As I recall, the Munchkins already had soldiers. They marched around with Dorothy. With an established military to their credit, I vote Munchkins.
It always bugged when Dorothy started her yellow-brick road walk in the center of a spiral in the middle of Munchkinland. Glinda said the Munchkins would escort Dorothy to the border of Munchkinland but after a bit of strolling and a lot of singing, they all wave goodbye and in the upper right corner of the screen you can still see the starting point, meaning her “escort” was for about fifty feet, tops. They didn’t escort her from Munchkinland; at best they showed her to the door of Munchkinland, like a butler or something.
Then again, to Munchkins, that might’ve seemed like a long haul. Anyway, the Oompas could roam around the entire factory, so distance meant less to them. They could easily engage in close combat and scurry 100 feet away to regroup and rearm, knowing the Munchkins are too lazy to chase them.
I say we give both sides knives, & let them fight it out.
We can finish off the survivors at our leisure.
Ohhhhhhhhh now I remember. Right.
Piffle,
they were quite reasonably of the opinion that dorothy was a foreign witch, who’d just taken out the local wicked witch with one clean airborn attack. disscretion was clearly in order. Once they got the straight dope, they were, like, totally hitting on her
It’d be a short battle.
This question is pointless, as the Nac Mac Feegle would beat the crap out of both of them.
A small matter or little import.
They’re also indistinguishable from one another and totally interchangeable, which strongly suggests they will not stop to grieve the loss of a comrade. They will swamp the munchkin entrenchments in a savage orange wave.
The American people would win by virtue of being able to watch this.
Pfft. Switzerland has an established military, and they’re even less intimidating than the Munchkins.
I’ll take Wee-man leading a small band of midget wrestlers to beat them both.
Cute, that is, until they run up against the Nac Mac Feegle! Then the blood – Ewok blood, Munchkin blood, Oompa-Loompa blood, even that disgusting Smurf blood they use to make Blue Curacao (you didn’t really believe it was made out of oranges, did you?) – the blood will flow like mighty river of rum-spiked chocolate!
Of course it has.
This is the SDMB.
I say it would be a draw, if both sides were leaderless. And without long-reach weapons, their arms would be to short to inflict much damage.
However, if they were led by the Wicked Witch of the West and Willy Wonka (what’s up with all the W’s?), then I’d have to go with the Munchkins. Wonka has a cruel streak, but he seems to have a real affection for short people. The Witch, on the other hand, is batshit insane with hatred.
Here’s the real question: The Cowardly Lion vs Grandpa Joe – who wins?
Grandpa Joe, of course. He’s as rebellious as Charlie is, not giving a crap what happens if he steals some of Wonka’s flying drink. The Cowardly Lion is, of course, cowardly.
They call it “The Orange Crush”.
<insert Candy Land tie-in joke here>
The population argument is the most compelling. Oompa Loompas, while more physcially powerful, mentally tough, and armed with better technology, are the last survivors of a doomed race. The Munchkins, however, are belligerent and numerous. In any sustained conflict, Munchkin production would eventually overcome Oompa Loompa weapondry and resolve. I forsee the besiged Loompa survivors squatting in the ruins of the chocolate factory surrounded by a sea of Munchkin soldiers.
Wow, just like Hanoi.