"We have a giant robot, you have a giant robot," MegaBots's co-founder Matt Oehrlein said at the time.
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A giant robot army lurched toward the Man in Black.
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Meet Megabot: A giant robot hoping to win a mech battle
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Gundam meets Waterworld in this dystopian twist on giant robot anime.
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Sam Humphries: Jonesy will pilot a giant robot made of ferrets.
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Sylvain Neuvel imagined piloting a giant robot when he was growing up.
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Into the Breach doesn't let me tinker in a giant robot laboratory.
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Where were you on the day of the world's first giant robot duel?
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You're a futuristic cave woman who hunts giant robot dinosaurs long after the apocalypse.
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One moment that giant robot holds a bazooka, the next it's a ray gun.
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Would you pay $1,000 to outsource your most hated chore to a giant robot?
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After being struck by a bolt of lightning, Heroman transforms into a giant robot.
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The series therefore broke cleanly with the space opera roots of giant robot fiction.
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It's got those giant robot mechs—aka "jaegers"—and even a few crazy-ass kaiju.
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But their contribution to this year's Giant Robot array was beguiling even by their standards.
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And it is no great spoiler to say that, later on, a giant robot appears.
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MegaBots' dream of a televised giant robot fighting league has been a bit slow going.
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There is an air of Edward Snowden with a giant robot to each of them.
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Meanwhile, the monster keeps appearing in Seoul, and then, one day, a giant robot does, too.
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NBD: I'm standing on an RV, next to a helicopter, looking down at a giant robot.
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If you like big monster trucks or giant robot arms, this is the movie for you.
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Just think of Sonos devices like Voltron, a giant robot made up of smaller lion robots.
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We're introduced to the other half of Titanfall 2's campaign: the giant robot BT-7274.
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There's one more giant robot you have to meet before you're ready to get on the ride.
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I arrived early because, you know, GIANT ROBOT, and was luckily able to witness the pre-test run.
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Still, you gotta start somewhere, and at the end of the day, it's still a Giant. Robot. Duel.
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The general direction of your opponent's home base is projected as a giant robot off in the distance.
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Ultimately, having a body is like sitting in the pilot seat inside the head of a giant robot.
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The giant robot that fired up the imaginations of countless 80s kids is gearing up for his second season.
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It turns out her friend Oscar has this power as well, although his alter-ego manifests as a giant robot.
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It's time for another giant robot-like machine that battles other huge stuff—yes, it's the release of Pacific Rim Uprising.
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And who knows, maybe some of Silicon Valley's other impulsive tech billionaires will get in on the giant robot act too.
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In it, Rose Franklin devoted her life to studying the giant robot that she first discovered when she was a child.
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Her work is currently on display in The Year Of The Rooster, a group exhibition at Giant Robot in Los Angeles.
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As a corridor shooter, a giant robot game, and as a Front Mission entry it has almost nothing to recommend it.
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Giant Robot Arm Creates 3D Light Paintings | The Creators Project e-David: A Painting Robot That Can Even Sign Its Own Name
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The second lets you loose in a giant robot strapped into a jetpack, whose sole attack is a skyscraper-smashing butt-stomp.
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One day, April stumbles on a giant robot sculpture in Midtown Manhattan, and makes a video with the figure, which goes viral.
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Giant Robot Free-thinking artistic duo Kozyndan's eclectic output ranges from painting and sculpture to textile, illustration, mixed media, prints, and random experimentation.
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"The series will focus on the science and engineering behind how to design a giant robot that's actually built for combat," says Cavalcanti.
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Jordan and I theorized that he's most likely pressed up against the window hoping a giant robot doesn't crush his shack and kill him.
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The show started with a model being lowered onto the runway courtesy of one giant robot arm, and it only got more confusing from there.
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Click here to view original GIF GIF Sources: MegaBots IncWhat's a team of giant robot designers supposed to do between Maker Faires and mecha battles?
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The $80 Robot Kit, as satisfying as it is to stomp around and punch a bunch of buildings as a giant robot, is less versatile.
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It extends the Switch with homemade cardboard toys and games, letting players use the portable console as a giant robot suit, a piano, and more.
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Giant robot men chase us down, their headless cyborg dogs fight us into submission, and we all go up in a column of drone flame.
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Residents now gush about the improvements, highlighting Indore's high livability ranking and recent experiments with technology, including a traffic intersection managed by a giant robot.
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Fortnite players who happened to boot up the game this afternoon were treated to a cataclysmic showdown between a giant robot and a terrifyingly large monster.
