Behold,Pacific Rim Uprising‘s Glorious New Giant Robots

Pacific Rim bring us the Jaegers , marvelous multi - pilot mecha that it then proceeded to mostly turn into chip over the course of the movie . evidently , that means the sequel ’s go to need some new ones , and now we at last have a good look at the robots joining the Gipsy Avenger in Uprising — and my god are the wonderful .

The tone came through the reveal of some brand name new Bandai action figures revealed at Comic - Con today by Uprising director Steven DeKnight . Here ’s the television that joined the proclamation , narrated by Ellen McLain , the voice of the Jaeger A.I. from the first movie ( and yes , GLaDOS from Portal ):

Within the lore of Pacific Rim , most of the new Jaegers are “ Mark VI ” designs , the latest and peachy word form of the giant robots humanity built to tackle its steady increasing Kaiju problem . Although the first film dabbled with old Jaeger — hero mecha Gipsy Danger was one of the early built — it seems like the new pic is give us the slickest - expect robots humankind has to offer , which mean they reckon much , much sleeker than the mechas of the first motion picture .

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They ’ve still got fantastic names , though , that ’s something that ’s not alter from the first picture . join the Gipsy Avenger ( from the left of the moving picture below , set forth with Gipsy ) is Guardian Bravo , Titan Redeemer , Bracer Phoenix , and Saber Athena :

God , I love Pacific Rim name so much . As well as the fresh video , a novel viral website for the filmalso offers a few more details about the movie , include blueprints for the freshly - give away mechs as well as some of their weapon system , from giant morningstars to electric party whip and plasma katanas . The internet site also sustain that Uprising is fix 10 years after the events of the first film .

Pacific Rim : Uprising is presently gestate to shoot theatre February 23 , 2018 .