[+Kardboard+]

http://i43.tinypic.com/mm8whz.jpg
http://kotaku.com/5168457/japan-getting-life+sized-standing-gundam
Finally! To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Gundam anime/manga/toy/video game franchise, an 18-meter-tall (59-foot-tall) "life size" Gundam statue will be built in Tokyo this July.YES.

[HappyDorky]

WOW,
will u be able to go in it and control it
hahah,

[AVS_Racing]

lol wtf then there should be a life sized godzilla!!!!!!!!!

[+Kardboard+]

lol wtf then there should be a life sized godzilla!!!!!!!!!
YES. That was exactly what my friend and I are talking about right now...and how they can duke it out.

My money's on the Gundam. :p

[Culture_Vulture]

Duh,
Gundams will blow a hole in that oversized lizard in no time flat.

[hongy]

Watch japan take over the world with their gundams. They're probably mass producing zakus and I type this.

[+Kardboard+]

RS Japan meet. We meet at the foot of the statue. K? K. :p

[cococly]

Love the RX-78-2 ever since I watched any other gundam series.

So this is U.C. 0079 now ;D??

[urrh]

win!
/internet

[+Kardboard+]

Love the RX-78-2 ever since I watched any other gundam series.

So this is U.C. 0079 now ;D??
Yes. Please change your Daylight Saving Time to properly reflect the transfer from the Gregorian calendar to Universal Century. :p

[cococly]

Too bad they are only putting it up for 2 months.

According to U.C. "history book", the RX-78-2 gundam was built in Nov,0079 and was destoried on new year's eve. Yes, that's 2 months...

[+Kardboard+]

wtf it was built in August or September, I'm pretty sure. ahahah

EDIT: Sept. 18, 0079 bwahahhahahah http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/msgundam/rx-78-2.htm

[BoneThug]

wtf

wing zero or ban

[Poonpee]

They should have a Zaku status too !!

[Jer3]

nice! i'll be in japan in july. maybe i can take a photo of this beast.

[Armind]

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/03/giant_gundam_tokyo_odaiba-2_02.jpg

A better picture XD

[6insomnia9]

http://i43.tinypic.com/mm8whz.jpg
http://kotaku.com/5168457/japan-getting-life+sized-standing-gundam
YES.

LOL
SWEET

[cococly]

wtf it was built in August or September, I'm pretty sure. ahahah

EDIT: Sept. 18, 0079 bwahahhahahah http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/msgundam/rx-78-2.htm

Yes, you are right.

E.F. started their counter-offensive in space in Nov.

Personally, I do think that the timeline is just too short.

How could they develope and produce so many GMs and IRONBALLs in such a short time :D

[oinkoinkpig]

I want one in my backyard...

[Grandmaster TSE]

that is so fucking sweet

[TypeRNammer]

wtf

wing zero or ban

if they had wing zero custom, eventually it's wings is gonna poke someone in the eye by accident haha

[6insomnia9]

gn drive pls

[Vansterdam]

holy shit that is EPIC if only we can control it

[monkeywrench]

RX-78 ftw

[+Kardboard+]

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/03/giant_gundam_tokyo_odaiba-2_02.jpg

A better picture XD

Oh crap LOOK AT THEM WORSHIP ahahahah

[hotjoint]

gundam is nice

[asian_speedster]

This is just a cover for them to build a working one to protect earth.

[zuN]

gn drive pls

+1 GN drives so good

[!Yaminashi]

wtf

wing zero or ban

I'll take deathscythe hell please, thanks

[Eatman]

:Dwicked cool!

[stewie]

stupidest thing ive ever seen....

[+Kardboard+]

This is just a cover for them to build a working one to protect earth.

Yeah, to protect Earth from all the tentacles rape the produce in their own country lol

[LsquareD]

I'll take deathscythe hell please, thanks

+1 Deathscythe Hell FTW

They should make it bigger and make it a hotel. Shotty crotch area!

