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Some time ago the US Megabots team issued a challenge to the Japanese team behind the Kuratas mecha to have a mecha fight in one years time. The Japanese have now risen to the challenge and said tongue in cheek they want the battle to have brawling so they smash the US robot into pieces.
"My reaction? Come on, guys, make it cooler," Suidobashi founder and CEO Kogoro Kurata said in a YouTube video posted to the site on Sunday. "Just building something huge and sticking guns on it -- it's...Super American."
Kurata's playful comments came after MegaBots on July 2 issued a challenge to Suidobashi to engage in a real-life giant robot battle. The MegaBots pugilist is called Mark 2, weighs six tons, and is piloted by a team of two. The Mark 2 fires three-pound paint cannonballs up to 100 miles per hour. The Suidobashi Kuratas weighs 4.5 tons, making it a bit more agile. However, it comes with a pair of Gatling guns, coupled with an advanced targeting system and heads-up display.
In its own video, MegaBots called the fight a "duel," and said that it hoped to host the event in one year. The team called on Suidobashi to name the battleground.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Tuesday July 07 2015, @10:55AM
Unless you've got a srimech (self righting mechanism)...
Yeah, I was a fan of all of the robot TV programs. However, it was obvious as soon as there were 3 competing programs at the same time that they were sucking the life out of the formula too quickly, and sure enough, within a year or two, they were all gone. I would have been way happier with 1 program lasting 3 times as long, and would hope that without the flooding of the market, it would have lasted way more than 3 times as long.
Bring back (UK) Robot Wars! (And Robotica with the awesome Ahmet Zappa)
Hopefully this slightly gimicky event might breath some life back into the genre.
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