Sat 2008/01/12 06:58
Science Portal calculates the cost of building a fully functional 1/1 scale Gundam - 724 million USD! The break down of costs are available at Pink Tentacle. BTW, this image of strike can be found together with the other Gundam stuff in the Gundam category.
Posted on Sat 2008/01/12 06:58 by
McMaster Engineering Student Fall 08
Alright! So lets start a donation collection. Everyone submit your money to Danny, and Danny will set up the fund. We'll call it, "Build A Gundam Dream Foundation" ;p!
(ID #20470) Posted on 2008/01/12 22:09
Yeah, i happened to read all about this after i woke up this morning. Interesting, I say. Guess I better start saving up...
(ID #20473) Posted on 2008/01/12 22:14
maybe if bill gates was a big gundam fan
(ID #20481) Posted on 2008/01/12 23:12
Part human, part student, 100% loser
Yea... If he was just maybe, just maybe he'll want one 18 metre tall robot...
(ID #20512) Posted on 2008/01/13 01:33
Maybe he would build a Transformer and ask for some duel? Heck, that could even be the birth of new entertainment. Imagine: - A huge arena; - Gundams and Transformers from over the world; - Even odds; - Championship belts; - Bets and pay-per-view; etc. Much better than boxing or wrestling. Of course it has to be developed and the idea promoted. ^^
(ID #20524) Posted on 2008/01/13 02:00
ひきこもり/Hikikomori. Suits my current state more than a 大学生/University Student. ^^
LOL yeah, unlimited research funds from Bill Gates may lead to the creation of fully working Gundam.
(ID #20525) Posted on 2008/01/13 02:08
ichyichy (Registered on 2007/12/27 16:51)
sound like G Gundam to meee lol
(ID #20537) Posted on 2008/01/13 04:10
宅男 Otaku/ 工程师 Engineer
bill gates building a gundam? no no no, i don't want the gundam operating system to be running windows. too dangerous. >_<
(ID #20601) Posted on 2008/01/13 10:46
Engineering Student
Actually, it'll be safer considering it'll crash half the time (if not more often) and be too busy rebooting to actually be able to cause any destruction.
(ID #217148) Posted on 2008/06/19 19:32
heh well if gates wanted im sure he could make between 3-6 but having money isnt everything since anyone, with the funds, that tried to build something like that would either be forced to stop by the gov or the gov would just take over the project at your expense.
(ID #20624) Posted on 2008/01/13 12:56
ichyichy: Yup, sound like G Gundam... But! You got Transformers! lol.
(ID #20639) Posted on 2008/01/13 14:48
But you can't control them Transformers! Let's say you build some badass Transformer whose mind is like Megatron, then he just blasts you and runs away to rule the world while you die from plasma. and that's no good
(ID #190106) Posted on 2008/05/18 02:32
I'm afraid to say I'm not a gundam fan (*quickly looks around to avoid flying rotting vegetables*), although I do like mechs and zoids if you can consider that a mech. Thats a lot of money! If I recall, I think I saw something about a guy in Alaska who was building a full size mech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atfdOPF4VGM
(ID #20486) Posted on 2008/01/12 23:26
NEET (no, student...)
wait, so we figured out how to create a Minovsky-reactor/GN Reactor/Battery Powered Reactor (like the GAT/ZMF series)? I mean, I guess it can run on nuclear... But that's like saying, we created a walking atomic bomb. Want to destroy it?
(ID #20488) Posted on 2008/01/13 00:01
NEET (no, student...)
you know, rather than Gundams, shouldn't we build something a bit more realistic, like a Valkyrie from Macross?
(ID #20489) Posted on 2008/01/13 00:04
a valkyrie is even more complicated than a gundam, it needs to be able to transform from a fighter into gerwalk mode and then into battroid...
(ID #20492) Posted on 2008/01/13 00:13
Yeah, those costs only apply to a gundam that all it can do is walk. A valkyrie's transformation ability is gonna complicate and jack the costs up a helluva lot more lol.
(ID #20495) Posted on 2008/01/13 00:33
VF-25 Pilot. Universariate Scholar.
i suggest that we try for an Arm Slave instead. Maybe the M9 Gernsback?
(ID #20535) Posted on 2008/01/13 04:05
NEET (no, student...)
