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If you're a freak like me, you love to convert things into minifig scale and technic scale. You want to see exactly how long a minifig-scale mile would be. And how tall would the Sears tower be in technic scale? Would a minifig scale aircraft (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.faq) !!
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Dude, this is so cool!! Now I can know how big my mechs are! Wahoo! Mark (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Nice! But for some reason, the result table isn't displayed when I use Netscrape 4.6. Can't see anything wrong with the HTML - strange. ROSCO (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Doh! Sorry, I forgot a </table> tag at the end of the result table :( Should be fixed now. DaveE (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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That is very cool. Thanks. Nice to see that I was pretty much right on assuming 3 studs was a mini-meter. -Mike Petrucelli (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yep! thanks! ROSCO (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yep-- that's about the most accurate "even" measurement you can make (despite the fact that I typically use 7mm per minifig foot in my ever stubbornness). Makes minifigs about 1.75m tall and almost 5'9", whereas "average" human height is about (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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very cool how long before your conversion scale is adopted as the norm and everyone is quoting their MOCs in fig-meters :) -- James Stacey ---...--- www.minifig.co.uk #925 - I'm a citizen of Legoland travelling Incommunicado "David Eaton" (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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All I need to know now, is approximately how big a diameter a Death Star has. <g> There'd have to be some compression of scale of a model that big, but I suppose something suitably spherical and not too cramped-looking could be figured out. :-) I (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Cool. Way useless, way fun. But what's a "mimifig" ? all the units are in mimifigs, is that some sort of take off on mm and minifig??? (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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Does the stud on the minifig's head count as part of its height, or do only short minifigs include that? Scott A =+= Have you inspected Arthur’s Seat yet? (URL) reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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Awesome!Very neat, and geekyin a great way! Is it possible at all to add a feature to do the oppossite; so one can figure out how many studs a certain length in meters would be. So for example if I wanted to build a replica of a 17 meter long (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Unless I'm missing something in your question, this is already built in. For your example you'd put 17 in the top box, select meters and click convert. 17 meters would be 2125 studs long. Isn't that what you were looking for? Ben Roller (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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It does. Measure it in fig meters 17 fig meters is 48.8 studs -- James Stacey ---...--- www.minifig.co.uk #925 - I'm a citizen of Legoland travelling Incommunicado "Magnus Lauglo" <thunder_road@hotmail.com> wrote in message (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm guessing not. I just realized that you probably didn't want your model to actually be 17 meters long. :) James answered you better here: (URL) teach me to post to Lugnet before breakfast. ;) Ben Roller (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I estimated minifigs at a height of 42mm, which was (IIRC) the total overall height of a minifig consisting of: -minifig hip & legs assembly -minifig torso -minifig head -minifig male hair You can adjust minifig height with different hair (or (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, David Eaton writes: So I thought I'd share it with the world. Or the Lego (...) Dave, you ROCK! This is quite a great little app-- I will use it constantly! I wish I had a dime for every time I've gotten out the calculator to (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Should see the code-- "mf" might've meant "minifig" or "minifig feet"-- and of course I convert first into minifig inches and minifig millimeters, so I've got mfin & mfmm, which just starts to look confusing. Not to mention assigning names (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) OK, so in other words it's a typo and all that razzle dazzle above is intended to disguise it?? ;-) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) He's on to me... DaveE (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Geoff, Well, according to my 1997 Star Wars "The Vehicles" Calendar the Death Star is (was) 160 km in diameter. So using Mr. Eaton's convertor with one minifig at six feet you get a diameter of 459317.59 studs!! (Actual scale size would then (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) heh, would that be enough mass to actually have it's own (significant) gravity? like a very small moon, or something? :) XFUT lugnet.off-topic.geek (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I get (going by volume) approximately 22,029,937,442,631,307 2x4 bricks that would fit, which of course isn't accounting for air pockets or anything. Assuming that probably 3/4 of the Death Star is empty space, that's [only!] (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) This is such a great idea!! I may start using this thing every day! (Can I have the source code?) --Bill. (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The