Atom's hip guns

[dannavy85]

I see according to the Manga Drawing book for Astroboy that the hip guns use 6.5 mm parabellum rounds with "caseless" Amo. I think Tezuka had to be the first person in the world to ever consider such a concept in ammunition because in the 1950's no one even toyed with the idea.

I've seen a german squad machine gun called the HG-11 now that uses solid non-cased charges and since you don't have to deal with a troublesome spent shell recoil these kinds of guns can fire a maddening volly of metal (1,700 rounds) in under a minute.

I don't think, given his size, that Atom could carry more than a hundred rounds in his trunk.

[Dragonrider1227]

Well, it is the future. Who knows what kind of ammo they have at that point and how much of they could fit up his...uh...hips.

[dannavy85]

So why did they leave the guns out of the 2003 remake?

[jarvic]

I guess maybe because the machine guns were too "funny".. :wacko:

I miss the hip guns as well, they had an advantage over his current weapons: they're an actual physical projectile. I mean suppose Astro got into a situation where he was surrounded by or had to destroy a mirror that he could not physically reach himself, or didn't have a brick or something to throw. A mirror would just reflect his lasers and probably his energy arm-weapon thingamabob too, so he'd be stuck.

With the machine guns, all he'd need to do is point his bu...F45TB<H*%^R
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[Dragonrider1227]

It's funny that he doesn't have them in the new series, yet he does in the new game. :huh:

[Big Astro Fan]

I've only seen the first 8 or 10 episodes, thanks to Kids WB and CN, but could they be in later episodes?

[fafner]

I have seen until episode 20, and so far nothing on this matter...

[jeffbert]

The machine guns were dropped in favor of the left arm super weapon. He can have no more nor less fewer than 7 powers. When something new comes along, something old must go. However, I wonder what 'went' when he first gained the lasers in his fingers?

[jarvic]

The ability to detect a bad guy just by looking at him? :huh:

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