Pacific Rim: Gipsy Danger | Extended Mech Breakdown
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Spacedock delves into #PacificRim's mighty anti-kaiju mechs with Gipsy Danger.
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Don’t you mean 79 meters in height of gypsy danger?
@@jondobson It has multiple official heights, as is very often the case for breakdowns we just have to pick one of multiple sizes for things.
- hoojiwana from Spacedock
Will you be doing the other Jaegers from both films and the sires
@@hoojiwana oh ok then…
Why are the Jagers made of solid iron?
Too bad they never made a sequel to Pacific Rim.
I see what you did there. 😅
@@bluebonic3497 Yeah, I've heard that's good. I'll have to check it out.
@@bluebonic3497 agreed except for that wacky kaiju groupie sisterhood.
The Jaeger/hybrid was awesome.
@@Vilfy Yeah a lot of cool worldbuilding elements like that were just completely unexplained by the time they killed the show :(
Too bad people are so toxic towards Uprising
Remember kids Gipsy Danger is immune to EMP's cause she is analog!!! Loved that line in the movie :)
Seriously, could they not have just said they put in Extra shielding for the reactor?
Yeah, clearly there are no electronics inside that giant mech. All those lights and screens are actually just glowing paint on glass, and powered entirely by steam.
and is made of Iron...
@@RorikH The reactor is a souped up rotary phone.
Which funny because it was never actually hit by the EMP. The Kaiju only ever did it once. Gipsy being EMP immune didn't even matter.
Del Toro took the rule of cool and kicked it into overdrive in this film and I loved it.
the movie didn't even need a story, it was just awesome seeing the jaegers smacking around the kaijus
Although my favorite was Cherno Alpha... Blunt hammer... So much yes.
now let's have it fight Kiryū mechagodzilla in a free for all.
@@CameronHuff except Charlie Hunnam character who was painful to watch.
@@ANTSEMUT1 was still less painful to watch than the sequel.
I loved Pacific Rim. The attention to detail and love that went into it was absolutely amazing. If only they made a sequel...
They did made a sequel lol there is no way you didn’t watch that LMAOOOOO
Sadly, they never did. Just imagine seeing more giant robots actually moving like they are huge massive machines!
@@AdhvaithSane Sarcasm man. Same thing we do by not acknowledging Command & Conquer 4 existing
@@Hippy576 It would be so cool if they made a live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender!
@@Hippy576 or Star Wars sequels.
Dude, this is such a frickin good movie. I have seen far too many people just dismiss it as flashy eye candy but Del Toro did so much more than make transformers knock off. There is so much heart, detail, and quality storytelling in this movie its nuts. I know its not unpopular but man I feel like it's underrated.
I always thought Pacific Rim was more inspired by Evangelion, 'cause of the whole giant monsters attack and are fended off by pairs of people in giant mecha they have in common.
@@localhearthian2387 Oh it absolutely is, but I think, as a movie, westerners look at giant CG mechs and think Transformers.
@@localhearthian2387 I was about to joke that Pacific Rim "...is an EVANGELION knock off, Riley is clearly Shinji for the first two acts, Chuck Hansen is Asuka, and Charlie Day is just Charlie Kelly from Always sunny and wandered onto the wrong set" but now I'm not entirely sure anything but the first part is a joke
I think the story would’ve been better if they switched a couple of scenes around, have Mako’s full backstory be the beginning scene, and have Raleigh’s backstory be the reason for the freak out in the shatter dome, and bring up his brother then
@@wrickab shinji got nothin on riley
"Today we face the monsters that are at our door and bring the fight to them! Today we are cancelling the Apocalypse!" Marshall Stacker Pentecost.
Idris Elba straight up NAILED that line.
@@charlesmoore3390 . He sure did!
Honestly kinda cringe, but I don't give a fuck, shit was awesome as fuck.
Fun fact: The GD6 Chain Swords are personally designed by Mako Mori herself. And coincidentally, his father was a skilled swordsmith. Basically, she avenged her parents with their skill and knowledge in weapons inherited onto her.
