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In China, copyright violations and giant robots go hand in hand, and apparently one of the best birthday gifts you can receive is a starring role in this creepy knockoff of the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED.
With the cast from Monsters Vs. Aliens cast as the villains, and the creepy birthday boy piloting the giant Gundam mechanized armor, it’s so cheesy that the MPAA are likely to turn a blind eye to their unlawful use of these character likenesses *cough**yeah right**cough*
–via Kotaku
Chengdu Guosetianxiang is an amusement park in Sichuan, China. The park has erected an enormous and nearly life-size Gundam model. Well, presumably it’s just a model and not a functional Gundam. It’s 49 feet tall, which is 10 feet shorter than Japan’s.
Link via Nerd Bastards | Photo: Photobucket user phoenixhth
The Gundam Building in Tokyo is deliberately designed to look like a Gundam. It houses the Aoyama Technical College. Makoto Sei Watanabe built it in 1990 as a vision of what he saw as the future of urban architecture.
Link via DVICE | Photo by the architect
You know those plastic frames that model pieces come attached to in a kit? Apparently they’re called “runners”. These guys took a bunch of them left over from Gundam model kits and turned them into a 10-foot tall statue of a RX-78 Gundam. The project took 250 hours to complete. At the link, you can view more pictures, including some that show the construction process.
Link (in Japanese) via technabob | Photo: Production Gandamuato
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To celebrate the anime Mobile Suit Gundam’s 30th anniversary, Japan is building a life-size RX-78-2 Gundam in Odaiba, Tokyo. From Anime News Network:
The statue will be free for viewing, but it will only stay up for two months. It will be built with fiberglass-reinforced plastic over a steel frame so it can be disassembled later. The head unit will move and the body will have 50 points that will emit light. Mist can shoot forth from 14 locations on the body. The park is just four trains stops from Tokyo Big Sight, the home of the Comic Market dojinshi convention and the Gundam Big Expo convention that will be held from August 21 to August 23. Bandai NAMCO Group is still determining what to do with the statue after its allotted two months in the park are over.
As you can see, the mecha is almost done. Just in time to deal with the shenanigans over at North Korea, too! Moé passion blog has more pics: Link
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