The tallest building in the world is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which stands at 2,716 feet. That’s ridiculous, but does it compare to fictional buildings from sci-fi and fantasy? That’s what YouTube channel MetaBallStudios set to find out in an oddly relaxing video that pulls in structures from everything from Star Wars to The Lord of the Rings to Skyrim to SpongeBob Squarepants and far beyond.
There are several buildings from Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire on there, too, including the Red Keep, the Wall, the Hightower, and the Great Pyramid of Meereen, but none of them much stand up to the heavy hitters in this collection. Watch below!
The Hightower is the tallest structure in Westeros and the Great Pryamid of Meereen the tallest (that we know about) on Essos, both of them standing at around 800 feet. That’s a good deal taller than the Wall, which is 700 feet tall, and the Red Keep, which is around 525 feet, taller than Orthanc from The Lord of the Rings but not quite as tall as the Sultan’s Palace from Aladdin.
But there are some truly enormous buildings on here, most of them drawn from the world of sci-fi, because technology lets you do marvelous things with structural integrity. The Imperial Palace from Star Wars is 1,000 feet in height, while the Senate Building doubles it at 2,000 feet. The tallest fantasy building featured here is Sauron’s fortress of Barad-dûr in Mordor from The Lord of the Rings, which towers over everything else in Middle-earth at nearly 5,000 feet. Although I suppose if you counted Dragon Ball Z as fantasy, that would be the highest, since the Korin Tower is over 25,000 feet tall, which makes it single tallest thing in the video.
But as far as the biggest fictional building goes, the winner is actually the massive dome where Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) lives in 1998’s The Truman Show, unaware that he’s actually the star of the world’s biggest reality show. That sucker is almost 50,000 feet in diameter.
I love that something so relatively low-key won the day! That that, the Millennium Gate from Star Trek!
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