The jeagers we saw on screen were just the lucky few that made it from rough sketch to production, Del Toro literally had over one hundred designs witch he and his team eliminated in rounds to slowly develop the best ones and it shows. All of them are just so unique and memorable, most of all it demonstrates the love Del Toro has for the Kaiju and monster genre. And even though we haven't gotten any in depth media on the franchise since the original film came out, I'm glad the story could end in a satisfying and natural way.
Pacific Rim: The Black exists.
Pacific rim is not a movie only, there are many comics and novels also.
Small contributions from Aperture Science included a revolutionary A.I. system to coordinate the jaeger.
This was a triumph...
But where's the cake?
I was not expecting that you would do gipsy danger.
'A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one'
I mean , people were asking for more mecha breakdown videos since he covered the AMP suit from avatar
I will be forever grateful to this movie for giving us BOATSWORD.
It made me think of it as fighting with a giant metal baguette xD
it was always weird to me as someone who knows some crap about metal structures, that in these fights they pick up a ship and it just stays as it is, if you were to pick one up like that it would instantly fall apart, if not the keel itself, the superstructure by wich gipsy grabs it would break under the load. same exact thing when leatherback picks up that crane
@@kermitthefrog1176 The entire giant robot genre exists in violation of the square-cube law, physics are secondary to what looks fuckin' cool.
@@ToaArcan fuck physics, I want goddamn robot on monster action, preferably violence but a man takes what he can get
Fuck yeah, boatsword rules
I really love how each shot of the fight scenes felt really heavy weighty. Everyone did an incredible job with the cinematography
There is water in every fight scene as well - either underwater, or its raining.
Same can’t be said for the second movie, where 100m tall mechs can move like gymnasts
@@marceline4935 true. They upped the pace of the fights in a way that doesn't feel authentic to the size of Kaijuus and Jaegers. Disappointing directing choices were made.
And then there’s that abomination non canonical dog s𝚑Ꭵt of a sequel called Uprising, thanks to the investor’s pressuring decision to change the director and main sets of actors into making a filled to the brim with stupid movie cliche
According to Guillermo del Toro, the design team wanted Gipsy Danger to "feel like a classic, old gunslinger" (John Wayne) and designed its anatomy after that of a cowboy. del Toro also referenced tanker ships and art deco as an influence in Gipsy Danger's design. In particular, there were large flat areas with a lot of plating, with spots in between showing the intricacies of its inner workings.
del Toro knew his mecha and kaiju greats and it shows. Definitely one of my favorite movies ever.
and the best thing is all of the kaijus could be guys in rubber suits just like the OG Godzilla.
As the theme song to Megas XLR said "We dig GIANT ROBOTS. You dig GIANT ROBOTS. Chicks dig GIANT ROBOTS. Nice!"
you good sir have great taste, Megas XLR is reserved to people of class!
I love Pacific Rim one of my favorite movies. Something I really enjoy was the speed of the Jaegers and Kaiju like you could tell the difference of the biological and mechanical movement while still feeling that weight they should have.
I cannot agree more with this statement. Always been a big thing for me in Kaiju movies/Big things in general. The feeling that these massive creatures and machines have a weight that our minds cannot really wrap around shaking the very earth in a combat that we can only imagine.
Indeed unlike that blasphemy we got a few years later.
@Vilfy The other thing that killed the fights in the sequel for me was that when the Jaegers and Nega-Jaegers were fighting they would just shrug off each other's missiles, while in the OG pretty much any Kaiju attack that connected was going to do damage or at least send you flying. (Kaiju could Tank some blunt force damage, but they're supposed to be really dangerous so making them resistant to attack isn't a problem.)
Yeah you could feel the power which each blow which I appreciated. That is probably the hardest part in animating fights - how to similar momentum, power, and speed. Yet to me animation even in video games outweighs graphics and details. So many just feel weightless if that makes sense. Even a good shooter will have impact and oomph and I am not talking about particles or craters - I feel like Killzone 2 and Dying Light get it right. Halo feels floaty to me.
@@dianapennepacker6854 you should try Insurgency Sandstorm, the sound design, the recoil, it all hits right.
