GQ Gelgoog thread as well.

>>23357605

>>23357606

It’s ok it would have been a 6.5 out of 10 but I think the weird legs ruin it and it kind of just feels like they did something weird or quirky just for the sake of doing it. Doesnt really mesh with the rest of the design. I’m not sure why they called it a gelgoog and it’s ironic because one of the gelgoogs distinguishing features are the large armored flared legs. they should have just done that.

>>23357407 (OP)
its one of the better redesigns from qux but it cant say I like it

The weird tube legs sort of ruin it for me. I also wish we had seen how the design evolved after the OYW instead of it only existing in flashbacks and a filler episode.

>>23357407 (OP)
I despise it for being what retards think "realistic" is just so they can shit on the original uc designs. same goes for the gcucks gundams

no idea what the writers were going for but a significant number of gqux fans have told me these designs are supposed to be more realistic and they just fail to achieve that
OG UC designs are significantly more realistic and no just because you think bell bottoms on a zaku or a samurai face on a gundam is still doesn't change the fact that no military would ever be using those GI Joe action figure joints and leaving so much of the internals completely exposed. if you think the originals look unrealistic because they aren't covered in random bits your wrong, all that shit would obviously be covered up by cladding and armour
ignoring the realism argument then they are just kinda mid looking grunt suits, dont hate them, might build one

>>23357676
Personally, the name doesnt bother me that much cause I understood it as the next logical thing to do. Ok we captured the gundam, its better than what we currently have and figured beam waepons; so lets stop what are we doing, and start mass producing it. The next general purpose MS would've been called Gelgoog anyway so theres that.
Plus they sell the Zakus to civilians and colonies for general use so theres still a market for that and keep producing it.

>>23357684
I like that the general design philosophy of Zeon here is more utilitarian, like making the fuel tanks more integrated into the suit and really gives it a more spacey and realistic approach you see in irl machines too.

>>23357690
I always thought the bellbottoms on the gelgoog looked sort of realistic because it looked like extra armor protecting the thrusters. I don’t think a design for media needs to be 100 percent realistic but there is that percentage that helps whatever it is. At least for the “boring” stuff like the grunt suits which are usually my favorite.

>>23357690
>leaving so much of the internals completely exposed
As if we didnt do that already with our current tech. Even those that barely need to be covered at all. And the underside of cars.

>>23357693
I would argue that much of the design philosophy for the standard zeon suits was always sort of realistic. zakus have a lot of curved shapes which helps deflect ballistic projectiles. Maybe that’s just cope though.

>>23357696

>>23357698
You also see the same design for bot arms everywhere irl. The people that are shocked simply have not any real robot or just watch anime.

>>23357696
>>23357698
>>23357701
you understand these aren't tanks right, one works in climate controlled factories and the others are disposable and often times expected to explode, why do tanks have skirts and mantlet covers
obviously some of the suspension or exhaust can be exposed but showing off everything is not realistic for an armoured fighting vehicle designed to survive small arms fire and extended time in the field

>>23357713
Mobile suits are more like space fighters, aren’t they?

>>23357724
depends on the series

>>23357696
anon the underside of cars are protected though not entirely, and get more protection if you wanna off-road, rally, overland, etc

>>23357696
there's a lot of protection there. it just isn't obvious

>>23357690
its the duality of "realism" brainlets who dont know shit think they are experts when they see a piston they clap like trained seals

>>23357701
>have not any real robot
yes saar the automotive arm is exactly like goopdam saar

>>23357697
in space material science is different than on earth, maybe zeon can revive older style of armour design by using modern or theorized materials in ways that are traditionally very hard here on earth in an atmosphere

>>23357695
in a space battle threats come from all sides you cant hull down and have the most slopped armour for a known angle carry you, so blobby, Second World War armour designs might make perfect sense actually

>>23357701
>robots designed to lift light aluminum or plastic panels the average guy can lift with ease prove that the military would never need something more robust and redundant on a giant war machine
nigger are you for real?

>>23357407 (OP)
Personally I loved it, but that's probably helped by the fact I never liked the actual Gelgoog.

>>23357407 (OP)
looks better in those proportion. the beefiness helps to mitigate some of the sillier design decisions

>>23357407 (OP)

>>23357884
Alright but I would argue the geometry of the gelgoog leg below the knee would probably have a chance to deflect shots from nearly every angle. Because of them using beams in space those it basically doesn’t matter either way what shape you make the armor does it? Kampfer might be a decent design for some added thickness maybe.

