Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
But losing a lion would also seriously impair Lion Force's ability to form Voltron too. This is an inherent weakness of gestalts anyway, as parodied by the Robot Chicken skit where they talk about what happens when one (or more) gestalt member "calls in sick". We see Lion Force Voltron being beaten by a Robeast as he hops around on one leg and the top half of Devastator just lying on the ground while Optimus Prime runs up and kicks him over the horizon!

With Vehicle Force Voltron it would theoretically depend on which vehicle was lost. I vaguely remember there was one episode where they had to form Vehicle Voltron with only one arm. But the same thing could happen to Lion Voltron if any of the limb lions were impaired or destroyed. The advantage of having 15 vehicles is that in their non-combined form they're more formidable as a fighting force.


Of course Nadesico is a different universe, but the things that it parodies still apply. It's just like how Spaceballs is its own universe, but it parodies a lot of things about scifi movies like Star Wars, Star Trek etc. Nadesico is like a parody of super robot anime like Voltron -- only that there's an actual serious scifi story in it. It just happens to be a hilarious parody.

Things that it spoofs includes:
+ The amount of time wasted doing overdrawn dramatic combination sequences (and how IRL that would get people KILLED!!) "Let's form Voltron! Form feet and --" BOOM!
+ LAWS OF PHYSICS! A most cases they just ignore things like gravity when they merge. And move about.
+ How the "hero" pilot is often an amateur. This may not apply to Voltron so much. IIRC all the Voltron pilots are trained professionals right? But you have say Macross (Hikaru Ichijou was a civilian), Gundam (random kids), Evangelion (chosen kids) etc. In Nadesico the hero mecha pilot is the ship's cook! (wahahahaha)
+ Some of the Nadesico's crew and pilots are actually super robot anime geeks. So what is it like to pilot giant robots IRL when you've grown up watching super robot anime?

One thing I love about Nadesico is how it points out how blatantly silly a lot of things about super robots is.
I could be wrong here but, For some reason i am thinking that you are suggesting that i am taking this robot thing to Seriously ???

If so, lets just say it doesn't take much for me loose interest in things

especially, things I personally disliked about Vehicle Voltron....
which was "even though, it was not real" mostly in Technical ways.


Note:
sure the idea, of the Gestalt like Combiners is fundamentally ridiculous. But, i personally fail to see why Mecha/Robot are (not in ways that are used for fighting/combat anyway) and as such, i find it to be more to be "Improbable"
as, i can potentially see civilian uses, in the form of "Construction" and "Rescue" at least... this is if we were able to build them of course.