Del Toro needs to work on a sequel that takes place in the early years of the Kaiju war
Like a Stacker Pentecost prequel? (Though how to do it without replacing Idris Elba or doing creepy de-aging would be tricky)
I support this, mah boy Tacit Ronin will finally have enough screentime
Yes that would be interesting.
an excellent jaeger and an excellent movie, it's a pity it doesn't have a sequel 😥😥😥
It does
@@blindinghornet9079
No, it doesn't exist
@@wascargerardohernandezemil4455 It does. Get real and quit whining.
You are no fun, blindinghornet
@@blindinghornet9079
No
My absolute favorite badass quote from Stacker Pentecost (and what an EPIC name THAT is!) is actually NOT from the movie! It's from a comic book - Pacific Rim: Tales from Year Zero.
*"I've never believed in the end times. We are MANKIND. Our footprints are on the MOON. When the last trumpet sounds and the Beast rises from the pit - WE WILL KILL IT!!!"*
Even Spacedock is like "let's pretend the second movie doesn't exist".
I think a sad note for later, before the Uprising movie, is that Becket died somewhere along the line, after the first movie. Given what we know of Jaegers and how much strain the neural load of a full size Jaeger puts on an individual pilot, my personal thought is that the incident that killed his brother and had him piloting Gypsy alone for who knows how long until he got to shore damaged him internally. It might not have shown up at first, as he was entirely healthy during the first movie, but it might have cropped up afterward. Unlike Stacker's radiation poisoning (and neural damage caused by HIS own solo run), Raleigh's death might have been entirely a surprise. Or they knew... and just told no one outside the command staff and himself.
Reminds me of what nearly happened to the man who survived punching out of an F-15E at mach one, he managed to survive it (albeit with more than a few broken bones as the impact of suddenly being exposed to those winds is equivalent to getting slammed in the face by a freight train), but during a talk in Vegas some time later, his heart started tearing itself apart in a delayed reaction to the strain of that event.
what the hell is uprising
Anyways I'm sure it wasn't a disgrace to the original right
its ok pretend uprising never happened
Nah cap, in "Pacific Rim: The Black" Anime series *(It's canon and you won't convince me)* it was stated that Becket is still alive, just retired chilling, thought mostly crippled due to the side-effects of going full Solo-Piloting the Jaeger
Pacific Rim + Titanfall 1's OST go together like chocolate and peanutbutter
Titanfall 2 is so goated, too bad there'll probably never be a TF3
@@enotsnavdier6867 it was tragically cancelled some months ago
@@sentientmustache8360 Damn, I loved that game
@@sovietunion9131 us both
@Sentient Mustache That wasn't TF3, that was a singleplayer Apex spinoff
To this day Pacific Rim remains one of my personal favorite movies of all time because of how determined it is to just be a really good action movie about giant robots fighting giant monsters. And then there is all the attention to the smaller details that you can see throughout the movie. Key example is how Gipsy Danger evolves from the start of the movie to the end. From the slower mechanical movements in the Anchorage fight to the more fluid movements during the Hong Kong fight (but still maintaining the weight to make their size believable, unlike a certain other movie we won't talk about), and even the newer holographic HUD tech you see after Gipsy gets its upgrade. Its all shown visually to the audience, but not explained in-depth for 10 minutes through exposition. Love it.
i remember coming upon a video of Del Toro nerding out at a Gunpla and Kaiju museum which convinced me to rewatch Pacific Rim and man you can really feel his love from every aspect. It was amazing seeing all the money shots and classic mecha tropes on a big screen budget, such an amazing film so full of passion.
I knew that my computer was leaking info. I just rewatched the movie last night.
This movie was so good, too bad they never made a sequel
yeah, they never made a sequel
i am sure of it
Such an underrated movie. Classic. I'm sure someday someone will make a sequel.
Wasn't there is a Pacific Rim 2 movie?
@@AlexSDU are you sure that wasn't a Bayformers spinoff?
Yes there is a pacific rim 2 movie
@@Mactagma Dude we're all commenting an denying its existence
@@fimelis they are both trash.
