>>11150854>1/12 being a standard scale for different lines and brands is a relatively recent trend.I take it you mean 1/12 wasn't popular? Because it sure as hell was a hundred million times more popular than 1/6 since starting in the 1980s, when 1/12 wasn't even popular back then either. Hence finding it funny there was more of a market for 1/6 stuff back in the day.
By 2000, when doll shit was gaining traction, 1/12 had become the defacto action figure scale. It won over 5" that were huge in the 80s and 90s. 1:18 lost relevance in the 90s and only started becoming popular again by 2003.
I think it's weird that 1/12 was never actually gained much traction in getting vehicles at all. PEople had been clamoring for Toy Biz to make a 1/12 Blackbird for like a decade, yet everytime Toy Biz said that the market conditions were never right to make it or Wolverine's jeep (etc).
Yes, I'm that old, which means I also remember how popular vehicles were for action figures in the 80s and 90s. 5" and 3.75" action figures line got a boat load of vehicles every single year
So i wonder, why 1/12 scale action figures never get that many vehicles? Because it really consumers rejecting higher priced stuff, because 1/6 got a bunch of vehicles in the 00s and 1:18 has never stopped getting a billion vehicles every year even when 1:18 action figures declined in popularity. Since toy companies do hundreds of surveys and research every year, i can only believe that consumers don't have the space for it. This is why we only really see motorcycles being made for 1:12 at stores.
And yeah, we're seeing pulselab and other really niche stuff TODAY, because the internet made it possible to directly support a niche vehicle, but this shit isn't being sold in the hundreds of thousands at Walmarts.
