China's Knockoff Gundam Gets a Hideous Makeover

[CD-R]

Dammit when is the USA going to build a life sized replica of an Atlas from Mech Warrior.

 

[Canid117]

Turn A:
-Physical ammunition cannot damage its armour (seen in-series)
-Beam weapons are deflected by its I-field (seen in-series)
-Can teleport (seen in-series)
-Can warp its attacks (can warp a beam shot directly INTO a cockpit)
-Beam rifle at maximum power is stronger than a colony laser
-Regeneration (seen in-series)
-System Turn A's chest's multipurpose silo can summon weapons (hinted at in-series)
-The teleportation system makes it possible for, as long as there are nanomachines available at all, regenerate everything entirely, including the PILOT
-The Moonlight Butterfly that destroyed Earth's civilization was at 20% power (seen in-series)
-The Moonlight Butterfly at 100% output can cover everything from Earth to Jupiter

Why does it have a frenchy lookin mustache?

 

[Mstrswrd]

China's Knockoff Gundam Gets a Hideous Makeover

The good news: China's knockoff life-sized Gundam statue no longer looks like a Gundam. The bad news: Now it just looks ugly.

A recap: First, an amusement part in China's Sichuan province built an took the statue down [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/105988-China-Pirates-Japans-Giant-Gundam-Statue] and pretended the statue had never existed.

Well, now it's back, and it has been extensively remodeled so that it no longer looks like a Gundam. Spikes and tubes have been added all over the place, the joints are different, and it's now apparently running on nuclear power. Wait a minute: Shoulder spikes and a weird extended nose with head tubing? It might not be a Gundam anymore, but now it bears more than a few similarities to the MS-07B Gouf [http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/msgundam/ms-07b.htm].

Of course, superficial similarities aside, it doesn't really look that much like the Gouf anymore. In fact, it doesn't really look like that much of anything.

It's just hideous. If this is China's idea of what awesome fighting robots should look like, I don't think we have any reason to fear an invasion of stylish yet cheaply-mass-produced Chinese mecha anytime soon.

(Kotaku [http://blog.livedoor.jp/himasoku123/archives/51593850.html])

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So, before anything, the article I'm linking too? Yeah, the site is Sankaku. It's NSFW. The article itself? Fine, but the website? Not so much.

Alright, now that that's out of the way, Japan (specifically, Japanese Otaku), have already appropriated the Chinese "Not-Gundam," and remade him into something that is, well, ridiculously cool (though it's there words, I'd have to agree).

Here: http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2011/02/01/chinese-gundam-ridiculously-cool/

Because if there's something China can make that is in any way related to the Japanese, the Japanese will make it awesome/Moe/some other deconstruction of the original. If you wish to see another example of this, see when Japan made a racial slur, Riben Guizi, into a Moe Character; http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/10/28/japan-fights-china-with-moe-china-crushed/
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/11/03/oniko-conquers-taiwan/

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

Fie on you China, FIE I SAY! >: (

 

[RobCoxxy]

Oh, China. You may nearly be a superpower, but that ain't worth shit if you're a laughing stock.

We've been trying to tell North America that a decade!

I thought they new that by now.
When I visited Washington DC everyone seemed fairly apologetic.

 

[DTWolfwood]

reminds me of some of the superheros and supervillains i've met along the way in DCUO.

 

[hansari]

It's just hideous. If this is China's idea of what awesome fighting robots should look like, I don't think we have any reason to fear an invasion of stylish yet cheaply-mass-produced Chinese mecha anytime soon.

Maybe China is just mocking Japan...I mean, its putting a lot of cash down but I heard they have plenty of that to spare...

 

[squid5580]

I like it except for the color.

 

[EvolutionKills]

Color Theory folks, color theory. That wouldn't look nearly as bad is the colors didn't clash so much. I mean, it would still look bad (from a design stand point), but it would be a lot easier on the eyes in a red/white/black combo. Yellow/Blue/White with a touch of Neon Green just makes me want to vomit, which is ironic, because their colors are so similar.

 

[silverdragon9]

well i think all gundams are stupid so....

MADCAT AND PROPER MECHS FTW!!!!

Take your pig disgusting Western-mecha-that-are-really-just-ripped-off-from-better-Japanese-designs and get out

I'm sorry we can't hear over the sound of this

being awesome

Sorry, couldn't hear you over this [http://images.wikia.com/gurennlagann/images/5/5f/TengenToppaGurren-LagannMECH.jpg] crushing that lumbering snail under a single finger.

Apologies, but I couldn't hear you over the sound of <a href=http://i53.tinypic.com/qs8bp3.jpg>this eating both of your mechs.

Sorry couldn't hear you over the sound of this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=298Cw3_qGwE] killing communists

and your comment loops back to the original thread; good show.