In a Jaeger, you can do more than fight the storm. You ARE the storm.
"When you're in a jaegar, you can fight the hurricane. And you can win."
That is approaching?
Provoking, even, black clouds in isolation?
Pacific Rim was such an EPIC movie experience. The mecha and monster designs were on point! I can still remember seeing it for the first time in the theaters in IMAX 3D. The second movie was such a disappointment on multiple fronts. I wished we got a prequel fleshing out the flashback sequences in Pacific Rim. I have the comics but would have loved to have seen that storyline gets the big-screen treatment.
This was excellent. Now I'm going to have to watch Pacific Rim again.
Pacific rim is one of the greatest movies ever made and I will 100% die on that hill.
We will not be discussing Uprising.
You guys should really consider doing breakdowns of the variable fighters from the Macross/Robotech franchise such as the vf-25 and its many variants such as the super and tornado as well as the yf-29 yf-19 vf-27 and vf-31
Start with the original: the VF-1.
@@Coyote001 You mean the VF-0 Phoenix, right?
I kid. The Valkyrie is still the coolest, most iconic, and most Tomcat-like.
Don't forget the Destroids also. VFs are great and all, but nothing says 'I'm gonna blow you into tiny bits' like an HWR-00-Mk II Monster.
Well now you gotta do the rest!
If your going to do mech breakdowns you gotta include some mobile suits from Gundam!
Agreed including the grandfather of the Gundams, the White Devil also known as the RX-78-2 Gundam!
Also White Base Pegasus-class help with Gundam
Look 👀 out it Gundam white devil of earth federation 🌎
If you're going to do mech breakdowns, you have to do the OG system - the VF-Series Veritech transformable fighter from 'Robotech: The Macross Saga'. The Veritech is the mech that brought Americans into anime big-time in the 80s, and should get props for all its capable of.
@@berandom2000 Exactly, and all it's variants, including NT-1 Alex, the GP series, and Full Armor Gundam.
Mecha, the best genre of sci-fi.
Emphasis on the Fi.
Oooh, mecha breakdowns! Sign me up.
This dude needs to cover Robot Jox.
Take one of their mechs over a Jager any day lol
Video suggestion: gravitational weapons explained.
Even though this movie's plot is basically a step by step guide in how NOT to win a war, it will always be one of my favorites. Giant robots punching giant monsters is everything I ever wanted as a kid. It reminds me of movies like Robot Jox, but with GOOD special effects.
There some problems with the movie, but foremost for me was that opening kaiju fight.
NO fighter jock would "thread the needle" like that on an attack run. Not even when attacking a static structure with plenty of fly-through space.
That was just visual masturbation on the part of the director. "Look how dangerous this monster is! It swatted an F-22 with a spiky thing!"
For some reason it seems like every Kaiju movie has to have at least one plane that forgot that you can just fly above your targets.
Striker Eureka gives me the vibe of skirmisher whilst Gypsy Danger gives me the feeling of fuck around and find out. Absolutely love the design.
Would love to see the breakdowns of other Jaegers in the future. 👀
Mann.... I freaking love Pacific Rim. It's like every 90s kids' wildest dream come true.
Such a great design but I always found it hilarious how ridiculously light the Jaegers supposedly are.
The rule of cool and the rules of physics don’t get along too well, but goddamn is it cool
"You will always find me in the drift"
Stacker Pentacost
Unspoken rule of the Pacific Rim fandom: *There is only one film*
Please ignore the sequel
What sequel? I have no knowledge of such a thing.
There _is_ no sequel. You must be mistaken friend.😑
That scene where Gipsy Danger dragged a whole ass ship across the streets of Hong Kong like it was a sword went hard as fuck
The robot has a rocket on its elbow to punch harder and that is honestly epic
Rocketto PAAAAAAANCH!
Now that's pretty cool.
I remembered being obsessed with this film a while back
When will you take a look at the "Battlemechs" of "Battletech?" Some good stuff there y'all would enjoy I'd say
This is a movie in desperate need of a sequel, a REAL sequel
This reminded me I needed to buy the 3rd set of Sojourn chapters. Thanks!
