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Re: GR-Destroyer
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Wed, 5 Jan 2005 18:45:07 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Brian Cooper wowed LUGNETters:
Does Bo know Monstrobo? (Squish) Monstrobo’s toe knows Bo. Let’s set it to
music:
Who’s bigger than a breadbox?
Built of giant plates of steel,
With guns in every cranny;
Who gets mail in his heel?
He’s the anti-robo robo --
Yo! Monstrobo!
Go Monstrobo!
Go!
For those not familiar with Brian’s inspiration, here’s a photo of a Giant Robo
toy with its weapons deployed:
http://www.japanesetoylink.com/Yamato/Sci-Fi/YAM-GTR002.htm. (Thank you,
Google Image Search.)
I dig the hanging chains. This mech’s got, as one says, bling. Giant steel
industrial oily bling.
Great photos, Brian -- except for the black fists against the black background.
Maybe some special photos of just those, against white?
The GRD might not be posable, but it needs a stop-motion film built around it.
Workers scurrying, mech bay gantries retracting, weapons deploying, mail getting
delivered; music pounding in the background. With Photoshopped glow-glare to
the eyes. (No shiny metal sparkles, though -- this is definitely a bot with a
matte finish.)
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It was all about ... gigantic concealed weapons ...
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Okay, now somebody needs to build a replica of the Big O, complete with Final
Resort Secret Chest Cannon of Single-Shot Ultimate Doom. (If you’ve seen it,
you know.) I had considered doing a similar pop-out weapons version Megas (from
the Cartoon Network series “Megas XLR,” ie, “Chicks dig giant robots”), but
couldn’t decide which weapons to include -- but it then became obvious that the
creators themselves don’t care, since the mech exhibits a different arsenal
every episode. The BGY-11 (of “Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot”) has the same
condition.
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| (...) Nice. You wrote the Gigantor theme song too, didn't you. :-) (...) The toy has even freakier proportions than the animated version, with that teeny tiny pin head. I made mine proportioned somewhere between the original Giant Robo from the (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (URL) used a lot of new construction techniques for this evil, corrupted version of Giant Robo. It's an anti-robo robo, a Monstrobo. It was all about rounded shapes and gigantic concealed weapons - so giant that it looks like they couldn't possibly (...) (20 years ago, 3-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha) !!
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