In Japan, beetles are cool. Kids collect them as pets. There was a popular videogame/toy series about making fake beetles fight, like Pokémon. But this... this is about 18 steps further. From Japan Sugoi:
In related news, WE ARE ALL TOTALLY FUCKED.You'd have to be a little bit eccentric to spend 11 years of your life designing and building an 11m long, 15 ton robot beetle in your garage. But that's exactly what this Ibaraki otaku man has done in building the "Kabutom RX-03 カブトム RX-03 ″ which is an actual working vehicle.
Shown on Japanese TV show "Nanikore Chin Hakkei" the robot is shaped like a kabuto-mushi (rhinocerous beetle) and can move by remote control or be driven from the cockpit. The robot has enough space inside its shell to also carry passengers inside. The robot "shuffles" rather than walks -- the legs pull it along the ground, while the weight is supported by wheels.
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Geoff said:
This I'm not worried about - I've never heard the Japanese show any interest in Battlebots. We can overwhelm this piece of Japanese artistry with a fleet of our own miniature versions armed with circular saws.
That Gundam's still more worrisome.
darkmagician66699 said:
One of these days, the Japanese are going to create a mechanized army so awesome, that nerds from all over the world are going to want to move to Japan and join that army!
Sign me up, Mr. Recruiter!!
J.H. said:
No this is way worse than the Guyndam because this thing is osmething you'd see on a Sentai show or even worse, something that is built ot FIGHT GODZILLA!
Capsulesn'Coffee said:
We have go carts, the Japanese have robo beetles (sob)
Kaoy said:
'I, for one, welcome our Japanese overlords.'
Bookfisher said:
This is so wrong, but part of me want him to go batshit crazy, after he has finished his project. And then roam Tokyo like that guy in the bulldozer some years ago.
Jason Stephens said:
Sweet Lord! Why do I even make comics?! From here on out I'm just gonna build crazy shit that I see on cartoons, because apparently it's all possible.
Time to get started on Voltron...
Whowhatwhere said:
Ok... I'm jumping ship now. Between the gundam, Super strong cyborgish soldiers, the tachikoma and now robo beetle I can see the way the winds are blowing and I'm going with them. To those who want to survive run to japan and surrender now. Maybe they will let you drive a tachikoma if you do well enough.
Steve Harrison said:
Those earthquakes earlier? No, not earthquakes...underground battles with giant beasts!
Which is why we get to see this, and the faux 'koma, that tennis ball shooting powered suit that Pepsi rented a year or so ago, the 'man amplify' exos...yeah, there's a WAR on baby and Japan is the front line!
Lo Pan said:
Japan has enough scary fucking insects that actually exist in nature... they dont needs to be a buildin' them too.
*shudder*
darkmagician66699 said:
This is what happens when you drop atomic bombs on a country. They come back stronger later and kick your asses all over the place!
L.S. Ramos said:
You know, once I wanted to get a good paying job so I could buy a house and have kids. Now I still want the job, but screw kids I'm building one of these...
Re: Darkmagician66699
Yep. It's one of the big points of the original Godzilla.
darkmagician66699 said:
@ L.S. Ramos:
Ya know, your right on that Godzilla thingy.
I think those bombs made the Japanese smarter and cooler. Because everything cool comes out of Japan.
vineethonkan said:
It's Bombshell! lol
Now if only he could transform, which would mean that the builder would have to spend another 11 years figuring out how to do it.
Josh said:
Notice when they zoom on the remote control around 2:28 that, emblazoned at the top, is the Engrish description "KABUTOM RAGEO CONTROREA".
Tomb said:
Hm.. Just happend to look at the other posts from "Japan Sugoi".
Ramone said:
This guy needs to sign a movie deal so I can buy the licensed action figure, like tomorrow.
mikelone said:
Fuck you power wheels
he did that by himself, imagine what hundreds of them can achive!!!!
rickicker said:
You see, THIS is why NOBODY is gonna fuck with Japan in the near foreseeable future! Just when we thought we got them cornered, some dude in a lab coat somewhere is gonna yell "ROBOTTO HASHIN!!", and launch a sixty-foot humanoid weapon of mass destruction to stomp on our candy bum-bum, all the while piloted by a preteen who's just all too eager to do the deed.
Oh, and their loss in WWII? Demons. Yup. Totally engineered by those Onmyoujis/Spiritualist/Demon Tamers/what have you for a much grander scheme. If all their machines failed, you'll just KNOW they'll send backup in the form of a bunch of high school kids with Evokers going "Per-so-na!" and unleashed the very might of LUCIFER to us worthless gaijins!!
DAMMIT!! I'm SCARED of Japan now! -runs away- XDXD
