So, I held off opening Furiosa for the obvious disappointment that would follow. And of course, it did. But I decided to take her out and see what could be done.
I took the time to take her apart and decided to try her on a Pepper Potts body I had. The body itself is just slightly taller than the stock body but the torso seemed to be longer (I neglected to measure though). But what made a difference was adding leg extenders inside the boots. This and looked weirdly proportioned on the stock body for some reason - i think because of the proportions of that body - the torso looked short and the legs too long. It may be that that the Potts figure (Gwenyth, at 5' 9") had a more elongated torso.
Swapping the clothes, I discovered that the arms were swappable on the bodies, so I didn't have to do any surgery on the PP body, just swapped the arms. This shows the stock body is a standard height 1/6 body - not 1/7 or thereabouts. It's just too short for Charlize (listed at 5' 10"). The pics below show her now (with bluetac in the boots for now) in relation to the already too-tall Max. The legs are a bit "superheroic" like many 1/6 figures, but I don't think they stand out as much as they do when extending the stock body.
Anyway, here's how she stacks up now. If Max is 6' here (2" too tall), Furiosa is a little over 5' 7" - I can live with that if I bring Tom down a bit. Yes, the head is too small. For better or worse, I ordered the Toria sculpt in anticipation of this figure (based on the quality of Max), so I'll swap that out, but I don't doubt someone on the boards would do one sooner or later.
In the shot with the Carol figure, she's is a POP Toys little breast suntan body which has very similar proportions to PP and she just has feet attached in the boots, so she may be taller and a better (and much cheaper) option (it states 255mm or a little over 10 inches, but I don't know if that's with feet or not). for the leg extenders, I just have the standard ones that are made for male figures, I don't know if they exist for female figures. Maybe we could get someone to make a set for this?
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