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Old 09-15-2009, 04:22 AM   #13
Jmacq1
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Just a side note: The BMF is still about 2 1/2 feet of length from being 1/18 scale. It's basically at 1/36 scale. A truly in-scale Falcon would be about 6 ft long by 4ft wide by 1 1/2 feet tall (give or take a few inches in each direction).

The truth of the matter is that many Star Wars vehicles are simply completely impractical for true 1:18 scale or being perfectly in scale with the figures. We'd be talking about an entire line of USS Flagg-sized vehicles. Even Darth Maul's Sith Infiltrator, a vehicle designed for one single person, would be over four and a half feet long (larger than any vehicle currently in production). An X-Wing fighter would be just shy of 3 feet long (even longer than the BMF).

I think the toy manufacturers have pretty much taken the best option they have: Make the vehicles as close to scale as possible when they can, and downsize the larger vehicles to make them feasible at a pricepoint that people outside of independently wealthy collectors might actually accept.

Just for amusement's sake if anyone's interested, a 1:18 scale Star Destroyer would be about 290 feet long. A 1:18 scale Death Star I would be 5 1/2 miles in diameter. About the only way it could feasibly be built is as some kind of orbital space station for action figures....
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