Suidobashi Heavy Industry of Japan has finally found a way to make (a) work or (b) laser tag interesting to me; put me inside a giant robot.
But to get the "Kuratas mecha" you will have to spend $1.35 million. You will want to, because they have a polite, hot Japanese girl in shorts in their video.
Its diesel engine sends it at an elegant 10 KPH clip, basically a decent walking pace. But these are too cool to run in. No one looks cool running so until it can fly or turn into a motorcyle, a cool pace will do.
This thing is huge. Granted, the girl in the video is probably only 4 feet tall but look at the scale of it:
Ironically, once inside, they are most concerned about you wearing a helmet as you smite invading Zentraedi. I mean, you are in a giant robot tank. That is one big bullseye for alien gunships.
Seriously, is this not the best wargame device ever? Will they take a credit card for that $1.35 million? Our navy is spending $6 billion for one new destroyer. For that money we could have two brigades of soldiers running around in these. And the HUD is cool:
I need to buy one before this gets banned because some sociopath who couldn't even get a membership in a gun club got NIH funding and used it to shoot up a movie theater. Plus, it's GREEN:
Safe? Not when I am done retrofitting it. The best part? I can set it so all I have to do is smile and bad guys go down in a hail of BB gunfire:
Please exit carefully after you have saved all of the protoculture from an alien civilization:
No kidding?
