/m/ - Mecha & Tokusatsu

OLD MODEL MAGAZINE THING OF 1/100 TESTBED TURN A BY TSUTOMU OKADA

Comms and electronic devices immune to minovsky particles showed up, people eventually stopped using minovsky particles entirely, this completely changed MS tactics. Turn A was a "system weapon" which consisted of a standalone type tactical weapon (the Turn A) and large scale support systems. Testbed Turn A was made to test and collect data on the Turn A's greatest characteristic, the teleportation function. As you can tell from how the head looks like the Turn X's, that's where the cockpit is. The upper torso mostly consists of a platform to teleport in weapons and ammo. The Turn A was supposed to have been able to summon weapons via "the Gossen effect" in an instant and unleash them on enemies from inside their lines.

*This setting is made solely for readers to enjoy the model more and does not reflect actual Black History

SOME INTERVIEW FROM DOCUMENT TURN A 4 02

Morita: "The first concept Sunrise gave us for the Turn A said that it was supposed to be its lower body that was special, and that the upper body would just be a weapon rack. It was supposed to be able to stuff loads of weapons into its chest."

Kawaguchi: "You can tell that in the past it probably went to war fully loaded with weapons in there."

Morita: "Yeah, but the show ended up having more human drama and less mecha gimmicks. Tomino said that while the weapon rack setting would be left intact, it probably wouldn't be in the show. Would Bandai preferred having it in?"

Kawaguchi: "Actually, that sort of small gimmick is hard to replicate. It's stuff easily seen like the vanes* popping out that are easier to put into products. There's no way the module weapon setting could've made it into a 500 yen toy. Actually, this is why the Sumos have I-field drives."

Kawaguchi: "Bandai didn't really have any requests for the design aside from stuff like putting missiles in the hatch and adding a shield mount rack to the back."

Stuff translated from Turn A Gundam Complete Record Collection 2: The Memory of Second Wind

About the Sackträger

At the end of the Universal Century, it seemed that the countless space wars would finally come to an end, but the unending consumption had reduced Earth's resources close to zero. During this age, Earth was still the center of human civilization, and mankind sought to restore civilization on Earth. To do this they needed massive amounts of materials, which had to be mined from asteroids which were moved near to Earth. The Sackträger's predecessor, the fixed orbital elevator, was built in order to make moving the mined resources down to Earth easier. This megastructure was also supposed to be a symbol of peace, and Earth did in fact have peace for a few hundred years after the construction of the orbital elevator. It seems that there might have been several orbital elevators during this period, and that Manhu Picchi was the Earthside base station for them, and there is (in Turn A's age) a fuctioning mass driver in Manhu Picchi. After several hundred years, however, another space war erupted and the orbital elevators were destroyed. The remains of the orbital elevators falling from space caused massive damage to Earth, and it is said that some of these parts were later used to built the Sackträger in Manhu Picchi's legends of the Branch of Ades. That the parts of the orbital elevators were used to build the Sackträger is not true, however, as they were products of entirely different ages; The elevator collapse was such a huge disaster that as ages passed it continued to be passed down and memories and records of history ended up getting compressed and combining the records of the two completely different megastructures. Also, the helmet worn by the king of Manhu Picchi is based on astronaut helmets from long ago. Either way,the fixed orbital elevator was never rebuilt, and instead the rotation-type Sackträger was built instead. Sackträger is a name in a language of ancient Europe (currently Galia in Turn A), German, which means "bagworm", and was presumably named as such because the elevator climbing up and down looked like a massive bagworm from the ground. There are no records of why the name is in German.

About cold sleep

While cold sleep usually doesn't result in dreaming, they have the technology to force someone in cold sleep to dream, and use it on criminals as punishment. Because of the massive amounts of time the people spend in dreams, aware that they're dreaming, they end up being driven insane.

So yeah, that's the difference between regular cold sleep and the "reitou-kei" (punishment by being frozen) that Coren was subjected to, and why he's bonkers.

OTHER TIDBITS

-Moonrace moved to the moon AFTER the sacktrager was built

-Eco terrorists tried to wipe out mankind with DG cells

-Apparently at some point mankind in the Gundam universe went full fucking Macross, expanding to other star systems and creating a pan-galactic transport/communications network

-There was a project to turn the moon into a death star and the huge trench seen in Turn A was going to be a track for a massive particle cannon (the project itself never came to fruition)

Random bits from Tomino

-Japanese people were happier in World War II because they had a goal to live for ("kill the evil yanks") and didn't expect to be able to live long.

-It's like aids patients with children who don't have the disease. People need to be reminded of death to be able to really live.

-Japan's cheerfulness during WW2 was wrong though. It was a bright society, but a healthy society is one with a good dose of darkness and poison.

-I ever go brain-dead just kill me. I'd rather die than be a vegetable.

