back to article Japanese firm offers 4-tonne GIANT MECHs for just $1.3m

Kogoro Kurata, Japanese maker of strange machines, is selling ride-on mechanical monsters starting at £844,000, but you'll need to pay extra for the weapons and cup holder. The Kuratas robot weighs in at 4 tonnes, and is 4 metres (13 feet) tall, so the pilot straps in at the head, ready to stride across the most desolate …

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  1. Mike Brown

    dear god. i want one.

    1. John Brown (no body) Silver badge
      Mushroom

      No! Not you! You'll just sit there grinning inanely from the moment you sit down.

      Not a good idea with smile activated guns!

  2. Rob

    Damn, too late now to add it to this year's xmas list. Santa better get his wide load stickers ready for next year though.

  3. YP
    Happy

    want/need

    No I have to buy a lottery ticket!

  4. Growly Snuffle Bunny
    Terminator

    Call me back...

    When there's a walker!

    1. Ramiro

      Re: Call me back...

      Yes, I was mildly disappointed too.

      It would be ok to ride on wheels if it *transformed* into (and out of) a vehicle. A rolling humanoid shape is kind of daft. That said, I wouldn't mind having a go at one :)

      Ramiro.

      1. Triggerfish

        Re: Call me back...

        Meh call me back when its at least Nova cat class or better

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Re: Call me back...

          Clan variant of a Madcat MKII and I'd sell the house, the wife and my son to purchase one.

          Anon in case I'm rumbled

  5. archengel46
    Thumb Up

    Pah

    I'm sure it doesn't stand a chance against the RX-78.

    Keeping my fingers crossed!

  6. Bill Neal
    Happy

    This makes me so happy

    The Japs seem quite determined to make their mechanized future a reality. I love seeing them tackle all the engineering feats needed to make this happen.

  7. Pie
    Facepalm

    glad my wife has been asking me what I want for Christmas....

  8. Matthew Anderson

    Is it tax exempt?

  9. EyeCU

    I don't want one

    I want an army of them hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

  10. Katie Saucey
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    Step 1. Acquire mech.

    Step 2. Smash that fucking old shitbox SUV that always steals my parking spot

    Step 3. Become ruler of parking lot

    Step. 4 ???????

    Step 5. Profit

    1. Radelix

      Re: Step 1. Acquire mech.

      step 4: charge entry into said lot under penalty of 6000 BB's wrecking the paint on your new car. You know from the comfort of office with that 3g connection.

      1. Alan Dougherty
        Windows

        Re: Step 1. Acquire mech.

        This is what I don't understand; If you can get inside it, why the hell would you not?

  11. pip25
    Meh

    Meh

    It doesn't even walk, it rolls. Call me back when they have actual legs, and then I may be tempted.

  12. lawndart

    opines:

    Insufficiently Shadowcat-ish for me.

    Needs to run, have jumpjets, lasers and a railgun.

    I'll even drop the functioning weapon requirement for the moment if that helps.

  13. Thomas 4

    It's a good step in the right direction

    It reminds me of the mechs from the Armored Core games. Only the bipedal ones could truly walk, the four legged ones moved in a similar fashion to these.

  14. Sporkinum

    Pink Floyd...

    If it wasn't for the nips

    Being so good at building ships

    The yards would still be open on the clyde.

    And it can't be much fun for them

    Beneath the rising sun

    With all their kids committing suicide.

  15. Beavercheese
    Coat

    Hot Damn !

    Yes this !

    After watching the instructional video with attractive assistant I can just imagine...

    Being in it all day

    Smiling away

    Squirting water rockets

    Happily shooting away

    And the mech ain't bad either!

    Now all I need is the ability to stick a tail on it, paint it green, pilot it via the internets and play rampage in downtown Tokyo !

    Aaiyee - Run fo ror lifes - it Godrirra ! (again)

    But seriously...awesome.

    Change the weapons to be rubber balls and water cannons and its a shock n awe Police riot control vehicle

  16. Graham O'Brien
    WTF?

    Only in Japan ...

    that's it, no more to say.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Dear Japan,

      WTF? Again? But please keep it up; I only need another $842,000 for this version.

      Although, if i could borrow one for a few days, with working balistic weapons, then I should have enough capital to buy a few more, C.O.D. no questions asked.

  17. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Gotta love...

    How in some of the other video's the Kuratas is driving through town and you see some people hardly taking notice to it. They almost seem to think "and there goes the weekly robot, good, now I can cross the street".

  18. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Gotdam

    Gundam!!!

    Come on Britain. Build one ourselves, start a new series of Robot Wars in a refurbished Roman Colosseum!

  19. Mr Young
    Happy

    cool

    I'll be able to get a fucking massive plate of chips organized now (with a side of Bacon Roll obviously)

  20. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Hey, this could be useful

    Get a basic stripped down version with the claw attachment on both arms and balloon wheels and it could be used for logging, construction, demolition, and scrap metal processing. I wonder how much it could actually lift...

  21. Thorne
    Terminator

    Comic-Con

    Take that bitches at Comic-Con. Who got the best costume now?

    What Power Girl? Again?

    Damn

  22. Michael Dunn
    Headmaster

    Robot!

    I do wish people would stop calling these piloted/remote-controlled devices "robots."

    It's the same with the series of TV programmes "Robot Wars"

    Robots are self controlled entities.

  23. Scott Green
    Black Helicopters

    Seems familiar..

    Fallout Sentry Bot anyone?

    1. Scott Green
      Thumb Up

      Re: Seems familiar..

      ..oh, and wants one obviously!!

  24. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I' like to get my hands on her hardware

    nothing more to add :)

  25. mIRCat
    Pint

    £844,000 and I'm not allowed to smoke in the cockpit!? At least I won't spill my pint.

  26. Robert Grant

    Wake me up when

    it can splay its legs out then suddenly contract them, allowing it to jump.

    Without killing its pilot.

  27. blegedes
    Black Helicopters

    Patlabor wannabe

    I think Mamoru Oshii can make a live Patlabor movie using this 'bot...

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