User:Sidorak12814/Scale

Scale is a concept of relative sizes, which is important to the Bionicle universe.

Scale for Bionicle Figures

 * 2001-2003 : 1 inch to 1.25 feet
 * 2004-2005 : 1 inch to 1 inch
 * 2006-2009 : 1.25 inches to 1 foot
 * Early 2010 : 1 inch to 1.5 feet

Canon Issues
Scale has not always been perfect in the Bionicle universe. Rest assured Lego is trying harder than some people, but they aren't foolproof.

For example, in the comic Triumph of the Toa, the Muaka Makuta sends at Gali, which she kicks over her into Kopaka's ice blast, is much bigger than it should be.

Another example is the Visorak. Notice how, in the comics, they are correctly scaled as far was the Lego parts go. However, the movie adaptation shows them as much bigger, which is probably a better portrayal anyway.

2001-2003
This period, excluding the Stars, saw the smallest Toa-sized figures ever. The figures were about 6.5 inches tall, but story info put Toa at 7.2 feet tall, which means that about 1 inch of figure was equal to 1.25 feet of Toa.

2004-2005
This period was the easiest to scale. Since the Toa Metru and Toa Hordika were about seven inches tall, they were almost exactly at 12:1 scale ratio with their canon size.

2006-2009
This period was a little more interesting. The Piraka were a little off-scale from anything else, but were closer-scaled to the Toa Nuva figures, so a realistic battle could be played out, but the Inika were much taller then the Piraka, even though the Skakdi are described as being somewhat large among species. This was the main exception the the rest of the period's scale ratio, which made 1.25 inches of figure equal about 1 foot of character.

Early 2010
Scale went out the window with this period, which is one reason why it stunk so bad. Aside from not giving Bionicle due respect as it phased out, the figures were in scale with absolutely nobody else's figures, thus making playability virtually nil.

Scale was about 1 inch of figure to 1.5 feet of character, even smaller then the Toa Mata.

Trivia

 * I put emphasis on correct scale with my MOC's, to the point of extending Zortak's torso with a blue Technic piece.
 * I measured the figures with a ruler, and worked the other stuff out on a calculator.