[urrh]

^LOL. there would have to be a lotta sex in that suite for it to smell like a crotch area

[Durrann1984]

i am having orgasm as we speaak.

[pandalove]

THIS IS WHY U CAN"T STAY MAD AT JAPANN

FUCKING INTENNNSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[+Kardboard+]

...

Wow.

And I thought I was an otaku ahahah :lol

[twitchyzero]

+1 for godzilla statue

[BoneThug]

I'll take deathscythe hell please, thanks

silly draft. you cant actually see the DSH. too stealthy. low flying aircraft would keep flying into it cause it wouldnt come up on radar. people would start thinking its haunted.

[shenmecar]

*ZAFT salutes*

[+Kardboard+]

*ZAFT salutes*

Silly child, it's

SIEG ZEON.

[monkeywrench]

ORE WA GUNDAMU!!

[keifun]

I can picture it now:

Japan is secretly mass producing mobile suits to take over the world. I can see a whole army of mobile suits coming in to our shores.:D

[NimbeeTT]

^ Lmao, that'd be a dream come true for me <3

omfg, so freaaaaaking EPIC. I cant believe it.. Why are Japanese people so much cooler than the rest of the world?

[+Kardboard+]

omfg, so freaaaaaking EPIC. I cant believe it.. Why are Japanese people so much cooler than the rest of the world?
Only offset by how perverted they can be. -_-

[BoneThug]

^ Lmao, that'd be a dream come true for me <3

omfg, so freaaaaaking EPIC. I cant believe it.. Why are Japanese people so much cooler than the rest of the world?

lol dont be confused. there is nothing gayer then a 30 foot statue dedicated to a 20 year old cartoon. its just we like it anyway.

[+Kardboard+]

Update. It has...legs. LOL

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/9697/2009may1504140618977451.jpg (http://img195.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2009may1504140618977451.jpg)
http://www.dannychoo.com/detail/mac/eng/image/18977/Gundam+Project.html

[pandalove]

lol dont be confused. there is nothing gayer then a 30 foot statue dedicated to a 20 year old cartoon. its just we like it anyway.

theres nothing gayer then to build a statue of stone in a shape of a man

[seakrait]

sweet. i'm going to be in japan in early august.

[Tim Budong]

sweet. i'm going to be in japan in early august.

u must post pics for Vancouver

i want life size psycho gundam
or even life size zeta

but nothing beats the GP03D...mammoth it is!

[Chopstick]

...they will need some giant scissors to cut the pieces away from the a,b,c,d and g kits

then they will need to snap them together with trucks, and file off the pieces where they were cut off

then they will finally need a huge fine black marker to mark the outlines, and a really big pond to put the stickers with

lots of work

lol and i found this:

http://yoyo.its.monash.edu.au/~ayanami/Sakura.Romesh.Blog/Images/Janitor_Gundam.jpg

[monkeywrench]

^ROFL nice find, i found some similar ones before too, theres also some stop motion films of gundams dancing the haruhi dance

[+Kardboard+]

^ROFL nice find, i found some similar ones before too, theres also some stop motion films of gundams dancing the haruhi dance
Well, where the frak are these then? :p

[BNR32_Coupe]

do you think in the early 80's, people that saw gundam thought space travel and gundam suits would be a definite possibility around 2010?

[secstasy]

HOLY SHIT,
AWESOME LMAO

[MelonBoy]

dam its only a matter of time before japan makes a real ussuable gundam >.<.. i hope i dont die before then XD.

[XplodeTheBass]

I bet there jus buildin this as a defence incase america attacks again XD

[Vancouver240sx]

lol wtf then there should be a life sized godzilla!!!!!!!!!

http://image.motortrend.com/f/new-cars/2009-nissan-gt-r-awesome-but-no-porsche-911-gt2/9348558+cr1+re0+ar1/2009-nissan-gt-r.jpg

rich

[hk20000]

^ ROFL. I like. I will be taking a picture of that soon when I'm in town :D

[_Hotsauce_]

Not life sized, but a cool statue either way... Found this guy in Rotterdam guarding a skate-park in the middle of the street

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3642/3547586386_a2d896df6b_b.jpg

[Inaii]

RS Japan meet. We meet at the foot of the statue. K? K. :p

Which foot? :)

[+Kardboard+]

The correct one.

