Gene Kim started his NYU Tisch undergraduate thesis film Fighting Spirits before Black Swan came out, but it also plays with the classic image of dueling ballerinas in black and white. But when these ladies battle on stage, they fight with something heavier than toe shoes.

Well, we had to know this was coming sooner or later. Sakakibara Machinery Works — makers of the adult-sized mecha suit Landwalker — has created the Kid's Walker Cyclops, the tiny, adorable terror with the bored preteen in it shown above.

Gundam has long been called the Star Trek of Japan, because of its long-running popularity, and its many, many incarnations. This means there have been hundreds, if not thousands of Gundams and other assorted mecha designed for the Gundam anime series, and not all of them have been winners. For every RX-78 from the…

We've seen some spectacular (and adorable) Voltron cosplay, but this crew of mecha fans takes it to the next level. Each member of the group dresses as one of the series' five robot lions, and their costumes assemble to form Voltron.

Have you ever wondered what Mickey Mouse and friends would look like if they narcissistically constructed giant robot duplicates of their own personages?

Remember Vaudeville, that imposing 12-foot-tall, Microsoft-Kinect-controlled mech that was supposed to bear nothing scarier than a mop? Well, Suidobashi Heavy Industry — the Japanese hobbyist collective behind the project — has redubbed their creation "Kuratas," and added such bells and whistles as a H₂O rocket…

If people can ride around in lion-shaped mechas, why can't cats cruise in their own bipedal mecha suits? Reddit user Tastybread crafted this bad-ass cat bed for his cardboard-loving kitty. His next project: Krang's human-shaped exo-suit. [reddit via Ian Brooks]

Microsoft Kinect has been used for some novel hacks, but this is straight out of Ghost In The Shell. Meet Vaudeville, a twelve-foot-tall, five-ton mecha that's manipulated using Kinect, or that XBox peripheral commonly known for its embarrassing dance party games.

If you enjoy the cut-and-paste madness of Terry Gilliam, then these GIF illustrations by Kevin Weir should be right up your alley. Over at Flux Machine, Weir takes monochrome photos from the Library of Congress' Flickr account and ramps up the weirdness. See for yourself below.

For this delightfully absurd test animation, 3D designer Hauke Scheer has imagined a dark polluted future where humans have teamed up with cetaceans in battle suits. Ergo, Mechawhales. Watch as the Human-Whale Alliance battles extraterrestrials invaders of the year 2037. The sheer impracticality of the whale's…