Toa Mata - Toa Metru comparation

JeyTheCount · September 20, 2020, 7:30am

A very easy question. How big are Toa Metru compared to Toa Mata?

Monopoly · September 20, 2020, 9:27am

Set-wise or story-wise?

Surel-nuva · September 20, 2020, 9:29am

Story wise? Exactly the same, just as the Toa Inika, Toa Mahri, Toa Hordika, and every single Toa that weren’t rebuilt by the Dark Hunters in existence.

Wolk · September 20, 2020, 9:54am

If you mean set-wise, to prephase what I’m about to say:

A module is a LEGO unit equivalent to the width of a stud or a pinhole, etc. and is 8 millimeters in length. A very easy way to measure this is to have your figure stand perfectly straight (which isn’t very easy in real life, but it is in digital tools), and compare them to the lengths of technic beams or LEGO bricks.
I will be disregarding the heigh of the masks as those are interchangable; I’m therefor measuring to the top of the head.

Toa Mata Tahu, Gali, Lewa and Kopaka stand at 1.6 decimeters / ~6.3 inches / 20 Modules.
Of course, Pohatu and Onua are shorter than this, however:

Onua is 1.44 dm / ~5.7" / 18 Modules
Pohatu is 1.52 dm / ~6.0" / 19 Modules

The Toa Nuva, owing to their alternate leg design are slightly taller:

Tahu, Gali, Kopaka and Lewa Nuva, as well as Takanuva, are 1.68 dm / ~6.6" / 21 Modules
Additionally, the heights for Onua and Pohatu are flipped for their Nuva forms compared to their Mata forms.

For the Toa Metru:

Whenua is 1.76 dm / ~6.9" / 22 Modules
Vakama, Matau, and Onewa are 1.84 dm / ~7.2" / 23 Modules
Nuju, Nokama, Lhikan, and Norik are 2.0 dm / ~7.9" / 25 Modules
Iruini is 2.08 dm / ~8.2" / 26 Modules

Incidentally, the height of Tahu Mata in decimeters is what yielded a Toa being 1.6 Bio in the story.

JeyTheCount · September 20, 2020, 1:17pm

Set-wise.
@Wolk So, you’re saying that they differ only a couple of centimeters? I always thought they were much bigger.

Monopoly · September 20, 2020, 1:43pm

Here’s a comparison between Onewa and Pohatu:

Winger · September 20, 2020, 6:49pm

Seeing this picture makes me salty that Lego didn’t have the motivation to make light tan hand connectors and double hand connectors

Monopoly · September 20, 2020, 6:53pm

They made tan hand connectors, just not double ones:

Keplers · September 20, 2020, 10:36pm

This.

In-Universe Height Spreadsheet BIONICLE

Hey everyone, Some members of the r/bioniclelego Discord have been working on a project to measure every G1 set and compile them into an in-universe height spreadsheet. Here are our findings Calculator based on this data All sets were measured in millimeters without their masks or helmets. Characters were measured to the tops of their heads in their tallest anatomically reasonable position and vehicles were measured in length unless otherwise labeled.
Scaling systems
2001-2003 Four of the Mata are the same height, this was assumed to be the standard Toa height of 1.6 bio/7.2 feet. 2004+ The average between the height of Vakama/Matau/Onewa and the height of Nokama/Nuju was used as the standard Toa height. Stars Gresh was assumed to be the same height as his 2009 form, everything el…

Aniki · October 4, 2020, 7:31pm

Toa have pretty consistent sizes, as well as other species. It’s roughly 6 feet and the height of sets from different waves has nothing to do with it. It’s just different iterations of them in different scales, kinda like with, let’s say, car models, that can be scaled 1:100, 1:50 etc.