If alien invasion, zombie apocalypse or Jesus don't come first, ho

[Vespaeda]

As I get ready to leave the land of Deculture, I'm poking around more bookstores & hobby shops. The closer I look at the plethora of glossy magazines devoted to computer/digital programming and DIY custom hobbyists in the Japanese book stores[Tsutaya/Book-Off & others], the better I see how robots ubiquitous in daily consumer use is less than 12 yrs away.

Despite supply & demand of oil, rare-earth elements and manufacturing priorities in a shrinking, conflicted world the allure of robots for everyone will be insatiable. Current military apps aside, the general American public will expect to see advanced, versatile products in their midst the same way the 60's/70 generation of Japanese youth have spent the last 40yrs pursuing the real robot revolution beyond their anime and into Honda, Toyota and the prototype exo-skeletons.

My interest is less of when they'll turn around & kill us all( ), but when would any of you think there will be 6-10 in. tall, toy robot endoskeletons & armatures that I'll be able to retrofit inside my 1/144 and 1/100 Gundams and have U.C. era melee re-enactments? Affordable & rugged enough as toys?

Its been bugging me...I HAD TO ASK!!!

Vesp

[big F]

I'd love to see that, I bet the scratch builders would have kittens or small robot kittens any ways.

I'm thinking a Hasegawa retro fited to an endskeleton, no more fixing with glue to get that all important pose, just like the one in DYRL.