$725,000,000 Gundam
Ever wondered how much it would cost to build a working, life-sized Gundam robot? At least $725 million for the parts and materials, according to an estimate published on the SciencePortal website run by the Japan Science and Technology Agency. The price tag for this giant humanoid, which would stand 18 meters (60 feet) tall and weigh 43.4 metric tons (nearly 100,000 lbs), does not include the cost of labor (this is where an extensive pool of robot slave labor comes in handy), nor does it include the cost of the infrastructure needed to support the machine once you are ready to climb aboard and take it for a walk.
Estimated cost of Gundam parts:
| ITEM | UNIT COST | QTY | COST |
| Aluminum alloy (honeycomb) | $1,800 | 43,875 | $79,000,000 |
| (+ Metal manufacturing/processing) | $240,000,000 | ||
| Main computer (IBM) | $1,550,000 | 1 | $1,550,000 |
| Gas turbine engines (GE) | $52,000,000 | 7 | $364,000,000 |
| Superconductive motors (IHI) | $260,000 | 30 | $7,800,000 |
| Motor drivers | $260,000 | 30 | $7,800,000 |
| Reducers | $760,000 | 30 | $22,800,000 |
| Sensors | $910,000 | ||
| Cockpit | $450,000 | ||
| TOTAL: | $724,310,000 |
Note that unlike in the anime, the Gundam described here would merely be able to walk — it would not have the ability to fly or have any fancy weaponry. Also, instead of Gundanium, the robot would be covered in aluminum alloy plating.
An IBM Blue Gene supercomputer would serve as the Gundam’s computer system ($1.5 million sounds like a steal), and its movements would be driven by 30 giant 400KW motors — 12 in the legs, 2 in the torso, 14 in the arms, and 2 in the neck. A 400KW motor is quite powerful — by comparison, some Shinkansen bullet trains use 300KW motors. The motors alone would cost $7.8 million, but to power them would require the equivalent of 7 Apache helicopter engines (the helicopters cost an estimated $52 million each).
While $700 million is a lot of money (more than the GDP of Liberia, Grenada and a dozen or so other nations), it does not seem like so much when you compare it to the cost of other large-scale machinery. Military tanks costs around $4 to $7 million each, commercial passenger planes cost around $200 to $300 million, rockets can cost around $100 million to launch, expensive fighter jets can cost billions, and aircraft carriers cost about $5 billion.
A robot of this size and stature would face a number of physical challenges, such as the inability to walk without completely destroying the ground surface beneath its feet. When humans walk, we exert about 1.5 times our body weight of pressure on the ground (and on our feet) with each step. This poses a huge problem for a 43-ton humanoid, which would probably need to have very wide feet (to distribute the pressure over a larger area) and walk very very slowly. Dinosaurs found a way to get around, though, so giant robots probably can, too.
But perhaps the greatest challenge of all would be to find the funding for an enormous walking machine with no apparent practical or military application. With no money, this Gundam will forever remain just a dream.
[Source: SciencePortal]
some people should have all their money taken away so that they don’t buy stupid stuff like materials for a gundam
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Yeah, they should give all of their money to some worthless country in the middle of nowhere so people there can have clean water and medicine… and then continue killing each other in equally worthless civil wars.
I’ll take the Gundam being built by a learned nation over that any day.
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What they should do is invite loads of people to donate to them, maybe give some percentage to charity. There’s loads of nerds out there willing to contribute to something like this.
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Wow…were you even thinking on a critical level when you came up with that scheme? I PRAY that you are not an insurance agent. LOL, imagine that!!! Entrepeneur: Hi nerd! Do you like gundams? wanna donate for a giant one? we will give some of it to charity! Nerd: Sure, how much? Entrepeneur: Oh not much, whatever u can. We need 725 million to make it. Nerd:<—heart attack. Whose gonna spend money on dumb things like that? Unless ur getting NASA to fund that crap, i recommend u get a brain and not come up with bad ideas.
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so wat ur saying is all the people that have donated to that r big nerds and that an advancement in technology is a waste of money? in regards to dragins theory… there prolly are hundreds or “nerds” to donated maybe 25 mil each. even just 5 mil.. i mean, were u thinking when u came up with that reply?
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If it’s not made of gundanium, it’s not worth building. Just sayin’, is all.
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Why does everyone keep bringing up Gundanium? That was Wing! This is 0079! It’s Lunar Titanium…
So, build it of titanium. Better than silly, old aluminum.
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in my opinion Carbon Nanotubes is the best material for gundam it is 1000 times stronger than steel and 100 times lighter.
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That being said, Carbon Nanotube is much more expensive, and impractical on this scale. Besides, military technology has this overwhelming preference to metal, and the Gundam was made of Titanium, anyhow.
Looking at those numbers, I can tell they’re making Gundam out to be a giant ASIMO.
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yea but brittle :/
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I agree wit ur idea. Carbon fibre oso can be a good material 4 making gundam not stupid dump aluminium can stuff.
