Kurgan Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 Out of sheer boredom one day, I was thinking about this (I didn't have a calculator handy, but it should be pretty close anyway): As a kid I often wanted to have a toy deathstar, but then I didn't really understand the scale of the thing. Since according to the official literature it's 160 km in diameter, what if I wanted to scale it based on a 6 inch action figure? 6 inch equivalent to 6 foot man (12 in = 1 ft; 1/12) 160 km = 160,000 m = 480,000 ft = 90.90... miles (1 mile = 5,280 ft) 91 miles / 12 = 7.58.. miles or 13.34 km (!!!!!) So the toy death star would be almost 8 miles in diameter, 40,000 feet high, making it not only the largest toy ever constructed, but the greatest engineering feat ever accomplished by man, easily dwarfing the tallest buildings. Airplanes would have to fly around it, and climbing it would put a trip to Mt. Everest to shame (requiring oxygen tanks to even attempt to approach the summit). Gathering the materials alone would be a monumental feat (is there even that much plastic in the world, if all the oil was used?). Suffice to say, it wouldn't make any sense to build such a monster, but perhaps Kenner or Hasbro could take random blobs of plastic and market them as "debris" from the Death Star after it was blown up by the Rebels, individually labelled for collecting purposes of course (#1 recovered, #2 recovered, etc.). Getting to thinking about toys of the other Star Wars ships like the Executor would also be problematic (as tall as the tallest building??), but maybe a regular ISD or Mon Calamari Cruiser could be constructed for play in a large parking lot or football field. Now a toy Galaxy Class Starship (Star Trek) could be done... but it'd still be a pricey toy for rich kids or display at FAO Schwartz. ; ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antilles_CL Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 Hehe...Now that'd be something to see, in fact I'd pay to see that You think too much Kurgan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 Dang. Thats true boredom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunatic Jedi Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 I've found that running through your house screaming and running into stuff is a sure cure for boredom! You should try it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 I find picking up a hammer(preferrably sledge) and run into it. Repeatedly. It's Fun. Where am I? Who am I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antilles_CL Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 You are in LF...You are BongBob and I am your conscience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoom Rabbit Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 *Ahem* I am your curiosity. I compel you to see what is under the teacher's skirt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[RAA]-=Chi3f=- Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 I heard the other day at work (out of the blue) that the original Death star model was composed of model battleships. I always wondered about the complexity of the little beast, especially all the mini turrets. That would explain the drunken sailors on Luke's descent to the porthole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pad Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 i had one of those when i was a kid. it was actually fun having such thing in your backyard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[RAA]-=Chi3f=- Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 Originally posted by Padanime i had one of those when i was a kid. it was actually fun having such thing in your backyard. A battle ship or an 8 mile Deathstar? I say we all build one. Seperate our skills and fabricate an 8 mile sphere of DOOM! We could all live in it, kinda like the real world. We'd definitely need more *cough* women though. The ratio of 1 woman to every 550,000 men doesn't appeal to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HertogJan Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 Originally posted by -=Chi3f=- A battle ship or an 8 mile Deathstar? I say we all build one. Seperate our skills and fabricate an 8 mile sphere of DOOM! We could all live in it, kinda like the real world. We'd definitely need more *cough* women though. The ratio of 1 woman to every 550,000 men doesn't appeal to me. It doesn't really matter if it appeals to YOU, more important is: Do I appeal to HER!! But I want to have the superdestructive-doomsday-cannon on it though... can somebody make me one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antilles_CL Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 Sure! One cannon coming up! produces a 12 mile long cannon from his pants There ya go Hopefully it works, forgot to BETA test it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolfmanNCSU Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 Originally posted by Semicolon Sure! One cannon coming up! produces a 12 mile long cannon from his pants There ya go Hopefully it works, forgot to BETA test it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 hmmmm making one would be kinda cool. they could put an aircirculator in and send it into space and we can live in it when over population gets around...oh wait that'd be now. *goes to tell NASA * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Fisher Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 Just think of the structural stresses of building it on Earth and not in space. It would break apart before we got very far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pad Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 [jasper voice] you sunk my battleship! [/jasper voice] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunatic Jedi Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Actually, I've had the concepts for a real working super-powerful laser cannon in my head for some time now, and I think it could really work! GAH HA HA HA! Seriously. I mean it. I know, it frightens me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Fisher Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 I think "lunatic" really applies to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Groovy Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Hasbro could do a scaled down version. After all, if you think about it, The Electronic FX Millenium Falcon, and AT-AT are not to scale either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Wilson Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Cannon you say....? *runs off and returns with a cart full of Radioactive Wambats* Now we go live on the death star relese a wambat onto a planet, wiat till it breeds an army and move to the next planet leaving the first as a pile of radioactve Wambat goo that kills everything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZBomber Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Originally posted by Darth Groovy Hasbro could do a scaled down version. After all, if you think about it, The Electronic FX Millenium Falcon, and AT-AT are not to scale either. They actually made a vintage death star. However, its just different rooms form the death star, so that doesn't count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormHammer Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Hmmm...intriguing. I wouldn't mind building a house that looked like the Deathstar, with that big circle of the Superlaser as a nice big window...a recreation of the Mos Eisley Cantina for a kitchen...the centre of the Millenium Falcon as a living room... *goes off to dream* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZBomber Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Originally posted by StormHammer Hmmm...intriguing. I wouldn't mind building a house that looked like the Deathstar, with that big circle of the Superlaser as a nice big window...a recreation of the Mos Eisley Cantina for a kitchen...the centre of the Millenium Falcon as a living room... *goes off to dream* Make sure there are no Trekies live around. ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunatic Jedi Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 And if there are, I could always lend you a laser cannon... once I build one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HertogJan Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Wouldn't be too helpfull... Firing it would destroy the very planet you live on... would be a shame Or were you planning to build something less destructive?? Shame on you, I want to destroy Mars Hey before you know it the Martians (sp?) do an invasion on earth :eek: And I don't want to say "I told you so " if that happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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