"Impractical" would be the word I would choose for it... something can be stupid and still work, but a combining mecha is adding cost, complexity, and risk to no real benefit and is thus monstrously impractical.MythSearcher wrote: ↑Mon Dec 10, 2018 12:00 am The author have this part written just to illustrate how stupid the combining mecha idea is, and I totally agree with him.
Yeah, I can only think of a few non-Gundam examples of real robot combiners... and most of them are pretty damned lackluster and/or obviously impractical even within their respective shows.MythSearcher wrote: ↑Mon Dec 10, 2018 12:00 am The sample size is just reasonably small, Gundam has some combining just because of the time period it was released and toy companies loved the idea(so their toys have more gadget, hey, we had transforming pencil cases back then. Ok, maybe we still have them now...)
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I can't think of any real robot show that has combining mecha other than Tomino Gundam and shows following the tradition and not really trying to get more realistic(not saying that is a bad thing, we all know being too realistic usually loses audience).
Genesis Climber MOSPEADA had the Legioss armo-fighter and TLEAD armo-bomber that could join up to form a bigger fighter, but the combination was only really good for extending the range and service ceiling of both craft by combining their engine power. Other than that the combination actually made the two planes worse, since it made them heavier than either was alone, only one of them could transform while docked, and the TLEAD couldn't use a majority of its weapons while connected. This one is, at least, already covered on MAHQ though.
One of the Anten Seven members in Outlaw Star had a grappler ship that was a combiner, though that was a case of the ship having two extra arms that could detach and fight as independent ships... and its pilot was one of the Anten Seven's anticlimax bosses who was wiped out in the space of about five minutes with Gene and co. not even knowing who they'd just killed (a little girl and two talking cats).
I'd argue the Beck the Great RX3 from The Big O straddles the line between real and super robot... and was basically a joke in-series that got one-shotted because it tried a super robot combiner sequence against a combat pragmatist who was having NONE of that sh*t (and spent their lengthy combination sequence tying a fresh tie his robot maid brought him).