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To me gundam have open my eye 2 the world. The lesson i have learned 4rom tis animation is WAR just bring PAIN to our belove world. Gundam not juz have a good lesson 2 all the human in tis world but also told us tat we should live in harmony where all people in tis world can live 2gether without killing each other
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…just, I love you Japanese ;)
“Mom, can I have one more piece of cake. This damn giant robot took it away…” ;)
cheers
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you could build a walking humanoid machine for commercial or military use but nothing as huge as a gundam, if that thing gets knocked over its done for, and then think how hard it would be to pilot such a thing
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Probably a little pricey for most :>{
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its so frikin possible now. they would easily reduce the cost a couple hundred million if they made it into 45 ft or 40 ft rather than the 60ft originally. i mean if every anime fan in the world donated like 100 dollars it could happen. i mean bill gates could do it if he wanted to its not that much money(when i say this i mean a total accumulation of all the money in the world or possibly the billions wasted on nukes tanks guns and bullets…)
i mean what if the world had to the fact that gundams are the future way of fighting… i would pilot one!
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well, seeing as that it costs about 400 thousand USD to train one individual US infantry soldier (not specialized), how much do you think it would cost to train a specialized pilot and specialized technicians to fix it whenever it gets dingged up? add that to the cost of the mahcine in total and you’ve got yourself one big need of stimulus package.
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In my opinion,to build large full scale gundam will be a freak enough for the pocket of share holder. But if the scale is downsized and replacing by easier design it probably will be true.
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true, probably about 20-30 feet high. and with our new carbon fiber and polymer materials it will be very light and resiliant.
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The thing you described would not be a Gundam. It would be some other mech. Maybe a Knightmare Frame, from Code Geass. They’re 15-20 feet tall.
Gundams are 18 or so meters tall. 60 feet. Not this “smaller” crap.
Now, what I think is ridiculous is a full-scale White Base to go with it.
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Knightmare Frames are closer to something we could build with tech in the near future anyway. Plus, the Guren or the Lancelot would easily be able to own a 60 foot Gundam. With size comes vulnerability. Smaller target, harder to hit, moves faster, and there for can own ANY Gundam, They are big, slow, and they honestly kind of look ugly. I don’t hate Gundams, the first anime I ever saw was Gundam Wing, but the Knightmares just make more sense to me. Radiation Wave Surger anyone? :P
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Oh, God, no. Not one of those!
The thing is, though, a 60-foot tall Gundam (Still smaller than the 65-foot long UH-60) would have a larger weapons capacity than a Knightmare. Plus, Knightmares leave the pilot amazingly undefended and have no real room for a power supply. In Gundam, most of the torso is space for the reactor it used, leaving a small 2×3 meter space open for the command module.
Large size doesn’t make it vulnerable. If that were the case, the CH-47, C-17, and MH-53 aircraft wouldn’t exist. They’re all leagues larger than this.
We have the technology. We can build it. Question is, now, can we make a beam rifle for it? :P
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This is rather absurd. The costs for modern war machines is not for the parts, most of it is for development costs, which takes anywhere from 5 – 10 years with hundreds of engineers and millions of dollars in purpose built equipment. The billions of dollars the US government pays for those stealth bombers is to recoup the development costs. If it would cost $730million for the parts for a Gundam, the costs of engineering the design and building it all from scratch would probably run in the 10s of billions or more.
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I would put it in the low billions range, On top of making it smaller and replacing the Aluminium with Carbon fibre.
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I can’t decide whether to buy this or the zoid. I have no idea what to spend this money on.
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*Sigh* you dumbass you forgot some key facts I mean yes it will cost allot of money but walking slowly big feet HA look your feet they not wide or huge to take away force when we walk we have something. *I forget what is called* that absorbs some of our body weight when we walk I mean come on. LOOK AT THE SCIENCE jeez planes lets look at planes shall what do plane’s have…give up?
SHOCK ABSORBERS when a plane lands it bends down cuz of the shocks and force and weight hmmm now lets take those away what would happen?
it would crash boom fire dead people when a mobile walks the shocks in the feet and legs absorb the pressure ok now then leeeets look at ourselves ok what would happen if we jump from a high place like a tree if we didn’t bend down what would happen?……give up?
We would end up breaking our legs it be painful really painful so when a mobile suit jumps and lands the shocks in the feet and legs well absorb a lil bit of pressure plus it will bend down to absorb more I mean. YES it will leave a mark BUT not as big of mark or hole Jesus look at the science BEFORE you write something like this. And the jets are possible but that needs more time and you forgot something THE CAMARAS how do you see out there are quite a few camera’s big ones I will tell you were they are hidden IN PLAIN SIGHT. There are 3 or 4 fore in one eye so there altogether are 6 or 8 cameras in 2 eyes put together. And 2 in the head 1 big one in the front and in the back what did you think that crust was running along his head some decoration ya now for every part on a mobile suit it has a use it not all for decoration. Well before I keep talking bout how it works and everything it needs how it moves ETC ETC ETC so in conclusion look at the science learn how it works BEFORE you make some shit up on how you think it works.
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Hey Joe,
How about learning how to spell before you explain the “science” of an animated robot.
“THE CAMARAS how do you see out there are quite a few camera’s big ones I will tell you were they are hidden IN PLAIN SIGHT.”
Camaras? HIDDEN in PLAIN SIGHT?!
Oh noes…
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JUMPJETS!!! a mech with out jumpjets is retarded, if np jumpjets how about some chain guns or something…anyhow thats pretty cool
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oh yea this guy talking about “the science” your gay…you must have alot of time to think about this gay shit, pussy.
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While I don’t like how joe exposed it, there something in there that are true.
