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Ongaku_no_tenshi
 Posts: 209 Location: Virginia |
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You have a point here. Not only are the Guge battle suits really cool, but they would be a good first step on the road towards realizing a fully functional giant mecha. Besides, not that the Tachicomas aren't cool, far from it, I've always felt the smaller scale human-operated Guge battle suits from Appleseed would be my most favorite thing to operate if it were real. Just look at they way they move in the first Appleseed film and just try to tell me you wouldn't want to take a spin in one of those machines. I think many, probably most, would say yes in a heartbeat. |
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firedragon54738
 Posts: 3113 Location: wisconsin |
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if i had 800mill i wood build a gundam there a few people cars i what to smash
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hentai4me
 Posts: 1313 Location: England. Robin is so Cute! |
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What's the point of building a gundam to spec if it would sink into the ground regardless... Further it would be vastly more efficient to produce the weaponry capable of taking a gundam out and mass producing that for an infantry operated weapon. Be it a tank, a rifle, a grenade, an artillery piece or support platform or aircraft. You can have a gundam...I'll take 100 guns that can take the gundam out and 100 guys to operate them...who's going to win now! |
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Saint Juste
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Carlos Slim can build up to four with his fortune : D!!! he can be the next.... guy like in Gundam 00 that was 200 hundred years old or something like that
Hahaha but Jesus they have time in their hands to think something like that |
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FanFicGuru
Posts: 159 |
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Now just think...
Bill Gates could buy like, 50 of those. Round the price tag up to about 1.5 billion to get some weapons and flying ability... Quick! Everyone show Bill Gates your insane potential so that when he amasses his Gundam army you can pilot them! |
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Murasakisuishou
 Posts: 1469 Location: NE Ohio |
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Also, unarmed and without the extra reinforcement needed for combat, they probably wouldn't cost anymore to build than a rather expensive car. They could build affordable civilian versions, and then have reinforced police/military models. Much more economical than an 80-foot robot or A.I. tank that chatters too much. And just think, we could all sit down and watch "Pimp My Landmate" on MTV! |
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zetsuie
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I wonder how much it would cost to build a veritech u never know when giants will attack
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Fallout2man
Posts: 274 Location: San Diego, CA |
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Landmates would be cool, but if that article's right we'd never be able to make a decent Gundam with any combat ability without first drastically reducing the weight. Stepping stones my friends, stepping stones. If anything we'd probably have to either discover some miraculous new light and extremely durable metal in space or engineer one ourselves before we could get the weight down to workable levels.
The way I see it, we should start with powered armor, then to smaller exo-suits like the landmates, then maybe to something tachikoma or fuchikoma sized, then think about Gundams. |
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kaleidostars
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bet they didn't take into consideration the cost of research and all that
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Lowlife187
 Posts: 156 Location: New Macross City |
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LOL, that's the start for every Gundam show I've ever watched!! But really, the technology is not here yet to make one IMO. First we have no Gundranium  second, the thing needs to be able to fly, or at least jump really really high. and we need beam sabers and particle weapons, and, and.... the list goes on.
More time and research is needed, then we shall have our Gundam!!! |
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Randall Miyashiro
 Posts: 2451 Location: A block away from Golden Gate Park |
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If I remember correctly the original RX-78 cost a good deal more than the MS06 Zaku-II which in turn probably cost more than the Old Type Zaku. I can't imagine these figures would represent the "price of building Gundam" but rather the price of building a Proto-Zaku from the early U.C. 70s. The topic's title would have been better stated as price of building a Mobile Suit.
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Samurai-with-glasses
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Meh, I prefer Code Geass's mecha.
That show makes mecha seems so much more realistic. One Lancelot for me please! I promise I won't keep trying to kill my megalomaniac childhood friend, abandoning his sister and screwing his first love. |
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