I recently went through this dilemma (only for popping in QLD). I think one of the most common Stella's out there for popping in the past was the 10,000 FA. Now that Shimano has release the SW series, in their infinite wisdom, they have changed the sizes of the bodies.
A 10,000 FA (or any other Shimano 10,000 series pre-2009) now equates equates to a 18,000 SW. Side by side the two are close to identical (both in body and in spool dimensions).
The new 10,000 SW are much smaller - and the recommendations to me from Fish Head was to go for the 18,000.