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Scale?

posted 15 years ago by RebeccaOTool
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What would the scale be for the kids, 1:64?

"Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him...."
— Christopher Moore

[–] Lifeguardfan 15 years ago

I find the scale isn't reliable, especially when they are riding the ant. If you think of a regular common ant, it's pretty tiny. Imagine Nick riding on one of those. Then imagine Nick using a cheerio as a lifesaver. The scale isn't consistent. It's true they could have been riding on one of those giant ants, but I was just using that as one of the many examples.

[–] fl_rules 14 years ago

Another (of many) scale inconsistencies -- when the group gets out of the garbage bag and begins to make their way across the backyard, they run into a dinosaur toy. This is all fine and dandy, but the grass is quite a bit taller than the toy. Considering the length of the grass, the toy would be all of an inch or inch and a half tall.

Watching HISTKs in HD on Cinemax right now, it's also evident that the green-screen tech was a bit less sophisticated. In numerous scenes now, you can clearly see a green outline around the characters, bugs, etc. Distracting, but it's from 1989, so I can't complain.

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[–] sydnivt 14 years ago

I was just thinking, they should have tried the sidewalk, since the garbage was right there.

I woulda been here earlier, but I was thinking up that "ham on rye" line.

[–] kevinj319 14 years ago

As Wayne is eating the cheerios, he comments that traversing the backyard at their size would be like traveling 10 miles. I saw this as a way of indicating Nick grossly miscalculated and also makes it more impressive that they were able to travel all that way. (10 miles on that "terrain" would be quite difficult.)

[–] posthocjollies 13 years ago

there is no indication of the company or model of the dinosaur toy. why couldn't a dinosaur toy be tiny (and, thus, be the proper size to appear small compared to the surrounding grass)? i recall from my youth many miniature-sized animals and people, maybe even a dinosaur.

[–] psdhart 11 years ago

I find the scale isn't reliable, especially when they are riding the ant

Also the cigarette butt seemed to be slightly bigger than the ant which would make the ant huge

[–] theroot1980 14 years ago

You can make the best scale with the LEGO cube they slept in.

[–] daggo22 8 years ago

The kid Nick said 1/4 of an inch in the movie