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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Wouldn't a medium robot just be human-sized, in what world are patlabors medium

    No, that's small.

    Small: Knight Sabers, Sakura Wars' Koubus
    Medium: Patlabors, Exo-Squads, Macross Variables
    Large: Gundams
    Intergalactic: Gurren Lagaan, Gunbuster, Sanger Zonvolt

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I consider Code Geass robots to be medium size. They're definitely bigger than humans and most military vehicles aside from carriers and such, but not so big that they can't navigate a city without ruining cars and buildings

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    notya wrote: »
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Oh, I see!

    I share my very normal preference and I am made the focus of derision?!

    Every single person in this thread is a degenerate

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--c3tOUcrZA

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Small= smaller than a human, a haro or a roombas
    Medium=roughly human sized, androids etc.
    Giant= everything bigger than a human, what are you basing your scale on if not humans???

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Humans are small therefore robots the size of humans are small.

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Small= smaller than a human, a haro or a roombas
    Medium=roughly human sized, androids etc.
    Giant= everything bigger than a human, what are you basing your scale on if not humans???

    The problem with your scale is giant can range from like 12.5 feet for a scopedog to billions of light years.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    the universe as a whole is medium, so everything within it is small, making tengen toppa gurren lagann the only giant robot

    This is what you sound like!

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    By my scale, they start getting large when you need an entire crew to repair and maintain the things. A single person can maintain a Knight Saber or a Patlabor, you need a squad to maintain a Gundam or an Eva.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    the patlabors have a dedicated maintenance team, that's like half the cast on the base

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    the patlabors have a dedicated maintenance team, that's like half the cast on the base

    Well, it's definitely ideal... but you usually only see one or two guys working on mechs that size in other shows.


    The Magic Knight Rayearth cast are lucky, don't have to maintain magical entities.

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  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    rhylith wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    rhylith wrote: »
    Love a medium robot

    What the fuck

    Gotta have them robots medium

    Full Metal Panic? Escaflowne?

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    the universe as a whole is medium, so everything within it is small, making tengen toppa gurren lagann the only giant robot

    This is what you sound like!

    I’m just saying we’re mostly discussing pilotable robots so I would probably start the small scale at the scopedog. Medium would be like a standard gundam or Mazinger Z. I don’t have a good example of large from anime but like Pacific Rim Jaegers. Giant would probably start with Gunbuster. And then yeah the TTGL is off in it’s own category way farther down the line.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I refuse to live in a world where patlabors are considered too small to be giant fucking robots
    they need to be carried around on a humongous 4-lane-wide transport truck!

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Lasbrook wrote: »
    the universe as a whole is medium, so everything within it is small, making tengen toppa gurren lagann the only giant robot

    This is what you sound like!

    I’m just saying we’re mostly discussing pilotable robots so I would probably start the small scale at the scopedog. Medium would be like a standard gundam or Mazinger Z. I don’t have a good example of large from anime but like Pacific Rim Jaegers. Giant would probably start with Gunbuster. And then yeah the TTGL is off in it’s own category way farther down the line.

    you can do this but you have to say "small giant robot" vs. "large giant robot"
    "small robot" vs. "giant robot" without the qualifier includes the full range of sizes including non-giant robots

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    the patlabors have a dedicated maintenance team, that's like half the cast on the base

    Well, it's definitely ideal... but you usually only see one or two guys working on mechs that size in other shows.


    The Magic Knight Rayearth cast are lucky, don't have to maintain magical entities.

    this is a nonsense metric, the number of maintenance personnel is rarely something the story actually cares at all to illustrate beyond "there's a maintenance guy in this scene to convey some information or banter with the pilot" even in the more real-robot-y giant robot stories

    yes I am choosing to die on this giant robot-shaped hill today

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    The scopedog falls around medium to me, but they're not that much bigger than the Koubu.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Medium robot should be a robot with psychic powers

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    rhylith wrote: »
    Medium robot should be a robot with psychic powers

    Wait but what size is it?

    Average

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    There was that one show about office-worker giant robot pilots that had a whole full maintenance team with trucks and everything that had to put together all the parts every time.

    Then halfway through the show they made the parts be able to fly together on their own and later there's a shot of the maintenance guys going "So do they still need us now that the parts can fly are we gonna get fired?"

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    this is making me go insane
    you lot contend that a fictional robot that's the size of a semi truck and trailer or small house is not a "giant" robot because much larger fictional robots exist???

