# How much volume was in the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-volume-was-in-the-sta-puft-marshmallow-man/681741>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 19, 2014, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-volume-was-in-the-sta-puft-marshmallow-man/681741 "2014-02-19T23:32:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-volume-was-in-the-sta-puft-marshmallow-man/681741/21 "2014-02-21T15:42:24Z")

</div>

> [@chrisk](#):
>
> I estimate that if Stay-Puft were of ordinary human build, he’d be made up of approx 500 kiloliters of marshmallow.

So since he’s not, let’s say 700,000 liters, just as a starting point.

Hard to get the numbers right since every site threw out wildly different numbers, but I’m coming back to about 1600 calories per liter.

So we’re talking approximately 1.1 billion calories of Marshmallow Man.

Meh, not really all that much in the scheme of things. A small, 40mwh power plant would burn one of him every 10 minutes. For a city of 10 million, he’s only 110 calories per person, or just over 4 standard marshmallows each.

_Perhaps if Kraft were to get ahold of this and could summon Stay-Puft Marshmallow men at will…_ (Pictures very sad Zuul…:()

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-volume-was-in-the-sta-puft-marshmallow-man/681741/22 "2014-02-21T15:59:10Z")

</div>

> [@ThisUsernameIsForbidden](#):
>
> I have a method:
> 
> 1. Contact the studio, and obtain permission to borrow Sta-Puft, it is well known that the movie used **a life-sized model for production** …

😕

I suspect I’ve been whooshed, but I wouldn’t mind confirmation.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-volume-was-in-the-sta-puft-marshmallow-man/681741.md?page=1)