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Have to say, the intake looks somewhat inspired by the Basking shark:

What we are not seeing is the jump jet on the underside of the mech that lets it hover while the feet flail wildly and kick enemy mechs that enter close combat.

oh...dear...GOD!!!!!!

I just remembered this ugly ass mecha from my FFXI days:

This series looks freaking great. The bunny violence is both absurd and awesome, will definitely be watching this.

It was one of those ripcord racers type thing. You lifted the feet off the ground, pulled the ripcord, then set it down and let it roll across the kitchen floor. It's basically a motorcycle with four kickstands.

here we go for another shot at ugly:

the discussion originated from your comments regarding weapons on tails and then your comparison to scorpions and other arthropods.

However... after Wild Wild West giant mechanized insects somehow lost their charm and menacing qualities.

You got me there, I got lost somewhere between giant scorpions and a gundam dog's laser tounge

Plus there's a scale problem. Exoskeletons like ants and many other insects have work more and more poorly as scale increases, making giant bugs like in old scifi, horror, and Paul Verhoeven movies unlikely if not impossible.

I didn't say realistic or effective, I just said that a giant scorpion mecha bristling with weapons is cooler than a monkey mecha, imo.

Alright, I retract my opinion on ZOIDS, those figures are indeed awesome.

That Karate Federation fist ship is awesome!

and ZOIDS were my main offenders.

They look like animals, why have a tail on a basic quadruped mech? Unless some sort of weapon is mounted on it, and in those cases, it still has a severely limited arc of fire. I think the ZOIDS that were arthropods of some sort made more sense, like a crab, spider, or scorpion. The vertebrate ZOIDS just looks too goofy for my taste.

Animal mecha = fail in my book, I just can't stand it.

I enjoyed playing Omega Boost the first 2-3 times through.

I the Stealth plane is not one of the ugliest designs out there, imo, there were plenty of real world airplane designs from WWII through the '70s that were amazingly ugly.

The Stealth plane was built for a popcorn flick, big explosions and summer fun. It was NOT made to be accurate, it was NOT made to please the armchair military analyst, it was built to look cool going a million miles an hour on the big screen.

I have a feeling the only reason most people here slam it is because a few people complained "omg, that thing would never fly, the angle of the (insert random tech jargon here) is all wrong!". Seriously, is was never made to be a real world design in any way.

As for the rest of the movie, yeah, it was poo.

Here are my submissions for ugly Mecha:

Some more G Gundam gems. I love this one.....

I have got a big eye.

Taksraven

Actually, give the Deatharmy a Zaku eye and is would look rather bad ass.

I'm going to stick with HLJ if nothing other than personal preferance. I've used them alot, and have never been disappointed.

That's equal to putting "My Little Pony" stickers on your valks...

Like there was a doubt?!

Arc-Gurren Lagann and Hyper-Dimension (whatever its called) Gurren Lagann look great, The new yoko sculpt looks awesome until you see the lower back area, that bend looks painful.

itching for the progress reports now, props to you voice actors

One thing I discovered, is if I knock back a guiness or two first, my voice naturally gets a little deeper and surlier. But, maybe also slurier! See that! Same letters, just rearranged! That, my friends, is because I'm a frakking wordsmith. What.

I smell a Roy Fokker / Ozma personality in there somewhere..

MOAR BOOZE!

Metal Gear - the voice acting for most of the actors, like Solid Snake, were intentionally deep and raspy. Its just something your ears pick up on when you are watching something and makes your brain say "hey, that sounds forced".

Already canceled my preorder from Anime-Export, they requested payment this morning. However, they did refund the money very quickly.

Yeah, Nanashi always had some obscure artwork that we didn't even know existed every time we became hard pressed for models, back with the HW1 mod.

I used to have a picture of a UN Spacy space station that Lestat sent me, but that HD was since lost to a flood.

I think he found the perfect balance between gruff japanese warrior voice and gruff english voice (without sounding too... what was the phrase used? Metal Gear?).

Glad I could contribute to the project rofl

Don't know why, but I'm thinking Omega Supreme. Maybe its the orange.

and wtf is up with those feet?

Wow, nice to have Anime Export on the forums!