Poor Image: Clown Car Base

This is the current image:

For those who haven't played Warcraft II: the highlighted building is the town hall, it only builds peons (the smallest units), the other three units are built in a different (and smaller) building.

As this trope also applies to transports, surely there's a better suited image like a single airship dropping tank after tank?

edited 10th Apr '13 2:17:09 PM by Chabal2

Possibly. Do you have a suggestion?

And there's two Peons on the image and they don't fit in the building either (let alone through the door), so whats the issue?

edited 10th Apr '13 5:39:48 PM by Ghilz

Yeah, Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

Keep Until Better Image Suggested

Uhh, what about that image and Units Not to Scale being a problem? The latter could the reason for causing Clown-Car Base?

What about an actual clown car, as in this cartoon◊ by Steve Greenberg? Or am I being too literal?

Source: Greenberg-art.com

edited 11th Apr '13 1:50:40 AM by peasant

Single-panel cartoons that are explicitly copyrighted can't be used.

Units Not to Scale is Gameplay and Story Segregation. The buildings aren't really that small (or the people aren't really that big).

And its a problem because its difficult to tell just how big that building would be at full scale. I'd be inclined to think those people would fit quite comformtably inside the full-sized town hall.

Also, unit-production buildings in real time strategy games are more Mook Makers than bases to begin with. They don't fit an unlimited number of people inside (no people ever go in at any time), but rather an unlimited number people are spontaneously created there on demand, one at a time.

Keep Until Better Image Suggested on this.

Ugh. I'm pretty sure that the page image (and the relevant samples in the Video Games section) are misuse.

Combing the examples list on the trope page, here's a picture of one of them: [1]◊

From: The Hunchback Of Notre Dame

edited 11th Apr '13 10:45:53 AM by peasant

I have no problem seeing how all three people would fit in there. Not as a straight line, sure, but they only need to be as such while exiting.

I thought the implication that there were more dancers would have been clear. Oh well, perhaps this pic (from the same sequence) would be a clearer example?

That's pretty good.

edited 11th Apr '13 11:58:52 AM by Willbyr

That's the best one so far.

I like that one.

Throwing my support behind @14 too.

One or two more for 14 and we can run with it.

I support 14. It seems good.

Definitely better.

And there we go. The new pic's up, potholed, and tagged. Caption or no?

How about "They really can-can fit inside"?

*snerk* Not bad...I was thinking something like "How do all of them fit in there? Because they can-can-can!"

Song, if you don't get the reference.

edited 12th Apr '13 4:13:34 AM by Willbyr