Gattai Super Robots Thread
 

A conversation so awesome it deserved it's own thread.

Personally, I love a giant Super Robot. The more ridiculous the better. I know, I used to hate things likeG-12 Explosion and Samurai HaOh. But I ee the beauty in them now. And not just Sentai Super Robots. I love all Super Robots. Like the beautiful SRX-00 from SRW -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fenQiLhYPzg

And Optimus Prime's various Super Modes throughout the Unicron Saga of Amrada/Energon/Cybertron. And those lovely TF gestalt's. Not so much RotF Devastator.. But the show version. Menasor (Personal Favorite).

But what constitutes a Super Robot? In my mind it has to combine to become what it is. Optimus Prime alone isn't a Super Robot. But when he combines with his trailer, or with Jetfire, he becomes one. Red Dragon ThunderZord/Ryuusei-Oh isn't a Super Robot. But DaiRenOh/Thunder Megazord is one.

You're mildly wrong. RyuuseiOh is a Super Robot. There isn't anything that classifies it as a real robot.
Being big, chunky, and a compete clusterfuck doesn't mean everything else isn't a super robot.
http://images.wikia.com/gaogaigar/im...h32m22s162.png
http://www.supersentai.com/database/...rryuuseioh.jpg
http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/...odimus_Bow.jpg

All Super Robots despite being slim, sleek, and maneuverable.

I never said that :p What I said was, in my mind, it has to combine. Volfogg isn't one, but Big Volfogg is. GaiGar isn't one, but GaoGaiGar is. Genesic GaoGaiGar is a beautiful perfect Super Robot of awesome.

Combining isn't a prerequisite, though.
Tetsujin 28, for example, is commonly considered to be one of the first Super Robots despite being one solitary unit.

It is for me :lol

So Mazinger-Z, the series to coin the term "Super Robot", isn't a Super Robot in your eyes?

That's an awefully good question. But I don't know enough about Mazinger to make a decision.

Go Nagai's work in the field of super robots should never be ignored. While combination between robots isn't a prerequisite, it almost always occurs in at least a power up of some sorts. Jet scranders, getter machines, etcetera. Some personal favorites from childhood include perennial classics such as Gaiking, Steel Jeeg, Mazinger, and Gakeen. Basically anything on a block of programming that was known as "El Festival de Robots" back in Venezuela.

Sentai stated that his thread is about Super Robots that combine, so even though Mazinger is considered to be a Super Robot variety, it is not the combiner that Sentai is looking for, so don't argue over the semantics.

No, he didn't.
He stated the thread is about Super Robots, plain and simple. The point about combining is that, in his eyes, it's a requirement to even be a Super Robot.
The thread isn't about Super Robots that combine. It's just assumed by the OP that a robot can't be a Super Robot unless it combined to begin with.

I'm not arguing semantics. I'm arguing wording (Which is the same thing, so I guess I am :lol). It's explicitly stated:
That this thread isn't about Super Robots that combine, just that Sentai believes that combining is what's necessary to be a Super Robot. Nowhere in the opening post, however, is it directly stated that "This is a thread for combining Super Robots."