>>124265936>>124273762No,
>>124265830 is dead right. Most any attempt to sell giant robots to typical normalfags in the US are met with derision or lukewarm at best. Even the original Pacific Rim, which some hold as a gold standard for Western/US mecha production, couldn't even break even with the domestic market alone- it managed to make over its budget only because of international markets.
There are a medley of cultural reasons for this, but broadly speaking there are some very big reasons we have shit like the Marvel movie universe and a focus on superheroes, superhumans, and the like and not super-powerful humanoid machines. I won't get into it, except to say frankly I'm kind of glad it's this way.
