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Model number:Â N/A
Code name:Â GERWALKroid
Unit type:Â mass production anti-aircraft destroid
Manufacturer:Â unknown
Operator:Â U.N. Spacy
Rollout:Â unknown
First deployment:Â unknown
Accommodation:Â pilot only, in standard canopy-style cockpit
Dimensions:Â overall height 13.5 meters (Battroid mode)
Weight:Â unknown
Armor materials:Â unknown
Powerplant:Â unknown
Propulsion:Â unknown
Performance:Â unknown
Equipment and design features:Â sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments:Â many x missile, mounted in internal launchers; 37 x grenade, mounted in dispensers on arms and legs; gun, mounted under nose
Optional hand armaments:Â none
The GERWALKroid was a destroid that is based on the GERWALK mode found in variable fighters. As a single mode unit, it lacked the long-distance flight capability of variable fighters. Its armaments included a gun and multiple grenade and missile launchers. The GERWALKroid was deployed on Earth to defend U.N. Spacy headquarters during the Mardook War in 2092.
First appearance:Â Super Dimension Fortress Macross II: Lovers, Again
Original mechanical designer(s):Â Junichi Akutsu, Kazumi Fujita, Koichi Ohata, Atsushi Okuda
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Tomino has been in Brazil in 2004 for a lecture in an university, in which he talks about the history of mecha anime and a bit of his work. The VHS tape was just recovered and uploaded on Youtube.
Would anyone here be interested in a translation or a summary of it?
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