester Emerald has suggested that MOTUC Battle Cat may be smaller, in relation to He-Man, than the prototype. The basis for this is this brief appearance from Attack of the Show.
Thanks to He-Man.org member Tallstar for the video.
I’ll confess, I can’t really tell from this video either way, but it seems OK to me. Your thoughts?
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Posted: December 18, 2009 in News
Tags: Masters of the Universe, Mattel, MOTUC
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This item has 33 comments (now closed):
Mario
12.18.2009 13.31
I’m so tired of how folk nitpick this line to death. There’s just always something to “worry” about. Battle Cat looks ABSOLUTELY fine to me. His helmet seems to hold on nicely, too.
Jii Dee
12.18.2009 13.43
He looks similar in scale to He-Man as the original did to original He-Man. The perceived size difference may be due to the angles of the photos taken at the Con. I seem to remember none of them were profile shots.
finkrod
12.18.2009 14.11
They do look a little too small for my tastes, but to each their own.
Battle Cat, on the other hand, looks fine.
Motorthing
12.18.2009 14.14
Looks OK to me and I’m still getting two. Matty clusterfucks permitting of course.
d. verburg
12.18.2009 14.17
hmmm yeah i bet it will be a clustercuss for sure, but i am pretty excited for battle cat and i will do my best to click on a little button at the right time and jump through the necessary hoops to get one.
i’m not sure how big he is supposed to be but he looks cool! i have never owned a he-man/battle cat combo of any sort before
Thomas B
12.18.2009 14.33
yeah people DO nitpock this line. there are some threads on the org o just have to pretend they do not exist.
there was a time that EVERY thread seemed to be a “petition for xxx” thread. some of them wanted “more fierce paws” on BC. lol
i think BC look just fine. he look pretty big to me and really how much display space do people REALLY have?
Replicant
12.18.2009 15.41
I think he looks fine! I might have to skip him and get him later on. I love the MOTUC line but it’s expensive.
The Flash III
12.18.2009 15.51
As a DCUC collector, MOTUC people should feel lucky they’re getting vehicles. I don’t care what you say–Battle Cat is a vehicle. Mattel says doing vehicles for 6″ is cost-prohibitive, but I guess since it isn’t a machine, they’ll do it for you guys, so be happy!
Newton Gimmick
12.18.2009 17.05
Alison Haslip looks so hot with that haircut.
What? Oh yeah, BattleCat? Looks the same to me.
PrfktTear
12.18.2009 17.26
I agree with the sentiments already expressed here. It seems like even when Matty does good people have to look for something to bitch and moan about. I’ve never really frequented the .org boards, I was for a while back when I was looking for figures in the 200x line posting updates and such in the sightings page. They’re never going to please everyone. People are going to bitch about the price, the sculpt, etc. I’ve basically learned to ignore everything…
Emerald
12.18.2009 20.27
There’s a big difference between needless nonconstructive bitching and posting an opinion different than yours.
My opinion is that it seems smaller than the prototype at SDCC and that is disappointing if it is. But without a comparison pic to put side-by-side it would be difficult to tell. Holy Jesus people, let’s not fill the thread-waves with bitching about bitching.
Maybe it’s Alison’s over-sized head making it seem so small?
Fender Strat
12.18.2009 22.20
Sometimes I wonder whether the actual attraction to this line is the toys or the manufacturing and retail screwups?
Fender Strat
12.18.2009 22.23
@The Flash III
Matty (or whatever intern was answering) denied vehicles in the Q&A’s but trademarks for Battle Bones and the 4H saying in an interview they were interested in doing Dragon Walker seem to indicate otherwise..
Nicholai
12.18.2009 23.42
Looks good to me.
clark
12.18.2009 23.53
Battle Cat looks fine to me from the video. I am very excited about him, and Trap Jaw. Trap Jaw is the only 200x figure that I never got but planned to, and I never had the original, so this one will be my first. Hopefully the insane sell-throughs are going to be for the main figures like He-man and Skeletor, but you never know because both of the Feb. figures look awesome.
Eric
12.19.2009 0.28
I think Battle Cat looks just great. I have nothing bad to say about it.
PrfktTear@aol.com
12.19.2009 1.18
There’s a big difference between posting an opinion different than yours and needless nonconstructive bitching.
I just viewed the picture of He-Man on Battle Cat at SDCC and the YouTube video side by side. My opinion is that they are the same size. Its all about what angle you’re viewing it from and the context. It looks bigger in the photos because its enclosed in a glass case with only the other MOTUC figures to give any sort of relative scale. Seeing Battle Cat in human hands on a lo-res YouTube video is not really enough to convince me its any smaller. Alison Haslip’s nickname must be Giganta then if he’s so small.
Fengschwing
12.19.2009 5.27
Looks fine to me, but seeing is this is a Mattel product, I have few doubts that, once out of the packaging, it will revert to Cringer, thus proving impossible for He-Bloke to ride.
Mark
12.19.2009 5.30
I don’t see anything wrong with it.
It looked awesome in the SDCC pics and it still does.
I also find it higly unlikely that, since Mattel complain about how much it costs for new tooling, that they would make a large Battle Cat for SDCC then make another slightly smaller one.
bigraj
12.19.2009 10.19
Looks pretty spot-on to me. Can’t wait to get him and Trap Jaw.
Thomas B
12.19.2009 14.07
i thought the 4 horsemen were sculpting this line on a 1 to 1 scale so that means BC or any other fig CANT be smaller or bigger than what is shown.
they may be a slight size change between proto and final but not THAT much.
either way i see no difference.
Emerald
12.19.2009 14.24
@PrfktTear@aol.com: Ha, my opinion (bitching?) has been made into a much bigger deal than it ever needed to be. I’m easily convinced either way, it was just an offhand observation and one that if we were having an in-person conversation would have lasted all of two minutes. No harm no foul. And the Alyson crack was a joke.
Let me put it this way: I would have liked a bigger Battle-cat. There. Done.
Poe
12.19.2009 14.34
@Emerald: I never intended to do anything other than give you credit as the person who first brought the idea to my attention. And I don’t think you were “bitching” at all.
Frankly, if it did (or does) turn out Battle Cat is noticeably smaller than the prototype, then that would definitely be something worth bringing to everyone’s attention.
NoisyDvL5
12.19.2009 14.39
Honestly, when I saw the video I was impressed by how huge he was. I didn’t think he was that big from the SDCC photos.
Thomas B
12.19.2009 15.34
if you look at the first image in the video with BA he-man standing next to BC you can see BC looks pretty dang big. at least it does to me.
dayraven
12.19.2009 15.43
he looks pretty much spot on near as i can tell.
Toy vs. Toy
12.19.2009 16.23
It looks perfectly fine to me in the video above.
PrfktTear@aol.com
12.19.2009 19.09
@Emerald: Sorry mate, I wasn’t taking a shot at you bitching.
Paul
12.20.2009 1.17
I think he should be life size. And I should be able to ride him.
jimm
12.20.2009 15.22
Looks good to me. You make ‘em I will buy ‘em…eerrr, TRY to buy em
Baena
12.20.2009 19.52
Having seen the prototype at SDCC, and then looking at this video, I would say that there is no size difference between the prototype and the final production piece.
He looks fine to me. February is gonna be awesome!
Griffin
12.20.2009 23.37
@Paul: Also he should be a real tiger.
Thomas B
12.21.2009 0.41
@Baena:
there you go everyone…from someone who SAW it at SDCC.
cause closed scooby