For a robot like that to move, would be needed someting like the pneumatic chambers of a car’s wheel in both the foots.
of course, just that wouldn’t make it, but it’s a start…
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How about a smaller type Gundam with hover ability’s. Lightweight aromored core where the cockpit would be for speed (no head). The weak armor could stop heavy machine gun fire for a while. The CPU would have to detect rpg fire and other rockets and control evasive moves automatically . The costs of engineering the design and building wouldn’t have to be too much being that all parts are in use today. Half-hover craft with (boosters, or jumpjets!) half-tank with arms!! Programming the CPU could be hard.I think speed is the answer.
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THE GUNDAM HEAD IS LIKE THE COOLEST PART OF A Gundam…….. and soon i think the army mite consider gundams as a way to get rid of there enemys quicker. With all this technologe it wouldnt be that hard to build a gundam…… it still would take alot of time and money. But in 20 or 30 years they just make consider it. I would love to be in the cockpit of a gundam. I would maybe join the army then.
P.S I read on a newspaper online that some nation are considering it.
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the Japanese are already halfway done with theirs they might have started this in the 80’s while USA was still trying to figure out how planes really work
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Yeah, and that’s clearly why Japan uses 30+ year old American airplanes for their air force.
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Well currently sense there is no real use for Gundams what they should do is make a smaller type Mecha machine with the use of Track wheels that would be less exspensive and more movable.It should be piloted by 2 people ,a driver and a shooter. With this project they could use it as a foundation. Using this would lower the price by at least 30million. (just a suggestion) Instead of using this Machine for a War weapon it could start as a new type of League. This would take years upon years to happen but like i said (just a suggestion)
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It’s called a tank bud…..
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I’ve got an even better idea. We take off the head and arms too, flatten it all out a bit, and give it the biggest gun that can be fired from a chassis in it’s weight class.
Then we do it 92 years ago.
Should shave the price tag down to 1-3 millon dollars per unit for the best available, and be in use in the hundreds or thousands with every major military in the world by now.
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or except for making it like 60ft tall make it like 30 or 40 feet tall that might leave some money 4 weapons and jets.
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@Anon
>>Is it just me, or does anyone else >>think giant walking robots are a >>huge military liability?…
I’ve been thinking too much about this, and i think a solution involving nanophase materials instead of standard aluminum would both lighten the the entire superstructure, redically increase armor/durability, as well as it being a nanaophase material makes it a prime candidate for translucentcy. Giving it the ability to leverage present light reflection, and admittedly low-grade “invisibility” techniques involving projecting, or reproducing the terrian behind to yield adapotive camoflage (already in use on many tanks). As far as the legs being vulnerable i think they would be designed with that flaw in mind, and would have several reactive technologies to counteract attacks which focus on that area. And other area’s. The design can be engineerd to withstand the majority of projecticle weaponary (like a tank) with little to no damage. Active/Intelligent projectices involving sometype of computer system tech can be either targeted and destoryed in advance, or reduced to a “regular” projectile with a EMP type weapon that triggered off some type of proximity detection. those aren’t *all* of the way or ideas, just a few that i came up with quickly.
Also the pricing on these parts are reflecting the highest potential price in many cirumstances, and a rather low tech approach to solving design problems. Something like this would most likely call for atomic batteries or a micro-nuclear reactor like the one toshiba’s building
so Nano materials give us super armor and a moderate degree of camoflage
intelligent engineering gives us enchanced resistence to obvious attacks; enhanced active and passive protection against “intelligent” attacks, and potentially far greater agility and range than any other ground based military technology.
As for taking a direct hit; the armor could be dseign with an overlapping plating system for a. increased mobility and dexterity, and b. to recapture engergy used to push the armor plates forward or backward… The only way i can think of to describe this tech is some colleges, grocery stores, and malls have doors with energy reclmation motors attached to them; you’ll notice it because it’s harder to open the doors, and you can almost feel or hear a motor type grinding or vibration when you open the door. These are hooked to batteries, which are charged when you open the door, and assist in powering the automatic/handicapped doors in an almost altruistic symbyosis of energy reclamation. I envision the same tech recapturing the Force of a projectile exploding, or “hitting” the armor which instead of denting the armor, pushes it inward, driving the reclamation motor, absorbing the force of impact, and recharge battieries of sometype on the Mecha either for EMP or other energy related activities.
as crazy as it sounds, what i’m describing is not far-fetched. It’s leveraging existing cutting-edge technology to create a truly desirable war machine that any government or paraniod billionare would be proud to own in the worst case scenario.
xaustinx@gmail.com
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THATS WHAT I was sayin
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in diffent words it reallt wouldnt be a big deal for all those billionares. An if the army really wants to win wars they should follows austins idea of building a gundam.
(other nations are already doin it)!!!!!!!
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Fun article. I do think a giant robot (mobile suit) of this size would be both awkward and expensive. A couple of people brought up some interesting points, though. A smaller machine would be cheaper to produce as well as more practical. The original mobile suits shown in the anime was developed for space combat. Their size was probably due to both the size of their powerplants as well as to need to carry anti ship weapons. Their humanoid shape was just a hold over from the heavy space suits that they evolved from. Later in the show, mecha even abandoned the human form.
If an incarnation of the giant robot/mobile suit were to make an appearance as an actual piece of military hardware I would think it would be much smaller in size. Our modern type of warfare would dictate something we could air drop from a C-17. It would be able to survive small arms, rpg’s, IUD’s etc. Like our current tanks they would thermal sensors, night vision smoke dischargers, etc but in a package that was more suited for urban combat. 60 foot mobile suit, isn’t necessary, but maybe a 10-20 foot tall mech to breakdown doors and support infantry… I could see that happening in our lifetime.
