40 Foot Anthropomorphic Robot

You were expecting a fully functional battle mech?!?


While other vehicles in the area look more-or-less functional, this one does not. It's definitely a project under construction. Perhaps the proper term might be reconstruction, since this unit seems to have been rescued from a scrapheap after a devastating (but not completely obliterating) battle scene from Star Wars.

Sturdy scaffolding surrounds the disabled vehicle. Massive torque wrenches, cutting torches, welding machines, and grinders have been positioned on and around the scaffolding. Cables extending from massive overhead hoist to lift points on the torso seem to be all that keeps the unit upright; even if such a unit were capable of being built and piloted, with both arms removed, one leg missing entirely, and the other badly damaged beneath what passes for its knee, it seems reasonable to assume that this unit wouldn't even be able to crawl out of harms way. 

Undoubtedly, this has to have been constructed for use on a movie set. Judging from the size and surface area involved, the twelve inch thick metal plating stacked along the wall would have to weigh many tens of tons. Some metal plate sections appear to have been been removed cleanly, unbolted to expose structural components and actuators. Others appear to have been shot off, melted off, torn off, sheered off, or otherwise removed using some combination of brute force and technology; weapons or tools capable of causing that much damage tend to be theoretical or kept locked up in secret government labs.

Were the repairs on this unit complete and the unit made fully operational, maybe, just MAYBE, you could get away with driving it in Tokyo. Once. It would probably fit in at a science fiction convention, or on a back lot at Industrial Light and Magic, or even on the right Hollywood set.

On the other hand, it will obviously require extensive repairs. By the time parts have been located or fabricated and repairs have been completed, devices such as this might be the new vehicle of choice, so long as a functional BFG* hasn't been mounted on the robot. While hydraulics may be standard accepted fare,  a BFG* scaled to fit a 40 foot figure isn't exactly the sort of thing you want to see walking down the streets... for a variety of reasons, including the tendency of a high-tech BFG* to malfunction in particularly spectacular nasty and brutal ways.

*Big FUTURISTIC gun


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