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Japanese cinema's influence on all of Tartakovsky's work is apparent, from the giant monster battles of Powerpuff Girls to the giant robot fights of Dexter's Laboratory.
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Robot fights, virtual reality, surreal dreams, magic, giant robot fights, self-driving cars: There's certainly a lot going on in Kenji Kamiyama's airy new feature, Napping Princess.
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We've been waiting a long time to see the "world's first giant robot duel," and next week we'll finally get to watch the metal-on-metal action.
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Related: Robots Weave A Hive-Like Pavilion In Germany Giant Robot Arm Creates 3D Light Paintings This Advanced Robotic Arm Will Carve Your Designs Out of Foam
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"Fortnite" creator Epic Games has unleashed a slew of changes to weaken the B.R.U.T.E., a giant robot suit that has been terrorizing the game's battle royale mode.
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Chaim talked to Neuvel last year about this series, and for anyone looking for a primer, that interview is a good intro to what's interesting about the series — in particular, the way it finds a new spin on giant-robot stories, by making the giant robot into a baffling alien artifact, then focusing on the worldwide political ramifications of one country having an unbeatable yet clumsy super-weapon.
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At a panel during New York Comic Con today, the movie's first trailer got its debut, showing off John Boyega's new character and plenty of giant robot action.
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Back in 2015, hidden in a tiny soundproof room at CES in Las Vegas, a demo for a cops-versus-giant robot game called Showdown blew me away.
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In the film, though, the character wasn't nearly as visually striking as her powers screamed out for her to be — remember: psychic spider inside a giant robot suit.
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It's also not Gaga's only means of entertainment — Friday's show included her singing ontop of a giant robot, albeit one operated by human crew members manipulating its arms.
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Next, we transition to a segment "partly based on Chan's own experience" from Ah Huat's Giant Robot, where the robot is summoned to protect protesters from the police.
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AMC Theaters released an IMAX trailer for Pacific Rim Uprising, the upcoming sequel to Guillermo del Toro's 2013 film Pacific Rim, and it's packed with giant robot vs.
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Charlie's first published comic is a fairly standard mid-century science-fiction tale in which a boy and his dog discover a giant robot hidden in a cave.
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In its action phase, you accept a mission and launch into battle with your giant robot to fight drones, tanks, and other mechs (called "arsenals" in this setting).
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Bezos' bot We can't decide if Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos looked more like a Transformer or one of the Power Rangers when he put on this giant robot suit.
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When MegaBots' Gui Cavalcanti describes the fight between his company's giant robot and a Japanese counterpart as a "strange event," it's both accurate and a bit of an understatement.
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AS JASON AND the Argonauts sailed home with the Golden Fleece, they stopped to rest by the island of Crete and found themselves under attack by a giant robot.
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Now that they know which weapons to bring to their giant robot fight club, they can move forward to developing a balancing system and getting a new paint job.
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The creators of "Fortnite" have responded to the pleas of hundreds of players by lowering the firepower of a giant robot that has been terrorizing the game for weeks.
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Mr. West himself is discussed too, when Chalamet justifies possibly working on a Transformers movie by citing Kanye's love of Guillermo del Toro's own giant robot epic Pacific Rim.
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In the trilogy's first installments, Sleeping Giants and Waking Gods, he revealed the discovery of a hidden, giant robot on Earth — and the aliens that are coming to defeat it.
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"Giant. Robot. Duel." — three words that shook up the internet back in 2015, when an American team of engineers named MegaBots challenged their Japanese counterparts, Suidobashi, to a fight by mecha.
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"I think that is a pretty clear sign that there's no longer an appetite—or a mass market appetite—for nation-on-nation giant robot fights," Oehrlein said in the video.
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Two years ago this summer, a California-based robotics company called Megabots published a brash, flashy video on YouTube and Kickstarter challenging a Japanese company called Suidobashi to a giant robot duel.
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Our protagonist, Hiro, is a Franxx prodigy, but he hasn't been able to find a partner to help him pilot his giant robot — until he meets a very special girl with horns.
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It may feel like the last thing the world needs right now is an international weaponized duel, but leave a little room in your heart for the joy of giant robot battles.
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Aside from traditional school drama, Takuto also pilots a giant robot and takes on a secret group on the island who want to use their giant robots to take over the world.
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And while, yeah ok there is still a lot of giant robot action with lots of big shiny explosions, the trailer really shows the film focusing on the friendship between these two characters.
