Question about Lego as a unit of measurement...

[Something_Awesome]

So what are the dimensions of something when someone says it is 28 bricks high and 33 studs long? I think I calculated the height. Would the height be 268.8 mm (or 26.8 cm). Any help on this matter would be great. These dimensions were given for a custom AT-AT walker and it sounds small.

Thanks for any help!

[Brickadeer]

This is an 1x1 brick:

(picture taken from bricklink.com)

Put 28 of them together (vertically), and you got the heigth. Put 33 of them in a horizontal line, and you got the length.

Edited September 11, 2013 by Brickadeer

[Bob De Quatre]

This is an 1x1 brick:

(picture taken from bricklink.com)

Put 28 of them together (vertically), and you got the heigth. Put 33 of them in a horizontal line, and you got the length.

That.... And it might help to know that a 1x1 brick is 8mm wide and 9,6mm height

[SpiderSpaceman]

Unintuitively, Lego's bricks are sized in relation to the inch, so using that system, you can get a pretty exact size. A brick is (without the stud, since it nests) 6 * 1/16 in. A "stud", here meaning the width of a 1 x 1 brick, is 5 * 1/16 in. Then use the 1 in = 2.54 cm conversion, so 6/16*28*2.54 = 266.7mm height, 5/16*33*2.53 = 260.9mm length. Just a little over a quarter of a meter each way. Smaller than minifig scale, can't tell you how it compares to the official sets.

[Big Cam]

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