Sacrosanct
Legend
My latest figure problem is scale going from 1/72 to25mm, to heroic 28mm. I have new halflings that are as big as my old human fighters, who are so thin compared to the new heroic fighters. I just got some metal painted figures that are huge. I'm not sure they even are supposed to go with playable minis. I have Drizzt that must be 35mm scale compared to the normal figures.
Scale creep is an industry-wide trend as others have mentioned. Even within the same company miniatures get bigger and bigger.
It does not really bother me with monsters - sometimes it is annoying with humans and human-like creatures. Even then, I just figure there are all sorts of different sized folks. Although having 2020 halflings tower over my 1980s human is admittedly annoying.
Yep. Miniature scale creep has been growing since the late 80s. It is fairly annoying that it doesn't look right to use some of my favorite Grenadier minis at the same table as modern minis. The monsters looks tiny and relatively harmless (a modern reaper fighter is larger than a Ral Partha wyvern, and modern horses are almost as big as the 80s dragons), and the modern halflings are larger than the human barbarians.