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But the central characters — the five pilots of the lion-ships that form the giant robot Voltron — are taken directly from the original series, right down to their names, personalities, and visual designs.
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We expect to see gameplay and expanded trailers for their recently-revealed WWI shooter Battlefield 1, giant robot first person-shooter Titanfall 2, and EA's continually delayed space epic RPG Mass Effect: Andromeda.
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He sculpted the giant robot that surrounds the video game console that's the cornerstone of our kitchen and built the pink wood elephant hanging from the ceiling in the middle of the staircase.
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A giant robot piloted by Mr. Trump — and looking quite a bit like him — attacks them, leading to fights with a mariachi, a cowardly diplomat, the Virgin Mary (sort of) and a chicken.
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It's possible that if you were trapped under a pancaked skyscraper after an earthquake, or in a mine that had just collapsed, you'd be totally fine with getting rescued by a giant robot cockroach.
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"The vision of MegaBots is to entertain a growing global audience of science-fiction fans and eSport enthusiasts by turning their dreams about giant robot combat into epic reality," Megabots states on their website.
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Filled with regret and horrified by the damage she has done, she cuts back on the booze until a giant robot shows up in Seoul, which is forced to rely on the monster for saving.
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Related: Daniele Frazier Makes Giant Kites That Look Like Flowers, Hearts, and Wings In Prague, Giant Robot Sculpture Watches You An Artist Put Wax Butts Around Miami to Expose Everyday Sexual Harassment in Public Places
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Read more: Jeff Bezos took the controls of some "weirdly natural" giant robot hands but could not solve the riddle of a Rubik's cubeI went to Shadow's London office to try the hands out for myself.
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The beast is the manifestation of her anger and frustration, and it's soon joined by a rival: a giant robot who is the alter id of Oscar, a childhood friend of Gloria's played by Jason Sudeikis.
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First, I wanted the Themis Files to feel real — as real as a giant robot story can, anyway — and that meant my characters had to have some kind of ordinary existence beyond the events of the books.
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Gru and Dru bicker but find common cause when Bratt — a petulant, mulleted former 1980s TV child star — leads a giant robot of himself and an army of malevolent flying action figures on an invasion of Hollywood.
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The new anime series isn't a remake, instead following a brother and sister who must pilot an abandoned Jaeger—which is basically just a giant robot—across "a hostile landscape" in order to reunite with their parents.
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And first, I need you to tell me if it's real that the International Space Station has a giant robot arm for catching flying capsules of Mars dirt, which is what is happening when the film Life opens.
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Virtual-On was released in 1996, and brought with it a 1v1 versus fighter where you played as a "Virtuaroid," a giant robot kitted out with a range of unique weapons from beam sabres to heavy duty cannons.
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He then uses the giant robot to fight an evil nuclear power plant, while dealing with multiple love triangles between his mysterious attacker—who moves into the spare room in his house—his best friend, and his single father.
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Voltron was one of the original 'cool transforming toy robot sets that combined to make a bigger, awesomer, toy robot' but given the restrictions of '80s manufacturing techniques, the giant robot had some limitations when it came to posability.
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Last year, we had Oculus' giant robot and a flight over San Francisco, but this year, we have some gothic horror, a bona fide sci-fi thriller, and an ambitious two-part attempt to capture the experience of blindness.
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One puzzle hunt on Thursday taught students how to use the university's intimidating, brutalist Regenstein Library, transitioning into a brief tour of an underground library maintained by giant robot arms—one of which brought Seekers an object they had been seeking.
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That the whole thing was designed for entertainment value and was heavily edited before being aired "live" means that the giant robot battle says very little about the current state of robotics and much more about creating a viral video.
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Watching her clips is like taking a Screen Aesthetics 2000 class with a cool professor, and then hanging out at the campus coffee shop afterward, listening in as she riffs about, say, the significance of a giant robot peeing on John Turturro.
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One giant robot, two books, and a generous helping of sci-fi action later, and Neuvel is bringing the trilogy to a close with Only Human, which picks up after a cliffhanger that left many of the story's main characters stranded somewhere that isn't Earth.
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Just as the Rangers' oversize robot dinosaurs, known as Zords, inevitably combined into a giant robot warrior at the end of each episode, the series has been transformed, via a big-budget, big-screen reboot that attempts to repackage the franchise for a contemporary audience.