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if they could build that im sure im the first to ride it :)
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I know it would suck to see an actual Gundam that cant fly or
have cool weapons or no Gundanium armor but just to see
an actual real Gundam walking around would be cool. So i say
to get everyfan thats a fan of Gundam to contribute a little
bit of there money or anyway possible to help raise money for the project kuz i know there R a Lot of u Gundam fans out there and together the money could be raised!
yours truly, Mike
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Enormous fighting machines are nice, if they remain confined in fiction. For example watching the new Raptor fighter evolutions is exciting… then I think to price and purpose and go mad. What a bunch of idiots we are!
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I have been interested in electronics for along time , and if you wanted to build one it would cost alot more than that.if you where to ignore a few thousand copyrights and so fourth you could make one with massive amounts of weaponry and enough tactical strength to wipe out a city !
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For all you nut out there only gundams from the gundam wing series were made of gundanium, all the other were made of titanium.
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Hey JALBER83 actualy starting from Zeta Gundam on they used gundarium alloy its spelled “gundanium” in G Wing its still the same thing!!!
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if you’re going to make the gundam any smaller than it already is its just going to turn into a mech… from mech warriors… and i dont think that in the next 20-30-40 years there are going to be any gundams running around shooting the shit out of eachother. it just doesnt make alot of sense to build one when we already have tanks, planes, and ships that can basically take out anything in their sight.
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i want a gundam =)
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that is a lot of money
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Call the Rockefellers we want a giant robot built. I mean they have that kind of money why the heck not?
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Screw it. get the f#$%^in Gov 2 build an army a dat shit so no more
soldiers get wasted in F%$#%in Iraq..
God iz so fing ez.
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my dream as a kid was to design and build a gundam, if any thing, we shouldnt build rx-78 we need to build like heavy arms or just build a basic leo design, not the most complex of gundams but mabey the simpler mobil suit designs. just an idea even if the military had just a leo we could be unstopable,
another problem would be the pilot, i myself now how gundams and leos work there controls and such. but to train someone that dosnt know how the move and work would be very hard.
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I may have missed it, but to answer the weight distribution problem for stomping the ground, I pose the question: “Why does it matter?” If you look at the original novels, mobile suits never fought on Earth, (yes I know there was a fight on three colonies, but eh…) and they were meant to be space superiority fighters. So, it’s okay to have all that mass, as long as it’s in space. However, to push that mass around, how much would it cost to have rockets and verniers? I’d see a space faring gundam more practical than one on Earth. It’d be much more maneuverable, faster, and awesome to see in action, even if it wasn’t for military purposes. The whole thing behind Gundam was that close combat was necessary again because radar was effectively disrupted, thus no long range weapons. Soooo, unless Minovsky particles are ever realized, these things don’t seem to have any good military value.
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well…just looked above me again, and someone kind of brought it up…
oh wellz
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rx-78-2 isn’t the best of the best if you look at the (future gundams) that doesn’t mean that it can’t be done aside from that no matter what is said about building at least one rich or not it will be built w/or w/out we want or desire to have b/c someone/somebody will find it useful for self gain or dare i say it to rule the world in the end does it really matter what we want contact me at goldwarmachine2003@yahoo.com if you want to talk about futher
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I actualy have been coming up with ways to solve large scale humanoide robotics scines i first saw gundam wing. I’m a mechanical engineer and i find it vary posible to make a mobile suit that is 15-20 tall running on cold fusion reactors. with almost the same ’scale’ mobability as a nomal human. with weapons of course. but it would not have anything uh humanly posable other than that like the suits in halo. It would be possible to make something like this by streching your resources for near 2 million dollars. And if i got the money i would definatly design it for free. or i can wait till im a rich ceo :). Im sirious about the lst part ;).
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That wouldn’t be a a Gundam, that would be a Knightmare Frame, a la Code Geass.
If it’s not 60+ feet tall, it’s not a Gundam… Okay, 59+ feet.
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after rechecking my figures it would be that price for a 8-15ft tall suit.
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hey, im a gundam 00 fan… but i still think it’d be impossible to find anyone who would design one of these for 725 mil in the first place.. i mean, there are so many better things you can accomplish with that much money…
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I think we could do it for a lot less than that and make it work perfect and to thous who say Gundams are nothing but large targets on the battlefield on an open battlefield yes that may be but think of in a city. Also think of possible construction applications weather it be on earth or in space the U.S. is suppose to build a base on the moon think of how much a MS could help speed up that task and don’t even think gundam at first think zaku or along thous lines. basic is where you start you cant jump to the end in time we will have gundams or so but start small robotics gets better and better everyday some thing new happens. don’t misunderstand me it will cost alot but not as much as is being discussed here
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It can not be denied that a Gundam at the level of those on the shows would be pretty much unstopable when put up against anything that is used in ground warfare today, but by the time that even a prototype of that quality was produced I would bet that ground warfare would be outdated. All war in the future ,with any countrys that have power, will probably be solved with threats and nukes (if it got that far) there is no honor in war now days “Sir we have a chance we may lose.” “screw it, kill um all!” the only place that it may find use is a battle between a superpower(only places with the money to have such weapons) and third world countrys (the places that superpowers want to control not destroy). so unless there was realy something like an N jammer cancler (from gundam seed) then i do not think that anyone will bother. But I do hope that they will come about, as well as the N jammer because although i dont like war to begin with, I do find the thought of Nukes as very disrespectful and mecha as much more honorable, if that is a thing that anyone beleaves in anymore. So if it does happen there will be many circumstances surounding it not just its production.
