>>10068614>>it's a racecar?Kinda, yeah. The AALIYAH model NEXT is built for speed and has stripped down armor stats in exchange. It's a glass-cannon type build that's intended to dance circles around slower ACs while chipping away at them or doing hit-and-run tactics with a blade. the core is built to be as aerodynamic as possible, especially since that's where the main boosters are located.
>pointy knees for some reasonAgain, the point is to be aerodynamic - those knees house part of the legs' Primal Armor system, with the rectifiers protruding out directly behind those spikes; since the rectifiers need to be exposed to function, the housing had to be designed to make air bend around them - hence the pointiness.
>actually everything is pointySame reasons as above - this thing is designed to be a bullet, and was one of the fastest ACs in the fourth generation games until the LAHIRE (which is equally pointy and based on the AALIYAH's 00-2B prototype) and X-Sobrero (which is basically a stick figure slapped onto a Flying Wing) were introduced; of the three designs, the AALIYAH is the most stable, being capable of taking more direct hits in situations where dodging isn't an option and being able to carry heavier weapon loadouts, which makes it superior to the other two despite being an outdated model by then - there's a reason some of the hardest fights in both games are against guys using this frame, especially against the dude who pilots this specific AALIYAH.
>is this a toy or a weapon?It's based on a game design. The mech in the game was designed to serve a function, and the toy is faithful to the in-game appearance.
>>10068822>no. and these features sound more practical in-game than it does as a toyNo shit, but the game came first - this toy is 16 years in the making. People bitch and moan here about toys being accurate to the source material, and in this case, the toy is VERY accurate, right down to all of the panels that open up.