[asian_speedster]

The correct one.

the "right" one right?

[Sodium]

Hey no touching! I just waxed that!!

[scheng924]

sweet. i'm going to be in japan in early august.

PLEASE bring back lots of pictures...
damn...

GN Drives +1.. whoever said that earlier

[+Kardboard+]

Hey no touching! I just waxed that!!

Wtfrak are you smoking? Cuz that made no sense at all. -_-

You need more references to Minovsky particles and luna titanium alloys in your post.

[Tim Budong]

so heres an update

http://sunshine-report.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ls-gundam/ls-gundam-4.jpg
http://sunshine-report.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ls-gundam/ls-gundam-1.jpg
http://sunshine-report.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ls-gundam/ls-gundam-3
http://sunshine-report.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ls-gundam/ls-gundam-5.jpg

source: http://sunshine-report.com/2009/05/tokyos-life-sized-gundam-update/

i am very...tempted to fly there next month just to see this massive thing

[+Kardboard+]

It looks like they're building it in some dude's backyard HAHAHAHAH :lol

Hell, I'll fly there too. RS Geek Meet...wow. Just wow. It's like a childhood (OK, not-so-childhood) dream coming true.

[Tim Budong]

this is childhood come true
too bad i cant pilot it
but i would love to pilot hyaku shiki or zeta

[tonyvu]

that is fucking awesome

[TOPEC]

can it move?

[+Kardboard+]

^ No, just a statue.

Moar pix

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/photospecials/graph/gundam/

[zuN]

"The statue will be on display to the public at the park from July 11 to August 31, free of charge." Damn i wonder how much they're gonna charge after August.

[turbos86]

^ No, after Aug 31st, it'll be removed from the park.

[+Kardboard+]

^ No, after Aug 31st, it'll be removed from the park.
...and shipped to my front yard. :lol

[Timpo]

JDM

[!Tigger]

WIN! hahaha i would go to japan to see this

[jlo mein]

OMG so awesome!!! and I'm going to be in Tokyo in July too!!! I'll be sure to post pics on RS when I get back. Is there going to be a special event on July 11 when it opens?

[Mananetwork]

Update from yesterday
http://www.dannychoo.com/detail/mac/eng/image/20005/Odaiba+Gundam.html

http://img.dannychoo.com/fauna/userimg/large/2009Jun07045548_20005.jpg

http://img.dannychoo.com/blogimg/200906_gundam_progress2.jpg

[Your_Mother_]

Nice!

[Carl Johnson]

nice! love to see how it looks when it's done

[+Kardboard+]

I might actually be there this summer now... :eek:

[kumbo1]

So you are happy that there is some goofy anime robot thing being built?

[+Kardboard+]

Why, yes! Your powers of deduction astound me.

:)

[Tim Budong]

OMFG the gundam is complete

http://punynari.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/assembled-life-sized-rx78-gundam-part-1/

http://i44.tinypic.com/2z5u491.jpg%5B/IMG%5D

[+Kardboard+]

Dhfhakblajkhvhuqhfnwbwvhfksg!!!!

Need money. NAO. Need to go.

[Ronin]

WOW,
will u be able to go in it and control it
hahah,

Only if you are a Newtype.

[+Kardboard+]

^

YO DAWG! We heard that you like psychoframes, so we put a psychoframe in your psychoframe, so you can Newtype while you Newtype!

