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- Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:37 pm
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: Zeon Design Philosophy
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9982
Still, I have to say, you're just ranting about why a '70s super robot-inspired show is lacking in extreme realism. My thoughts exactly. Shoulder spikes, V-fins, giant robots with 'faces' - this stuff is just the staple of mecha anime. These things are all still around, although maybe better integr...
- Sat Apr 12, 2008 1:39 pm
- Forum: Gundamn! @ MAHQ
- Topic: Listener Participation - Ep. 013 - The 00 Halftime Report!
- Replies: 31
- Views: 35989
- Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:20 pm
- Forum: Gundamn! @ MAHQ
- Topic: Idea Submission & General Feedback Thread
- Replies: 343
- Views: 116252
Seeing as how you guys already have a taste for crappy UK Gundam Wing toy commercials, heres another one (hope nobody posted this before).
- Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:34 am
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: Vulcans and Ammo Type
- Replies: 100
- Views: 23763
The idea to determine a guns size by measuring across the span of the entire gun, and not just one barrel doesn't make sense to me, because then the size of the 60mm vulcan guns themselves in the Gundam's head would only 6cm across. That would pretty much be useless for anything other than paint-sc...
- Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:21 am
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: Vulcans and Ammo Type
- Replies: 100
- Views: 23763
I thought there was a debate about vulcan sizes (well, it was the ones in CE, but still...) where a 75 mm vulcan was being discussed. I recall it being stated that if the measurement was the total diameter of the weapon then it wouldn't be too unreasonable. It would actually be undersized... I beli...
- Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:53 am
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: Vulcans and Ammo Type
- Replies: 100
- Views: 23763
I don't recall seeing brass shells spweing out from the side of the head. The Nu definitely spews out shell casings, as seen in a wonderful sequence from a CCA trailer (that isn't actually in the movie?). I think the RX-93 does actually eject casings at several points in the film itself. I'm strugg...
- Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:25 pm
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: A dumb question about Axis, Neo-Zeon and ZZ
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7156
If that's the case, I'm gonna have to retract my previous comment. This like Bravaria challenging China, and China taking them seriously. It also raises all kinds of problems with logistics. How could this small amount of people credibly produce and maintain as many mobile suits as it did, and stil...
- Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:49 pm
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: A dumb question about Axis, Neo-Zeon and ZZ
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7156
perhaps Anahiem was building suits for Axis? like this one? Maybe Haman was just counting on the disorganisation of the Federal forces following Gryps to blitz through any resistance and force a political settlement on her terms - and she almost got away with it. While the feds probably had enough ...
- Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:17 am
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: beam sniper, just how practical it is?
- Replies: 91
- Views: 21767
The whole questioning of the stealth aspect is assuming that an MS sniper fills the same role as a human one - it seems to me to be more likely that the emphasis is on a high-power, highly accurate long-range beam rifle, rather than staying hidden etc. After all this is a giant robot, not some guy i...
- Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:24 pm
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: Lombardia and Hario
- Replies: 29
- Views: 9285
- Sun Nov 25, 2007 9:55 pm
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: Who develepod the Gundam and the Mk-II?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6167
- Mon Nov 05, 2007 7:43 am
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: Big question about Gundam's/Mobile suit's cockpits
- Replies: 63
- Views: 19115
On the one hand you can always moan that technical aspects of MS operation aren't fully explained. But then I always think how much further Gundam goes in giving a huge ammount of technical background to everything - much more so than most sci-fi/anime - its part of the reason why I love it so much.
- Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:25 am
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: Harshin' the MS Igloo Buzz
- Replies: 77
- Views: 17110
I have to say I really enjoyed MS Igloo - but its certainly not without its flaws. The Nazi-style imagery is just... well... at times its just borderline offensive. I mean - in the last episode where May's face appears in space with the 'Zeon' flag waving behind him gently in the wind? This aryan wa...
- Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:03 pm
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: GM-Kais.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3823
Also a GM Kai should be able to be upgraded into a GM II. I've seen mentions that a GM can be upgraded to the Kai, then the GM II, then the GM III. I seriously doubt that - GM to GM II sure, but if you look at the structure and shape of a GM kai? it makes no sense. Just like I personally retconned ...
- Fri Aug 31, 2007 7:53 am
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: Gundam: What's Official?
- Replies: 181
- Views: 81465
On the subject of the original Gundam movie trilogy vs the series - isn't it true that Tomino used the movies as an opportunity to remove some of the more super-robot elements from the story (Gundam hammer, G-armor etc). Does that count for anything? obviously the gap between the movies and the seri...
- Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:15 am
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: Heavy Gundam and Full-Armour Gundams
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6204
- Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:11 pm
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: Pulling the trigger
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4333
Pulling the trigger
When an MS fires a handheld weapon, say a machinegun or beam-rifle, does it physically pull a trigger on the weapon to operate it? I assume this is the case since most weapons seem to have trigger-guards on them, I also remember shots in ZZ where close-ups of MS clicking the trigger are shown. It ju...
- Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Transformers Movie Thread Mk II
- Replies: 93
- Views: 28256
My god. I'm sorry... I just hoped hoped hoped Bay was gonna do something interesting with this. Instead we just get CGI battle-porn that contributes nothing to any meaningful narrative (sabot rounds, A-10s, 105mm-firing gunships - the airforce what? oh the army oh ok sector 7 cool OK...what? go oh o...
- Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:56 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Something to think about
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4399
Personally I think 2001 must have been a HUGE influence on Tomino when he created Gundam - we're talking about one of the most influential works of Sci-Fi here. I don't want to fall into the whole 'oh they stole this from that, this from that' etc, thats just the nature of genres. But clearly the (s...
- Sat Jul 21, 2007 2:00 pm
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: New mecha shows.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 11224
Gundam (Mostly AU and UC) Uhhh... what other Gundam is there apart form AU and UC? Anyway, I going to have to agree with everyone on Code Geass, although I have to admit I found my interest staring to dip around the later episodes. The mecha design started off pretty good, but I much prefer the ear...