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  1. Good point Taks, but in the case of ST (I could give a rat's ass about Doctor Who [sorry guys]), most 'technical specs', especially from the original series, are retcons. It wasn't until the popularity of TNG that these ships began being designed with more 'precise' technical specifications in mind. My guess is that goes the same for that Doctor Who book you posted.

    But in the case of Pacific Rim, they've come into the game showing their cards, and had a clear purpose in mind when they came up with it all which was "Wow, we think these details are awesome!"

    I'm sorry if my nitpick of a movie that hasn't been released yet is bothering you but, as I've stated repeatedly in this thread, I expect A LOT from GDT. The more and more I'm seeing of this movie, it looks like he let Hollywood hit him over the head with the "We know what looks and sounds cool!" stick.

    I mean, they can build giant mecha in this story, why not some advanced lifting vehicles for them, as well?

  2. VF's only? That's too bad as I've always been a fan of the YF-21 and 19; strange as it sounds, I didn't like their formal VF versions as much. Favorite VF's would then be the 1 and the Zero; the other designs outside of the original Macross and Zero never caught on with me for some reason...

    Good point, but I think that YFs should count, too.

  3. Aside from the classic VF-1?

    1. VF-9. Of course it looks sleek as heck in fighter mode, but especially its GERWALK. I, unlike most others, like the battroid, too.

    2. SDP-1. Because I like the idea of a heavy hitter version of a VF-1, and I like the direction SK was going in with it.

    3. VF-171. This one surprised me because I don't care that much for the VF-17, but the VF-171 makes the it look like a rough draft.

    Least favorite: any VF with a g&dd@mn face, and/or the series of sucked-in gut/out-thrust pelvis of VFs from Frontier (VF-25, VF-27, VF-29).

  4. Don't forget that F-22s have two cannons, that apparently fire from the intakes.

    Forgot about that one.

    But did you notice how the 'rat-tat-tat' of the machine guns appears to either be gone, or turned down really low, in the new trailer?

    Your overthinking this WAY too much...

    Hey, they (the Pacific Rim people) are making up the rules of the game as they go along. I am just playing by them.

    They didn't have to release spec sheets with a whole bunch of 'cool' sounding stuff on them but, by Jove, I will use those spec sheets to call them out on the super-copters!

  5. Just saw something that I find curious, and bothers me a bit:

    When they are dropping the Jaegers into the water, they show at least 8 (probably 9 due to their formation) CH-47 Chinook-looking helicopters dropping the Striker Eureka.

    Now, the Striker Eureka is 6,650 tons (13.3 million pounds/6m+ kg), meaning each helicopter is carrying, at least, almost 740 tons.

    The lifting capacity of the modern CH-47 is about 20 tons. Even the C-5 Galaxy, the USA's largest cargo plane, generally carries only 135 tons.

    So I guess the take away from this is that, in the near future, not only do we have giant mecha (awesome!) but super-duper amazingly powerful helicopters, too (awesomer?)!

  6. I don't see how people hate like the GERWALK or battroid modes of the VF-9 so much

    The GERWALK looks totally menacing, like a bird of prey. I think it is neat how the whole nose props up like that.

    As for the battroid? It may not be the best, but it is totally better than the skinny, sucked-in gut/out-thrust crotch look of everything from Frontier.

  7. Quick question for you guys:

    Recently we bought a WD 3tb MyBook. It is physically attached to our iMac via firewire, and has two partitions: one to back up the iMac, and one that will be used to back up my wife's work laptop before we move.

    Anyhow, I have noticed that the hard drive on this thing tends to run A LOT. Like, at times we there is not data going up or down. It is just sitting there, and then the hard drive spins up for a while. I can feel the slight vibration of it through my computer desk (cheap wood), and if I put my hand on it, I can definitely feel the hum of it spinning.

    Is this something normal and expected, like the drive is doing something on its own?

  8. I'm having difficulty with it. I mean, design-wise it doesn't look like it advanced much from the VF-25 or the YF-29.

    I guess me main beef is that, at a certain point, Kawamori decided to start putting the arm joint in GERWALK mode in front of the wing instead of slung below it. Ever since then, every GERWALK mode, which I always thought of as the most unique and exciting, visually, has kind of looked like poop to me. Someone mentioned earlier in this thread that these are all starting to look the same, and I'd have to agree. The YF-30 is no different.

  9. Hey there everyone! I was organizing and packing up some documents and came across these old Patlabor drawings I did from from 2001 (actually, photocopies of them... I think the originals are lost).

    Click on the images to be directed to the blog post with the full images (as always, my site could use the traffic).

    Feel free to comment on the blog post or directly here in the O/T thread.

    ...man, these are OLD!!!

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  10. Is this "two guys operating one unit" or are they operating two different units. Don't get a bee in your bonnet about this sort of stuff yet.

    It has already been stated that it is two pilots operating a single unit.

    OK, I checked out the rundown from the MTV-hosted (really?) director's commentary of the trailer. Here is some text about the dual pilots:

    No one person can pilot a Jaeger, the massive robots created to combat the Kaiju. Such a piece of machinery can only be operated by two pilots, serving two very specific functions.

    "The pilots wear suits that are neurally linking them," says del Toro. "They have a spinal clamp that links their spines. They have relay gel in their helmets that transmit their impulses to one another. They move in synchronicity. One is handling the neural network of the left side of the Jaeger, and the other is handling the neural network of the right side of the Jaeger. They are connected between them."

    So, that provides a reasonable explanation of why the pilots aren't physically in sync. But I still think it is gimmicky and I don't know if Syngyne posted the actual plot device or not, but what he/she wrote sounds reasonable enough. I think it is there just to serve some plot device.

  11. Actually, I thought it looked pretty awesome.

    Gimmicky.

    Plus, they didn't even do a good job of coordinating the actors.

    At 1m05s, both pilots do this silly-looking arm thing, and the timing of both is off. Which one is the Jaeger going to emulate?

    At 1m26, they show both walking. Their legs, especially their left legs, are in completely different positions:

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    Which one is the Jaeger going to emulate?

    At 1m34s one of the pilots does that thing where you punch your other open hand. Does the other pilot have to do that, too? If not, which one does the Jaeger know to emulate?

    At 1m41s one of the pilots punches from a crouching position:

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    The other pilot is clearly not doing the same thing. How does the Jaeger know which pilot it is supposed to emulate?

    Like I said before, I hope they provide a good explanation for why this system is done in the film, because I can easily imagine it being given some cheap lip-service because its true goal is probably to create some dramatic situation between two of the pilots.

  12. Don't get me wrong. GdT is a great storyteller and I am sure Pacific Rim will be a great story. But after so many visually-stunning movies with creative and exciting visual designs done under his watch, seeing the mecha designs for this almost felt like a punch in the gut.

    And, let's be honest, they better have a pretty good reason for the dual-pilot neural-interface thing, because seeing two dudes in the cockpit sphere walking in unison looks pretty cheesy.

  13. Maybe robot films going blockbuster-mainstream means the designs don't have to please the niche mecha fan community, like the Bayformers they only need to work cinematically, i.e. as a general impression, to the general audience. We had this in Real Steel and in del Toro's own Hellboy: The Golden Army. The robots are plot devices, and not the stars of the show.

    But the designs for the robots in Hellboy 2 were fantastic looking.

    These just look so... generic. And blah.

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