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Here's a nice video which is a size comparion of a great number of fictional structures from science fiction novels, movies and games. The video is called "FICTIONAL STARSHIPS Size COMPARISON" but it includes some structures I personally wouldn't call starships, but anyway...

Enjoy!

A bonus is that if you watch the entire clip it's in my opinion a pretty strong indication that you are a true SF nerd (yes, I watched the entire clip :biggrin:).

FICTIONAL STARSHIPS Size COMPARISON
 
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This was awesome. A lot of modeling going on there. I can’t imagine the time, research and energy that went into this.

I did notice a few ships were missing:
- C57-D from Forbidden Planet
- some historical ships like the Ark, Kontiki, USS Constitution, HMS Bounty...
- Nautilus fromTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- The Time Machine from both movies
- Roman Trireme from Ben Hur
 
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Had a similar discussion with my son on the respective sizes of minifigure-scale Star Wars ships. He built the big Millennium Falcon, but that is relatively small on the scale of ships in the series:

 
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jedishrfu said:
I did notice a few ships were missing:
- C57-D from Forbidden Planet
I think you should declare a conflict of interest :wink:

For me, a selection of Culture ships: perhaps the GCU A Series Of Unlikely Explanations and GSV Empiricist and maybe an orbital.
 
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jedishrfu said:
Why did you ask? It says so in the wiki article.

Obviously, you're right, I scanned the articles contents and didn't see that. Of course it was in the first line in the body text.

Thanks.
 
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