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megamech 🌟 2026-05-15 11:20 🇳🇱

I wish, I really didn’t get to see many amusement park kinda places and exhibitions. Was too busy geeking out in arcades and buying stuff to even consider those. ^_^

I know those are really cool though! Most are just display pieces as you’ve mentioned, we even had one put up in my uni but it only rotated on its hips. Was still cool to take pictures inside! Apparently it was some project from some uni research group.

It seems unfortunately mechas and gundams are only really fiction, most practical applications are unmanned drones. No point in actually putting someone in the mech it seems.

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epsilon 🌟 2026-05-15 19:21 🇨🇦

WOAHH what uni was this?

That sounds so damn cool, what was the inside like? Did they make a cockpit for a pilot? How have i never heard of this?

Also, yeah, its so unfortunate that mechs aren't viewed as practical. It won't stop me from trying to form together a team and trying to make one...if I ever have the money for a giant project like this.

I remember hacksmith tried to make one back in the day, but it was mostly just a platform with multiple legs rather than a proper mech suit...but in the video they did complain about how impractical it is trying to make a mech actually walk...I wonder where that problem starts to occur. Cause I've seen smaller bipedal robots, obviously bigger "gundam"-esque robots will have bigger and stronger legs as well but apparently, at some point, the legs don't scale well and idk if its the energy that it'd require to get giant functioning legs or what, but im curious what the "impractical" factor is with giant gundam-esque robots.

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megamech 🌟 2026-05-16 06:25 🇸🇪

That’s tech universities for you. A lot of people doing random projects >_•

It wasn’t really anything too special. You had to manually rotate it and it didn’t walk. Still was very cool to take photos inside! It did have a cockpit you climb into, the inside looked a lot like an old car, I think they had repurposed a lot of car parts.

Going to get a bit scientific but I’m pretty sure it’s mostly due to the square-cube law. Anything that big needs a lot of surface area to actually be functional, but that’s hard to keep as long as it’s not like a, car or smth. Elephants are kind of the biggest size we can get, and they have 4 legs.

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epsilon 🌟 2026-05-16 17:25 🇨🇦

I didn’t know about the square cube law, I’m gonna look that up! I guess we’re gonna have to look into animal shaped mechs! That could be cool though cause now instead of the cockpit being for one pilot, it could staff a whole crew.

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megamech 🌟 2026-05-16 18:23 🇸🇪

Physics always coming in to ruin our dreams of mechs T_T

Animal shaped mechs sound cool, though atp that’s just a tank and tracks > legs 9 times out of 10.

But for some rough terrain conditions like mountains, animal shaped mechs would be really cool!

That’s also why the only really massive animals are ocean animals. Water reduces the effect of gravity so you can have stuff like whales while not being crushed by the effect of gravity.

So you never know, maybe the future of mechs and gundams are underwater robots? Some big fast fish like mech with arms to grab and toss around submarines sounds really cool!

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epsilon 🌟 2026-05-16 21:35 🇨🇦

T_T

Physics physics go away
Come again another day

Also a underwater mech that’s as big as a whale but has arms that it can use is a thallasophobic’s and megalophobic’s worst nightmare…also idk if that’s how you spell those phobias but it’s something like that for sure.

I would kill to live in a moving anima-mech house. I’d just be walking around in remote regions in a giant animal body…

Also, I imagine a person who actually successfully makes an animal mech and spends his life living in it has to have a very interesting life story

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megamech 🌟 2026-05-17 13:34 🇸🇪

Furries exist… and most are in high end tech positions… so that might be closer than we think lol 0_0

We already have those underwater mining and research submarines that have arms, so we’re like halfway there to underwater mechs, no?

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epsilon 🌟 2026-05-17 14:46 🇨🇦

This is true. And I for one cant wait for the fancy high end furries to make a fancy high end animal mech.

Ykw there has to be a book about this subject. Im gonna look it up!

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megamech 🌟 2026-05-18 06:40 🇺🇸

Book about furries… making mechs? Damn that sounds like a very engaging read ngl

Also the only thing that comes to mind from “high end furries making high end animal mechs” is springlock lmao

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epsilon 🌟 2026-05-18 15:05 🇨🇦

Lmao no I meant a book about making mechs. Not specifically a furry making animal mechs pfft

My bad, the wording wasnt great on that.

Ooh i havent heard of springlock, but the name reminds me of Greylock. Is springlock the furry mech analog horror series?

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