German Flying Wing Indiana Jones 1:18 scale

[coreystinson]

I noticed some of the highly informed over at JoeCustoms speculating about this coming out in 1:18 scale. I highly doubt that Hasbro would ever release such a thing. According to this production drawing:

http://www.indygear.com/props/images/Fwing3.jpg

...the thing had an 84 foot wingspan, which at 1:18 scale would put it at about a 3 ft wingspan!

Of course, there seem to be some size discrepancies between the drawing and the final production model - model appears to be a little smaller - less engines, etc. Has anyone seen the real prop at Disney, or have any information on how big it is?

It would be really cool to see this in true 1:18 scale, but is it in fact just too large?

[aferguson]

it would actually be nearly a 5 foot wingspan.....56" to be precise. No chance Hasbro would make it.

[Razor17019]

I noticed some of the highly informed over at JoeCustoms speculating about this coming out in 1:18 scale. I highly doubt that Hasbro would ever release such a thing. According to this production drawing:

http://www.indygear.com/props/images/Fwing3.jpg

...the thing had an 84 foot wingspan, which at 1:18 scale would put it at about a 3 ft wingspan!

Of course, there seem to be some size discrepancies between the drawing and the final production model - model appears to be a little smaller - less engines, etc. Has anyone seen the real prop at Disney, or have any information on how big it is?

It would be really cool to see this in true 1:18 scale, but is it in fact just too large?

I haven't seen the Flying wing prop, but at Universal Studios in Florida I saw the tank from Last Crusade on their backstage tour. It was kinda rusted out when I saw it...

[aferguson]

the tank in last crusade is actually a fairly faithful copy of the male mark VIII tank of WWI era. Unfortunately that tank wasn't used in the war and was just a prototype. A few were adopted post war by the US army but never saw action, of course.

I say unfortunately because it's fairly different from the tanks that were used during the war and would take a lot of work and a lot of forgiveness to be a decent representative of a WWI tank.

I can see Hasbro making a fairly scale version of this however....just not sure how useful it might be.

[tmanthegreat]

I would love Hasbro to do the wing, but then there are the size & cost considerations as stated above... An underscaled one may be a potential product in the future, but it would still be pretty funky when compared to our wonderfuly realistic 1:18 planes.

I have the Disney version that was sold a few years ago. That has a wingspan of about 8 inches and is anywhere between 1:72 and 1:48 scale depending on who is looking at it. I personally think it is closer to 1:64...

[coreystinson]

it would actually be nearly a 5 foot wingspan.....56" to be precise. No chance Hasbro would make it.

Yep, my bad math. I think the model used in the movie probably did not have quite such a wide wingspan but it would nevertheless be huge and I think the days of Hasbro making such large toys expired back in the 80's.

[Jolly Roger]

it would actually be nearly a 5 foot wingspan.....56" to be precise. No chance Hasbro would make it.

Yep, my bad math. I think the model used in the movie probably did not have quite such a wide wingspan but it would nevertheless be huge and I think the days of Hasbro making such large toys expired back in the 80's.

yep, only way feesable is if the Movie gets the line moving full steam, eventually they would get too it, and it would probably be an exclusive.

but id say its more likely to see the Tank way before the wing.

[Jesse James]

Hasbro has said in Q&A's that they're not looking to expand Indiana Jones beyond the $20 vehicle-range... That's not to say they're for certain going to keep all vehicles $20 and under, but essentially don't count on seeing anything larger.

Also, that doesn't mean they won't try to "fit" the wing or tank into the $20 line... Both have been brought up in Q&A's and one or the other was sort of nixed by Hasbro for the most part, while the other one was "possible". I believe the wing was the one that didn't get a favorable response due to size but the tank was on the possible list, as it really isn't terribly large.

Would the tank for $20 suffice though? This is a tough crowd, myself included, and it almost certainly would be well underscaled and lack working treads I'd guess.

[Panzer_M]

eh, I rather not see a wing, if they can't do it right.

and at it's size it's just too big, but what about the Bi-plane from Crusade or the Messerschmitt 108/109 fighters.

a 1:18 108 plane would be great, the biplane also(Heinkel 51 custom base?)

[Panzer_M]

it would actually be nearly a 5 foot wingspan.....56" to be precise. No chance Hasbro would make it.

Yep, my bad math. I think the model used in the movie probably did not have quite such a wide wingspan but it would nevertheless be huge and I think the days of Hasbro making such large toys expired back in the 80's.

about the chance of a 25th Anniv of the USS Flagg coming out is the same.

[aferguson]

the tank was 34 feet long......so nearly 2 feet in 1/18 scale. No way they could fit that in the $20 line.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_VIII_(tank)

[Jesse James]

Well, no way they could fit it to-scale... Check Star Wars out though to see how they can compress just about anything to suit their needs, including the tank.

[blaster_e11]

you shouldn't judge hasbro too severely as 2 SW vehicles will prove you wrong : the new millenium falcon and the scale accurate AT-TE

[toyktdlgh]

you shouldn't judge hasbro too severely as 2 SW vehicles will prove you wrong : the new millenium falcon and the scale accurate AT-TE

Any news on the release date for the Falcon? Thats a must have even for a tight wad like me.

[Jesse James]

They're both slated for July 26th with everything else being basically held back during the Indy Blitz... Could be earlier or slightly later, you never know.

I wouldn't bank on Hasbro doing ANYTHING Indy that size either... It's 2008 and they're just doing things of this kind of scale, for Star Wars, a line that's proven for them now since 1995. So yeah, I'm still not counting on that flying wing for $100 when it basically was a set-piece that blew up.

[Panzer_M]

they are making die cast wings and bi-planes(no gasbag though)