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Godzilla would look quite a bit smaller compared to the USS Saratoga (CVN-88) (1,092 feet) when scaled correctly next to it. Godzilla's official tail length is 550 ft 4 in in the 2014 movie, so barely more than half the length of the ship, he's about 1.5 times of his tail length when completely stretched out from tip of the snout to tip of the tail, and based on real USS Saratoga ships, the "nose" of this ship would be about third of its whole length.

"With the perspective of the picture it's not possible to get any solid results, but I'll try. Assuming the movie's Saratoga has the same proportions as the real USS Saratoga (the larger one, CVA-60), at a length of 1092 ft, it would be 40.7 m in beam width, corresponding to ~170 px wide in the image against ~100px of Godzilla's tallest dorsal plate. That puts the plate at ~24 m tall. The NECA figure is ~7.6 times as tall as said plate, putting the whole animal at ~182 m tall in the NECA figure's posture (to the highest plate, a bit less to the head) and 430 m along the centra.

182 m is 597 ft, 67% taller than the official height of 355 ft he had in 2014. The tail (starting from the end of the thigh) is ~280 m or ~919 ft, also 67% longer than the official length of 550 ft. This means NECA got the height:length ratio of their figure exactly right, which is not something I was expecting, but hey, nice surprise. Reverse engineering from the tail: total length ratio, the official Godzilla would be approx. 258 m from snout to tail."

"The resize would be 1.00/1.67 = 59.9% of what it currently is, aka a reduction of 40.1%."

A special thanks to for helping with the scaling (the quotes are from him). Godzilla's not THAT oversized in this shot as I thought (by ~62%) after all.

Description

Godzilla would look quite a bit smaller compared to the USS Saratoga (CVN-88) (1,092 feet) when scaled correctly next to it. Godzilla's official tail length is 550 ft 4 in in the 2014 movie, so barely more than half the length of the ship, he's about 1.5 times of his tail length when completely stretched out from tip of the snout to tip of the tail, and based on real USS Saratoga ships, the "nose" of this ship would be about third of its whole length.

"With the perspective of the picture it's not possible to get any solid results, but I'll try. Assuming the movie's Saratoga has the same proportions as the real USS Saratoga (the larger one, CVA-60), at a length of 1092 ft, it would be 40.7 m in beam width, corresponding to ~170 px wide in the image against ~100px of Godzilla's tallest dorsal plate. That puts the plate at ~24 m tall. The NECA figure is ~7.6 times as tall as said plate, putting the whole animal at ~182 m tall in the NECA figure's posture (to the highest plate, a bit less to the head) and 430 m along the centra.

182 m is 597 ft, 67% taller than the official height of 355 ft he had in 2014. The tail (starting from the end of the thigh) is ~280 m or ~919 ft, also 67% longer than the official length of 550 ft. This means NECA got the height:length ratio of their figure exactly right, which is not something I was expecting, but hey, nice surprise. Reverse engineering from the tail: total length ratio, the official Godzilla would be approx. 258 m from snout to tail."

"The resize would be 1.00/1.67 = 59.9% of what it currently is, aka a reduction of 40.1%."

A special thanks to for helping with the scaling (the quotes are from him). Godzilla's not THAT oversized in this shot as I thought (by ~62%) after all.