Me-kill-lots

[Zoan]

Mekillots are those giant-ass shelled brontosaurus things on Gran Pulse in Final Fantasy 13. Like in Armageddon, those things can kill you in one hit.

[Synthesis]

Except mekillots don't have shells.

[Zoan]

I don't care!

[WagonsHo]

There was a time in arm, when House Kadius had the War-gosy we called it, and it was pulled by two mekolits

WAS a time?!

If someone has driven that bitch off the shield wall, I'm going to spec app my character rising from his grave to wreck vengeance on whomever was responsible.

(Note: Please don't reply with IC info confirming or denying).

[Semper]

[edited] To answer the OP's question in some manner, Mekillots probably vary in size, but the documentation gives a pretty fair picture of how big they could be.

[Medivh]

They are many times heavier then you.
They are over three times taller then you.

[Scarecrow]

In my opinion, if that is a human figure, the inix is way too small. I imagine Meks being more hide-covered rather than shells or plates too. As for bahamets, I agree with the post Malifaxis put up, squat and turtley but with also nastyishness.

[Malifaxis]

There was a time in arm, when House Kadius had the War-gosy we called it, and it was pulled by two mekolits

WAS a time?!

If someone has driven that bitch off the shield wall, I'm going to spec app my character rising from his grave to wreck vengeance on whomever was responsible.

(Note: Please don't reply with IC info confirming or denying).

Yeah that better be a goddamn typo...

[Goldberry]

[MeTekillot]

I don't think that's even close, Goldberry.

[boog]

I don't think that's even close, Goldberry.

I think size-wise it is. That's a huge ass argosy.

[IAmJacksOpinion]

Yeah tall meant length, not height, so that pic is probably pretty accurate.

Except mekillots don't have shells

And they do have shells. Except, Arm mek's are also furry, so in that way they're a little different. Also, they don't have a beak.

Also 250 tons is a gross over-estimate. A hg weighs around 1,200 - 1,500 lbs if I remember correctly? I'd place a mek 5-6 tons tops. 

And yes, maybe their head should be heavier, but if that's a problem then we should all stop mining obsidian immediately because those large chunks? Big as a chair. (What an odd descriptor.) Also, logs. We shouldn't log either. My point being, objects have to be manipulated to make the game playable. I just buy a rope and pretend to hook stuff up behind my mount, then drag it away, after picking it up. When I can codedly do that, then you can make objects heavier.

And... what inspired this? This is a REALLY weird, specific point.

[Goldberry]

In case anyone may be curious, the pics a couple posts back are from a Dark Sun website.  It's labeled as a Mekillot.  I think the art is by Brom.
I didn't expect to find anything that matches what I have pictured in my mind, but when I found these, I thought they were interesting enough to share.
The size seems pretty good, but the heads in particular aren't what I've imagined them to be in the past.
Just for interest.

[theebie]

if those things on the picture would be meks (or at least be the correct size), it'd even be -way- heavier than 250 tons.

and remember, that if something's twice as tall, it weighs 2*2*2 times as much. (because it's twice as "deep" and "thick", too)

and if that thing'd be a mek, it's head would be as tall as a tree/half-giant...

[BleakOne]

Goldberry's Mek pictures are adorably terrorfying.

[HavokBlue]

I've always imagined mekillots as giant kodo beasts for some reason. I dunno why.

[Archbaron]

Goldberry's Mek pictures are adorably terrorfying.

[IntuitiveApathy]

I'm pretty sure those are pictures of meks from the old Dark Sun source books.

[Dakota]

I'm pretty sure those are pictures of meks from the old Dark Sun source books.

.... Yeah I'll keep the mek in my brain as some sort of massive, triceratops... those things look so.. not.. threatening.

[Sephiroto]

Even though it doesn't match the description of a mek, I always imagined them as looking something like this:

[perfecto]

YES!

With a little mantis on their shoudler, using mind control...

Edited to say I really agree with Jack's Opinion... his first responce anyway.

[Nao]

They feed on saltworms, and I always imagined those to be pretty damn big (considering that you can make adders fron their teeth), and meks to be... even larger than that.

[IAmJacksOpinion]

if those things on the picture would be meks (or at least be the correct size), it'd even be -way- heavier than 250 tons.

and remember, that if something's twice as tall, it weighs 2*2*2 times as much. (because it's twice as "deep" and "thick", too)

and if that thing'd be a mek, it's head would be as tall as a tree/half-giant...

Okay.. 1500lbs * 2*2*2 = 12,000 lbs / 2,000 = 6 tons

I'd place a mek 5-6 tons tops. 

We could go with 5*5*5 the size of a halfgiant and still be only 1/3 of the way there.
I've worked on heating units (huge chunks of steel and various other metals) that were 25 feet long, 10 feet high, and made completely of METAL and were only 70,000 lbs. (35 tons)
There's not a chance that anything on Zalanthas (anything any player's seen without immtervention) weighs 500,000 lbs.
Sorry.

[IAmJacksOpinion]

OOh, just to add cause I thought of it,

My roommate started working at a place a while back where some of the guys at work played DnD. I wrote up a monk to join (They have the most lenient stat roll rules I've ever seen - roll 5, drop 2 - and I still ended up with a 5.... which I put into charisma so I could be the worlds ugliest, meanest monk! ) and I wanted to give him some power, so, failing to find anything but 4th (barf) edition, I went and downloaded the 3rd edition Sword and Fist to power him up.

The part of this that made me think of this was that I found you can download ANY DnD book online in a good quality PDF. (Not that surprising, but) so I downloaded the old 2nd edition Dark Sun manual. Never did look at it too much. This was at the start of the semester, and I didn't have a whole lot of time. Man, I think I'll check out those pics this afternoon. Maybe post a couple to visualizing Zalanthas.

[Bilanthri]

Goldberry's Mek pictures are actually from the original and new editions of Dark Sun. Might not be Zalanthan style, but those -are- Mekillots ^TM