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Transformer standees...200 meters tall!

PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2007 11:38 pm
by Professor Smooth
From Rich Johnston's Lying in the Gutters column at Comic Book Resources:

Remember that scene in "Spinal Tap" when the set for the "Stonehenge" number appears and the plastic boulders are not eleven foot as required, but eleven inches, due to a mix up of notation on the original napkin?

Somewhere, in a factory in China, a bunch of guys are scratching their heads trying to figure out how to get the 200 metre tall cardboard standee Transformers that were ordered by a US marketing department into a packing crate.

They meant to request 200 centimetres, of course.

Thank goodness it was only for samples.

PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2007 7:44 am
by Geekee1
But do they go to 11?

PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2007 6:39 pm
by Professor Smooth
Geekee1 wrote:But do they go to 11?


WHILE smelling the glove.

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2007 2:04 am
by inadvertent imitation
Nice.

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2007 5:11 am
by Dragonoth
That's insane! 20m tall I can see for outdoor purposes. That's only as tall as a six story building. But 200m? You could make a life-sized Godzilla at that height! lol

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2007 5:13 am
by Leonardo
That's hilarious.

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2007 8:49 pm
by Professor Smooth
I wonder what will become of the 656 foot tall standups. They will probably be destroyed, but I wish I could see a picture of one of them, preferably next to something to show the scale of it.

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2007 9:10 pm
by Geekee1
They should photograph them next to a dwarf dancing around them.