i was wondering if anybody else would support this?

It would be relatively easy to connect the two using Python.

There's several ways to program an Arduino using Scratch

http://s4a.cat/
https://github.com/MrYsLab/s2a_fm

and my own attempt
http://simplesi.net/scratch-arduino/sca/

Also a nice non-Scratch alternative but still using block programming
http://blog.ardublock.com/

Simon