Giant Kabuto Mushi Mecha

Bow down to the greatest creation of all otaku-kind! A workable giant beetle robot modeled after the rhinoceros beetle. It's the stuff of every boy's fantasy. Better still, you could ride and control it from the cockpit. Imagine if this comes crashing down the highway.

Designed and built by an Ibaraki man in his garage over the course of eleven years, the “Kabutom MX-03″ looks like a prop from a Power Rangers spin-off but is an actual working vehicle. Why build it? Because owning an eleven meter long, fifteen ton robot beetle makes you a mack daddy — in Japan or anywhere else.

And who knows, maybe somewhere around the world, someone is building a 30-feet Gundam in their backyard. Looking forward to it :)



More info:
http://altjapan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/04/mushi-mecha.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf7Sytl2-EE

PS: Mechanical engineering rules!