source is a little messy, though I was thinking of going through and polishing it off a bit tonight to look a little cleaner. If someone wants to turn it into Javascript or some such, that'd probably be pretty handy, since (as someone (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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Wow. The circle of my space station has a diameter of 128 minifig feet! (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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Hey, Cool tool! I was just converting scales today for some models, and wanting an easier way of doing it-and here you are! what do they say about great minds running on the same track?;-) of coarse you did it the easy way.... I was going to write (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) That is going to induce severe vertigo if you actually rotate it (wait, do minifigs have inner ears? If not, maybe it's no problem) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I didn't know minifigs had ears, not to mention inner ears! :) XFUT lugnet.off-topic.fun (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) They don't have inner ears, that is why their feet grip studs to make sure they can remain standing. This is why there is a high probability of minifigs falling over when standing on a smooth surface. Just a theory though... If they don't have (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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ahh they only have an inner ear. That's why you cant see them -- James Stacey ---...--- www.minifig.co.uk #925 - I'm a citizen of Legoland travelling Incommunicado "Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:Gsx1DD.ByM@lugnet.com... (...) do (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Lego molds are very very precise. My theory (now that I took time to think one up) is that they have inner ears. Just not outer ones. So you don't see anything on the outside but a flat surface. If they didn't have ears at all they could not (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I guess my figs don't understand Hebrew... I'd love to have them sneak up on the cats, rush them... Of course, I'll have to peel the cat off the ceiling later, but that's ok :) Dan (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Actually, I thought average height was about 5'11" in the US, so I went and looked it up. Most sites showed that for the US, average height comes in at about 5'9". Here is one of the better sites I found in my brief search: (URL) due to the (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, the newest US aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan CVN 76 is 1092 feet long, giving it a minifig length just a hair over 25 feet. I actually COULD fit that in my pole barn where my Lego is workshop is. Now, where I could get that many (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well duh. Try Danish, German, Schweitzerdeutsch, Korean, Portugese or English (depending on whether you think the place of mold creation or the place of molding are definitive, and depending on where they were molded, IIRC TLC had molding (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Like Larry said this is "on-topic" fun. Followups to lugnet.fun (...) It's strange my Minifigs must be somewhere in between. They seem to be able to rush the cats in one's and two's but never in an organized group. This of course gives the cats the (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.fun)
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(...) Assuming a 50/50 gender distribution, that's 5'-6.4"... but according to stats... [goes and checks stats] US population is predominantly female (slightly): 48.90% male 51.10% female (1). Accounting for that, we get average height at slightly (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) And how do their glasses stay up? BTW in the latest (and final-- it becomes LEGO Magazine (tm) in May) issue of the Mania mag, a reader asks why minifigs don't have noses or ears, and they don't give a straight answer. Maggie C. (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Spirit gum. (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) "looks like he's heading for that small moon" .....[snip some dialogue] "that's no moon... it's a space station (made out of a quadzillion lego bricks)." -c (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) weigh a bunch of stuff tomorrow night anyway, I bring a 2x4 brick along. -c (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) So, to check minifig height variations, I get minifig height ranging between roughly 34mm and 49.6mm. For an average, I figured you've got choices for: legs, torso, neck accessories, head, and hair. Legs: 9.6mm - Stubbies(tm) 16.0mm - Standard (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Wow, cool! I had to do something like this recently - I teach AutoCAD here at OCC and we design, draw, and eventually race LEGO dragsters. We mostly use technic parts, but the minifigs are much more fun to play with so we use them as (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I knew I was above average. It seems that my height is as well. :) (...) Quite true. I wonder, does this hold true for women as well as men? I've noticed that men in the south are definately generally taller than men up north, but what about (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Would force be specified in fig-newtons? Steve (23 years ago, 16-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Surely Mini-figs adopt to their surrounding's and are trained at Lego's expence in the language of whichever world market their sold in. Just a thought -) Steve (23 years ago, 16-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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