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All are great but I think The Bucket is today's pick

I'm sorry all I can think about is FORKLIFT MAN TAKE ME BY THE HAND LEAD ME TO THE HANGAR YOU UNDERSTAND

not to be predictable but it's gotta just be "furry." for me...

As a kid raised on power rangers I have ALWAYS loved a well-designed How Do You Even Move? The last decade or so of sentai mechs dont really do it for me, but stuff like GaoGaiGar and some of the bulkier mobile suits in Gundam still make my brain go Brrrrrrr 🥰

just call me The Bucket

We mostly design Chicken Tanks with a couple Forklift Men With Hats and Kirbies (and one giant Honse) but a LOT of these have appeal!

Hard to narrow it down by much, but I usually tend to prefer clunkier and chunkier mecha, like ones with a lot of armor, though not exclusively. Chicken-style legs are also fun. Bonus points if the "face" (if it has something that could be even vaguely considered as such) is notably more to the robotic side of the scale, like singular eyes or visor/screen with or without eye dots or maybe just a cockpit as usual.

every time i try to play an Armored Core i end up as Man This Is Just Some Dude On A Sled. it's the perfect form, for me.

??? my beloved

Do not attack me. I know what I am.

this is so good and covers so much ground. A few others I can think of are 'The Shape That Hates', 'Oops, all missiles' and 'has teeth'

omg I love the ??? mech

I know this is meant more as a comedic post but honestly I may come back to this when I need inspiration for new mech creations lmao

also chicken tanks my beloved

mashing this in my friend's faces and asking them which gender they are

It's always gonna be The Bucket.

Bwahahaha this rules.

I cannot pick, I love them all. Thanks for sharing!

i’m a big chicken tank kinda gal i think

The next time I order an exosuit in HD2, I'm going to refer to it as the Forklift

Submarine Man forever my gender. Don't hit with no hesitation etc. etc.

see, i'm horrible so while i'm not so acquainted with mechs and their design i now need to know Every Mech Ever Drawn Ever so I can make sure I know every existing design permutation
(and yknow if you have the time and energy and inclination i'd love to see a document with examples for each! no pressure)

...as a robotgirl i'm kind of obligated to find I Know What You Are most gender, but my favorite besides those are definitely the more tank-like ones- normal vehicle, chicken tank, sled dude, and world's largest RV tend to be among my favorites. that's followed by everything designed to fly, especially prioritizing wings, jet-like designs, and stuff that people like to call biblically accurate angels.

...and finally dammit i just love the distributed legbase of the honse-style designs. oh also rocketpods and big guns are my favorites. wow this is a long comment

A rare variation I've seen on "Honse" is a straight-up centaur mech with four legs and human-style armed torso section. Occasionally you get "city walking around on lots and lots of little spider legs" which I think is distinct from "World's Largest RV".

This is completely me being pedantic, but chickens don't have backwards knees; they have a regular knee and thigh that's normally covered in fluff, and then a prominent scaly ankle joint. As apology for pedantry, please accept this image of a tiny chicken's knee:

Battletech be like "yeah i'll take two thirds of these and the other third are probably out there in the Periphery somewhere."

I always had a soft spot for Boüg and Normal Vehicle (Has Limbs). Honse and Rocket Crab are also very good. Basically I like non-bipeds.

The Mecha you've labeled "???" is clearly "The Townsend".

The eight legs, the sun imagery, the willingness to murder the gods and topple their thrones? That's Mike Townsend Behavior.

I'm playing a Forklift Man that's slowly turning into Big Knight in MW:D, but damn do I wanna do something with "furry.", unsurprisingly.