Branching into mecha? I highly recommend Gurren Lagann and EXO Squad.
"When you see a hurricane coming, it's a force of nature, You get out of the way. But when you're in a Jaeger, you can fight the hurricane and win." -Raleigh Beckett
Reminds me of Liberty prime!
LOL, thanks for putting the image in my head of Gypsy Danger with external loudspeakers blaring "EMBRACE DEMOCRACY OR YOU WILL BE ERADICATED!"
I remember watching Pacific Rim with my best friends in 9th grade. We can't stop talking about it for weeks. Too bad they never make a sequal.
I have never clicked on a notification so fast!!!!!!!!!
Also: It is not a betrayal of the message of Godzilla for it to be nuclear powered because these Kaiju are a metaphor for Hurricanes/Global Warming, and nuclear power is very powerful and relatively clean.
Also, Godzilla was originally a message about nuclear weapons specifically.
Fantastic analysis! So much rule of cool here, which just enhances the whole vibe of the movie. Solid iron armor, obsidian-metal chain swords. Hell yeah!
MORE LIKE THIS!!!
I want to point out that you released this the day of the newest Battletech Kickstarter. Good timing
Could you guys do a mech video on the Landmates in the Appleseed manga series?
That'd be a really cool breakdown of how much thought Masamune Shirow put into them!
Gypsy danger usually specialises in paving driveways and dumping waste in scenic rural areas of the countryside when not fighting kaiju.
i dont get why its hull is solid iron
movie: dont worry about it! it sounds cool!
Solid iron is more practical for armor than liquid iron or gaseous iron.
@@matthewsmith6057 there is a reason why modern tanks dont use solid iron for armour, unless youre trying to be a smartass. but then again Iserlohn Fortress in LOTGH has armour made out of liquid metal for some dam reason lol
If I remember my supplementary lore, steel and steel alloys tend to shatter when overstressed, iron on the other hand only deforms and thus can absorb the trauma caused by blunt force impact.
@@LtCWest titanium is like that too without an alloy, but pure iron is soft, weak and pretty heavy, i was thinking it might have to do with blunt force impact i mean gundams are not covered in pure iron, or battlemechs or votoms, im convinced its just 'cuz it sounds kewl' hell, no pacific rim fan has a solid explanation from what ive read over the years haha
@@andrzejwysocki609 Reread the comment, slowly, and try - for all of our sakes - to recognise a joke when you see one.
Your choice of video soundtrack has not gone unnoticed.
Idea for a series (or two), the steps of developmental and technological to building a Mech, or spacefighter, or any sci-fi vehicle or weapons system.
seriously waiting for a long to this video thanks for your efforts and hardwork
This was a true surprise and a real treat.
Thank-you!
Love how you made a video for my favourite film.
Gipsy danger my beloved
Everyone: "jeagers need two pilots"
Scrapper: "hold my beer"
Tbf, Scrapper was like a fraction of a Jaegers regular size ^^
@@LtCWest Yeah, but what does the size of the Yeager matter? I could see if there were more systems, especially more weapons so maybe......
@@LtCWest true but in the movies they give a very vague explanation for the reason of the two pilots requirement.
@@treyhelms5282 That's the excuse they used for the drift in the first place. Giant robot vs human-sized brain.
It's an in-universe excuse to have more character interaction. Don't think about it too hard.
@@cass7448 Yeah, seriously. It's like gee if only human brains were already designed to handle a body with four limbs. Would make more sense to have one person strapped in, and at least one other person onboard to monitor the automated systems and or serve as a weapons officer.
My Granpa used to tell me about a different kind of gipsy danger at thanksgiving, thankfully hes dead now.
Please do one for Robot Jox (1989)
I love this movie so much, so glad to see Spacedock covering Gypsy.
4:25. If that was the terminology for the hazard it makes a lot more sense when they talk about "chasing the rabbit"
That was awesome.
Thank You.
oh dayum.
are you going to do other Mech Breakdowns too? i'd love to see one for the Zaku II.
