attack 4 (revenge 3) RoboToad by RottenEctoplasm

this was really fun to make! i love the “Mini” toys from the MvD series so when i saw this oc i knew i had to draw them!

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#4 RoboToad meeting my Bom-Bot
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The sole point of knowing whether or not Von Shithead made a second issue of RoboToad or whatever is to figure out how few issues of RoboToad we should dunk on Von Shithead for only making.

So they don’t even have a second RoboToad or whatever the fuck it’s called issue?

He's so funny dude. Like yeah man you look so cool piloting the fuckin red robotoad.

We're building a #RoboToad (a machine to make a toad model hop up and down) for a field experiment this spring. @MisterSavi and @KatrinaMSwitzer made our first prototype out of #Lego #Mindstorm. It still needs work...

Here's the second prototype of our #RoboToad for a field experiment with Yellow Toads this spring. Not very hoppy and pretty noisy. It still needs work...

A break-through with our third #RoboToad prototype! Movement brings verisimilitude to our Yellow Toad models for a field experiment @ACGuanacaste this spring. Great work @MisterSavi and @KatrinaMSwitzer! #WindsorScience

There's a great video put together by @DylanKristy_ to accompany his @UWindsor Daily News article on our #RoboToad project (photos and videos by @KatrinaMSwitzer @MisterSavi @Steph_Doucet & @DMennill). http://bit.do/DNewsKaty

"Walking to the pond, trying not to step on toads, you look up and see this beautiful sea of yellow."
Great article about our #RoboToad project in @UWindsor's Daily News, focusing on @KatrinaMSwitzer (PhD student co-supervised with @Steph_Doucet): http://bit.do/DNewsKaty

An article about Lincoln Savi's new animal printing business (http://www.savimade.ca) appears in today's @TheWindsorStar: http://bit.ly/2IEnV6r. Featuring RoboToad research conducted by @KatrinaMSwitzer @MisterSavi @Steph_Doucet and me. #3Dprinting

Which ones are RoboToads? Can you tell a 3D-printed #RoboToad from an actual Yellow Toad (Incilius luetkenii)?
(Toad Day photo by @KiirstiO. RoboToads designed by @MisterSavi & @KatrinaMSwitzer supervised by @Steph_Doucet & @DMennill of @UWindsor.)

Robotoad update: Our 2019 robotoads are complete! Thanks @SaviMade for creating these amazingly lifelike 3D-printed animal models.
The #robotoads will hop to Costa Rica next week with Katy, as she begins a new experiment on Neotropical Yellow Toad biology with Stéphanie and I.

Katy has submitted the second manuscript from her dissertation. Congratulations Katy! It is our first RoboToad experiment, created with a great research team: @KatrinaMSwitzer @DMennill @MisterSavi @NShangi & @Steph_Doucet.

"Sexual selection in a tropical toad: Do females toads choose brighter males in a species with rapid colour change?" Our first RoboToad paper was just accepted for publication in the journal Ethology!
Research by @KatrinaMSwitzer and @DMennill @MisterSavi @NShangi @Steph_Doucet.

Our first Mennill Lab meeting of the 2022/23 academic year! We read a draft of @KatrinaMGardner's latest #RoboToad manuscript. A great start to the new school year.

Our latest RoboToad paper was just accepted at J. Herpetology: "Male-male Competition in a Toad with Dynamic Sexual Dichromatism: Males React Similarly to Robotic Models that Vary in Color."
Research @ACGuanacaste by Katrina Gardner, me, & Steph Doucet. Coming soon! 🤖🐸🇨🇷🇨🇦