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/3753/avatar211434625904.jpg (http://img230.imageshack.us/my.php?image=avatar211434625904.jpg)

/GundamNerd

[shenmecar]

^

HAHAHAHAHA

[you]

omfg how i wish i could pilot that thing

[kumbo1]

OMFG the gundam is complete

http://punynari.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/assembled-life-sized-rx78-gundam-part-1/

http://i44.tinypic.com/2z5u491.jpg%5B/IMG%5D

Looks like that power rangers robot hahah

[+Kardboard+]

Looks like that power rangers robot hahah
You've gotta be fucking kidding me. Power fucking Rangers?!?!?!?! Even Brown people know their Gundam shit.

...

...

OK, that was uncalled for, I'M SORRY. :(

Tra la la la :)

[+Kardboard+]

UPDATE: Moar pics. I'm....floored. Just...wow.

http://mainichi.jp/enta/mantan/graph/anime/20090609_2/index.html

http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/4012/gundam01.jpg (http://img191.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gundam01.jpg)
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/1241/20090610095856.jpg (http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?image=20090610095856.jpg)
http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/1002/20090610095916.jpg (http://img523.imageshack.us/my.php?image=20090610095916.jpg)
http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/5192/20090610095930.jpg (http://img44.imageshack.us/my.php?image=20090610095930.jpg)
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/3799/20090610095943.jpg (http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?image=20090610095943.jpg)

[Gary Oak]

UPDATE:
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/3799/20090610095943.jpg

awesome picture

[dark0821]

OMFG>.. i should be going to japan hahaha.. >.>

why not freedom? =.=

[+Kardboard+]

OMFG>.. i should be going to japan hahaha.. >.>

why not freedom? =.=
Has Freedom been around for 30 years, changed the face of anime and Japanese sci-fi?

No?

I thought so. :) This is for the 30th anniversary of Gundam, nothing more fitting than the original RX-78-2 going up. Besides, that was the only one back then ahaha (onscreen, anyway)

[Tim Budong]

the original series in my mind..still one of the best

0079 all the way to zeta
these two..
FUCKING GOODDDD
they should put up Char's Zaku next to it.
or out beat the gundam and put Zeong

[+Kardboard+]

Omg headless RX78 'last shot' pose?!?! Yes please.

[6insomnia9]

Shits balllniggggggggg

[oinkoinkpig]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1TKh8TyR1E

[StylinRed]

sweeet does it have a cavity for a pilot? thatd be sweet to sit in it especially if they had a simulator set up in it ;)

[you]

damm this gundam is so hot

any1 here have the specs??..like how tall it is and stuff

[jlo mein]

Can't wait to see it in person. Debating if I should go during the day or at night. More detail and easier to see during the day, but lit up at night it should be awesome for photos. Is there going to be a grand unveiling event or party?

[+Kardboard+]

Can't believe no one has posted this yet:

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/3752/200906gundamlit16824139.jpg (http://img211.imageshack.us/i/200906gundamlit16824139.jpg/)

OH. EM. GEEEEEEEEEE X_____X

[zuN]

http://img.dannychoo.com/fauna/userimg/large/2009Jun13011729_20239.jpg

i see lights

[+Kardboard+]

JtdTJGDMTJA.TGPDMTEGDTAJMGDTGDMJjadmtjdAGJATDGJMTJ Akgdmj!!!!!!!!!!

[Sodium]

http://www.pinktentacle.com/images/gundam_11.jpg

http://www.pinktentacle.com/images/gundam_2.jpg

http://www.pinktentacle.com/images/gundam_6.jpg

[kuri]

Holy ****! Those night pics are sweet :D

[scheng924]

damn.. it's like my gundam fantasy came true...

[kuri]

Did anyone notice that its head position changed in a few of the pics? Does that mean it moves???

[+Kardboard+]

http://img.dannychoo.com/fauna/userimg/large/2009Jun13225820_20261.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykamCJsKFBI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dannychoo.com%2Fdetail%2Fmac %2Feng%2Fimage%2F20261%2FRX-78.html&feature=player_embedded

Did anyone notice that its head position changed in a few of the pics? Does that mean it moves???