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On a side note about cost, the 400KW motors seem to cost more then I would think. A 400KW is the same as a 500-550HP AC motor. The AC motors today can be purchased for about $75K, thats for a vector duty variable torque variable speed motor. Thats list price, wholes sales about .55-.75 multiplier. There would be a handful of support CPU and controllers. The power source could be the M-1 Abrams turbine that puts out 1500KW and is multi-fuel. Still there are weapons of war that have proved their effectiveness and I do not think a gundam would out maneuver and out pace a tank, or chopper. Artillery alone would lay waste to any targets with in they range. Also, the weight problem, can be helped by using shock absorbers when in motion, yet there is still the fact that the mechas entire weight will be distributed all on one foot, during action. In cities that would be not be possible, b/c of city infrastructure, like sewage’s, water, power, transit, and even under ground tanks for fuel, water, waste etc. These structures would collapse under the weight. Thats one of the reasons tanks dont go driving down the road in Central Park…lol…take it light.–KB
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I believe that we should not use a turbine engine and go with a compact nuclear fusion drive (even though it is still in the process of being built) if use of such a energy source then the gundam can do way more then just walk or even fly. The gundam should use some of the ideas already put forth form other gundam shows as the phase shift armor from seed/seed destiny, which i think would be possible to make. The controls should be half physical manipulation of controls and mental, there is already being work done on the use of the brain for control of a computer by just thinking. I dont see a gundam as a possibility but as it will happen in the next 10-15 years. If not by a government or country but by a person with the will.
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all i got to say is it would be way awsome if they can make a real one. gundam is better then transformer.
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s0nicstr1fe just shut your mouth, you ignorant jerk… The mobile suits can’t be constructed in real life, at least for now, but most technologies of the Gundam Saga have pratical uses like space colonies, skintight space suits, beam technology…there are many possibilities, ASSHOLE!
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Well, this is just a suggestion. What if we started with just a small Gundam, say, like a little action figure serving as a prototype and put in the IBM,Superconductive motors, Gas turbine engines, etc and see if it works, solve the problems to make it faster, and hover in the air and then work our way up to a to a real – life Gaint Gundam?
~~~~RankaChan~~~
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well….if is destrutive the military will probobly buy it…but it sucks…you can’t actually shoot laser beam or have a life saber or any other of the crap they do…..and gundam is a large scale thing..so one cannon through the stomach is gone….if they are going to build some weapon it won’t look that cool it will just be like a round ball thing that can shoot cannon 360 around…..and gundam won’t be so flexible in real life…is hard to control their finger…it is an impossiblee dream…but if japanese are cool enough to build one for show then is cool…hope they build one for parade or show..
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I’m sorry but I don’t see a gundam being made anytime soon. Even if it was mechs like in mech warrior would be the most plausable. Yea nanotechnology is to the answer to almost all of it but they can only do so much with what they have. They can’t make nano tubes made large scale enough to fill one dental floss container yet… I’ve always dreamed of building a mech but hey I’m 19 and shoeing horses for a living.
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to say somthing is imposinle is to close your mind, to what could happen. Yes there are alot of problems with the gundam and it may take even more then 20 years, but if u know how, shouldn’t it be done. But as a huge gundam fan I am, the only real use it was ever designed for was to kill people, no more no less, now tell me could u pull the trigger on someone else? It is really only a weapon. But it CAN be done.
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I would join the army if they had gundams or Zoids.
Speakin of Zoids do you guys think its more possible to Build A zoid than a Gundam!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE BOTH ZOIDS AND GUNDAMS!!!!!!!
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kk seriously think about this……..it would cost a total of four commercial airplanes roughly to build one gundam….but imagine if one was built and then armed with nuclear weapons……in a matter of months the world would be under the control of any one person who controlled a gundam…..and considering the technology we possess today it would not be hard to have such a thing happen…….so I seriously hope someone builds one…..and I know I am the craziest of crazies but I want to pilot it!
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I SO EXICITED JAPAN IS BUILDING A GUNDAM, Takayuki Furuta, Director of the Future Robotics Technology Center in Chiba, Japan is building 1!
Check this Link-
http://gunota.info/index.php/2008/04/05/plans-to-build-a-real-life-60-foot-tall-gundam/
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bill gates has enough money and i say build it with a jetpack so it can fly or even hover annnd with guns and lasers
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Aluminum? Don’t be cheap. The Gundam is meant to take hits like a beast, that’s the whole reason it’s a GunDAM. The real Gundam used “lunar titanium alloy” but I don’t think we’ve done anything with the moon’s metals so use real titanium alloy instead (if that’s more capable as armor).
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Carlos Owens, google it, you’ll see what his up to.
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Talking about armor…..I was curious to some gundam technologies and one that struck me was phase shift armor from Gundam seed. Now of course in Gundam Seed, it was complete BS with the colors, BUT actually in reality Phase Shift Armor is somewhat a reality. The armor is called Electrical Reactive Armor (ERA)
Conventional RPGs, Armor Piercing Rounds, and other “shape charge” munitions derive their destructive power from cones of copper embedded in their noses. When the warhead explodes, it crushes the cone, shooting out a jet of hot copper at 5,000 mph — instantly destroying anything short of a tank.
