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I have been to San Francisco just the once. I toured the city on foot, on bicycle, by cab, and yes, by streetcar. With such hills, it's not hard to imagine how these more uncommon form of public transportation became a dominant one in the 415. Courtesy of some hard work and research by listener Monophonic, let us show you the streetcars of Frisco.



You can find a video version of this podcast for free on Scanline Media's Patreon!



If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot and Six is @sixdettmar. Our opening theme is the Hangar Theme from Gundam Breaker 3, and our ending theme for this episode is I Left My Heart in San Francisco by Tony Bennett. Our podcast art is a fantastic piece of work from Twitter artist @fenfelt. Want to see a list of every unit we've covered from every episode, including variants and tangents? It's right here.



Units discussed:
Unknown 1896 Hammond Car Co. Streetcar
Unknown 1902 "Interurban Model"
"Big Sub"
A-Type "Muni Car"
K-Type "Iron Monster"
Unknown 1924 Market Street Railway Streetcar
PCC "Magic Carpet"
PCC "Torpedo"/"Big Ten"
PCC "Baby Ten"
LRV1 US Standard Light Rail Vehicle
LRV2/3 San Francisco LRV
LRV4 S200 SF

We're closing out the last of the major GAT-X suits this week as we return to normal coverage, and the loving(?) arms of the Cosmic Era. What's so strange about the Aegis is how much of it is abandoned going forward in SEED. True, the Freedom has very little Strike in it, but there's the Strike Rouge and Noir, and the Impulse is a clear successor, etc. The Aegis just... happens. And then SEED tries to forget about it. But we won't. We can't.



You can find a video version of this podcast for free on Scanline Media's Patreon!



If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot and Six is @sixdettmar. Our opening theme is the Hangar Theme from Gundam Breaker 3, and our ending theme for this episode is Annani Ishoda Attano Ni By SEE-SAW from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. Our podcast art is a fantastic piece of work from Twitter artist @fenfelt. Want to see a list of every unit we've covered from every episode, including variants and tangents? It's right here.



Units discussed:
GAT-X303 Aegis Gundam
GAT-X303 Aegis Gundam (Atmospheric Equipment)
GAT-X303AA Rosso Aegis Gundam
ZGMF-X11A Regenerate Gundam
GAT-X303K Gundam Aegis Knight

A promise unforgotten. It was a bit of work, and it's a bit clunky, but we are here to talk about warframes as promised. The designs themselves are of course very cool, but they also prompt a difficult question: if mecha don't have to be big, and they can be organic, where is the line drawn? Is a warframe a mecha? Is a person being possessed a mecha? But in truth this is pedantry: we know a mecha when we see one, and it's as simple as that. Warframes aren't mecha. But they ARE dope.



You can find a video version of this podcast for free on Scanline Media's Patreon!



If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot and Six is @sixdettmar. Our opening theme is the Hangar Theme from Gundam Breaker 3, and our ending theme for this episode is This is What You Are by George Spanos and Keith Power from Warframe. Our podcast art is a fantastic piece of work from Twitter artist @fenfelt. Want to see a list of every unit we've covered from every episode, including variants and tangents? It's right here.



Units discussed:
Gauss
Gauss Prime
Trinity
Trinity Prime
Wisp
Wisp Prime
Wukong
Wukong Prime
Titania
Titania Prime
Ivara
Ivara Prime

Make Good May, Week 3! This time, it's a different sort of Make Good, as we pick two requests that have been languishing unrolled on our list for some time. We start off with a First Gundam Friend that wasn't- the Agg, who never made it into the show because Char had other ideas. Then it's into Warhammer 40,000 as we look at the mecha of the Tau!



You can find a video version of this podcast for free on Scanline Media's Patreon!



If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot and Six is @sixdettmar. Our opening theme is the Hangar Theme from Gundam Breaker 3, and our ending theme for this episode is Immortal Imperium by Jasper Kyd from Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. Our podcast art is a fantastic piece of work from Twitter artist @fenfelt. Want to see a list of every unit we've covered from every episode, including variants and tangents? It's right here.



Units discussed:
EMS-05 Acg
EMS-05 Acg (Ver Kondo)
EMS-05 Acg (Thunderbolt)
Turtle
EMS-05IKO Pink Acg
EMS-05F Azock
XV8 Crisis Battlesuit
XV88 Broadside Battlesuit
XV104 Riptide Battlesuit
XV107 R'varna Battlesuit
XV109 Y'vahra Battlesuit

They say "don't start with a showstopper," yet in the world of transforming mecha, the designers of Super Dimension Fortress Macross did exactly that. The Valkyrie set off a trend of mecha that can transform into planes, but nearly all the designs it inspired are inferior to this perfect, classic original by Kazutaka Miyatake and Shoji Kawamori. Then again, maybe it was only a showstopper for other designers- someday we might get to talk about the mecha from future Macross series, which are no slouches themselves.



You can find a video version of this podcast for free on Scanline Media's Patreon!



If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot and Six is @sixdettmar. Our opening theme is the Hangar Theme from Gundam Breaker 3, and our ending theme for this episode is Runner by Makoto Fujiwara from Super Dimension Fortress Macross. Our podcast art is a fantastic piece of work from Twitter artist @fenfelt. Want to see a list of every unit we've covered from every episode, including variants and tangents? It's right here.



Units discussed:
Shinnakasu VF-1J Valkyrie
Space Gandam V
VF-1J Valkyrie "Macross The First"
Northrom VF-1A Valkyrie
Stonewell/Bellcom VF-1D Valkyrie
Northrom VF-1S Valkyrie
VF-1A GBP-1S Armored Valkyrie
VF-1J GBP-1S Armored Valkyrie
Shinnakasu VF-1S Super Valkyrie
VF-1 Atmospheric-Escape Booster
VEFR-1 Electronic Warfare Valkyrie
VF Orguss Valkyrie
VF-X Prototype Valkyrie
Stonewell Bellcom VF-X-4 Prototype
VE-1 "ELINT Seeker" Valkyrie
Shinnakasu VF-1A Super Valkyrie
Shinnakasu VF-1S Strike Valkyrie
Northrom VT-1 Super Ostrich Valkyrie
Northrom VF-1X Valkyrie Plus
Northrom VF-1X Super Valkyrie Plus
VF-1J Valkyrie "Armored GERWALK"

With this episode, we're beginning the Month of Make Goods! It's time to clear all the red in the Mechanista ledger. And we're gonna start with a toku friend we rolled many months ago. He's been very politely Standing By, and now our responsibility to cover him is Complete.



...it's what the belt says, i tried to make it work, i don't feel like i succeeded.



You can find a video version of this podcast for free on Scanline Media's Patreon!



If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot and Six is @sixdettmar. Our opening theme is the Hangar Theme from Gundam Breaker 3, and our ending theme for this episode is Justiφ's by ISSA from Kamen Rider 555. Our podcast art is a fantastic piece of work from Twitter artist @fenfelt. Want to see a list of every unit we've covered from every episode, including variants and tangents? It's right here.



Units discussed:
Kamen Rider Faiz
Kamen Rider Faiz (Accel Form)
Kamen Rider Next Faiz
Kamen Rider Next Faiz (Accel Form)
Disney Imagination Belt
Kamen Rider Faiz Super Imaginative Chogokin
Kamen Rider Faiz Super Imaginative Chogokin 2020