Post by: Saber Alter on April 17, 2009, 01:18:19 PM
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Designed and built by an Ibaraki man in his garage over the course of eleven years, the “Kabutom MX-03″ looks like a prop from a Power Rangers spin-off but is an actual working vehicle. Why build it? Because owning an eleven meter long, fifteen ton robot beetle makes you a mack daddy — in Japan or anywhere else.
Shaped like a kabuto-mushi (rhinocerous beetle, a favorite design of Japanese toymakers and, uh, candymakers), it can be remote controlled or piloted from the cockpit (visible on the left side), and is capable of carrying passengers inside its shell. Alas it more “shuffles” than walks — the legs pull it along the ground, while the weight is supported by wheels
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=9830 (http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=9830)
http://altjapan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/04/mushi-mecha.html (http://altjapan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/04/mushi-mecha.html)
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