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In lugnet.starwars, Bradley Dale writes:
> 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.
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 down south, I felt kinda on the short side of average...
And women are shorter than men typically. And kids are shorter too. Etc.
Really, I picked 6 feet because it fit really nicely. Heck, that's also why
I picked "feet" instead of "meters" to be my 'standard'. If your typical
minifig is 42mm tall, then it's got factors 2,3,6,7,14, and 21. And of all
those, only one corresponds nicely with 'average' human height, which is
occasionally given as 6 feet tall. And that divides ever so nicely into 7mm
for 1 minifig scale foot. I've tried some other methods, but nothing else
seemed ultimately as clean as the 7mm per foot measurement... Occasionally I
go with 8mm per foot (because 8mm = 1 stud)-- but that makes people 5'3",
which really is a bit too short for my tastes. But it helps give a pinch
more room for detail now and again.
Jeez- I really am a nerd. Look what I went and did: (view raw source to see
the chart nicely, those of you with web browsers!)
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Assumed | Height | Actual | Resultant Minifig Measurements |
Average | in | Minifig | 1 minifig Foot | 1 minifig Meter |
Human | Inches | Height |-------------------+-------------------|
Height | | (mm) | in mm | 16th inch | in mm | 16th inch |
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5'4" | 64 | 42 | 7.875 | 4.9606299 | 25.84 | 16.275033 |
5'5" | 65 | 42 | 7.754 | 4.8843125 | 25.44 | 16.024647 |
5'6" | 66 | 42 | 7.636 | 4.8103078 | 25.05 | 15.781850 |
5'7" | 67 | 42 | 7.522 | 4.7385122 | 24.68 | 15.546300 |
5'8" | 68 | 42 | 7.412 | 4.6688282 | 24.32 | 15.317678 |
5'9" | 69 | 42 | 7.304 | 4.6011640 | 23.96 | 15.095682 |
5'10" | 70 | 42 | 7.2 | 4.5354331 | 23.62 | 14.880030 |
5'11" | 71 | 42 | 7.099 | 4.4715537 | 23.29 | 14.670452 |
6'0" | 72 | 42 | 7 | 4.4094488 | 22.97 | 14.466696 |
--------+--------+---------+-------+-----------+-------+-----------|
1.6M | 62.992 | 42 | 8.001 | 5.04 | 26.25 | 16.535433 |
1.65M | 64.960 | 42 | 7.759 | 4.8872727 | 25.45 | 16.034359 |
1.7M | 66.929 | 42 | 7.530 | 4.7435294 | 24.71 | 15.562761 |
1.75M | 68.898 | 42 | 7.315 | 4.608 | 24 | 15.118110 |
1.8M | 70.866 | 42 | 7.112 | 4.48 | 23.33 | 14.698163 |
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Actually-- that's pretty darn interesting... looks like 4 nice numbers.
Assuming avg human height at 6', 5'5", 1.6M, and 1.75M. We'll throw 1.6M
right out the window though, because that's just too short (Shorter than
5'4" for non-metrics like me). Also, 5'5" is pretty short (but it does yield
1 inch = 1 minifig scale meter!) But if the average height is 1.75M, then 1
minifig meter is 24mm-- exactly 3 studs long! Cool! (That's about an average
height of 5'9")
Of course, now I'll have to go back and re-measure average minifig heights
to verify that 42mm thing... Hmmm... I'm so used to my 7mm per minifig foot
:( Oh well... details, details. I shouldn't really care all THAT much... :)
DaveE
(FUTting to .general... cuz this is no longer SW)
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