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KyuuA4
 Posts: 1361 Location: America, where anime and manga can be made |
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Not just a giant action figure -- but one that moves. Yet, I don't see a price tag applies to munitions. 
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Ktimene's Lover
 Posts: 2242 Location: Glendale, AZ (Proudly living in the desert) |
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Over $720 million for a life size Gundam? Damn! That would be something else to see on EBay.
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DarkMirage
Posts: 19 Location: Singapore |
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2.1 billion dollars for a single B2 is calculated by taking the entire cost of the research and construction project and dividing it by the total number of B2 delivered. Since B2 production numbers were dramatically cut at the end of the cold war, the figure is artificially inflated.
On the other hand, this price estimation of constructing a Gundam does not take into account of the R&D costs, which will probably push the per-unit cost into the billion territory. |
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One wing angle
 Posts: 6 Location: prairie village, USA |
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thank you!!! there much better uses for that kinda money, and if you where spending it on killer robots as far as battle field efficiency goes, their are much better ones to base them off of. |
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pcube19622
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just to make it clear...it is not 7xxbillion US dollars, its in yen...which is japanese money..that is worth 79.5 million US dollars.
If they can really make a kick-ass robot like an animated gundam...it would be a lot better than creating a killer B-29 bomber (just you know...B-29 bombers are used to drop atomic bombs, which was in use during the second world war). Isn't it worth a lot more to make a function killer figure...than spend 80million US dollars to make a bomb that is only good for once and disappears with rest of the Earth. Well just my opinion..... |
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Mysticmidnightmaiden
Posts: 123 Location: California (Bay Area) |
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So, who wants to start the Paypal donation account? You'd be contributing to one of the greatest advances in anime-to-reality history... Well, outside of Massive Cosplaying HHY/LS Group Dancers
I also suggest we hold American Idol-style tryouts for a plucky young fellow as the fiery novice pilot. I'm tired of emo-kids having all the fun. Let's return to the "moeru" days of mecha with this one... (And no, I'm not talking about Lacus...) When someone creates a mecha that looks like Freedom/Eva Unit 01/Lancelot, bring out all the God-modded/wimps/Suzakus you can find... [/ramble] |
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dewlwieldthedarpachief
 Posts: 751 Location: Canada |
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I agree about the tachikoma. The whole idea of building something like this would be to overcome human limitations. You'd think with the American military industrial complex nonsense there'd be some kind of cybernetic tank rolling around. Maybe humans are just cheaper.
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Murasakisuishou
 Posts: 1469 Location: NE Ohio |
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And they get along with the elderly 
I wonder how much it would actually cost to build a fully functional tachikoma. They're a lot smaller than a gundam, but the A.I. would probably cost millions to develop on its own. 'Cause seriously, what's the point of owning a tachikoma if it doesn't sound like Tamagawa Sakiko and say adorable, mind-boggling things all the time? |
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Meson
Posts: 219 Location: Buffalo, NY |
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IIRC, the US military tried making gundams a few decades ago. The project was dropped since giant robots aren't practical. Their weak points are always the legs, which can't be strongly protected.
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Leuconoe
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Given their puzzle-solving capabilities, gregariousness and general intelligence, you'd need Strong A.I., and no one knows if that's even possible yet. Some argue that it isn't. |
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Murasakisuishou
Posts: 1469 Location: NE Ohio |
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Although technically, in the context of the anime, the tachikomas weren't originally built with the capability to think individually and all of that other junk that makes them so endearing; their A.I. evolved as they synchronized data with each other over and over. I'm not entirely sure that that's physically possible, though. Maybe we should just start out with uchikomas and see where it goes from there 
Or heck, screw all of this! While we're on the subject of mecha, I want a Guges! |
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joshjoshlol
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anybody notice the little flub on pinktentacle's article? they put in too much superfluous information. judging by the stats given (roughly 18 meters tall, and 43.4 metric tons) the suit is most likely the original RX-78, so why even mention gundarium alloy? that's an entirely Wing-based continuity material. the RX-78-2 is composed of lunar titanium alloy, and in the original japanese article (unless i missed it while scanning through) there's not a single mention of gundarium anywhere to be found. weird that they'd toss it in...
still, it's a crazy article. if only there weren't a shortage of mad scientists in this world who would be willing to give it a go... |
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DonQuigleone
 Posts: 154 Location: Dublin, Ireland |
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I think we should foxus on building power suits first, and then scale up from there in fact [url=animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-11-05/japan's-gundam-personal-equipment-system-revealed]In fact...[/url]
Now all we need power armor and power swords(that glow) |
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Randall Miyashiro
 Posts: 2451 Location: A block away from Golden Gate Park |
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True that the RX-78 is made of Lunar Titanium, but the UC based Zeta is made of Gundarium as were most MS from then up until F-91 which used a Gundarium Ceramic compound if I remember correctly. |
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rocklobster
 Posts: 200 Location: Planet Claire |
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And angst-ridden, genetically engineered children to pilot them. |
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