nowhere in the product description for this $170 model aircraft elevator is there any mention of how big it is other than that it's 1/72 scale, suggesting that the target audience is people who know exactly how big an aircraft elevator is off the top of their head

In fairness, I've met several people who would know that, and I can say that they absolutely would want to own something like that.

So at least it suggests a reasonable understanding of their oddly specific target audience.

bbts sent me an email telling me about this because I once bought a robotech toy

I don't know whether that makes it less likely that that is indeed something their audience would know, or more likely

I know robotech as the thing harmony gold owns and does nothing with except harass hasbro when they make new jetfires

(regardless, this doesn't appear to be an actual anime product)

From the people I know who build military models, they'd know. Those people can list the specs of a plane they've never seen in person

part of me wants to buy it just so I can find out (and then put transformers on it, to the imagined consternation of Very Serious Modelers who also want to buy a toy elevator that lights up and makes sounds)

(most of me says no, that's stupid, it's expensive and what if it's really big)

A quick google said 1092 feet long, which would make the model 15 feet long

it would not fit in a house

...I'm assuming that's actually the length of the entire aircraft carrier

(although now that I've said that it seems a little small for that)

I can't find anything that has elevator dimensions but I keep coming across references to being able to lift two f-35bs

oh I misread that

wikipedia says an f-35b has a 35 foot wingspan, which I will now headcanon as being the reason they chose that particular number for it

if they're pointed in opposite directions they don't need the full width of two planes to be able to fit both on at once, but they'd also want some space between them, so I'll assume for the sake of argument that those two things cancel out and it's roughly 70 feet wide

so a bit under a foot

which--yeah

or a bit over, when you count the outer walls

glancing over at generations metroplex, a transformer that I know to be approximately two feet tall, I can estimate that this toy elevator is not Gigantic but is pretty hefty, and in what is the most important point, it probably is worth $170 if a bigass plastic elevator is what you want

it could indeed accommodate the transformers I would be most likely to put on it, but would be a far less space-efficient method of display than my current method of "stand them up in robot mode on a shelf or table"

i mean all nearly all models are referenced like that, even gunpla which does not even have an existing item to refer to

like you buy a 1/100 gundam virtue

fair enough