This armour is made up of two or more conductive plates separated by some space or by an insulating material, creating a high-power capacitor. In operation, a high-voltage power source charges the armour. When an incoming body penetrates the plates, it closes the circuit to discharge the capacitor, dumping a great deal of energy into the penetrator, which may vaporize it or even turn it into a plasma, significantly diffusing the attack. The copper ions from the Armor piercing rounds are positive so the electrons from the capacitor will basically neutralize the copper. The amount of energy it takes to maintain this ERA is actually about as much energy it takes to turn on your car on a cold day. There are more details here: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2002/08/54641
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That’s not the Phase Shift principle, that’s the Reactive Armor principle.
Phase Shift works by running a current through a nano-particle layer on the armor. When physical objects strike the super-hardened nano-particle layer, no damage is caused because of the harder properties of this layer. However, if a high-energy object, such as a particle beam, contacts it, it disrupts the current and the particles can’t defend against it.
In theory, the physics back it up, but it has yet to be tested or applied.
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I think with today’s technology, we’re still too far behind to create a full-working/fighting gundam. And with all honnesty, I think building a Gundam in aluminium is absolutely ridiculous. We might as well do it in cardboard.
That being said, for better stability and improved mobility, I would rather go for the Bacow’s structure. (from Gundam Seed) with its 4 legs, it wouldn’t require so much balancing, would eliminate the danger of having it falling over, and having a near-1 Billion$ *Ka-Boom*
Personally, I think until we can figure out Thermal-Energy Weapon Technology, building a Gundam would be no better than building a stand-up tank.
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The cost is according to present cost. As we all know prices of certain parts do get cheaper over time. However, I do not believe we will ever see a working gundam in our lifetime or our children’s lifetime. And to those who claims to be the first to pilot a gundam, wait in line. There are millions of people who wants that job and all of them are lining up behind me! lolz
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rasa gundarium already exists its actual name is titanium or luna titanium we got that on earth and possibly in outer space and it uses hilium type 3 as as it’s fuel found on earth naturally and on jupiter
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I’m working on Blue Prints for a Mobile Suit And Let Me tell you; The world does not yet have the technology to fully complete one of these machines. With the way the world is right now, we can probably fund money to get one started and put some people back to work, then maybe it would help stimulate the economy to further our technological research and acquire the proper knowledge to fulfill one. It would be ridiculous if our world did turn to Mobile Mobile Suits for acts of war.
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Dont’be naive, plz.
1) money are not a problem. as long as the military are involved, whatever amount of money will be affordable. Also Japanese would spend whatever amount to create a real robot: they have been spending BILLIONS each year to research robot construction and they won’t stop for any reason.
2) early prototypes of neurohelmets have popped out lately. sooner or later we’ll be able to control any machine with our sheer thoughts. obviously the perfect machine to move would be a replica of our body. a walking robot with human features would be an incredibly powerful weapon.
Maybe there’s no need to have it 18 meters tall, but I bet someone is gonna make a real Gundam sooner or later!
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18 metros^^
Esse e so para comemorar o aniversario de Gundam,ouvi boatos q o exercito japones estao criando um sistema gundam e o proprio Gundam para defesa do pais,e tambem vao usar para outros meios !!!!!!!!
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hey guys how do you know that a gundam would work if we made it. it would not be a gundam it would be a mech ,which is all ready made, half the shit for a gundam is not made yet .
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The power source of Gundams was never gasoline based, they used nuclear reactors.
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that’s close 2 the truth but its actually a fictional type of generator called “monovsky ultra-compact” but man don’t let the govt lie 2 ya my step dad used 2 work at C.T.F. and a guy there made an actual perpetual generator! sure it was big “like the size of a school bus, but it could produce enough power 2 power itself and a small city, why wasn’t it released 2 public? a govt trusted company told the creator if he didn’t sell the patent they would kill him, why would they kill him? because it woulda put a large electric company out of business so he sold it 2 save himself :/ all its about is money……….
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this is just a weapon for wars making them in the first place is a wrong thing…
making a gundam is just like building a weapon they can be used for wars just because they are big and only 1 gundam is needed to kill… hope people in life don’t build this for bad use
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well if it was created it wouldn’t be used often at that size, and besides wars happen man and if we had a gundam like described im sure noone would wanna fight us 1. cuz a real gundam is nearly unstoppable and 2. im sure lots of countries wouldnt wanna see us go full scale war *especially knowing we got money like that*
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It sounds like fun to me just the thought of making one would be worth seeing it actually work, though I agree using it for creating war would be wrong, but would come in handy if someone thought about attacking us…
but instead of having walk on legs and feet solve the problem by putting it on tracks to desperse the weight and load it with a butt load of weapons. Just my opinion..
