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So a character, often a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]], has a big construction project planned. The problem is that the odds are this project will not come to fruition, or even if it does, we are just likely to see ground broken on it at the end. So the writers have this character show a model of it so the audience can know what it would look like.

== [[Film]] ==

* In ''[[Zoolander]]'', he confuses a model for a finished design, and asks how it's supposed to help people "when they can't even fit inside the building?"

* ''[[Hook]]'' features a model of a new hospital, built thanks to Wendy.

* In ''[[RoboCop]]'', the model of "Delta City", intended to replace the old Detroit, is displayed on several occasions.

* Shows up in ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man 2]]'' with the miniature Stark Expo model. Also becomes a plot point when it turns out that {{spoiler|the model is also a "blueprint" of sorts for synthesizing an element that can replace the potentially-toxic palladium currently used for arc reactors like the one keeping Tony alive}}.

* Lampshaded in ''[[Austin Powers|Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me]]'' when Number 2 shows Dr. Evil a collection of minututre models of companies they own including a factory that makes miniature models of factories

* Spoofed in ''[[Freaked]]''. Evil freakshow owner Elijah C. Skuggs shows off a model of his facilities, then proposes that the [[Evil, Inc.|Everything Execept Shoes Corporation]] upgrade it to 'Super Mega Freak World', which is represented a larger version of the same model.

* Reflecting history, ''[[Downfall (film)|Downfall]]'' has Hitler obsessing over a massive scale model of what he wanted to turn Berlin into.