For players of the Giant Robots one-day on LearnedLeague, or those who skipped it but want to try out some questions that were probably too obscure for my final draft.
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Another notable early giant robot entertainment was the 1967 Japanese live-action TV series Giant Robo, which was later released in the United States under another title. WHAT IS THAT TITLE, which mentions both the robot itself and the young boy who controls it?
The giant robot genre in anime was revolutionized in 1972 by the Mazinger Z comic and TV series. What is THE NAME OF THE CREATOR of Mazinger Z, as well as of Devilman, Cutie Honey, Violence Jack, and dozens of other characters?
One way that Mazinger Z was revolutionary was in its introduction of an unusual weapon that became particularly characteristic of giant anime robots. WHAT IS THIS WEAPON, which combines the traits of hand-to-hand combat and a powerful projectile?
Starting in the late 1970s - pre-dating Voltron and its ilk - these two-foot-tall polyethylene robots were part of one of the first attempts to import giant robot franchises and their merchandise into the United States. WHAT BRAND NAME, redacted in this image, were they sold under?
1980's The Empire Strikes Back introduced a pair of non-humanoid giant military robots, called "Imperial walkers" in the film, but both later named with rather dry initialisms. NAME BOTH OF THEM.
Two of the most well-known (and aesthetically influential) giant robots in American film come from mid-1980s action movies - the forklift-like utility robot which Ripley uses to take on the Alien Queen in Aliens, and the unmanned robot designed by Omni Consumer Products to autonomously patrol the streets of futuristic Detroit in Robocop. NAME EITHER OF THESE ROBOTS.
In 1985, three loosely related giant robot anime series - Macross, Mospeada, and Southern Cross - were dubbed into English as part of WHAT HEAVILY REWRITTEN ADAPTATION? This franchise, which continues to this day with American-made sequels, is perhaps best known for its "Veritech fighters", based on the transforming jets of Macross and Mospeada.
As a weapon of international brinksmanship, the titular robots in the Metal Gear video games are usually "all-terrain, _______-equipped walking battle tanks". WHAT ARE THEY EQUIPPED WITH?
What film, featuring "robot jockeys" piloting stop-motion animated mechs, ends with this epic fist bump, after Achilles announces to his opponent Alexander that "We can both live!"?
The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot is a 1990s comic book and animated series that teams up a pair of robots based on classic anime archetypes - "like Gigantor meets Astro Boy". It was created by WHAT COMIC BOOK WRITER AND ILLUSTRATOR, perhaps best known for the 1986 Batman story which strongly influenced the film Batman v Superman?
What ambiguously robotic anime TV series, one of the biggest anime hits of the 90s, featured "angels", "Adam", and the "Lance of Longinus"?
In 2004, some extremely retro giant robots - an homage to the animated robots Superman fought in 1941 - hit the big screen as part of WHAT VINTAGE ADVENTURE-SERIAL PASTICHE? The film is perhaps most notable for featuring a posthumous cameo from Laurence Olivier, reconstructed from archive footage.