-Turn A has nothing to do with Israel because Israel is a RELIGIOUS problem, and religion was purposely left out of Turn A. Religion is the source of all of mankind's problems. Religion is crazy.

-All of mankind should just revert to animism>>19823

>>19818

And you guys thought Dendrobium was ridiculous

>>18095

Fuck, that's one of my favorites.

>>19605

For the longest time I thought this was porn.

>>19652

>it's not a weird dick

that makes more sense

>>19788

cute statue

>>19789

I believe it is literally a statue with absolutely no electronics inside. The company said it was a sign of things to come, but who knows what they mean by that.

holy shit that looks bad

russians confirming that they're true hiers of khazars and turks

>>19737

>castle mech

fucking rad

>>19737

God I wish that were me

>>19737

>>19771

Wasn't this when Lego tried to do not!Warhammer?

>>14673

>Hanged Man

I wish, its Magnolia R.I.P.3.M kit. That said AC5 kits are pretty small compared to previous AC kits.Its a head shorter than Alicia.

>Noblesse and Alicia

Very nice kits.

>>19640

Anon, you bumped the wrong thread.

This gunpla thread is two years old, we have a much more active one.

>>19641

God damn it all

>>19115

Just went back to this post to say that volume 5's translation got picked up by HappyScans. Now that's a thing I can deal with.

I still better start learning Nipponese because I just can't rely on translators too much.

>>19588

Mazinger Z never really had any innocent robots. If you want something more like Iron Giant (but it's not like Iron Giant at all; it's piloted and the whole theme is monster of the week) then try the original Mazinger Z manga instead.

Shin Mazinger Zero is a darkier, edgier reinstallment with big amounts of fanservice, and an indirect sequel to the "Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-Hen" show.

The further the Mazinger Z franchise goes, the darker it gets.

>>19590

I actually meant to reply to >>19084, Anon. Sorry. At first I was really confused why you were talking about Mazinger Z until I noticed I replied to the wrong post.

>>19591

I kek'd. That's okay my man.

>>19286

>still bumping

>>19287

>Still being a chupa-rola

>>19266

So the doujin's name is "Kill yourself", but who is the artist?

>>19521

You retard

>>13189

>reporting tits

>The film's director Dean Israelite

Like pottery.

Incase anyone cares I'm not dead. Just added a sort of rider kick today. Also I realized that if I don't have any music playing I can't get any work done for some reason.

>>19479

What type of music?

>>19481

Pretty much whatever. A while ago I was working to synthwave, nowadays its whatever video game soundtracks.

>>19503

A good soundtrack to listen to is the first Payday, that game's got great music.

>>19504

Yeah I'll check it out.

>>19348

I noticed you had some Godzilla threads in the catalog - should I make a new thread for the Godzilla streams or post it here or in the stuff to watch thread? Stream starting in 5 mins.

>FMP Invisible Victory

>No one dicussing this

Shit niggers

>>19444

I'm new to FMP with this series.

Was the car thing intentional? Like, in the early shows do they have cheap 00s CG cars and they're just running with that being how cars look in FMP-verse or something?

>>19432

not really, this is just an event for fun, we just need to agree on a character to get nominated

>>19433

okay, cool

I thought that was the basic idea, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something

I NEED TO KNOW BEFORE WEDNESDAY

This is going be a rather large undertaking for everyone involved so wednesday is the cut off

I think we should just go with one of the Toku's. I think it'd fit better than a giant robot. Since we're almost out of time, I'll put a vote to Kamen Rider.

>>19436

CUT OFF IS IN 4ISH HOURS

OTHERWISE GOING WITH

>>19420

>>19374

Why did they ever think all the overly edited videos shot on expensive cameras was ever a good idea? How did they not realize they were wasting too much time and money on something that wasn't a giant fighting robot? Why did they build shit they knew wouldn't work when they would just have to build a new one that does work? Why did they not have someone in charge of the money to tell them to stop being retarded?

>>19375

None of it was ever going to work, the only way to get any funding and to have any part of this work in real life was to make it look good and get people excited- and then when the actual fighting happens, fake the shit out of it like wrestling, it doesn't matter as long as people can suspend their disbelief, but it's so unworkable that they couldn't even accomplish that

>>19392

iirc the one Chris Jericho hosted seemed to be worked and it was pretty dismal too

maybe there's some chicanery to get smaller robots over, like maybe aim for 5' or so with really light metal frames, shoot it in a set designed to make it look big, and get Rey Mysterio jr to host it and let him stand next to them so they look gigantic.

>>19392

You're probably right, but it's still annoying since it feels like they went out of their way to use their money in the dumbest way possible.

>>19374

These idiots got several times their desired funding, it's their own fault they spent it all.

>>19312

We have a game thread, OP.

Isn't it kind of a dead thread?

>>19314

It's only on page 3 so not really.

I agree, op.

>>13965

>what the final battle could have been

>>13963

That's just stating the obvious.