Unorthodox mecha designs thread

>>14897055

That looks bad

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>>14897055
He's a great singer too

>>14897055
beautiful

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This thing actually makes Boss Borot look normal.

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i saw this once, was very weird. idk how the pilot of the blue one even got in

>>14897271
That's not a mecha tho

>>14897271
He had to perform some funky voodoo shit.

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Fuck you Crash Nebula

Akira Toriyana has some...
The mecha in Soul Hunter is bizarre.

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>>14897055
Who don't like this mass piece of metal (or mass piece of resin to be exact)

>>14897271

by killing a lot of hippies!

>>14897615
That is extremely conventional.

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>>14897495
Dunbine has some pretty good designs. The Aura Phantasm versions are top fucking sex.

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Making this mech SD makes it look a lot less fucking weird, in full proportions it's got shit everywhere.

(Its combination is at the end of https://youtu.be/ci19oJlEbdU?t=4m48s )

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Imagine trying to animate the walk cycle of this thing.

>>14899071
Got a penis to become a leg.

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>>14897055

>>14899071
Gosh I love me some Ideon tripods. Ideon really was way far out for its time, wasn't it?

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>>14901683
These guys are pretty conventional if you have a passing familiarity with any Mechanical Beasts or general Super Robot MOTWs.

Even their combined form Bonaparte is really conventional, though also extremely handsome.

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I love Godam

It's supposed to be heroic looking, but it really comes off more like something that should be made into a plush doll and cuddled with in bed. It's a very hugable giant robot.

Anyway, anyone know of mecha with unorthodox internals? Stuff like MEGAS or Borot with its living room cockpit, or mecha that have demonstrably silly power sources like static electricity from the protagonist's haircut

>>14902048
Godam always feels to me like a mech designed fifteen years early - that thing would have been much better remembered during the actual SD craze, since it's pretty close to an SD design already.

>>14900589
That.... seems extra structurally unsound for a mech.

>>14902084
>mecha
>>>realism
>ever

and

>he doesn't Nagano

>>14902048
>>14902076
Incidentally, Art Storm did do an SD Godam for their ES Gokin line.

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needs more zam

>>14902384
It's almost like they should be mass-produced.

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This one's called "Vendedor Milagros", a fishing boat mecha.

It's from some japanese website ( http://www.ne.jp/asahi/mecha/keida/index.html ) that seems to be known for minimalistic redesigns of all kinds of mecha, but his original work is damn creative

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Dai-Machine ( 大マシン ), this one seems to be the first japanese combining robot alongside King Joe, both from 1967

>>14903289
Huh didn't know that, thought Getter Robo created the idea. Guess it's just the one that popularized it.

I don't have pics of those silly Gundams from I think G Gundam with the windmill Gundam, the mexican Gundam and s forth.

>>14903339
Wait now I remember, Getter was the first to do it with piloted mechs. Also the whole different transformation depending on formation thing.

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>>14903339
>>14903380

Not really, every single Dai-Machine limb seems to be piloted by someone, Super Sentai style. Then again, that manga's obscure even by japanese standards.
As far as I know, Getter Robo's different transformations are original, though.

Japanese mecha history is kind of hard to track down. Mitsuteru Yokoyama is, of course, the main genre innovator with 1956's Tetsujin 28, but Osamu Tezuka is also under-recognized with Majin Garon (1959, first pilotable robot) and Magma Taishi (1966, first transforming robot).
Of course, Mazinger's rocket punch is borrowed from Giant Robo's GR-2 in 1967.

I'm getting off-topic, though. Here's 1963's ATOMIC Gorō, an egg-shaped robot with pop-up arms and legs.

>>14903289
>>14903431
>Cockpit on the drill

Best idea I've seen since the Bunt liner from Xenogears

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YATA YATA YATTERMAN

>>14903431
Yeah I was wondering about that since isn't King Joe just an autonomous nonpiloted android?

Just curious since you seem to know a fair bit, what was the first series to feature a team piloting a single robot? My knowledge of older stuff is only light and it stops at 70s so I have no clue what if any teams predate Getter.

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>>14902084

>>14903431
>Majin Garon
This did at least get an animated adaptation in the 00s (which still isn't subbed or available).

>>14903461
It gets weirder when you realise that Okawara designed this.

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>>14903464
According to my sources (which is a fancy way of saying "a single japanese website"), Dai-Machine is once again the only obvious team-piloted robot before Getter Robo. 1967's Giant Atlanta seems to be also capable of having more than one person in its cockpit. Then again, there weren't that many piloted mecha (or simply many mecha) before Mazinger.
From Getter Robo on, there's lots of mecha teams: Godam, Combattler V, Groizer X, Gakeen, Mechander Robot, Voltes V, Zambot 3 and so on.

>>14897055
Suisei-gō (from NDS's Choushuu Mecha MG) may not be that unorthodox, but the world needs more tin toy mechas other than the ones from Mikazuki.

>>14903755
Fun fact, Sandlot was originally going to release a Mikazuki game, and that got cancelled.

>>14905301
I remember this fucking thing.
I honestly wish L-Gaim's subs were better, maybe then I'd understand some more about the dude piloting it besides "he's piloting a mishmash of Heavy Metals!"

>>14903283
Pretty cool anon