If you\u2019ve ever tried to picture how massive some of fiction\u2019s most famous structures really are, this new video from MetaBall Studios does the math for you. It\u2019s a wild visual ride that lines up everything from the shrunken science spaces of Ant-Man and the Wasp to the cheerful absurdity of SpongeBob\u2019s pineapple home in SpongeBob SquarePants, then keeps scaling up until reality basically taps out. <\/p>\n
Seeing these buildings measured against New York City turns abstract numbers into something instantly understandable, and kind of jaw-dropping. That tiny cartoon house suddenly feels microscopic, while the larger sci-fi and fantasy structures start to feel genuinely intimidating.<\/p>\n
Things escalate fast once the video hits the heavy hitters, including the planet-hauling tech of The Wandering Earth and the looming menace of Barad-d\u00fbr from The Lord of the Rings. <\/p>\n
The comparison works so well because it sticks to a clear visual logic, as the creator explain: \u201cIn fiction, whether in movies, books, or video games, many buildings and structures of all sizes appear, some of them truly enormous. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn this video, we compare some of them in the most coherent way possible, placing them against the backdrop of New York City to give a complete perspective of their scale.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s fun, slightly mind-melting, and guaranteed to make you rethink just how big these fictional worlds really are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve ever tried to picture how massive some of fiction\u2019s most famous structures really are, this new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-296001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}