Model number:Â HL-96
Code name:Â Tyrant 2000
Unit type:Â construction labor
Manufacturer:Â Hishii Heavy Industries
Operator:Â civilians
Rollout:Â December 1995 AD
Accommodation:Â pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions:Â overall height 8.02 meters; overall width 4.72 meters
Weight:Â standard 12.03 metric tons; full 12.65 metric tons
Armor materials:Â fiber reinforced material (aluminum/steel)
Powerplant:Â unknown
Maximum weight lifting capacity:Â 3.7 metric tons
Minimum revolving radius:Â 7.0 meters
Equipment and design features:Â sensors, range unknown; HOS (hyper operating system)
Fixed armaments:Â none
Optional hand armaments:Â none
The HL-96 Tyrant 2000 was a heavy duty construction labor produced by Hishii Heavy Industries. The Tyrant’s powerful body made it well-suited to construction, and it could match the power of the AV-98 Ingram. Because the Tyrant was so widely used across Tokyo, it was often stolen and used in labor crime. In 1999, a Tyrant working in an urban area went berserk and ignored its pilot’s instructions. Collateral damage was multiplied when gun maniac Ingram pilot Isao Ota of the Tokyo police’s SV2 engaged the rogue labor. Although unknown at the time, the Tyrant incident was an early example of a hidden program in Shinohara Heavy Industries’ new hyper operating system that caused labors to go berserk under certain situations.
First appearance: Patlabor the Movie
Original mechanical designer:Â Yutaka Izubuchi
Patlabor the Movie Info
Director:
Mamoru Oshii
Writer:
Kazunori Ito
Mechanical Designer(s):
Yutaka Izubuchi
Shoji Kawamori
Yoshinori Sayama
Takehiko Ito
Character Designer:
Akemi Takada
Musical Composer:
Kenji Kawai
Format:
1 movie
Theatrical Release:
Japan 07.15.1989
MAHQ is now officially on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mahqdotnet.bsky.social.
Our future on this cursed app is unclear, but expect more posts over there.
Cutaway diagram of the VF-1J Valkyrie Fighter Mode from “This is Animation Special: Macross Plus”(1995). Larger versions on my DA profile:
https://www.deviantart.com/marchly/art/Macross-VF-1J-Valkyrie-Cutaway-Diagram-detailed-973372931
https://www.deviantart.com/marchly/art/Macross-VF-1J-Valkyrie-Cutaway-Diagram-clean-973371729
Art by Kiyomi Tanaka. Original concept by unknown Macross fan. Image built by me
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