In terms of show quality, could we say that this is the Wizard of Super Sentai? Maybe even the SEED Destiny of Sentai?

What is /m/'s general consensus on each of these mecha designers:

http://www.gearsonline.net/designers/

With all these attachment points do you think there's some ground combat variant we haven't seen?

Ok, so you're in a crazy MMO contest.
After beating the second of a tree part chain-quest you get rewarded with any Mecha from any medium you want as long as it was known during the 80's, also, only Mecha that can be piloted (So no megaman or astroboy).

In adition, no two players can have the same Mecha and it's first to come first to serve, also, the Mecha are not balanced, instead they are made so that it resembles the power level and height it had in it's original media. That said, the players who made it before you already claimed:

MechaGodzilla.
Leopardon
Minerva X
Brave Raideen
RX-78 Gundam
Voltron (each part piloted by a different player, but forming Voltron is possible).
All the Valkyries from macross/robotech's first series.
All the Evas.

Consider that you're gonna end up fighting each other.

Stan Lee's Sun Vulcan article

IT'S HAPPENING

After finishing off UC with Victory, I thought I was Gundam'd out. It wasn't overtly bad, in fact it had some really well developed characters and lots of good designs, it just didn't grab me like MSG, Zeta, ZZ, or 00 did so I thought maybe I was just getting tired of Gundam.

Then I decided to re-watch After War Gundam X.

I remembered liking it (it was my third Gundam series, after 0080 and 00) but expected the story to seem weaker after having gone through the UC epic but only a week after finally finishing Victory a couple of episodes at a time I find myself eagerly marathoning AWGX and wishing I had a Gundam Battle Universe style game set in the After War world. This show is everything I like about Gundam rolled up. Why doesn't it get more love?

So what's the deal with this guy? You mean to tell me the Undead games, the Worm invasion, The Agito Incident, The Grongi Games, the Mirror World etc all are caused by his magic?

Yo, /m/. I don't want to spam the board, but what's an Entry-Tier Gundam? When I was younger, I watched a lot of /m/-related stuff. Getter Robo, Ghost in the shell, Robotech, but I skipped over most gundam-related stuff because It didn't seem interesting at the time.
tl;dr; Give me an entry-level gundam series.

Should I read Char's deleted affair? I figure it seems good Char's the lead, it explains wth happened to him after the One Year War, and it's got a minxy little Haman Karn.

Is it worth the read or is it shit?