How tall are the tripods?

[Commandingtripod]

I was just wondering how tall the tripods might have been in the SS film?

I know that they were 100 feet tall in the book but I'm not sure if that was how tall they were in the SS film.

[Anim8tr]

I recall seeing a series of photos of the L2 power "pylons" near Edinburgh in a thread some time back. Around 125 ft. in height or so. I'd say that's a good estimate.

Imagine something that size coming after you.
Perhaps someone knows where that thread is? It was a really nice set of pictures.

[Commandingtripod]

Thanks for that.

I'd like to see the pictures you mentioned myself.
Does anyone know what thread?

[Chris Oakley]

My brother, who is 8 years older than me, used to tell me the pylons outside our house would turn into Fighting Machines at night and come and get me.

I would have been 8 and of course s*!t myself.

"Several houses high" is how I believe it to be described in the novel so I would go with around 100ft as well.

[Thunder Child]

From Chapter 14 "In London"

"They were described as "vast spiderlike machines, nearly a hundred feet high, capable of the speed of an express train, and able to shoot out a beam of intense heat."

Johan

[Lensman]

The height of the movie's tripods has come up before... I think the consensus was that the Spielberg tripods were considerably larger than those in Wells' novel, perhaps 200 feet high.

[Commandingtripod]

Yeah.

I thought that the Spielberg tripods were taller than their Wells cousins.
Does anyone know exactly?
We could work this out if we knew how tall some of the buildings near the tripod are.

[Tripod Bait]

I believe it was in one of the June 2005 Entertainment Weekly issues. The cover story was an interview with Spielberg about the making of WOTW. I'm pretty sure that it was mentioned in the interview that the tripods were 200ft tall. I think this topic also came up in an interview with James Clyne and Feng Zhu in the June or July Starlog.