Evidence That The New Enterprise Is Truly Huge

I had blogged before with a post that mentioned that the new Enterprise NCC-1701 from the JJ Abrams reboot is supposed to be substantially larger than the previous Enterprise on the Original Series. There was some controversy about that on some message boards (believe it or not).

Today I found proof in print that it is indeed larger. At Barnes and Noble this evening I found an issue of Cinefex (number 118, July 2009), which had an article on the new movie. If you didn't know Cinefex is a magazine dedicated to special effects in films, mostly the digital aspect of it. It had articles on the models used in the movie Moon and and behind the scenes shots of green screen effects inserted into Terminator Salvation, for example, and has advertisments for computer render farms and 3-D body scanners if that tells you the audience the magazine appeals to.

On page 42 (I know, totally coincidental) in the second column embedded in bits from the ILM people it said:
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The reconfigured ship was a larger vessel than previous manifestations-approximately 1,200 feet long compared to the 947-foot ship of the original series. "Once we got the ship built and started putting it in environments, it felt too small. The shuttle bay gave us a clear relative scale-shuttlecraft initially appeared much bigger than we imagined-so we bumped up the Enterprise scale, which gave her a grander feel and allowed us to include more detail."
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So there you have it. The new Enterprise is indeed larger than previous incarnations.