For a given value of "reasonable". The novelty phones are primarily something seen used by women, and if we're being honest practicality is not always the only concern when the end user is shopping for something like that. For some, phones are a fashion accessory and customized appropriat...

We don't see any other novel smartphone designs modeled on living things at the time - Ranka's is a Japanese giant salamander - but we do see several other characters using cell phones with novel/unconventional designs in the series and later titles feature similar devices. It seems to be more a st...

As for Internet/E-Mail, Victory Gundam has Uso E-Mail Katejnia (did E-Mail exist in 1993, because that looks like what he's using). email pretty much existed since 1975, but the term E-mail was only used since 1979.(before that people used "electronic mail" to call that) Really Macross do...

Guess who's back, back again. Yes, I'm back. Tell a friend. Hello again, honored elders!(yes, i'm going to keep calling you all that and nothing can stop me) Today, I come before you with yet more questions on the Universal Century-- to be more precise, the mundane versions of it. We all know about...

It seems like it must have been a choice from the designers to use the Guncannon's rifle. Maybe there will be an in Universe justification. (like the Gundam utilizes spare parts and mixed armor and weapons from different units, like the Ez8) As with the Gundam ground type, it will probably be an ex...

I guess this is the "Overseas" Gundam sequel the UC Next 100 was talking about. The mech designs look pretty cool, and the Gundam looks a bit different, but I still think it looks like an interesting design. Is this supposed to be a redesigned RX 78? Most info just calls it the Gundam. My...

branman88 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 12:39 pm
and the rifle feel overly designed to me.

The rifle is Guncannon's rifle though.

Not to stir up the whole canon debate again, but how exactly do the variants affect the anime canon? Is it a case of the variations backstory becoming canon if it is featured in the Anime? For example the GAT-01A1 Dagger never appears in the anime , but its descendant the Dagger L does. Likewise so...

So basically Gundam doesn't have all that fancy Macross tech like inertia control for the Dom's hybrid turbines to work at its full capacity? Secondly, if we only count the MS-06GD and other Origin suits, just how many test units did Zeon build before they mass-produce the Dom? I have this feeling ...

So "guess wildly" really is the only option here, eh? :lol: I've found six books for Curcuruz Doan's Island and none of them offer anything much more insightful than "it is brown" or "it is a high-mobility Zaku for ground use". Well, TBF, most of the PB variants does n...

Seto Kaiba wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 9:58 pm
This is probably a model where the only info, if any, is going to be minimal and likely come only from a gunpla kit manual or some later collection artbook like a second volume of the Zaku Master Archive.

BTW the PB HGUC does not contain ANY info.

Depends on the scale of the combat situation. A maximum operating time of a couple hours isn't so bad if you're talking about a small skirmish a short distance away from a base or carrier, but it becomes a bigger issue for larger scale battles that may last hours or even days (like Odessa or A Baoa...

Is MS-06GD inferior to MS-06G? Since GD seems to use MS-06R1-A thrusters that were known to be gas guzzler; won't it have relatively short hovering time on Earth? Inferior in what sense? That's a really broad question that could be approached any number of different ways. It's also REALLY hard to a...

I'm currently rewatching Gundam X and just finished the episode where Witz had his gold stash was stolen by the kangaroo-esque Daughtress High Mobility types (https://www.mahq.net/dt-6800hm/). These hovering machines make off with the case while Witz and the Airmaster pursue them. Setting aside the...

Pretty sure Bandai already owned Sunrise(1994) before its merger with Namco(2005) AND already managed to published Gundam Officials and similar books(through Media works and Kodansha, etc.) before that(since 2000) and thus they do claim the right to have a say in what's canon. Yes, the buying of So...

I still think (mostly because it's more fun) that the siruation is like pre-Disney Star Wars. George Lucas never took Expand Universe into consideration into account when working on it, although he left it on its own. Unlike Disney-era which started by declared everything invalid. Well, the thing i...

I'm afraid you seem to be operating under a severe organizational misapprehension. The corporation you're incorrectly referring to as "Bandai" is not a monolithic corporate entity... it's a conglomerate. The correct name of the top-level parent company is Bandai Namco Holdings Inc. AKA Ba...

Mafty wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 10:03 am Aegis really seems best suited to a space combat role, really most mobile armors work best in space (Could you imagine something like the α-Azieru on Earth?).

ahem

https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/GP03-2_Dendrobium_II

IIRC, their policy is about "official" status, not canon (hence why it doesn't address the contradiction of animate works). Japanese seem to be fine with how fictional works can contradict each other without the need to clarify the one true event. Actually, they kinda do care. Hence we ha...

As I've demonstrated previously, this is not accurate... Bandai owns Sunrise, and it is through their ownership of Sunrise that they own the Intellectual Property of Gundam . The copyrights and management of the entire Gundam franchise are within the scope of Sunrise/Bandai Namco Filmworks. We've g...