60t static load, now imagine how big will it be when it walks.
The Sultan's Elephant [2] was bigger, but less technically advanced. The headaches of transporting it were too much of a problem. Once your art project gets bigger than what can be moved by road or rail, there's a problem.
The Land Walker, from about 2006, was about a third of the size of the big Gundam. Biggest walking biped to date.[3]
There's also Eagle Prime, which is really a tracked vehicle.[4]
[1] https://youtu.be/qmbW5gvAX4U
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sultan%27s_Elephant
[3] https://www.metatube.com/es/videos/9905/LAND-WALKER-Japanese...
[1] - the dragon is rolled around on a wheeled platform. There is one clip of a leg lifting, but none of it actually walking.
[2] - The Sultan's Elephant is moved around on wheels. It doesn't walk.
[3] - That thing is "skating" around on wheels, again not actually walking.
[4] - And yet another machine that doesn't walk but actually rolls around on treads.
The wheeled platform is for transport.
Says you?
Still fascinating to see this towering thing in motion. I was never into Gundam, but Macross Plus had me hooked, and this brings back memories such as this scene:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SMMRs5ZIqd0/
Those YF-19 and YF-21 are still the best { variable fighters U mecha } designs to my eyes: simple, elegant, believable, futuristic yet practical.
https://opuszine.us/_assets/stills/macross-plus.jpg
In hindsight there are so many anticipatory things in Macross Plus, it’s really good SF trying to reason from first principles: AR virtual canopies, neural link operated plane, deep AI generated musical arrangement from simple human composition, Kessler syndrome, drone vs human presence on the battlefield, overall human relevance in the face of emergent AGI...