Giant Robots Fascinate Mankind

I have to admit, I’m a sucker for giant robots as much as the next guy.  They make movies about giant robots.  Transformers is coming out July 4th.  Iron Giant was a great kid’s movie.  Popular video games such as Mech Warrior feature giant robots fighting each other to the death.  And some of the most popular kids cartoons such as Voltron featured giant robots.

I think this fascination of giant battling automatons has been the dream of every boy for generations, but was only within the reach of being realized at the height of the industrial revolution.  Thanks to Malcontents, I found PaleoFuture, a blog dedicated to what our ancestors thought the future would be like.  And in their future of long ago, the French were supposed to build 1000 foot tall robots that would do battle with other nations’ robots.

This picture was published by the Fresno Bee back in 1934.  About nine years before the below CG animated film was to have taken place.  Awesomeness follows if you click the picture.