How large is the Great Spirit Robot?

So, random question I thought of randomly, how big actually is the Great Spirit Robot? Well, according to BS01, it’s 40 million feet (12,192,000 metres), but why not fact check that.
So the island of Metru Nui (again, according to BS01) is 65,200 m long (40.51 miles for all y’all Americans), which means that according to this official image:


The Great Spirit Robot is about 12 Metru-Nuis long, so 1265200 = 782,500 m (about 2,580,000 feet)
This is nowhere near to 40 million, as you may have been able to tell, however, you may have also noticed that this diagram doesn’t actually look as well proportioned the Great Spirit Robot is (as explained in this BZP post: http://www.bzpower.com/board/topic/9082-mu-domes-theories-map/)
According to this post, the GSR should look a bit more like this:

which means that the Great Spirit Robot should actually be about 45 Metru-Nuis long, so 45
65200 = 2,934,000m (about 9,630,000 feet), which is still only 1/4 of 40 million.
So currently we have three possible measurements for the size of the GSR:

The Official Canon Size: 12,192,000m/40,000,000 feet
The Relative Size (when compared to the official MU map): 782,500m/2,580,000 feet
The Realistic Size (when compared to realistic MU measurements: 2,934,000m/9,634,000 feet

So, which one is the real size? Well until Greg says otherwise it’s still officially 40 million feet but for the rest of this post, I’m gonna go with 2,934km. Of course, these are all just numbers on a screen, so let’s compare this to some actual real-world sizes.
(random side note: when you look up ‘what is 40 million feet large’ on Google you actually end up with images of the GSR)
So, the diameter of Earth is 12,742km, meaning that the GSR is about 1/6 the size of Earth (picture for comparison)
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Meanwhile, if we go for the canon height, this would mean that the GSR is about as tall as the Earth. I assume is why they gave the approximate diameter of the Earth for the canon height of the GSR, so as to make it realistic that it was about the size of a planet.
So, any interesting revelations? No, not really, just some maths and the realisation that the GSR should be way smaller than it is canonically. Last little side note, it looks like this image from the Faber Files might actually be more realistic than the canon size.


So yeah, that’s it. Now get back to your lives and stop reading about the relative size of fictional robots from LEGO lines.

Edit:

Ok so based on a new Map by KhingK from the RSG project, (which looks to be more accurate), the GSR is closer to 33 and 1/3 Metru-Nuis tall. So 33.3*65,200 = 2,171,160m (7123228.346 feet). This is pretty similar to my previous example so the relative size would be pretty similar for the most part, just a bit smaller.

So based on this new measurement we now have:
The Official Canon Size: 12,192,000m/40,000,000 feet/8,899,270 Bio
The Relative Size (when compared to the official MU map): 782,500m/2,580,000 feet/571,167 Bio
Suggested Size 1 (BZP Version): 2,934,000m/9,634,000 feet/ 2,141,600 Bio
Suggested Size 2 (RSG Version): 2,171,160m/7,123,228 feet/1,587,788 Bio

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You know, I’ve wondered about the GSRs size myself some time ago and also came to the conclusion that 40 million feet is kinda large (about 1 and 1/2 times Africa from north to south if I remember correctly).
I set it into relation to the parts of the Prototype robot which you can see on the map of Bara Magna and kinda ended up with this as a maybe realistic size (ignore the grey lines):

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It’s still large enough that it should have its own gravitational pull, I’ll say that much.

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Well firstly, everything has its own gravitational pull, no matter how big it is. Secondly, the gravity in the GSR seems to be more artificial than natural, because the island are all oriented so that ‘down’ is to the back of the GSR, rather than the centre (which is where ‘down’ would be if they worked using natural gravity). Not to mention when the GSR lands on Bara Magna, it doesn’t pull all of the Glatorian/Agori towards it so the gravitational pull can’t be that large.

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Of course everything has it’s own gravitational pull, but the Great Spirit robot is in the same territory Unicron goes whenever this happens.

You cannot tell me that the GSR’s mass is not great enough to provide a significant, if disproportionate, gravitational pull on its surroundings.

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If it is 1/6 the size of earth (or the size of Earth, whichever) then yeah, it probably should apply a gravitational pull to the people outside it, yeah, but nothing is ever mentioned about that in Journey’s End. The only explanation that I can think of is that Bara Magna is so big and its inhabitants are so strong/dense that it apparently has no effect on them.

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It’s also never mentioned in Transformers The Movie even though Unicron should have one. Just chock it uo to negligence.

cage match, matanui robot vs unicron, one night only pay per veiw

Here’s the explanation.

The robot is actually Lanky Kong.

He can stretch himself.

That’s all I got.

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Even though he may not be as big as he officially is in canon, he’s still pretty dang tall. Great work

I count roughly 110 bricks tall so around 880 mm or 35 inches

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Woah, cool MoC!

I’d say it’s about as big as a medium/small continent.

this is mata nui in his big from, right?

or is this something else.
sorry, I got lost.