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OK OK..a lot of people have made strong points but the possibility of a REAL gundam is not as far fetched as we think. Most of those opposed to the idea had 1 thing in common. They said that there would be no application for a 60ft tall robot. While I agree 60 feet is tall, I must say that the applications for it would be enormous. For example, On the battlefield, lets use a tank vs a Gen I “Mobile Suit”. The first thing engineers would want out of their mobile suit is speed. Lets say that the mobile suit maintains speeds of 45-65mph(running), The tank would have to be hitting a moving target. Also, chances are that the countermeasures found on the mobile suit would be the latest tech thus giving it an advantage over the ground forces found on the battlefield, meaning, the pilot would be aware of the tanks on the battlefield. And PLEASE remember that just because were talking about a gundam doesnt mean they would send it by itself against a battalion ok..it would be assisted by other friendly forces just like ground forces have backups today. There would be tanks, jets, helicopters, infantry, and drones all assisting this 60ft beast. and as a strategist, let me be the first to tell you that if there is any purpose for the gundam on the battlefield it is at least to be the target of attention. ALL of the enemy forces would try to take it out first meaning the gundams friendly forces would have ease in hitting their targets. So to say that a mobile suit serves no purpose other then a bill is totally wrong..the country with 1 or 2 of these things would cause other countries to shit their pants
that was for the purpose of a gundam. Now lets talk about how close we would be to building a good mobile suit. I would say, with the technology that we have now both public and secret, we could accomplish a mobile suit that’s about 25-30ft much like a nightmare frame or an AC(armored core unit) As im typing this, there are live application of next generation helmets with HUD’s like what we saw in GI JOE, also for about 2 daces, we’ve had in action the motion helmet like what is found on the apache in which the pilots head moves the camera as well as the gun. Russia has developed radar that can detect the raptor, japan has developed Bi-Pedal robots , China has developed, CPU’s with next gen AI…METALS being used in next gen armor such as the Titanium-Zirconium alloys, Reactive armor, Next gen Countermeasures like what the army is researching for the Merkava IV Tank Defence System which can be read at http://www.army-technology.com/news/news61476.html
All thats left is energy source. WE have tons of applications. Remember that we are just trying to build a mobile suit, so space use can come at a later time, but for now, we could use small,nuclear powerplants like what the next gen abrams are supposedly gonna be using(rumor) or use the motors as described
Now PLease Please dont thnk that our mobile suit will be anything like in the anime…now ay can we make a mobile suit that can do a cartwheel and quickly duck behind a building..lets leave that for anime…in a real world application they would move like zakus did in early gundam shows
As for training….theres already small aplications thay companies are using even for recreational purposes such as http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x38lcl_senjo-no-kizuna-banpresto-gundam
Imagine a military purpose or construction purpose..they could tweak those simulators easily..
All thats left is the monetary value…is it worth building such expensive items…YES it is. We as americans already spend 1.5 billion per B2…another half billion just on maintenance…and we never see these things flying..we spend 300 million a MONTH on refueling and rearming our boys over there in Iraq alone…so money is not an issue..if theres a will theres a way…
P.S any 1 know how to get in on those sims? they are in japan
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yea either go 2 japan or search 4 an emulator (if they make em 4 gundam pod) and play it on your computer, im sure you could spend some money and but a real one also Mr Big Spender lol ;)
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You know… Gundams might be needed for space missions… Like a mission to explore Mars… with a gundam, not only will it be safer, it will gurantee a successful mission…. plus with a gundam, it will speed up the process of building a station in martian atmosphere or within mars for future space travels and colony. Scientists and people alike have always wondered what it would be like to send humans to Mars, and the only obstacle they have is the safety of the astronauts since it’s been proven that space travel from earth to mars can take only months to no more than 2 years if the timing is perfect. With a gundam, entry to martian atmosphere and exploration within mars will be gurateed a success and the safety of the astronauts/pilots/explorers will not be jeopardize since gundams are resilient to dust/sand storms that ravage Mars.
If the whole mission is a success, money will be worth wasted on building Gundams… and we all know that in the future when humans can actually live beyond earth… war between planets are inevitable, just like war between nations… and a Gundam is a perfect weapon for wars such as this, be it on land, air, sea, or space.
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this $724,310,000 dollar business is a crock of shit, I’ve studied gundam, robotics, machinery,weaponry,computer coding and metal working for over 15 years, I’ve created so many blueprints and designs for the RX-78-2 and many other MS its unbelievable and i can honestly say that could make a gundam with all the bells and whistles for about $2,500,000 (now say the G-vot shouldnt make 1) and a reduced size version for $250,000 that could be piloted by a complete idiot. if anyone wants to know how a gundam really works msg me at
danielmelton0@yahoo.com or danielmelton0@myspace.com
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hello there. theres a big possibility that gundams maybe possible in the future. first the mechanics, there is material that invented called carbon nanotubes it is 1000 times stronger than the steel and 100 times lighter. it is also immune from melting and generating heat friction which is good material for armor,inner frame and joints. second the energy, the machine like gundam requires a great amount of energy the good source is matter-antimatter collision. when matter and antimatter collide it creates great amount of energy 10 order of magnitude greater than chemical energy. the energy is so great that even gundam can move very quickly like we seen in the anime series. but only the carbon nanotubes can handle that the steel will only melt and heavines is a burden. another solution is fusion reactor.this machine works like GN drives in gundam oo series. but it use to fused two element to create energy.another solution is a hadron collider built in europe a machine that accelerates particles and collides at extremely high speed. the purpose for this is to break down those particles to find more simplier particles. in theory the simplier particle is called “higgs boson” this energy source may be feasible to be implemented on a gundam however such source has not yet found.third problem is computing. when piloting a gundam you must have a computer that recieves information about invironment,elevation,temperature,stored energy,upcoming target, homing/lock on,monitoring internal invironment,the pilots staus,velocity,etc. we probably need a quantum computer. in present time IBM scientist have done some of the of the most complicated computer but not enough for a gundam but in the future it maybe possibe.so mechanics,money,energy,comuting,materials. once this 5 is solved gundams are no longer a fantasy.