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    this is making me go insane
    you lot contend that a fictional robot that's the size of a semi truck and trailer or small house is not a "giant" robot because much larger fictional robots exist???

    Yes

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    this is making me go insane
    you lot contend that a fictional robot that's the size of a semi truck and trailer or small house is not a "giant" robot because much larger fictional robots exist???

    Well, they become marginally less impressive if you have robots that can crush them underfoot. You have to quantify things somehow.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    they typically do not exist in the same fiction! but also that's not relevant to whether they have the admittedly broad property of being large!

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    they typically do not exist in the same fiction! but also that's not relevant to whether they have the admittedly broad property of being large!

    My logic is unassailable by virtue of being non-existent

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  • WearingGlassesWearingGlasses Of the friendly neighborhood variety Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Who the heck gets excited by... average robots.

    Madmen I tell ya

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    rhylith wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    rhylith wrote: »
    Love a medium robot

    What the fuck

    Gotta have them robots medium

    wait, 2b and r. dorothy wainright are medium...

    you might be onto something

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    they typically do not exist in the same fiction! but also that's not relevant to whether they have the admittedly broad property of being large!

    Bubblegum Crisis has all three in one show!
    Knight Sabers: small
    Boomers: medium
    Tinsel City: large
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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    2B is an android, those have different scaling nomenclature

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  • IronKnuckleIronKnuckle This is also my fault Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Point of order: the Knight Sabers use hardsuits, which are powered armor, and not robots or mecha.

    They do however have transformable motorcycles which can operate either in autonomous mode or as additional pilotable armor for the Knight Sabers. Therefore the motoroids are both robots and mecha.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I think Rumble and Frenzy might be bigger than I am, but they are still small robots.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    JayKaos wrote: »
    There was that one show about office-worker giant robot pilots that had a whole full maintenance team with trucks and everything that had to put together all the parts every time.

    Then halfway through the show they made the parts be able to fly together on their own and later there's a shot of the maintenance guys going "So do they still need us now that the parts can fly are we gonna get fired?"

    What show is this?

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Reynolds wrote: »
    JayKaos wrote: »
    There was that one show about office-worker giant robot pilots that had a whole full maintenance team with trucks and everything that had to put together all the parts every time.

    Then halfway through the show they made the parts be able to fly together on their own and later there's a shot of the maintenance guys going "So do they still need us now that the parts can fly are we gonna get fired?"

    What show is this?

    I believe it was this one- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dai-Guard

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I think gurren laggan is tremendously overrated by a western audience that hadn't had a ton of exposure to super robot content

    Beyond some stylistic touches its cultural cache in Japan seems comparatively muted

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I never made it past the hot spring or beach or whatever episode it was in Gurren Laggan when I tried to watch it years ago. Then I got spoiled that the only character I found interesting at that point would die shortly after that and so just couldn't muster continuing.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I think gurren laggan is tremendously overrated by a western audience that hadn't had a ton of exposure to super robot content

    Beyond some stylistic touches its cultural cache in Japan seems comparatively muted

    Some anime simply hit big in the USA/West in a way they don't in Japan, and I think TTGL does here because it's a sort of "Queen's Greatest Hits" cassette tape worth of super robot anime

    It hits all the biggest notes of the genre in 26 episodes, with a solid budget and recognizable traces of FLCL (another show huge in the USA that barely registers in Japan), stands on its own reasonably well, and doesn't overstay its welcome

    See also: Gundam Wing being enormous in the USA where the UC has never really gotten major traction here

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    wing hit at the right time, much like TTGL did

    gundam had a truly bizarre release order in the west overall though

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    wing hit at the right time, much like TTGL did

    gundam had a truly bizarre release order in the west overall though

    True, Wing hit right at the start of the '00s anime boom while TTGL hit at the very end

    My kingdom for an official USA Turn A release tho

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    and they both hit at a time when the culture hadn't had a lot of exposure to their respective genres (i can't really think of a wide release super robot show of that era besides big o, which is doing such a different thing)

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Mysst wrote: »
    Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is far too large to be in the 'giant' category

    Hence my "Intergalactic" category, also including most OG mechs with attacks that can rend entire solar systems in half.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zieduj1u5nI

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Mysst wrote: »
    Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is far too large to be in the 'giant' category

    Most shows don't go to the scale of TTGL, much less the movie version deciding to one up it even further.

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