MECHAPINOY
Mechapinoy is one of the premiere Mecha Anime fan organizations in the Philippines. Its members have joined contests for mecha anime model kits, up to the National and Global Regional (Asia) level. Many of them have won, or have garnered praise for the originality of their entries. Most of Mechapinoy’s efforts are in the Gundam fandom, but Macross, Evangelion, Brave Robots, Mecha Sentai, Transformers and Super Robots (among many, many others) are also within Mechapinoy’s sphere or interests.

ORIGINS
Mechapinoy was first conceived in November 1999, when many of the more active Filipino members of the Gundam Mailing List started to get together. Since the GML was an international list, Mechapinoy’s founding members were advised to form a local Mecha Anime ML: Mechapinoy. It was at first a mailing list (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mechapinoy), but in later years, with more resources at hand, the group eventually put up their own website: www.mechapinoy.net. The ML remains, as the emergency backup for MP, and as a place for those who prefer the ML as a mode of communication and information exchange.