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They can be obnoxious and creatively scatological — if you've ever wished to see a giant robot car "urinate" on John Turturro, Michael Bay has your back — but for the most part, they are rather naive, and even innocent in their outlook on the world.
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In "Not Now," by Chelsea Muzar, a Japanese girl contends with hostility from her neighborhood and classmates after the arm of a giant robot fall onto her house from space, while in Eleanna Castroianni's "Without Exile," a case worker named Nell helps process refugees from a war-torn world.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — This week, Jim Shaw and others reveal the hidden histories of Los Angeles, Giant Robot brings its unique blend of Asian pop culture and art to the Vincent Price Art Museum, CalArts MFA candidates open up their studios, and more.
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Characters wend out of one story only to wend into another in a similar but different form, as if from a parallel universe; meanwhile, concepts that feel like anime parody (giant robot panda pilots — no, really, it's for a good cause) are accorded the same respect as ritual and ancestral pride.
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MegaBots, which raised over $500,000 on Kickstarter to upgrade its MegaBot Mk. II in anticipation of taking on Suidobashi Heavy Industry's Kuratas in a US-vs-Japan duel later this year, brought the giant robot to the Zappos headquarters in downtown Las Vegas for a public demonstration of its powers.
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While commentators and commentors can parse that video for days to then tell you exactly what each player should have done, the reality is that those players were making choices that were bounded by what they thought each other could do in response to the giant robot and the other players.
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The intricacies of Metal Wolf Chaos' giant robot mechanics are a less pressing point of discussion than the fact that this is a game where you play the president of the United States and pilot a mech to fight back against a coup d'etat led by, of all people, the vice president.
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The original plot of FLCL is hard to get a handle on without multiple viewings and a Pepe Silvia-style organizational chart, but basically 12-year-old Naota Nandaba discovers he has a giant robot inside his head when a mysterious woman named Haruko (Kari Wahlgren) drives by him on a moped and hits him with a guitar.
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When: Opens Saturday, April 23, 7–783pm Where: Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College (1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez, Monterey Park) Beginning as a photocopied zine in 1994, Giant Robot grew into a popular magazine on Asian and Asian-American pop culture, before morphing into a store and gallery in West LA's Little Osaka neighborhood.
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The anime Ghost in the Shell finishes with a protracted shootout against a giant robot tank that looks like a spider — but the true climax is a lengthy monologue in which the villain, a sentient computer program, explains how he unexpectedly gained self-awareness, and laments the lack of basic life systems like death and reproduction.
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This video was perfect for those of us who were still obsessed with the Power Rangers because—even if we didn't understand any of the damn lyrics or the actual narrative—we did speak the language of a giant robot fighting a squid (or something to that effect) while destroying an entire city à la Godzilla.
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Discussed: The Bears/Packers NFL game on 9/9/18, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Valkeryia Chronicles IV, Call of Duty Black Ops 4, Planet Money Podcast, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Exhibit: Into the Light by James Turrell, The Twilight Zone episode: The Lonely, The Giant Robot Series That's a Civics Lesson in Disguise (article on VRV), The Great British Bake Off, Destiny.
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Pastiche comprises the majority of the work, with tributes to well-known comics in Ah Huat's Giant Robot (a clear reference to Gigantor), Roachman (featuring a pin-up page highlighting the hero's arsenal that's right out of Jack Kirby's Marvel work), and Days of August (with its washed-out colors and full-page grids of TV screens reminiscent of Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns).
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Early on, when we see teenage Chan Hock Chye caught up in Singapore's 1954 National Service protests, the narrative is abruptly supplanted by an excerpt from a story he published around that time, "Ah Huat's Giant Robot" — supposedly a fantasy inspired by the young artist's experiences, but also a parody of Osamu Tezuka's early comics (complete with yellowed newsprint textures and typeset English lettering).
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S.H.I.E.L.D. keeps a list of the smartest people in the world, and there aren't many women on the list, and Nadia and Mockingbird decide that that's because the list is made by men who aren't looking for women to be on the list, so Nadia seems to want to set out to find brilliant women and raise visibility… all this, and she takes down a giant robot, too.
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This made it the cousin of near-future science fiction series like Metal Gear and Ace Combat: full of shadowy masterminds, false flag operations, the overwhelming presence of global communication technology, and troubling stories of the uses of biotechnology and AI. The series' technothriller focus, influenced by the original works of Tom Clancy in the 1980s, set Front Mission apart from other giant robot properties, and made the collaboration of former Front Mission and Metal Gear creators on Left Alive an understandable project.
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