minifigs are about 1/24 scale in width and 1/42 scale in height. so you can make a model that’s close to 1/24, where minifigs can sit comfortably side by side but will look cartoonishly short (because they are), or scale it 1/42 to match the height of the minifigs which results in their cartoonishly fat bodies not fitting side by side. or you could go somewhere in the middle and make neither of those things true, or make a mixed scale car that’s cartoonishly wide/short just like minifgures. it makes sense to make speed champions around 1/29 to fit more detail while city cars sit in that 1/40 to 1/45 range to be more parts efficient so you get more toy per part

I feel like the perfect Lego car scale is the taxi from the Bugle

I swear I saw this video like a year ago…

VERY interesting!

Ngl a massive minifig scale cargo ship would go CRAZY.

I like the 8 stud wide vehicles more. Lets 2 sit side by side without issues like the 6 stud wide ones. The one exception is that vehicle piece they used for the Indiana jones Shanghai chase which was 6 wide and could fit 2

As kids my brother and I would use the old 10x20 thick baseplates to make motor homes, often overhanging both ends a bit. That was also the baseplate we used for our explorer battle cruiser ships but twice as long. 😁

You forgot to take steam trains into account.

I have compeletely different logic for what makes something "minifig scale" compared to pretty much anywhere I've seen it talked about. In my opinion, minifig scale should be at a scale where it could be functional for minifigures, not scaled for a minifig like it would be to a person. The underlying point that led to it is so simple, that it bothers me to no end that people get so frazzled over what "minifig scale" should be, when, a minifig isn't minifig scale of a human. There's some chibification that happens because of the dimensions.

1:24th scale

Brother you cant just say 1 stud = 1 foot. Minifigs are way shorter than they should be. Nice video though.

is this a reupload?

6 stud wide cars are better than 8

Reading the comments it appears you’ve settled nothing. To me a car and especially vehicles like buses or garbage trucks that are one person wide look ridiculous. The speed champions are closer but even still they are a bit too big especially in length. Though they’ve had a few speed champions that are a little shorter and look about right

Are the lego factory cars accurate? (Old theme, lego factory)

The correct answer is it depends. The larger Speed Champions cars are great (although the classic Mini breaks that rule) but I like the smaller vehicles for a City build

Scaleing is a problem in pretty much every mini hobby. Sometimes you just gotta be ok with close enough. I think alot of my Lego Star Destroyer, and how inaccurate its interior is, but also, i think of the bigger ones that use the mini-mini figs that cost several paychecks and I'd need to reno my shelves to fit the thing, and honestly? Those aren't nearly as fun in my opinion. (Also, I feel like after a $200, my willingness to spend money one what is ultimately just plastic freefalls pretty quickly.)

Lego modeling is always a conflict between size and detail fidelity. For example, this is why some Speed Champion cars are so long or wide - Lego chose to have detail/recognizable features over accurate size. I build 8-wide trains as a good compromise between scale and detail (and they can still run around the standard Lego R40 curves).

All I care about is sitting two figures side by side in their seats.

This is the scale I use and it works good for me 6 stud wide body width for cars 7 studs for semi trailers, shipping containers, the sleeper of semi trucks, the box on box trucks and other stuff like that 8 stud wide for trains It works good for detailing models but using 7 wide for some things can be hard to work with sometimes

You know, there are more accurate models: hobby-model kits. But you can't "play" with those! While Lego... I get haters whenever I bring up this point... Lego are toys, meant to be played with after building. So yes it has to look good and fit other models, but it also has to be playable.

I guess, im too long for lego world, my height is 7 studs, if i were minifigure in lego city😅

The proportions of the minifig are just not ideal to build models for, that are to scale. The minifigure is a toy, is proportions are made so kids can play with it. If you hand a lego car to an 8 year old, his first thought will probably *not* be "This is too wide / too long in relation to the figure".

well the interesting thing is Lego figures don't have the same proportions, like they are way wider then us, so the scale isn't regular. which is where the major issues come in, some how you have to get the two weird scales to work together, like sure you could calculate height and width differently, --which does make the cars more accurate--, but then things look odd, as they are way wider then we'd expect, which is where you have to get more interpretive, how much can you fudge the measurements, and keep things working in a way that makes sense, and still looks nice? like you really can't make a car seat two mini figures side by side, with out it being really wide, or being a bigger kind of car where their arms can stick out, --like a jeep/buggy--, but if you can get one in off to the side, and have it kinda look like another could fit, then that's really nice, it looks right, its not to big, the form is right, sure its not wholly functional, but so long as you don't try to stick two minifigs in next to each-other its fine. so I'd say yeah six wide cars are ideal, sure they may be a tad wide, but Lego figures are also wide, but it still looks nice, so it works. now it gets really funny if you do try to build things to support Lego figures in the way real things do, like make a car that can seat three mini figures in a row in the back, but don't just scale everything up. that place would look so odd, it'd be funny, kinda wanna see that.

