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Re: GR-Destroyer
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Wed, 12 Jan 2005 02:56:09 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Phillip Thorne wrote:
  
   [ theme song ]

In lugnet.build.mecha, Brian Cooper wrote:
   Nice. You wrote the Gigantor theme song too, didn’t you. :-)

Only if I traveled through time to do it. (“I have been all of history’s great acting robots: Thespomat! Acting Unit 0.9! David Duchovny.” --Calculon, “Futurama”)

  
   Great photos, Brian -- except for the black fists against the black
background. Maybe some special photos of just those, against white?

Okay, the latest set includes some with visible detail. Fully articulated fingers and thumb! Eat that, giant Hasbro Unicron toy! The knobs/bosses/studs on the fingers are a nice touch. The grill-plates inside the wrist also add some nice detail. (So, in the animation: jets of steam venting forth.)

   GR-D indeed does have a hidden mega stereo speaker bank
to play pounding music.

Ha. Coop and Megas laugh at GR-D’s puny sound system! :) I’d like to see the head rigged with a hinged panel to expose the dishes, though.

“I think we’re doomed.“
“How do you know?”
“The enemy mech is playing ominous music.”

  
   Okay, now somebody needs to build a replica of the Big O, [...]
I was thinking about it at one time, [...]
I also liked the flying Big Duo.

The latter, at least, uses a non-black color scheme. “Lookit me! I fly! I’m completely unaerodynamic, but there’s a very good [spoiler] reason I can do so anyway.”



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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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