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[Soupie]

In the coming days, I (and most likely Veers and URS) will be posting pictures of graphs made from "data" taken from the 21 MUSCLE parts in an effort to find patterns. In order to help with any discussion that may follow -- hopefully from all MUSCLE collectors, I've created smaller, easy to manage and view graphics that represent each of the trees of which the 21 parts are comprised. The 21 MUSCLE parts are comprised of 45 trees total.

Feel free to copy and past these tree images into any future discussions!

Here are Parts 1-5, which are made up of 12 total trees. Each tree is labeled by (1) Which part it belongs to, (2) which tree it is within the part, (3) which tree # it is overall, (4) if it belongs to a 28-pack, (5) if it contains the board game Grape color, and (6) if the tree contains a SR sculpt.

The gray boxes are the non-MUSCLE sculpts from each part, but where I placed them on the trees is open to discussion! (For instance, in Part 3, the non-MUSCLE sculpt could theoretically belong to any of those three trees -- I just happened to stick it onto the 3rd tree because it looked nicer that way.)

Part One



Part Two



Part Three



Part Four



Part Five

Edited by Soupie, 02 August 2008 - 06:30 AM.

[Soupie]

Part Three



You know, originally, I had the non-MUSCLE sculpt attached to tree number one, but I changed it at the last minute, because, as I said, it looks better. But I just remembered why I had my original arrangement! Remember in Naochin's archive, he has that sculpt, MUSCLE #161, all on its own (Part Three, Tree Three above). (Part Three @ Naochin's.)

So chances are that that tree does only have one sculpt. Which then begs the question: Which of those other 2, equally numbered trees, gets the extra sculpt?

With the trees, the trend seems to be that they are composed of even numbers, especially when there are two. Is it possible, as URS has suggested, that the non-MUSCLE sculpts ALL are on their own separate trees like #161, Part Three, Tree Three?

Hopefully we can stumble on some clue/pattern that might answer that question...

EDIT: This "theory" has been discredited. Read below!

Edited by Soupie, 02 August 2008 - 06:31 AM.

[Soupie]

URS, I think I've found another tree that "stretches" between two parts (like you mention in this post). First, remember that you said this a few days ago:

For the record, I feel 161 should be marked as rare for the color Magenta. It appears that 161 was always made in the same color as Part 2 Tree one in the 28 packs, as well as it's uncanny match on the charts. I set the 28 pack info apart the other night that you gave me, and Thug Busters was the only one that was pretty much even within itself. They more than likely were more random trading off colors on the other sets.

I think the following trees are actually one tree, even though they are in two separate trees parts -- Part 2 Tree 1 and Part 3 Tree 3 (which is MUSCLE #161).



Look how this little maneuver appears to balance Parts 2 and 3 as well!

Part Two



Part Three

Edited by Soupie, 02 August 2008 - 06:32 AM.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Yeah, I've been rolling over 161 and part 2 tree 2 since my last post in that thread. And I just couldn't figure it out. It was just odd to me that a part 2 tree would have a 'LATE' figure from part 3 on it! But then just about 30 minutes ago, when I woke up from my nap , it came to me! What if Both Part's 2, and 3 were released at the same time??? Then it made sense! They may have released the first tree on part two with the first 2 trees on part three! Then they later released the last trees from both parts a little later. Naochin makes note of how Atlantis was released later than the first part 3 figures because he thought it was notably odd for them to release one single figure from a part! Make sense? There are surely some other trees with the same issue, but we can't assume this, cause the figures we found to be like this were just Odd cases. The trees with only one or two figures I guess was just to good to be true. But all this can be defeated if we say that they produced these particular figs in the same colors to make the 28 packs look better, but this is a bit far fetched. If Atlantis was a tree of one figure, why would they have made him in the same color as such a big tree from part 2? Wouldn't it have been more evened out for them to have made him the same color as smaller tree from that 28 pack? This is just kick arse.

[Soupie]

Now we just need Arforbes to find #161 in Magenta.

[arforbes]

Now we just need Arforbes to find #161 in Magenta.

DONE!!!

[Soupie]

[arforbes]

That's what my faced looked like when I saw it!

[meatcutta78]

That's what my faced looked like when I saw it!

Thats what my face looked like when i read this.Congrats once again Alex.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

You know sometimes I love your Raredar Alex! <---That's for you. Thanks for solidifying Soup's my hypothesis.

[arforbes]

Haha! "Raredar" Awesome!

No problem, thanks for the kudos guys...digging for the rare shizznit is one of my specialties I guess you can say. It's what I do.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Post a pic when you get him, if you get him.

[Soupie]

Post a pic when you get him, if you get him.

[arforbes]

Post a pic when you get him, if you get him.

I thought I posted a pic of this guy too somewhere when I got him before I sent the pics to you Soups, maybe in another thread, but I can't find it now. Wierd.

[arforbes]

Post a pic when you get him, if you get him.

I thought I posted a pic of this guy too somewhere when I got him before I sent the pics to you Soups, maybe in another thread, but I can't find it now. Wierd.

Ah, found it...

http://www.littlerub...d...50&start=50

In my own thread!