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I am convinced that this giant robot, from the 1957 movie
Kronos: Ravager of Planets, is perhaps the very best of the abstract giant robots. And by "abstract," I mean Kronos here looks basically like a modernist building — just a big box on giant struts with a spherical head topped by two antennae. Sure there's some backstory here, like a flying saucer crashed in Mexico and suddenly there was this giant robot who is mind-controlling everybody so it can eat electricity or atomic bombs or something. Really, though, all you need to know is that there is a hulking robot building thing roaming the countryside, and being followed by three intrepid robot geeks wearing awesome coveralls that say "Labcentral" on the back. Damn, I want those coveralls. And that abstract giant robot! Here I've put together the very best of the giant robot scenes for you. Watch Kronos from far away, from up close, and in full burnination mode! [
Kronos via IMDB]
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The raging forest fires of the future will be fought, not by puny humans, but by giant hulking robots like this one. (Note little human figurine for scale.) This robot, designed by student Jordan Guelde in a senior project, is willing to do what it takes to contain a fire — including massacre a lot of trees. Want to see more pics of the model, plus some computer images of the robot cutting a swathe through a roaring inferno?
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Josh Cotter has just released a trade book of the first four issues of indie comic fave Skyscrapers Of The Midwest. Cotter describes the book as being about "observations of childhood isolation and existence in the American Midwest. With giant robots." He talks to 