Gernsback have black technology, but a M-6 Gas Turbine Engine Arm Slave MIGHT be possible. But common... GERWALK fighters atleast would definitely make modern warfare easier/deadlier for pilots
(ID #20536) Posted on 2008/01/13 04:08
and then tanks become useless
(ID #190111) Posted on 2008/05/18 02:41
radical anime fan in Singapore; starting to freeze up. Mmm, end-of-year weather. (Registered on 2007/01/25 21:20)
Polytechnic Freshman. Mmm... fresh.
th3 costs are sky high~ (sing-song voice) i guess we should consider the GM first or maybe a Cougar from the MechAssault series? just programming the OS is going to cost as much as Microsoft, probably.
(ID #20643) Posted on 2008/01/13 15:05
Afro-ed Student
.. Now THAT would be interesting to see. A 1/1 working gundam.. *Imaginations go wild*
(ID #20500) Posted on 2008/01/13 00:44
宅男 Otaku/ 工程师 Engineer
nice skeletal shot of PG Strike. ('~')
(ID #20505) Posted on 2008/01/13 00:56
haha pocket change. XD
(ID #20506) Posted on 2008/01/13 00:57
As long as production and primary resources' costs (among others) will be high, the final price will be huge. I'm sure that if various lobbies hadn't that much influence over the worldwide market, building a cheap, effective and efficient Gundam wouldn't be a problem. And I'm sure that putting parts made from recycled materials (metals, especially) in the process would cut the costs dramatically.
(ID #20510) Posted on 2008/01/13 01:29
By the way, anyone found Gundamium yet? ^^;
(ID #20511) Posted on 2008/01/13 01:30
Nope, but scientists have found 'kryptonite'. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6584229.stm
(ID #20532) Posted on 2008/01/13 03:31
Sylon Beta, I must say that I'm impressed... But why didn't they call it "Luthorite"? Baka baka gaijins. XD
(ID #20538) Posted on 2008/01/13 04:11
ひきこもり/Hikikomori. Suits my current state more than a 大学生/University Student. ^^
I am astounded by this.. stunning coincidence. Really, what's the chance of something like this happening.. truly the coincidence of a lifetime! > _
(ID #20602) Posted on 2008/01/13 10:48
radical anime fan in Singapore; starting to freeze up. Mmm, end-of-year weather. (Registered on 2007/01/25 21:20)
Polytechnic Freshman. Mmm... fresh.
yeah. fortunately that coincidence doesn't include Lex Luthor and the Joker.
(ID #20644) Posted on 2008/01/13 15:08
well...i find building wanzers from front mission more feasible. i can imagine a real life zenislev on my back yard @_@
(ID #20539) Posted on 2008/01/13 04:34
You don't mind if it ever steps on your flowers and shrubs? ^^;
(ID #20540) Posted on 2008/01/13 04:37
[J.D.T.] (Registered on 2008/06/25 16:38)
Yeah, I can see that happening but even with today's tech, the mech will probably being cluunky and cumbersome. Unlike in the games. Especially in the intro to Front Mission 4. But, DAMN!, that would be awesome to "dash" around the battlefield, running over tanks and such!
(ID #258090) Posted on 2008/08/06 09:07
724 million?? thats cheap.. less than a B-2 bomber... a few f-22's... not to bad.. and the cost will go down once the production starts up... let the good times..walk!
(ID #20545) Posted on 2008/01/13 04:52
I want a 1/1 Daishi mech (from Mechwarrior)!!!
(ID #20546) Posted on 2008/01/13 04:54
Mahastudent
1/1 fully functional Gundam? now thats scary...
(ID #20586) Posted on 2008/01/13 09:51
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home If I've got this right,the money put towards the war in Iraq could instead have been put in to making roughly... 600 gundams? ^_^
(ID #20588) Posted on 2008/01/13 09:52
you're talking about a country that build 15 million dollar tanks that get taken out by one 200 dollar RPG. i don't think you should expect too much from them.
(ID #20591) Posted on 2008/01/13 10:03
damn.that iraq war does cost alot!
(ID #20892) Posted on 2008/01/14 20:57
Accountant, CPA, CIS, and Gundam Painter
Well once it's done i'll pilot it for justice!
