The giant Gundam has a new home in Shizuoka City and was official unveiled and opened up to the public recently. Almost 1 million people are expected to visit the 1/1 scale , 18 metre, 35 tonne robot which will be on display in the city until March 27, 2011.
From Tokyo to Shizuoka
The same Gundam was on display in Tokyo last year and attracted 4 million visitors but now has new weaponry in the form of a beam saber. Shizuoka is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan and is located to the south west of Tokyo, it is also the city where Gundam plastic models or ‘Gunpla’ are made which are popular with Gundam fans in Japan and worldwide. I found an awesome time-lapse video of the Gundam that I have embedded below.
If you could have a life-sized Gundam?
Watching this video and writing this post actually had me thinking which of my current Gundam figures I’d want to be life sized. Without much thought I decided I’d want a life-sized Gundam Double O mainly because it’s the first gunpla I acquired and it spends most of the time next to my mouse on my desk at home! To all the Gundam fans – which Gundam would you want to see life-sized and displayed in your, um, yard? Even if you not a Gundam fan check out my post about my anime figure collection and choose one from there.
Video first seen thanks to @rickygraham
Giant Gundam image and info via Mainichi
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I think the 1/1 scale is cool but I wanted to see the beam saber do more, I mean it’s not ment to be white!! If i had to pick it would be the Infinite Justice! It’z awesome!!
I was also wondering how come it is white and the mockups showed it glowing -_-
When will they bring this thing to Sendai. Actually, Gundam should do a tour of Japan.
if that Gundam goes to Sendai or even a tour of Japan it better be when I am there!
heavy arms or deathscythe……. [anime]