>>11485802
The guy just seems to be a crazy weeaboo, who doesn't want to know how Japan copied american/western shit like crazy.

And no, the idea to shrink to a smaller scale actually came from Kenner's Star Wars line. There are other smaller lines before Microman and STar Wars too, but Star War's popularity is what made so many other toy companies start making toys in a smaller scale.
Hasbro and others could have shrunk their 12" dollies to 8" like the popular MEGO figures at the time, or gone 5" action figures like from Mattel, but instead they went to 3.75" to copy Star Wars' popularity.

The Microman line was too unknown in the west for anyone to really notice and sales obviously weren't there either.

pic of how even MEGO started making toys in 3.75" for their Star Wars ripoff/inspiration toyline. note the similar engineering to Hasbro's 1982 GI Joe line, despite coming out in 1979.

>>11485792
Figma only exists because of Revoltech though. They were the first to catch on in japan to make a collectors action figure line, instead of just statueshit and articulated statueshit. Companies like ArtFX were even earlier, but Revoltech popularized them and made more companies start producing figures too.

>>11485832
weebs praised them because it was the first time they saw collector grade toys. It's like how people praise Halo as the first multiplayer FPS.