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Re: What is a mech supposed............
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Wed, 25 Oct 2000 08:18:02 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Eric Joslin writes:
> There aren't really any hard and fast rules, but:
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> In lugnet.town, Bradley Dale writes:
> > What critera are used to determine if a robot is a mech or not? Does it have
> > to be used for war?
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> No, the Labors in PatLabor were used for all kinds of civil tasks.
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> > Does it have to be big?
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> Not necessarily huge, although most people would say that if you get too smal,
> you really have powered armour instead of a 'Mech.
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> > Does it have to be humanoid?
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> Not necessarily. There are Mechs that have no arms and four or more legs, for
> example. To be honest, I'm having trouble coming up with an example off the
> top of my head, though.
There's a spider mech used in the intro scene for the Patlabor II movie as I
recall. I believe it has 4 legs if memory serves me.
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> > Is
> > a Throwbot a kind of mech (they are big compared to minifigs, they have
> > battles, and most are humanoid)?
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> I'd say no, because the fairly universal thing about 'mechs is that they have
> human pilots. Or alien pilots, so I guess I should just say they have pilots.
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> eric
Joel
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