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The Future is Here: The Child’s Mecha!

by storiesbywilliams on May 4, 2013 in Cool Stuff, Future, robotics, Technology, Video and tagged battletech, japanese robotics company, kids walker cyclops, Kuratos robot, Landwalker robot, macross plus, mecha, mechas, robotics, Sakakibara Machinery Works, suidobashi heavy industry

Move over coin-powered rocket ship! A Japanese company has just produced a robotics mecha suit for kids. It’s known as the Kid’s Walker Cyclops, a bright green robot that measures 2 meters (6’9″) tall, a meter (3’6″) wide, weighs in at a cool 750 pounds, and runs off rechargeable batteries. And most cool of all, it comes […]

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The Future is Here: Real Mechas!

by storiesbywilliams on July 30, 2012 in Future, Series and tagged anime, full metal panic, giant robot, kuratos, macross, mechanized warrior, mechas, robocop, suidobashi heavy industry, vaudeville, wonder festival 2012

It’s official. Now you can buy a real mechanized suit of armor… provided you have 1.3 million dollars just lying around. Unveiling their latest invention this past weekend during this years Wonder Festival in Tokyo, Suidobashi Heavy Industry has created the world’s first fully operational mecha! It seems that all that anime was right after […]

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Cool Ships (volume XI)

by storiesbywilliams on June 9, 2012 in Books, Cool Ships, Movies, Series and tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, alien prequel, amarr empire, armageddon battleship, Arthur C Clarke, battle galaxy carrier, blasterthron, eve online, f-22, f-35, firstborn, gtf ulysses, gtva, Gunship Type Macross Cannon, helicarrier, inhibitor ships, inhibitor square, macross, mechas, megathron, monolith, nick fury, ntf iceni, prometheus, prometheus movie, prometheus vessel, quinjets, resurgam, revelation space, revelation space universe, robocop, robotech, S.H.I.E.L.D., sdf-1, shivans, sniperthron, space odyssey monolith, terran, terran-vasudan alliance, the avengers, tycho monolith, vasudan, zentraedi

Armageddon: Back once more to the Eve universe, thank you Mr. Zidar for suggesting it in the first place! Here we have the Armageddon Battleship, the main heavy warship of the Amarr Empire. Packing a lot of firepower into its long, heavy frame, command of one of these is considered the greatest honor an Amarrian […]

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More Giant Robots

by storiesbywilliams on May 22, 2012 in Books, Giant Robots, Movies, Series, Video games and tagged battletech, cain, dragoons, giant robots, gundam wing, h.g. wells, immortals, mad cat, mad dog, madox 01, martians, mech, mechas, metal gear ray, metal gear rex, metal gear solid, metal gear sons of liberty, metal skin panic, mobile suit, robocain, robocop, robocop 2, robotech, starcraft, stephen spieldberg, templar, tripod walker, war of the worlds, z gundam, zentraedi, zentraedi battlepod

Welcome back. I had a lot of fun with the last installment, so here’s another! Updated, expanded, and with plenty of additions. Ah, screw it! Let’s get to it. Immortal: Back to the Starcraft universe for a sequel. Much like its predecessor, the Immortal was a vehicle for severely wounded Templars who still wanted to […]

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GIANT ROBOTS!

by storiesbywilliams on May 20, 2012 in Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged at-at walkers, battle of hoth, battletech, broadside battlesuit, brood war, clone war, confederacy, dark templar, darpa, destroid tomahawk, dominion, dragoon, echo base, empire, fuchikoma, general veers, ghost in the shell, giant robots, goliath, guild wars, luke skywalker, mech, mechas, metal gear rex, metal gear solid, old republic, omnimech, protoss, robotech, rogue squadron, solid snake, Star Wars, starcraft, tachikoma, tau army, templar, the matrix of leadership, think tanks, timberworld mad cat, Transformers, UED, unicron, warhammer 40k, zentraedi, zerg

Forgive the all caps, but with a name like this, you gotta go big! Thanks to a helpful suggestion from a respected colleague (thanks Rami!), I’ve finally found the latest for my series on conceptual post. And I think my reasons for going with it are clear. Whether we are talking about mechs, mechas, walkers […]

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Cool Ships (volume IX)

by storiesbywilliams on May 19, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Series and tagged Alien, B5, borg cube, borg sphere, cardassia, cardassian union, cardassians, corellian, CVS-101 Prometheus, dominion, dominion war, empire, forerunner shield world, galaxy-class, halo, halo wars, jem'hadar battleship, k't'inga-class cruiser, klingons, LV-426, mechas, mon calamari, negh'var class cruiser, new republic, primus-class, prometheus, prometheus movie, rebel alliance, robotech, sdf-1 macross, SLV-111 Daedalus, space jockeys, spacejockey ship, star trek ds9, Star Trek TNG, Star Wars, strident-class star defender, super star destroyer, the breen, the coventant, the derelict, the federation, the nostromo, unsc spirit of fire, uss defiant, uss enterprise D, uss valiant, vor'cha-class cruiser, vorchan-class

Borg Sphere: This first example shows us that thought they were obsessed with simple geometric shapes, the Borg were capable of thinking outside of the cube. If anything, the sphere is a more perfect shape and aesthetically way more pleasing, so its a wonder why they didn’t do it sooner. Making its first appearance in […]

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Cool Ships (volume VIII)

by storiesbywilliams on May 17, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Series and tagged 2000 dune miniseries, alliance escort carrier, arrakeen, arrakis, battle of bilbringi, battle of installation 05, battleship yamato, battlestar flight pod, Battlestar Galactica, boomer, caprica, cardassian union, centurions, cloaking device, corellian, corellian freighter, Covenant, cylon heavy raider, cylon raider, darth malak, darth revan, david lynchs dune, disruptors, dominion war, Dune, flight pod, FTL, gamilons, general martok, grand admiral thrawn, halcyon-class cruiser, han solo, imperium, interdictor-class cruiser, jedi order, klingon empire, kobol, KOTOR, mechas, milennium falcon, negh'var class cruiser, ornithopter, paul muad'ib, photon torpedoes, protoculture, quasar fire-class cruiser, robotech, scattered, Sci-Fi, science fiction, sharon valerii, space ships, star destroyer, star trek ds9, Star Trek TNG, Star Wars, star wars: knights of the old republic, starbuck, the farm, the great war, the leviathan, thrawn trilogy, truce at bakura, usnc in amber clad, valkyrie, vf-1 veritech, vladivostok-class missile frigate, yt-2400 freighter

Battleship Yamato: A couple times now I’ve given praise to ship designs that went beyond the usual airplane/ seafaring paradigm. But what can you say about a spaceship which is a carbon copy of a old sea battleship? I don’t know, gutsy maybe? That its paying homage to the original? That’s all I can really […]

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