Mechanista in G

It's the best mobile suit, Charlie Brown! The weakest part of the mobile suit is of course the pilot. Now, a DUMB designer would try to accommodate this by making the machine protect the pilot, give it safety features, maybe try to assist them in the task of piloting. But we ain't about that. Let's talk about a GOOD designer, or rather six of them (don't forget Howard!), who instead decided to mak...

I hope we don't roll Victory too many times in a row, because I really savor getting to use Victory suits as a palette cleanser. Delightful designs that buck a lot of Gundam's codified rules about mobile suits. Like the Zoloat! Sick eyes, cool shield that's also a rotor, very different body/backpack relationship (in that they're basically one), and some cool variants too. More Victory gunpla pleas...

So ok, weird personal story time. When I'm at work (I work retail), there's a lot of pushing vehicles loaded with boxes. Often you can't see where you're going. And so there are a lot of times where you realize there's this vehicle loaded with shit that's on a collision course with you, and you can't dodge, but the person pushing it can't see you. So I developed this weirdly deep "AHHHH" yell that...

There are still more GMs out there, but with this, the debt is paid. It's time to talk about more of the original mall cop mobile suit. (See, my logic is, the Gundam is the original cop mobile suit, and these are knockoffs, so mall cop? idk let me know if you have a better idea.) Sadly, the fun can only last so long, and we have to end this episode talking about some true, TRUE crimes. I'm sorry,...

The true first schmup-boss of Gundam history. He steppy, he blasty, against beams he lasty, here comes the Big Zam. ...i'm sorry, that was terrible. that really sucked. listen this is my eighty-second time writing a description of a pod about a mobile unit, please just have pity on me this time. If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot and Six is @sixdettmar . Our opening theme is...

This isn't a "this podcast was so long we split it up" part 1. This is a "Dylan tapped out" part 1. The GM, old Jimmyboy, was just too much. It's too bad, I personally LOVE the GM. Well maybe not the original GM but like most of its variants kick ass! It's just that original visor. That original visor is a dealbreaker for me, don't care for it. Any modification to it, I'm back in. It's GM time bab...

Three hundred subscribers! Let's celebrate with a little game! We don't get enough SD Gundam stuff, if you ask me. The idea of making the Gouf a wandering knight, or the Deathscythe an actual demon? It's great stuff. So we invited Abnormal Mapping's Em and Jackson onto the show to go through the suits we've covered, and use them to build JRPG parties. Fun times all around. If you want to find us o...

What's the deal with the name? Is it like a portmanteau of daughter and mistress? Hmmm. Or maybe just daughter and stress, because if you're in one of these machines that I do like quite a bit you're PROBABLY about to die. Listen, even a cool GM is a GM. And GMs get rocked, it just comes with the territory. If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot and Six is @sixdettmar . Our open...

Well, it happened, folks. And it's y'all's fault. Specifically it's May's fault I guess. It's time for ANOTHER longest episode, about Dylan's favorite mobile suit, and its fifty billion variations. And as much as I grumble... you know? This was fun to record, and the suits are cool. Advance of Zeta: it's alright. If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot and Six is @sixdettmar . Ou...

I should buy that Full Mechanics Calamity, it's a good lookin robot. The Boosted Men Trio, the Biological CPUs, they've got some interesting gundams. Very out-of-the-box design, if you ask me. The most normal of them? The Calamity. Also, my favorite. Not Dylan's though. Dylan likes Forbidden. I get it. If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot and Six is @sixdettmar . Our opening t...

Did you ever wonder how Master Asia BECAME the Undefeated of the East, and formed the Shuffle Alliance? No. No, you did not. The Mobile Fighter G Gundam: 7th Fight manga exists to answer this question no one cares about. But, you know what? When life gives us G Gundam lemons, we make Mechanista lemonade. There are some neat robots in that manga. Let's talk about them. If you want to find us on Twi...

Listen, when they talk about "from A to Z" they generally are just referring to being thorough. They didn't mean actually twenty-six things. They certainly didn't mean MORE than twenty-six things, DEREK. (if your name is derek i apologize) Well ok sometimes they probably mean more than twenty-six things. Please don't nitpick. We can all agree the F90 Gundam F90 has too many freakin variants. If yo...

Around here, we hate the ReGZ. Cheap pretend Gundam, crap machine. But the ReZEL? Welllll, now you might have somethin' on your hands. Colors are better. Transformation's better. Good weapons, some good optional attachments. But mostly, it just isn't the ReGZ. Cuz boy that thing sucks. If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot and Six is @sixdettmar . Our opening theme is the Hanga...