(ID #20595) Posted on 2008/01/13 10:24
Student
I would love to see it just once in my life before i breathe my last. Even if its just the frame without the outer plating. As long as it moves *Hopes*
(ID #20597) Posted on 2008/01/13 10:36
宅男 Otaku/ 工程师 Engineer
even if one has the money and resources/talents to build a gundam, i doubt it will be able to fly. in fact i doubt it will even be able to lift itself up and walk. the anatomy, physiology, and mechanics of human body movement is hard to recreate on something that huge. ('~')
(ID #20599) Posted on 2008/01/13 10:39
Waiting for National Services
It would be great to see gundams flying around to guard the world instead of normal planes...cool Btw, if the gundams were to start running about, there will sure to be energy insufficient problem (if runs on fuel). I guess the world should combine to start a project to form the "solar system" like the one in gundam 00 first. Then when the energy problem is solve, the rest of the problems can be easily solved as there will have ceaseless amout of energy to use while finding solutions though research....^^
(ID #20603) Posted on 2008/01/13 10:49
GUNDAM, IKIMASU!!!
(ID #20619) Posted on 2008/01/13 11:45
i dunno, but i think virus or microchip weapon is far more efficient i always wonder, why there is no MS penetrator? carryable by a human? let's say, its just like snipe a gundam with "u name the overpowered sniper rifle",shoot by human hand i mean when u fight a goliath, u don't have to be a goliath, u can be his cancer, or something that can kill it instantly and silently =D
(ID #20652) Posted on 2008/01/13 15:33
anime/cosplay events organizer
wait a min...isn't 724 million US$ a bit cheap to build a full-scale working Gundam model? a mobile nuclear fusion reactor would be one among a few things to eat up lots of money
(ID #20665) Posted on 2008/01/13 16:08
that'd be sooo cool to see *wonderin how it'd look like*
(ID #20675) Posted on 2008/01/13 17:58
maybe too expensive for me lol
(ID #20690) Posted on 2008/01/13 18:37
let George Bush watch a couple of Gundam anime. and tell him that osama is alive in iraq and iraq has billion worth of crude oil. in no time you will a free-flowing funds
(ID #20758) Posted on 2008/01/14 02:41
Part human, part student, 100% loser
LOL...
(ID #20791) Posted on 2008/01/14 05:53
Secondary Student~
will the particles or nuclear energy be installed?
(ID #20788) Posted on 2008/01/14 05:31
Unfortunately Photon Reactors haven't been developed yet, at least not by public knowledge I don't think. So I guess it'd be powered by a nuclear Reactor. as for the price it to build it, it's to make a functional gundam, meaning it wouldn't necessarily have any weaponry or extra stuff so it's a reasonable price, afterall the expensive part is not the machinery, it's the weapons equiped to the machinery
(ID #21052) Posted on 2008/01/15 08:47
The quote of 79,521,000,000 Yen from Science Portal is actually more than 725,000,000 USD. And I assume that the Gundam we're referring to is RX-78-2. By comparing with US arsenal, RX-78-2 should cost *roughly* the same as 5 F-22 (137 million USD), 3 and a half of F-35 (200 million USD), less than 170 Abrams MBT (4.35 million USD), or 1 single B-2 stealth bomber (727 million USD or higher). (All costs are rough sources from Wikipedia, so they may not be very reliable) Unless someone managed to find it tatically and/or strategically worthy, we can forget about seeing one built, unless it's built by a very, very rich fan with lots of backing/support. And don't even think about maitainence cost :P I've gone a bit too specific there, but it's an interesting estimate for comparisons with existing equipments.
(ID #21180) Posted on 2008/01/15 23:27
Seems possible. But you think it can withstand missle attacks, and coming from space back to earth, >_< . Well I guess it's better then nothin, = .
(ID #29421) Posted on 2008/02/17 09:37
Video Game Retail
i dunno that we'd be able to make one as useful as they are in the anime right now, i don't think that when it starts to walk if it'd be stable at all... but it seems plausible
(ID #208404) Posted on 2008/06/09 14:57
do you mean a funny functional gundam? with beam technology? omg that's war weapon.
(ID #277037) Posted on 2008/08/25 02:22
We all just have to wait till we human perfected or rather built a fusion reator first. Then we need to find some super hard steel(Uranium or some other). Built a Beam Weapon capable of destroying an entire city in a single shot. Finally we need a MAD SCIENTIST & A MAD ENGINEER.
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