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Re: Who else wants an AT-AT?
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lugnet.starwars
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Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:45:06 GMT
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> > Anyhow, I usually go by
> > lego man height rather than width (lego men ought to look ata a strict
> > diet...lol...) to determine scale.
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> Again, true. I usually go by 7mm = 1 minifig scale foot (1 stud = 8mm).
> That's based on an average height of 6 feet and a minifig actual height
> being around 42mm (depending on any neck gear and hair style/hat-- also
> girls with 2x2x2 slope dresses are a bit taller).
I'm not sure that the average minifig would be six feet tall. The women should
be a bit shorter than the men (they wear shoes with high heels under the
dresses, most likely), let's say that their average is 5 and a half feet tall.
There are juvenile minifigs like Timmy and Anakin, they should be about 4 to 5
feet tall. I think the average height for adult humans is about 5'6, but
since most minifigs are male the LEGO average could be a few inches higher
than that. Watto is oversize in LEGO, and Chewbacca is a bit undersized. 7mm
= 1 foot makes the dinosaurs much smaller than their fossil
counterparts--actual Pteranodons had up to 26 foot wingspans--but they do live
on an island and island animals are sometimes smaller. My conclusion: LEGO
scale changes depending on who is interacting with the model. Therefore, it is
really hard to make anything to scale.
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 | | Minifig scale!
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| (...) Yep. "Average" human heights are very interesting. Go over to Asia, and people are shorter than people living in Europe. I was suprised to find that while up in the northeastern US, I was a bit on the tall side of average (6 feet), but a-way (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Who else wants an AT-AT?
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| (...) <fanatic level=almost_there> Very true. There's a lot to consider :) There are a couple key scenes to derive the AT-AT's actual height. 1. Luke ascending to the underbelly (there's a shot available on www.starwars.com) 2. The foot trampling (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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