Yes, it moves. I just found out. ;LAKJS:SLDBKHAS:LKhfdlkashgs;lkdfhsclb;khwe;liu

[hongy]

Watch them mass produce this shit

[Jer3]

another video.
nl-Si9M9sYY&feature=channel_page

[Armind]

Awesome! :D

[+Kardboard+]

STILL JIZZING MAH PANTS.

And I can't go this summer. Ugh. T_T

And somebody kick hk20000 in the balls when he comes back because he got lost and couldn't find it. :D

[jlo mein]

And somebody kick hk20000 in the balls when he comes back because he got lost and couldn't find it. :D

WTF...can't you just walk up to people in Odaiba and be like "Gundam...doko?" LOL

[Mananetwork]

All we need now is skynet to hack in and take over!

End of the world!

[urrh]

http://www.pinktentacle.com/images/gundam_2.jpg

http://www.pinktentacle.com/images/gundam_6.jpg
i would love to have wallpaper sized versions of these

[+Kardboard+]

WTF...can't you just walk up to people in Odaiba and be like "Gundam...doko?" LOL
ROFL I dunno, I bug him later. hahaha

"Ima wa, Gundam? Doko?" And it's like peeking out above the buildings ahhaahha :lol

[Mananetwork]

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2009/06/custom_1245861559594_g1.jpg

http://gizmodo.com/5302092/preeeeetty-pink-gundam-confuses-my-masculinity

[+Kardboard+]

^ Oh yeah...

http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/g/gf13-050nsw.jpg

[Jer3]

so speaking of giant robots...kobe will be getting a 1/1 scale tetsujin

http://img.dannychoo.com/fauna/userimg/large/2009Jun24193610_20742.jpg

Tokyo gets the 1/1 scale Gundam and Kobe gets the 1/1 scale Tetsujin 28.
Tetsujin will be 18 meters tall and is in the middle of construction.
Construction cost of the monument is 135,000,000 yen (1.4 million USD) with 45,000,000 yen of that being paid by the city of Kobe. The rest is being paid by donations and businesses.

The monument will be completed on the 4th of October and you will be able to see it in Shin-Nagata Kobe.


http://www.dannychoo.com/detail/mac/eng/image/20742/Kobe+Tetsujin.html

[+Kardboard+]

Yeah, I saw that! Very nice.

[Psykopathik]

Girlie Gundam LOOOOLLL

[Vansterdam]

omg so epic

[Mananetwork]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8P33ohPhXc

http://gizmodo.com/5303735/japan-building-another-gigantic-robot-tetsujin

[6insomnia9]

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/07/090709-gundam-01.jpg

[thumper]

Girlie Gundam LOOOOLLL

sailor moon gundam no less!!!

[+Kardboard+]

The sailor Gundam is Nobel Gundam from Mobile Fighter G Gundam. Weird-ass mobile suits, crazy people, but one helluva good show. :p

[hk20000]

OK I was driving a car and people who co-rented that car with me was super unhappy about me attempting to go see gundam to begin with. And they were mad. I went to the Odaiba island and in a confusion I turned onto the bridge that brings me back to Tokyo away from Odaiba.

It was a situation.....I had a feeling that even if I did get there I wouldn't be able to enjoy myself anyway...

[+Kardboard+]

That sucks, man. :(

[6insomnia9]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kslash/3704704282/?likes_hd=1

[dinfung]

[QUOTE=Jer3;6484056]so speaking of giant robots...kobe will be getting a 1/1 scale tetsujin

http://img.dannychoo.com/fauna/userimg/large/2009Jun24193610_20742.jpg

Sweet:thumbsup:

[6insomnia9]

What is that ... Lmao

[+Kardboard+]

The father of all Japanese super robots, that's what.

[Mananetwork]

This Is What A Gundam Wedding Looks Like

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2009/08/500x_DSC_4219.JPG

http://kotaku.com/5345562/this-is-what-a-gundam-wedding-looks-like

[hongy]

the girl on the far right looks so unhappy hahaha