Good work. Ships are cool and I love them but as an oldtaku AND old battletech/mechwarrior fan, I'm always happy to see mecha and such get a spotlight.
Ok I for sure need more jaeger breakdowns please!
Kinda unrelated but
(tl;dr venting lmao)
Lately I’ve been looking a lot more at the Sojourn. What you guys have created is incredible, especially as far as world-building, at least from the little bit I’ve gotten from TH-cam.
It’s also inspired a lot of random little ideas I’ve had, which I’d love to expand upon in art or writing but for the fact that I can’t really do much of either.
I can communicate in writing fairly well but cannot for the life of me write a half coherent story, and writing multiple distinct characters is mostly out of the question.
I used to be able to do art but eventually tried and failed so hard for so long to draw characters (or any organic shapes honestly) that I kinda traumatized myself into being unable to even put a pencil to paper; and while I can communicate fairly well, I have never really been able to fully realize any of my ideas with as much detail as I’d like, so I don’t trust that I could figure out how to describe something to an artist in such a way that what they produce would end up being close to what I had in mind.
I don’t have much of an objective here besides ranting because the inspiration I’ve gotten has reminded me of how badly I wish I could actually create anything or do anything more technical than modifying and splicing together random bits of code or text
Still I absolutely love both your original work and your other more standard content, and look forward to more of both
This movie is so good.
One of the big reasons, is that it simply gives the viewer what it promised!
I saw this movie in an IMAX theatre. If you thought it was already an awesome and epic movie. I assure you. With a 4 story tall screen, its at a minimum 10x more epic and awesome. One of my favourite ever movie experiences and I adore the movie even though its premise is just the worst.
Kinda wanna watch the movie now... nice presentation!
A mecha review! I hope you can one day do breakdowns on more iconic mecha, such as Mazinger Z or Gundam Aerial!
Haven't clicked a video this fast in a while. Wasn't disappointed!
Черный Альфа when?🥺
loved the video as I am a die hard pacific rim fan.
I really hope that there will be similar videos for the other Jaegers! Del Toro did such an amazing job giving each and every jaeger a personality equal to that of the star machine.
you should do more mech breakdowns, like some robotech or gundam
Taken the first step toward the incredible world of mecha. If you ever need assistance in that field,
I love Mecha. The rocket punch is really sick.
I love the movie because of the weight and the actual attention to physics like the shuttering of her neck gaurds in the first scene, Hydrolics and the compressions between them
Now we need a breakdown of the rest of them!!!
That intro hits my battle zone nostalgia every time
Good stuff!
"Gypsy danger is analog" refers to the fact that it is possible to make a completely manually/mechanically driven controls that are powered by the nuclear reactor, WHICH CANNOT TURN OFF, this is contrast to say a battery system or a fusion power system, one can be fried, the other requires continuous magnetic containment. A steam train os also analog and end immune.
one of my favorite movies, still waiting for a sequel
We've gotten extended coverage on Gipsy Danger and Gunstar both now!
The only way the world could be better is if there was some sort of crossover that gave us a Gunstar that transformed into Gipsy Danger!
Powerful realist giant functioning mechs in fiction like the Jaegers and the Imperium's Empeor class Titans and Battletech's mechs are cool to look at in battlefields but believe it or not there is a functioning giant sci fi tank out there that is all big, functioning, and more powerful then a Baneblade could ever hope to be. Something most forget.
Called the Bolo tanks. These big guys come with not just big guns, lasers, missiles, and shielding systems. They are world seige tanks and they are highly optimized and highly lethal and potent in entire campaigns.
Need a anti kaiju weapon that would easily carry the payloads and yields to destory a kaiju on land without the need of nukes?
You can call these tanks into battle to make a cooked buffet out of them.
Remember when it comes to debates of Tanks vs Mechs. Even tanks if bulit correctly can catch up. Just like the Bolos show in their arenas of battle.
A fellow Keith Laumer fan! I prefer his Retief stories because they're hilarious send-ups of governmental idiocy. Also, Bolos can go insane.