Japan building a 60 foot Gundam

[Kowani]

Good. Now arm that shit. Lets get that mech warfare aesthetic going.

However much time, money, and effort is spent designing a combat-capable mech can be much more efficiently used to create a better tank.

The terror effect from this thing justifies it.

Also, giant robots.

[Aeritai]

Well 2020 is unpredictable, so who knows we might need this thing if scientist discover giant sea monsters in the Pacific.

But in all seriousness it looks pretty impressive.

[Federal Republic Of America And The Cari]

"Death is a pleasant alternative to communism"

Uh, excuse me? What we clearly need is the Statue of Liberty Cannon! You can only stand up to that thing's power... WITH THE HELP OF KYOJI!!!!

I was quoting liberty prime from fallout 4,but ok

[New haven america]

That's ~4 ft smaller than the one already built at Tokyo Base, for anyone wondering.

[New haven america]

Good. Now arm that shit. Lets get that mech warfare aesthetic going.

However much time, money, and effort is spent designing a combat-capable mech can be much more efficiently used to create a better tank.

There's is no such thing as a tank that's cooler than a Gundam.

It is simply a law of the universe.

[Soiled fruit roll ups]

anyone remember that really old Anime Evangelian.
They had better looking robots.
Made up for the lack of a coherent story.

[Xmara]

So

Giant robot attack on Tokyo for August? Or is it only there in case Godzilla decides to walk out of the ocean?

[Shanghai industrial complex]

They make a new one every year, but this year it's shit.What are these stickers? That don't make sense.In the past, the mechanical details of animation will be restored.And the gray corners, the producers say, are armor to protect the armor.WTF

[Radiatia]

Nice. Hopefully at some point next they'll build an Eva and then trigger human instrumentality because quite frankly I'm ready for the end of the world.

[-Ocelot-]

Japanese people building amazing things once more.

[The Huskar Social Union]

It begins...

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

60ft? What's it going to do - crush model villages and garden sheds?

[New haven america]

Have you guys seriously never heard of Gundam Tokyo Base?

[Solvokina]

It begins

[Twicetagram and JYPe]

Technology is finally being used for the good.

We need more jumbo robots. I hope we can build a massively huge army of 60 feet robots who will probably destroy us all and undo all the crap we've done.
I was kidding about that, but seriously this is what Design and Technology classes should be for.

[Shanghai industrial complex]

Nice. Hopefully at some point next they'll build an Eva and then trigger human instrumentality because quite frankly I'm ready for the end of the world.

Guess who this man is?

[Greed and Death]

The Japanese foreign minister has issued several warnings to the rest of the world that the angels will attack and that we need to build similar mechs to defeat them.

Thus far no country has opted to build a mech.

Source: https://evangelion.fandom.com/wiki/Angel

[Kowani]

Have you guys seriously never heard of Gundam Tokyo Base?

That one doesn’t walk.

[The Black Forrest]

Have you guys seriously never heard of Gundam Tokyo Base?

That one doesn’t walk.

Yet. It’s a goal.

[Dogmeat]

Nice. Hopefully at some point next they'll build an Eva and then trigger human instrumentality because quite frankly I'm ready for the end of the world.

I'm not ready to be turned into Gatorade.

[Torisakia]

Mech battles will be the future of warfare. Why have divisions like infantry, armored, and airborne when you can combine them all into one? More effective AND cuts costs. This is the best invention of our generation.

[Reploid Productions]

Have you guys seriously never heard of Gundam Tokyo Base?

That one doesn’t walk.

To be fair, this one doesn't truly "walk" either, from the video clip it's basically a very large and very fancy 1:1 scale animatronic that can look like it's walking in that the legs move, but I'm pretty sure that the robot's weight is actually being carried by that structure it's attached to rather than its own legs. The mech doesn't have any counter-balancing movement to indicate weight being shifted when the one leg lifts up off the ground, and if that 25 tons was being carried by both feet there would be something visibly shifting to balance that load to the foot that was still on the ground.

... Which would then promptly sink into the ground because of the square–cube law, since as Gren already noted:

[*screeches in engineering and physics*]

"Well, you see, every time we try to mount a nuclear reactor on it to power the leg servos, it keeps sinking into the ground. And that's before we add any armor or guns to it. Oh, and you didn't want this thing to be able to punch something, right?"

I do love me some Gundam, but giant mecha anywhere close to the specs from the show are just not possible due to physics- the show had to cook up an entire fictional subset of nuclear physics to try and at least partly justify the mecha (and most of the other tech) in-universe. And this one is barely half the empty weight of the actual RX-78-2, let alone the fully equipped loadout weight (about 43 tons empty, 60 tons max load.)

I mean, this is still really freakin' cool and is going to be an amazing attraction to see, but it's nowhere close to "actual working giant combat robot." Some day maybe I'll actually be able to travel to Japan and see it in person once all this 2020 bullshit is behind us all.

[Soiled fruit roll ups]

That one doesn’t walk.

To be fair, this one doesn't truly "walk" either, from the video clip it's basically a very large and very fancy 1:1 scale animatronic that can look like it's walking in that the legs move, but I'm pretty sure that the robot's weight is actually being carried by that structure it's attached to rather than its own legs. The mech doesn't have any counter-balancing movement to indicate weight being shifted when the one leg lifts up off the ground, and if that 25 tons was being carried by both feet there would be something visibly shifting to balance that load to the foot that was still on the ground.

... Which would then promptly sink into the ground because of the square–cube law, since as Gren already noted:

[*screeches in engineering and physics*]

"Well, you see, every time we try to mount a nuclear reactor on it to power the leg servos, it keeps sinking into the ground. And that's before we add any armor or guns to it. Oh, and you didn't want this thing to be able to punch something, right?"

I do love me some Gundam, but giant mecha anywhere close to the specs from the show are just not possible due to physics- the show had to cook up an entire fictional subset of nuclear physics to try and at least partly justify the mecha (and most of the other tech) in-universe. And this one is barely half the empty weight of the actual RX-78-2, let alone the fully equipped loadout weight (about 43 tons empty, 60 tons max load.)

I mean, this is still really freakin' cool and is going to be an amazing attraction to see, but it's nowhere close to "actual working giant combat robot." Some day maybe I'll actually be able to travel to Japan and see it in person once all this 2020 bullshit is behind us all.

Do you ever think we're gods cool mecha toys, cause flesh and muscle was the only way he could get one to work properly.

And like he's played with us a couple of times, realised he couldn't get the personalty programming to not be psychopathic so he just shut the box and has left it so long he's elsewhere and has forgotten about us?

[Pax Nerdvana]

This is cool and all, but I would've preferred one of the Jaegers from Pacific Rim.