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Wednesday, 4 April 2012

Help The British War Effort!

A challenge ...

Godzilla meets classic WWII British poster design.
It's the height of World War II. To its formidable arsenal of conventional weapons Nazi Germany has added new terrors - giant stompy robots and massive creatures from other dimensions. The British War Office has established a working group consisting of Barnes Wallis, Alan Turing and a young Bernard Quatermass to devise a counter-measure to the new Nazi menace; a huge, artificially intelligent, war-machine capable of fighting such foes on their own terms.

They are stuck on just one point - what do they call their creation?

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7 comments:

  1. TamsinP5 April 2012 at 00:23

    "Thunder Child" (in homage to H.G. Wells)

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  2. A-Historian5 April 2012 at 00:55

    "The Bastable Engine" (in homage to Michael Moorcock)
    HMS Vanguard, since the ship wasn't finished in time.

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  3. Captain Jack5 April 2012 at 03:09

    I can think of a few ideas:

    The Iron Tommy
    Gogmagog or Madoc the Great
    Project White Cliffs

    I like Thunder Child myself,

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  4. Phil Saunders5 April 2012 at 03:27

    Archie
    Marvin
    Colossus
    Vera or Gracie
    Merlin
    Arthur
    His Majesty's Automaton Isambard Kingdom Brunel

    I do like Thunder Child though. You know why.

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  5. kingsleypark5 April 2012 at 08:11

    Bob

    (Best of British)

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  6. Kaptain Kobold5 April 2012 at 09:29

    I guess some of it boild down to whether it's the Army or the Navy who are running the show (the Air-Force don't count - too new).

    The Army would treat it as a tank, so it would have a class name and that's it (M7 Behemoth Destroyer Mk I 'Montgomery'). They wouldn't use 'Thunderchild'; too naval. The Navy would treat it as a ship, so each individual build would have its own name ('Thunderchild' Class Land Battleships - HMLS 'Thunderchild', HMLS 'Gogmagog' etc)

    I like 'Thunderchild'. I had already considered 'Gogmagog' as well, but I don't like the rhythmn of the name. 'The Iron Tommy' is a nice one-off name for some kind of stompy robot.

    Thanks for all the suggestions so far.

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  7. Anonymous5 April 2012 at 10:13

    HMLS Tantalus Mk.I

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