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Everything you ever wanted to know about Destro, and then some. http://www.myuselessknowledge.com/joe/destro.html

Well since were still playing this game, Yet another president says:

Say Cap'n, you could dye them blue for an instant Max and Millia wedding valk. From comparing a 1/60D to a single seater it looks like the bottom half of the fuselage is the same and only the top is a little longer so that'd be one less piece to make. The only problem is there's nowhere for the heatshield to go.

Even though she has a boney ass and chipmunk cheeks:

for the love of god, someone please give her boney ass a cheeseburger! eeewww

I don't see what the big deal is. If you don't like it don't watch it. Nobody is forcing you.

Why do the stortroopers have nipples on thier armor?

I've always wondered what a gay nazi would look like.

Palps and Anakin were friends before Anakin turned, and Palps revealed himself. That's what the PT has taught us. Yeah, but in the OT he's like "Yo, old buddy." and Vader is all "sup dawg?" I thought the sith lord master/apprentice relationship was more antagonistic. Yeah, but in ESB Vader asks Luke to help him kill the Emperor. That what being evil is all about selfish ambition and betrayal. It's just like that time in the 6th grade when my buddies talked me into playing a game of D&D with all evil characters and the first thing I did was kill them all off..

I have to disagree with this statement. Mechs of that size would be able to go places a jeep couldn't. I doesn't take much to stop a wheeled vehicle and the current gulf war has taught the army just how vunerable helos are. I can't really speak for the Gasaraki but the scopedog can carry a buttload of heavy weapons. The whole point of a feasable small mecha would be to provide a significant military resource that could go places a light vehicle could not, while at the same time possessing more advantages over conventional infantry that can go anywhere. In this list of criteria would as be such oft-forgotten considerations like cost-benefit of the mecha unit, operational endurance compared to conventional units, unforseen vulnerabilites of an unconvetional humanoid mecha, worth of the mecha unit as compared to the combined arms of the military, etc. From where I stand, a realistic analysis of those anime mecha within the scope of our foreseeable future technological abilities would not provide a viable result. It's OK if we don't agree but to in my opinion the scopedog meets all of your criteria. It's capable of carring a multitude of weaponsystems. It's able to handle enviroments where conventional vehicles can not operate, including zero-G. cost is irrelevant to thics discussion since these are fantasy designs it's impossible to put a pricetag on them except to say that the fact that they exist in thier respective universes means that they must be cost effective to produce. Actually, no it isn't. The only way to begin questioning whether one mecha is more plausible than another is to take our current understanding and apply it to the supposed reality of such vehicles. Otherwise, where can a comparison even begin? If we accept the physics and economics unique to each individual anime series while silmultaneously we suspend our disbeleif indiscriminantly, one mecha is EQUALLY as plausible as the next. In that case, the more outrageous, fantastic, or magical the abilities of the mecha, the better it is as the mecha of choice. Obviously, this is a ridiculous and dead-end way in which to analyze "plausibility". So we return to my original assesment and the reasoning behind it. This makes the afformentioned Patlabor and GITS mecha the more plausible. I think you're confusing practical with plauible. There are tons of mechs that could be plausibly made but none of them are practical. If they were they'd have been made. That's all I'm going to say on the subject. There's no point in arguing over which made up robot is more realistic than the other. Were both set in our opinions so just leave it at that.

Bowling scmoling, you'd better get yourself a good helmet.

I have to disagree with this statement. Mechs of that size would be able to go places a jeep couldn't. I doesn't take much to stop a wheeled vehicle and the current gulf war has taught the army just how vunerable helos are. I can't really speak for the Gasaraki but the scopedog can carry a buttload of heavy weapons. The whole point of a feasable small mecha would be to provide a significant military resource that could go places a light vehicle could not, while at the same time possessing more advantages over conventional infantry that can go anywhere. In this list of criteria would as be such oft-forgotten considerations like cost-benefit of the mecha unit, operational endurance compared to conventional units, unforseen vulnerabilites of an unconvetional humanoid mecha, worth of the mecha unit as compared to the combined arms of the military, etc. From where I stand, a realistic analysis of those anime mecha within the scope of our foreseeable future technological abilities would not provide a viable result. It's OK if we don't agree but to in my opinion the scopedog meets all of your criteria. It's capable of carring a multitude of weaponsystems. It's able to handle enviroments where conventional vehicles can not operate, including zero-G. cost is irrelevant to thics discussion since these are fantasy designs it's impossible to put a pricetag on them except to say that the fact that they exist in thier respective universes means that they must be cost effective to produce.

I have to disagree with this statement. Mechs of that size would be able to go places a jeep couldn't. I doesn't take much to stop a wheeled vehicle and the current gulf war has taught the army just how vunerable helos are. I can't really speak for the Gasaraki but the scopedog can carry a buttload of heavy weapons.

They treat it like a matter of national security. Are all Japanese companys like that? It seems to me like the new president is just a dick. The same time he popped up the QC went into the crapper and they quit talking to Graham. Personally I don't trust them anymore. I'll probably get the 48 GBP but not untill I've seen everyone elses.

Yes they are, took forever to get those hands on them. Finally took them off since everytime someone bumped the area, one or both would fall off. Cool! I thought so. I got one of my valks holding the sniper rifle from the HALO weapons pack. My goal is to get the rocket launcher fitted into the valk's hands. i'm not sure how big the grip for the gun is but have you tried using the TV hands? or even super-poseable hands? cause they'll probably fit and hold it pretty tight. just a suggestion. Actually after forcing several objects not meant for Valkyrie hands on my 48s I can say with athority that the skeleton hands are better for for this sort of thing. You can strech them a little. The fat hands dont give at all.

WTF!

I've been wondering, what happens to the pilot of a legioss in armo-soldier mode? Does the cockpit right itself like a VF-1 or does he just hang there on the back sitting upside down untill all of his blood rushes into his head?

Those damn Russkies! We Americans would never do anything like that! (MG-42 - M60) More like MG-42 and FG-42 had a baby named M-60. But I won't tell if you don't.

If your talking about my pic, it goes from left to right, back row: 1/60 Hikaru 1A, 1/55 Hikaru 1A, 1,55 Hikaru 1S (TV), 1/48 Hikaru 1A, front row: 1/55 Hikaru 1J, 1/48 Roy Strike 1S. (sheesh, I didn't realise I liked Hikaru's 1A so much )

Hows this?

Just like everything Russian, it's design was ripped off from something else. the PANZERBCHSE39 (this one's been modded into a grenade launcher)

I don't have one but from the pic on Yamato's site I'd say that's a big negatory good buddy. http://www.yamato-toys.com/items/detail.php?gid=365

Votoms mechs have wheels in thier feet. That's what makes em so dang practical.

And thier little cousin the Scope Dog from Votoms.

The combat armors from Dougram.