Japan Completes Latest Killer Robot, Assures Our Doom
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If I could could choose one thing to tip over for the rest of my life, this would be it.John Funk said:Japan Completes Latest Killer Robot, Assures Our Doom
Japan's latest giant robot project is complete, and it is only a matter of time before it devours us all and ushers in the apocalypse - but you mustn't run away.
I think the record will show that generally, I'm a pretty big fan of Japan's new-found obsession with building real-life versions of its fictional giant robots [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/101521-New-Lightsaber-Wielding-Giant-Gundam-Finally-Complete], but this? This is different.
Work has completed on the originally announced in May [http://ngeekhiong.blogspot.com/2010/07/life-size-evangelion-bust-amusement.html] and opened a week ahead of schedule. While not a full model of EVA-01 - what with the Evangelion units being much, much bigger than the other mecha Japan has already built - the bust aims to recreate the iconic scene where protagonist Shinji Ikari first encounters the weapon of war.
Fans can visit the statue, take a picture inside a life-sized Entry Plug, or hang out with a statue of the incredibly creepy Kaworu Nagisa - that is, they can do all of that while they're waiting for EVA-01 to go berserk and devour us all.
According to Ngee Khiong [http://ngeekhiong.blogspot.com/2010/07/life-size-evangelion-bust-amusement.html], the bust and its housing occupy 1,460 square meters and cost ~150 million yen ($1.73m USD) to build. I think we can all agree that this is a small price to pay in order to bring about the eventual collapse of the whole of human consciousness into one giant primordial sea of existence, can't we?
And if not, well you can always take pictures with women paid to dress up as bizarrely sexualized 14-year-old girls. Since that is, after all, what Evangelion is all about.
(Escapist Mecha Fans [http://ngeekhiong.blogspot.com/2010/07/life-size-evangelion-bust-amusement.html])
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Evangelion is awesome, but instead of wasting money on just the head of EVA Unit 01, they could have put that money to better use... Like building a dutch maid android of Ayanami, that the public can buy
Yet. The key word is yet. Honestly, I think they're building these giant robots to form an army. Of giant robots. Pretty soon, we'll have to build some big robots, as well.Furburt said:
If you're talking about the actual mecha inside the show then that was really subtle and awesome.Rex Dark said:
Eh, I'd rather have them build another gundam, rather hated the EVA's personally.
Private snarks aside my question is who's the person who rubber stamps the "ok" for these kind of projects to be made? These things aren't exactly cheap and their economy is in the middle of a rather nasty meltdown as well.
Call me when they start to make a Titan from Warhammer 40K.
Private snarks aside my question is who's the person who rubber stamps the "ok" for these kind of projects to be made? These things aren't exactly cheap and their economy is in the middle of a rather nasty meltdown as well.
Call me when they start to make a Titan from Warhammer 40K.
Japan is responsible for our planets defence. Maybe we should just let them keep building their robots. We need to be on good terms with them when the aliens do decide to attack, robots or not.dathwampeer said:
If we piss them off, they might not share :O
You only thought it was a government project because of the awful writing in the original article. Everything that happens in Japan get's attributed to the country as a whole. This is how the Western, English media treat all foreign news. So instead of saying that a robot was built for tourism, or even saying that GAINAX has worked to produce it, the writer instead took the easiest path and attributed the achievement to the vague term 'Japan'.Furburt said:
So this tourist initiative is the ENTIRETY of Japan's attempts at economic stimulus? I guess it must be because all your information comes from gamer blogs, perhaps. Yes, the country is in recession. So is yours. The solution is for private companies to spend everything on curing the resession? Like doing what exactly? Donating the money to the government and people? How exactly can a private company input into the economy without making and selling something? In this case they are making an attraction and essentially 'selling' it. This isn't JAPAN's robot head. It is GAINAX and other company's robot head.Virgilthepagan said:
So sell up all you consoles, DVDs and games. Refuse to spend another dollar on anything except pure humanitarism. Yeah. Right. I think that any one disparaging this tourist trap because it should have been money spent on 'cancer research' is being idiotic.HotFezz8 said:
And why not? Probably because people would destroy the statues. Anyway, if they were built, I doubt that people would say the statues were 'weird' or 'strange'.Fappy said:
Why would you think it was the government? For starters its the intellectual property of GAINAX. Perhaps the gov't of Japan provided some support because the attraction would increase tourism, but that would be just like most other tourist initiatives, I guess. The country isn't collapsing and it isn't in meltdown - you make it sound like the end is nigh. It's nowhere near that yet, and it probably won't. Yes, Japan is going through a recession, but so is the entire world. And yet, we are all still trying to have fun and enjoy life. Besides, is it that hard to see how much of a money maker an attraction like this is? It's summer holidays soon. People will travel to see this bust. They'll buy train tickets or pass through toll gates, stay in hotels, buy souvenirs, and eat in restaurants.Furburt said:
Well when it does, there won't be forums full of people disparaging American morals because of it. It would just be 'AWESOME! A giant Iron Man!'.bubba145 said:
That's moronic. There is more than one industry in the world. Are you really trying to say that this tourism initiative took money away from cancer research?Berserker119 said:
I think Japan has officially got a leg up on the rest of the world when it comes to giant robots. I say we all pitch in and construct an Imperator-class Titan [http://i33.tinypic.com/9iuszl.jpg] immediately.....FOR SCIENCE!!
I've searched through this entire thread, and no one seems to have picked up on this. The Evas aren't actually robots, they're cyborgs! (ie, a mostly biological being, covered in armor plating and using a mechanical infrastructure)
Of course, that doesn't diminish the cool factor, here. Here's hoping they'll build us a great, big, red Eva-02!!!
Of course, that doesn't diminish the cool factor, here. Here's hoping they'll build us a great, big, red Eva-02!!!
*Puts on mecha nerd hat*Alar said:
I'm inclined to argue that God Gundam could beat the snot outta Megas.
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OT: I can't really see where Japan could go next with their mechas. I guess they could build a 1/1 scale Armored Core, but the thing would be very small considering a 1/72 scale kit of an AC is smaller than a 1/100 Gundam.
It's a concept of fear put into them. Consider if you saw a giant humanoid robot trampling through your troops. You'd be scared beyond reason, and having something like a Zaku and it's Zaku machine gun; the size of the rounds are the size of our artillery rounds.Hashime said:
Think about it... An automatic artillery gun that can move at 88 km/h