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This is the world's biggest digging machine.

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02:21 / 16.02.06

A friend on LJ suggested Barbelith might like to work out how to fight this. I personally don't think it's possible to win, but you may prove me wrong.

02:57 / 16.02.06

avian flu?

worked for hg wells...

03:15 / 16.02.06

Rust.

Alternatively, attack it on its position re Ugandan refugees -- a notorious weak-spot for gargantuan earth-movers the world over

04:07 / 16.02.06

With love, be bop, with love.

Phex: Dorset Doom

05:00 / 16.02.06

With a huge mound of earth.

No, wait...

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

05:46 / 16.02.06

Easy.

One man. A room full of MAGIC.

07:36 / 16.02.06

Health & Safety

07:44 / 16.02.06

Good right hook, thrown while its distracted.

07:49 / 16.02.06

I think we should all just admit that that thing can't be beaten.

Invisible Queen

07:51 / 16.02.06

Think of the Filth, it's all about perspective. You just need to hit it from where it's small.

08:05 / 16.02.06

...And when you *think* you’ve finished fighting that thing, when it’s curled up and crumpled and not moving or digging any more, then the ground will shake and the rest of the giant robot will emerge from hibernation. All pissed off at what you’ve just done to its hand.

But maybe then you can challenge it to a dance-off, so it won't all be bad.

08:15 / 16.02.06

Ehm ah, guys, about "how to fight this"? Well, please find out fast, I think it heard us. Uh oh...

08:25 / 16.02.06

LOL

08:35 / 16.02.06

Ah, the mighty of my people. I would not fight this because, well, i'm it.

But, if I was a tiny human like you guys, I'd fight it like Luke Skywalker fought that giant walking machine in The Empire Strikes Back: with a hook and a cord...

08:59 / 16.02.06

the blues brothers could take that sucker...

...hit it!

15:43 / 16.02.06

Distract it with one of these:

15:48 / 16.02.06

Then get a small monkey to put sugar in its gas tank.

Spyder Todd 2008

16:02 / 16.02.06

Oh, he doesn't look so tough. The first thing I'd do, naturally, is morph, because that somehow gives me some non-descript super powers that mostly involve hitting stuff real good. Now, I realize that my crazy ninja skills aren't going to be much use against this thing right now, but that doesn't worry me. Because there's one thing that can always beat a giant robot: another giant robot. So I'll just grab my little knife/flute/summoning thing and call my own. And mine's bigger than him.

Hmm. Good thing I got these awesome robot summoning powers from that crazy space lady. Rock.

Brigade du jour

16:06 / 16.02.06

Befriend it, then over the course of several years, undermine its self-confidence with a network of psychological manipulation (possibly involving some well-timed snide remarks about how it's not quite so big and scary as it used to be) and then watch it fight itself.

16:21 / 16.02.06

i cant see any soft-spots, so i reckon you might have to get to one that isnt visible.
the plan is to find the behemoth's brain, whether it be a person or a CPU, and then smash the shit out of it.
i might incorporate some 'making it smash its own face in' moves in the process, hopefully getting it to use that big spinny thing on its own innards.

i might need a team in the air to distract the iron giant from my stealthy progress towards its breakables, but if that is unavailable, i would go for some kind of remote detonated hijinks to distract the ogrous mechanoid.

i'd prolly be uncomfortable leaving home with anything less than full climbing gear, with an emphasis on the more speedy ascent techniques; gas powered grapples, winches, that sort of thing. i'm going to be climbing while it moves, so i dont want to be spending too much time in any one spot. keep moving out of its way, and off surfaces that may soon invert.

once inside i reckon stealth can pretty much go on the back burner. unless its guarded, i want it to be known that i am inside. barring internal counter measures, the digging dreadnought's attacks would only serve my purpose.

if there are internal counter measures...

well, i reckon we can work around them.

16:29 / 16.02.06

Fools, it's pointless. The invasion continues. All your energon shall be mine!!!

16:43 / 16.02.06

Jet-pack. Suitcase nuke. Vivaldi's Spring on the iPod. Easy.

16:48 / 16.02.06

Nipple pinch.

17:08 / 16.02.06

Fools, it's pointless.
well, if by pointless you mean that in the end we all return to dust to begin the cycle of rebirth again no matter who wins... then sure.

if you mean i would fail to kill it...
there isnt a beast alive that cannot have that status revoked, energon-fuelled or otherwise, dude.
if it lives, i can kill it.

you folks fancy ferrous felafel after i finish?

17:17 / 16.02.06

Have the backup fighters create a diversion, then fire a torpedo up an exhaust port to take out the main reactor core.

Duh.

Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown

18:36 / 16.02.06

That red truck? It's got an extradimensional portal in the back containing six BILLION ninjas!

Assuming that each Ninja equals N1, where N1 is the sufficient amount of ninja required to kill an average human being, and N10 is the sufficient amount of ninja to kill an average elephant. That machine looks about a thousand times as big as an elephant, so that's equivilant to about N1,000,000.

Thus because N=1000000, it will take 1 million ninjas to kill the machine. But, becuase a Transformer has a Coolness equal to C, where C1 is as cool as Bumblebee, and C100 is as cool as Grimlock, and C is equal to N5. Thus a giant transformer equivilant in size to N=1000000 will then possibly require N=1 billion, where 1 billion is a sufficient amount of ninja to take down a giant transformer whose equivilant size would otherwise take 1 million as a sufficient amount of ninja to take it down.

I defeat it with math. ANd ninjas.

18:46 / 16.02.06

It's pointless because that thing is but one soldier in the vast armies that I command (in Unicron name, of course, don't hurt me master, aaarrrgh...) and which are being transported to Earth via Space Bridge at this very moment. And also, that monstruosity is only Devastator's left leg...

Incidentally, as a leader of the Decepticons who transforms into a giant gun, my Transformer coolness factor is C99.9, but that's only because no one is cooler than Grimlock

19:57 / 16.02.06

you guys are all way wierd

james dean would do it: why can't we all just get along..? smooth. these big earth diggers dig smooth. man, they lap it up. then hit it with the mountain.

20:07 / 16.02.06

You need a balrog.

20:09 / 16.02.06

Only one answer: bend like the willow.

Then be mulched like the willow.

Finally, become a bag of willow charcoal briquettes and surprise it at a barbeque by failing to cook its sausages sufficiently so it dies a slow death by food poisoning.

20:43 / 16.02.06

Or Kitten Kong from The Goodies:

20:45 / 16.02.06

I'd invite it out for a drink at the bar, and buy several rounds. Eventually it would have to relieve itself. At that point I would slip something nasty into its drink, something sufficiently slow-acting yet deadly, with no known antidote.

21:06 / 16.02.06

Yeah, but would you (and the whole town) survive it "relieving itself"? It's a risky plan.

21:07 / 16.02.06

What's Godzilla doing this days?

Oh, forget it. The giant robot always beats the giant monster...

All Acting Regiment

21:13 / 16.02.06

Just out of interest, are there any more photos of the original digger out there? I think it make me squee.

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