Cars trains boats, and what about planes and buildings and animals scales?

1/40

The simple fact is that Lego minifigures are not to scale. Scale models with distorted proportions (like "egg planes" or cartoonified vehicles) are not branded as 1/72, or 1/48, because their width and length are not consistent. A 'scale model' must be proportional to the real life object it represents. The height and width of Lego minifigures is so out of proportion, that the relative size of vehicle or buildings they use is all over the place.

To me is 8 wide for bigger cars, mostly Americans and super cars and 6 wide for smaller cars and European. The land rover defender looks good, but all the american cars looks way better in 8 studs. Maybe I’m biased because I’m European, but the first time i saw an old American car i was surprised that managed to fit a road needed to go where the car show was. Also minifigure scale is odd because the proportions are way off respect to a human

7 studs wide

The issue with Minifigure Scale is that we tend to use minifigures as stand-ins for adults. If we instead recognize that minifigures were designed when LEGO was exclusively intended as a children's toy, we could come to the conclusion that minifigure height is a child's height, and that most official LEGO sets depict said children playing pretend as firefighters, ninja warriors, superheroes, astronauts, or other movie characters. This is somewhat supported by the fact that a LEGO Yoda minifigure is barely shorter than a standard minifigure, which should otherwise be over twice his height. Even if you don't care for this interpretation, we could perhaps agree that minifigures should 'look right' and fit comfortably in MOCs and allow builders to include as much detail in their work as is reasonably possible. This means fitting two minifigures comfortably in the front of a standard car, and keeping the wheels at least 2.5x larger than a figure's head, this being the only portion of the figure visible once inside the vehicle. We could therefore base minifigure scale on the proportions of a minifigure head. This makes builds look the most accurate, and less cartoon-like. Personally, I have begun building my 'minifig-scale' UCS MOCs with extra leg room to accommodate adult-proportioned figures, while maintaining minifigure-compatible seating. I typically make the seating compatible with Shaun @brick.sheepa's figures, which are also matched to minifigure head scale. www.tipsandbricks.co.uk/post/2106-techniques-star-wars-midifigures-by-shaun-brick-sheepa static.wixstatic.com/media/2d1450_0b0ea743503d4bffaf31701300451730~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_740,h_740,al_c,q_90,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/2d1450_0b0ea743503d4bffaf31701300451730~mv2.png

I make cars for minifigs to sit side by side. This just means the figures look cute and stubby since width matters most for vehicles that don’t need to fit on road plates (to me). This is all subjective and few people want to make 10 stud wide semis and trains lol

If you live in the USA, your real life cars are also to big👎🏻

The difference between an 8-stud Speed Champions and a car in real life is that actual cars don't have doors that are a foot thick

To me mf scale is 1/32-1/35.

Bro that mustang is 7 studs wide

I swear I’ve seen this video before

He’s 5’9 or sum, not 5’5

Minifigs are basically shaped like a slightly taller fatter Danny Devito

I recommend checking out the 5 and 7 stud wide speed champions moc community. They’re sick

I like them average

Pretty standard that the minifig scale is roughly 35/1. Speed champion cars are about 29/1 which is indeed a little big but they look great👍

The cargo ships one is a stretch, the Lego boat hulls are for playsets, if they made a standard sized cargo ship it probably wouldn’t fit in a small room.

The Modular’s are not accurate if compared to a normal home 🏠

10-stud wide train is the most possible out of the three, since matching car scale would remove a lot of detail possibilities while matching boat scale takes too much space. The problem now is that if you do 10-stud wide trains, say goodbye to your standard Lego curve track as the train then can't run well on those without significantly shrinking the length and increasing gaps

Lego mini figs are about 1/35 scale or smaller. I compared 1/35 model figure and LEGO mini figure and LEGO was a head lower and a little bit wider than model.

What you missed to check is height. In terms of that, most lego models fail miserably, every single one of them is just too tall

There is a also a problem regarding cars height in lego

I’ve built so many 5 stud wide cars. They’re perfect, besides the hight. It always annoys me cuz you can’t make a perfect size car.

this is all wrong its not about real measures but proportions to iitself if i build it like that a train should be at least 9 or 10 studs wide so i could fit 2seats on each side if u build it right u get pretty accurate trains

Measures minifig height, ignores width because it's not to scale with height. Compares with car width. "Hey, car widths are not to scale with minifig height!" You sure settled it once and for all.