With Shinto priests blessing its 55,000-pound head.
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Japan's Life-Size Gundam Is Now Complete in Yokohama
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725 million in japan for a giant useless toy.
720 million in USA for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for its 5 year mission studying another planet. Nice priorities nihon. I mean, if it did more movement than the elderly people of Elmore City, Oklahoma, I could see it as an "attraction." wwwwww Isn't Gundam The Godzilla of Chuck Norris's in Japan?
Asura.Biglovin said: » 725 million in japan for a giant useless toy. 720 million in USA for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for its 5 year mission studying another planet. Nice priorities nihon. I mean, if it did more movement than the elderly people of Elmore City, Oklahoma, I could see it as an "attraction." wwwwww Uh, I think your confusing the cost of an estimate for a fully functioning Gundam with the cost of this actual statue. I mean, on full production: less than 1b/suit would be doable by the US military. THIS IS WHAT THE SPACE FORCE NEEDS!
Ahh, to be so filthy rich that you can just do stuff like this..
Really cool stuff, I'd love to see the mechanical workings. But as far as how expensive it is, it still kind pales in comparison to the Palm Islands or The World Islands outside of Dubai. IIRC, both break the 1 Billion USD mark with ease. Leviathan.Draugo
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Meh, the technology to build a giant uber robot has been out for a very long time (truck-zilla anyone?)
The problem is a sustainable power supply for it, and its a long ways from space battles, tazer swords, and rocket boots. What if it isn't a toy? What if being a toy is a coverup and they only keep it powered down during the day, and at night, they deploy it to fight space aliens?
Leviathan.Draugo said: » Meh, the technology to build a giant uber robot has been out for a very long time (truck-zilla anyone?) The problem is a sustainable power supply for it, and its a long ways from space battles, tazer swords, and rocket boots. One other issue is weight in urban environments. I feel like it would cause a road to collapse and get stuck. If you are actually making a 1-1 scale Gundam I mean. I think that Karata mech seems more practical. Load it up with some AR500 Steel Plates, Ballistic Glass and one of these: Replace that stupid BB gun on it's arm with something real. (Following all applicable laws that is) Sure a legal transferable Minigun will probably run you $300,000, but the price on the Karata is 1 Million, so go big or go home. The stuff I'd do if I had money lol Fenrir.Skarwind said: » One other issue is weight in urban environments. I feel like it would cause a road to collapse and get stuck. If you are actually making a 1-1 scale Gundam I mean. Leviathan.Draugo
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Fenrir.Skarwind said: » Leviathan.Draugo said: » Meh, the technology to build a giant uber robot has been out for a very long time (truck-zilla anyone?) The problem is a sustainable power supply for it, and its a long ways from space battles, tazer swords, and rocket boots. One other issue is weight in urban environments. I feel like it would cause a road to collapse and get stuck. If you are actually making a 1-1 scale Gundam I mean. I think that Karata mech seems more practical. Load it up with some AR500 Steel Plates, Ballistic Glass and one of these: Replace that stupid BB gun on it's arm with something real. (Following all applicable laws that is) Sure a legal transferable Minigun will probably run you $300,000, but the price on the Karata is 1 Million, so go big or go home. The stuff I'd do if I had money lol Mark 2.0's will be, possibly, or extremely scary from an escalation of arms point of view. Power supply, is the only thing missing keeping these off of battle fields. Offline
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That's a lot of money for a Gundam, considering it's only one shining finger sword away from being destroyed at all times.
Actually the armed forces of the world are getting away from large and maned in favor of small and unmaned.
What is really keeping things like these off the battlefields are lasers. The navy has lasers that will destroy hardened targets at 5 miles, how far are we away from laser artillery? Again, power source.... Not to mention the inherent instability of bipedal locomotion. Leviathan.Draugo
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Garuda.Chanti said: » Actually the armed forces of the world are getting away from large and maned in favor of small and unmaned. What is really keeping things like these off the battlefields are lasers. The navy has lasers that will destroy hardened targets at 5 miles, how far are we away from laser artillery? Again, power source.... Not to mention the inherent instability of bipedal locomotion. Shielding is another issue. Practical warfare is boring. Any awesome fighting robot being used in actual combat is one tactical bomb/missile strike away from becoming scrap metal. We need leaders around the world who are crazy enough to agree to settle all their differences exclusively through the use of giant robots.
Bahamut.Ravael said: » Practical warfare is boring. Any awesome fighting robot being used in actual combat is one tactical bomb/missile strike away from becoming scrap metal. We need leaders around the world who are crazy enough to agree to settle all their differences exclusively through the use of giant robots. It's only the "giant" part that makes it that way, human or approximately human sized robots are very feasible and a far better use of resources. A ten foot tall ~500lb robot is very plausible as a battle platform, especially as it's remotely piloted. Garuda.Chanti said: » Actually the armed forces of the world are getting away from large and maned in favor of small and unmaned. What is really keeping things like these off the battlefields are lasers. The navy has lasers that will destroy hardened targets at 5 miles, how far are we away from laser artillery? Again, power source.... Not to mention the inherent instability of bipedal locomotion. LMAO Ghana thinks otherwise. They watch too much Scifi or something Leviathan.Draugo
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dis a fun topic, Skynetanyone?
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