Get out of the way Future Mobile Suit I Can't Mention, here's the true fusion of Qubeley and standard Zeon mobile suit! Funnels? Check. Bigh? Check. Sick legs? You KNOW it. Not a lot of variants? That's ok. It's dope anyway. If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot and Six is @sixdettmar . Our opening theme is the Hangar Theme from Gundam Breaker 3, and our ending theme for this e...

Well now, it sure seems like the dice like Gundam X, don't they? We're joined by seasoned podcaster and all-around pal Allen Ibrahim to talk about the Gundams of the Freeden's favorite freelancers, Witz and Roabea. And... listen. Ishigaki's only human. He designed a LOT of Gundams, and you know... they can't all be winners. Now, Comic BonBon? They NEVER tired. And they never make winners, either....

It's Gundam Seven Swords! I remember when I was a kid reading PC Gamer, there was an ad for Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb. It had Indy punching the... screen? page? with the text "your revolver holds six bullets, but YOUR FISTS never run out of ammo." You know what else doesn't run out of ammo? Blades! That's what makes the Exia our sustained combat specialist of the 00 Gundam Team. Plus? L...

Frost Brothers special! The nemesis Gundams from Gundam X are here, and they're pals! Mobile Armor modes, stretchy arms, terrible ideas from our good friends at Comic BonBon! And for those of you unfamiliar with Under the Moonlight, a present in the back end: a sick stretchy devilman gundam! If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot and Six is @sixdettmar . Our opening theme is the...

Blue is the color of your energy, dear Astray. What happens when you give a SEED gundam to a Sleggar Law-type mercenary with protagonist booking and free rein to modify it as he chooses? You get an eccentric mix of designs good and bad, some pretty creative weapons, and... knives. LOTS of knives. If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot and Six is @sixdettmar . Our opening theme i...

Well, this is embarrassing. I actually spent this whole podcast thinking about Crota, the raid boss from the first DLC from Destiny 1. Shoutouts to the SRA and their burly fast spaceboy! The Crouda is a really cool unit, a heavily armored yet agile grunt that gets a pretty good showing in X. Or at least, until everyone learns its Death Star-esque weak point. That ain't great. If you want to find u...

For those about to Ball, we salute you. The GM may be a real piece of trash, but it could be so much worse. Enter the RB-79 Ball and its family of variants. Underpowered, underarmored, inflexible, disposable, the Ball is emblematic of the Federation's disregard for life and antiquated thinking. It's also a cute little friend, though, is the thing. If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpo...

Commander Treize! We've built the perfect machine for taking down the five Gundams! It's like an angry robot slinky Zeong! We will now proceed to never fight the Gundams with it! G-UNIT is a weird story, huh. But "Vader Farkill" is a pretty alright name. If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot and Six is @sixdettmar . Our opening theme is the Hangar Theme from Gundam Breaker 3, a...

These other mobile suits call themselves transformable. They have their "waverider" and "bird" forms. Pathetic. This machine? This machine was BORN to transform. Let's talk about a spindly metal monster with a LCD face. Let's talk rudder ankle guards, an aileron waist, and a shield that looks like a propeller. The Graham Special, the Overflag, the champion of the skies. It's the Union Flag, y'all....

You. Don't. Need. Legs. In. SPAAAAAACE! Raise a glass to Linguini Medoz on this episode of Mechanista as we tackle his finest work, the Zeong. Wire hands! Big body! Beams everywhere! The Zeong is sick as hell, as are the prototypes that led up to its design. The designs that followed in its wake? Well, those aren't quite as uniformly cool. If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot...

It's time to tackle one of the most important mobile suit families of the modern Gundam era. The trio of Unicorn suits, and their variants, cast a long shadow over Gundam, and gunpla in particular. What should a Gundam be? What should a mobile suit be, for that matter? I hope you brought your finest opinions, because these machines have a lot for us to unpack. If you want to find us on Twitter, Dy...

It's time for Mecha Carcinization! Return to crab, baby! The Organization of the Zodiac offers gifts in the form of aquatic mobile suits, and we're not ones to look a mobile horse in the mouth. When we're done with torpedoes and depth charges, we move on to the puzzling world of the Scorpio. Who thought this mobile armor mode was a good idea? Not us. Though do slap that heat rod on the mobile suit...