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nice responses..ZERO ur an idiot..no one would ride that 2 million dollar crap..what would u pick? testing a porshe or testing a hyudai
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Mr ugore. 2 million dollar is nothing if if we talk about real Gundam. which is capable of taking down America’s most powerful jet plane worth 25 billion each. in fact even if there is numerous jet planes. they are no match against single gundam which only worth 2 million
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obviously your the kind of guy who would blow his entire paycheck on a penis enlargement because the fact that hes either small,sexually retarded,or cant get his wife off. Really which do u think is gonna last longer in a firefight, a faggot IBM computer or a good chunk of steel? yes gundam is expensive and yes its very technical when you think about it but ill take withstanding the test of time anyday. in the military its not what looks pretty it what gets the job done ppl like you are proby the reason there is no gundam, because cant get all the fortune and fame out of their rectum long enough 2 realize that the military isnt gonna take something catchy and pretty “they want something useful that will save the good guys and erase the bad ones. ive loved gundam ever since i can remember, i loved em so much i now have $1000 dollars worth of merchandise in gundam (i ate, drank, and slept gundam) but if i wouldnt say gundam is the most likely candidate 4 creation this day in time, if anything it would be the “Ausf D Durer” see http://www.einhander.org/imagenes/Galeria/ac_gallery/BINPACK5_004.jpg which is about the size of a panzer and is equipped with a 20mm Vulcan cannon, 120mm cannon, rear vertical firing medium missiles x20, forward firing heat mini dispersal missiles x30, shoulder mounted SAM/SSM/ASM missle pack x21, and 2 top it off a hi output lazer for anti missile defense! all this about 10-15 tons including the fact that it can move superbly thanks 2 a bipedal hovercraft system which allows awesome maneuverability! but not only does this have awesome firepower but also can take a huge beating thanks 2 plated steel and a special thing im developing called “nitrofoam” which renders it impervious HEAT rounds all over it! its lazer system can be used 4 defense purposes (disabling missiles) as well as offensive purposes (cutting in half the plane that fired it) so 2 recap, its a highly stable maneuverable, mobile, missile/anti missile/anti infantry/anti tank/anti aircraft/anti warship/anti structure! (hovercraft-tank missile battery) that can travel by land or sea or air *in short distances* and be piloted by a complete retard because every move you make “it does” which allows 4 no training saving billions of dollars! and 2 answer you question bout the cars “id test drive a porshe but id own a hyndai” and thank you “PILOT OF HI NU GUNDAM”
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PLEASE COMMENT THE PREVIOUS AND THANK YOU ;)
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Steel is probably a forgone cause with a mobile suit, but titanium is stronger, lighter, and has a higher melt point. But, I don’t see components just melting through joint friction.
Carbon nanotube may be stronger, but at this time, production of the material is too impractical for such large-scale constructions. Besides, Carbon Nanotube has the advantage of being stronger in terms of tensile strength, but its compression strength is lacking, and it’s more brittle, overall. If a projectile strikes a carbon nanotube surface, it creates cracks, which can eliminate the entire surface’s protection, plus it can cause chunks to jam the mechanism. Metal armor, on the other hand, will warp and melt, but it won’t cause the total destruction of the armor surface. Think of it like high-carbon steel being more brittle, but harder.
To the note of power, the original Gundam used a “Minovsky-type Fusion Reactor.” It was a small fusion reactor mounted in the torso that was built after the discovery of the Minovsky particle, which was instrumental in the creation of reactors that could withstand the neutron bombardment within the device for extended periods. It used an I-field,to contain them, but I digress. Such discoveries have yet to be made.
All in all, Gundam is an unlikely mecha for production, but a simplified Valkyrie or a destroid from Macross or the like would be more likely.
I want to say this: everyone who keeps saying “do this” to the Gundam to make it a reality is simply making it less than a gundam. It would be some strange chicken walker from some of the posts I’ve read. That’s fine and all, but please, don’t call it a Gundam. I grew up on Gundam, and it hurts to see such things referred to like that… :(
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LMAO “chicken walker!!!!” :D ahahahahaaa!!!! omg my sides!!! dude i kno what u mean with some of these ppl, jus cuz they watched it all thier lives they think it makes em smart in mechanical design…..PLEEZ PPL! dont screw with gundam unless you have knowledge or you’ll end up shaming the thing you love most.
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If it doesn’t make using Gundanium, then we cannot call it a Gundam… :(
It should be powered by a micro Nuclear Reactor Engine also… :cry:
Anyway, I’ll surely donate the project Gundam if it’s worth to build… Even if it’s only a cent… So do the millions of OTAKUs out there I’m sure… :|
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It would be really cool! Someone should also build the battleship to house the gundams.
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Dream On and Keep Fantasizing!! :p
Still long way to go…
The closest one might the exoskeleton/mech warrior wanna be within Avatar’s movie or probably the first Alien’s movie.
Geezz…Gundam…do we have colonies within outer space yet? :p
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hey i know how make a colonies in outer space but it would take me some time and i alreay know ho to make andoids
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