ALL ANSWERS · POP CULTURE · DAILY No. 25 · SEPTEMBER 28, 2026
Size It Up Pop Culture answer: September 28
The five Pop Culture silhouettes for September 28, with the true sizes. If you have not played yet, this page is a spoiler — play these five first, then come back to argue with the numbers.
Day 25 ran from a pencil (19 cm) to Gunbuster (240 m). The widest gap was round 3, Sudowoodo against Fire Engine, at 8.3×; the closest call was round 2, Ditto against Pencil, only 1.6× apart — the kind of round that separates a 90 from a 60.
SPOILER · TODAY’S FIVE
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ROUND 1
Venusaur Pokémon · Standard Pokédex form vs Big-belly Seahorse (adult)
Big-belly Seahorse · reference · 35 cm Venusaur · true height · 2 m 5.7× taller than the big-belly seahorse
Venusaur measures about 2 m in height. Uses the official Pokédex height for the standard form, excluding alternate forms and transformations.
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ROUND 2
Ditto Pokémon · Standard Pokédex form vs Pencil (new)
Pencil · reference · 19 cm Ditto · true height · 30 cm 1.6× taller than the pencil
Ditto measures about 0.3 m in height. Uses the official Pokédex height for the standard form, excluding alternate forms and transformations.
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ROUND 3
Sudowoodo Pokémon · Standard Pokédex form vs Fire Engine (pumper)
Fire Engine · reference · 10 m Sudowoodo · true height · 1.2 m 8.3× shorter than the fire engine
Sudowoodo measures about 1.2 m in height. Uses the official Pokédex height for the standard form, excluding alternate forms and transformations.
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ROUND 4
Gunbuster Gunbuster · Aim for the Top! · combined Buster Machines 1 and 2 vs Daitarn 3 Daitarn 3 · 1978 anime · robot form
Daitarn 3 · reference · 120 m Gunbuster · true height · 240 m 2.0× taller than Daitarn 3
Gunbuster measures about 240 m in height. In-story overall height of the combined robot, including its shoulder towers; this is not the size of a model or figure.
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ROUND 5
Wobbuffet Pokémon · Standard Pokédex form vs Dragonite Pokémon · Standard Pokédex form
Dragonite · reference · 2.2 m Wobbuffet · true height · 1.3 m 1.7× shorter than Dragonite
Wobbuffet measures about 1.3 m in height. Uses the official Pokédex height for the standard form, excluding alternate forms and transformations.
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