I went to Hampton to see the IMax NASCAR thing, on the way back, we went to Waterside.
There we went to a small mall, in some kind of bar slash arcade thing, I found these big gray box like things...
Upon further examination, I found they were simulators for, according to the big huge banner on the wall that I had missed, BATTLETECH. Or essentially a Mechwarrior spinoff.
I didn't get to try it, they looked out of order, but man did it give me ideas.
For one, they had a door that slid and closed so you were totally enclosed within this full scale and full functional cockpit.
It was awesome.
I don't know how hard it'd be to make a Macross version of this...I know having the transformation to battroid would be way difficult, but man it gave me ideas...