I... tried... mounting the Entry Plug on an angle. However, interesting things happened as a result: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1956/43384600330_ca509848b8_o.png As you can see, even using Rebuild's 80m Unit-01, both the 12m and 20m Entry Plugs don't just go *over* the location of the Core, they ...

One thing that has personally confounded me for some time now has been the exact size of the Entry Plug. Much like the Evangelions themselves, they too seem to shift in size depending on what Anno needed for a particular shot. Sometimes they seem to be roughly 10 meters in length, the next 20 meters...