>>23357407 (OP)
>Zeon suit
>doesn't have a mono eye
Khara commited the one cardinal sin against gundam design and I am not ok with it

>>23359411

>>23359409
im honestly not sure, I guess you'd have to look at the animation to see how beam weapons behave and what might be a real world analogue for that, plasma stream, super powered laser but moving slower, stream of incoming light weight particles but very fast moving like a weaponized sand blaster etc
in a few of these cases the geometry of the armour would make a noticeable difference

>>23359349
That pic makes me wonder what a dequuuuuuxfied qux gelgoog would look like.

>>23359411
It's got a Dom visor instead.

I'm sick of them doing those hinge joints. It's a really lame modern trend and I wish they stopped doing it.

>>23360141
The hinge joint and the kinda bow legged shape just makes it look like one of these.

>>23357693
I would've liked to have seen an up-armoured version that brings back the curved armour and bellbottoms

when they brought back the originals in the last few episodes they just confirmed to me that khara doesn't sincerely believe in their own designs being any good
the zaku, gelgoog, etc. are like that just to disgust people and highlight the wrongness of the time distortion lalah made
instead of these things i would really just like mecha designs that are designed by the designer to be good

>>23360147
The worst sin is other than the 2 GQux units, there were 0 original designs. All of the other designs were just worse versions of pre existing ones.

>>23360147
>>23360176
Bot posts.

>>23360176
it's really just 1, because fred is an evangelion

>>23359416
That one doesn't count.

>>23360176
calling the gqux gundams new feels wrong. a strange mashup of an Eva and a gundam, and then literally just unit 01 are hardly new designs

>>23360299
>>23360185
I was trying to be generous and not outright say Khara had zero ideas for mechanical design, which they most likely didn't.

>>23357407 (OP)
Battletech's cool, man

>>23360145
I really liked this custom someone did on shitter, I wish it was the canon design
https://x.com/specterying/status/1925936454435328355

>>23359753
>That pic makes me wonder what a dequuuuuuxfied qux gelgoog would look like.

>>23358894
What's the happy bitch from Inside Out got to do with Gundam?

>>23360180
The designs are garbage

>>23357407 (OP)
It's cool, especially in Zeon-green colors. GQ Guncannon is also great.

>>23360147
>the zaku, gelgoog, etc. are like that just to disgust people and highlight the wrongness of the time distortion lalah made
Oh, fucking hell, I hadn't even thought of that.

>>23360147
damn, Bandai must recruit Lalah ASAP

>>23361053
A lot actually.

>>23361053
>the happy bitch from Inside Out
what

I personally love the limbs. I actually think that it’s biggest fault is in the torso, where it pushes against the grain of its own modern aesthetic to half-assedly copy the GMS box torso. Unlike the white gundam which is full commitment on idea (whether you think it’s a good idea or not) this feels half in the bag

>>23357407 (OP)
>GM Gelgoog
What the hell did I miss?

>>23361350
dw its just from some dudes fan fiction

>>23361350
only AOTY

>>23360185
no, fred is a repainted qux, and qux is a evangelion

>>23361362
fair enough

>>23357608
Why mk II full armour ?

>>23360143
I like this guy and think he’d make a good GM

>>23363805
mk ii is the normie gundam

>>23357407 (OP)
>>23357605
It's like some GM Custom that went generic

>>23357724
yeah space fighters that punch and kick each other. we definitely cobot design approaches in there

>>23357407 (OP)
That silhouette made me think of a Battletech mech for one second when I glanced at the thumbail. The kind of blocky look to it.

>>23367151
there's something you might wanna know about battletech mechs

>>23367151
yeah like the atlas
it has that "whittled from blocks of wood" chunk

>>23359753
>>23360516
It still has some Gelgoog DNA (though admittedly not enough.) The face, lower arms, calves and general body shape seem most like the original >>23357605

>>23361351
*Lalah's fanfiction

>>23367547
>>23361351
Fanfictions where Char still loses.

>>23360516
No, GQX Gelgoog doesn't use nearly as much Gundam parts as GM.
And more importantly its legs follow general GQX Zeon mobile suit design language.

One interesting thing about GQX Gelgoog I never see mentioned is that it kinda looks closer to GQuuuuuuX than to stolen Gundam.

>>23357407 (OP)
I enjoy this design too.

>>23357407 (OP)
skirt and head are poor but i like the rest esp the chest
>>23357713
MS arent tanks either yamashita went for the weight savings design coz thats what he wanted what matters most in space

>>23357407 (OP)
GOOGM is CUTE! CUTE!!!!!!!!

I really don't care for the gFred or Gquuuuuuuuuuuux. The Dom is neat, the Big Zam is nice, and I adore the White/Red Gundam. The GMgoog Is also really interesting. Everyone bitching about them looking different is ridiculous- one of the main complaints in UC is that the designs are stagnant and all just rehashes of muh special donut steel ace grunt variants. This shit is actually fresh.

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