Giant RX-78-2 Gundam Night-Time Ops
- Categories: Figures, News
- Date: Jun 14, 2009 04:52 JST
- Tags: Anniversaries, Gundam, Marketing, Mecha, Otaku, Statues, Video Gallery
As per its design specification, the titanic 1:1 Gundam recently erected in Odaiba has had its lights activated, making for an astonishing night-time spectacle, images of which can be seen below.
Several videos of the now fully completed life-sized Gundam have also gone online in recent days as the number of visitors to the site grows in anticipation of the planned July 11 unveiling, and these too make interesting viewing.
Its head has begun moving. All that remains is for the smoke to be added.
These two videos are particularly high-quality and do a good job of showing the magnificent juggernaut in all its mecha glory, much to the appreciation of would-be tourists…
This first one is the better of the pair, even including an appropriate soundtrack to the visuals, as well as giving both day and dusk views of the Gundam (the shooter apparently spent several hours worshiping at the site):
This much shorter video is less grand, but does give a good view of the final construction work being applied:
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it's just a giant model figure or a statue like statue of liberty in USA, can never moved...
may be we should name it statue of otaku or statue of wars!
haha even buddist dudes came to marvel at it
with very nice looking zoom lense!
I mean lens
dude.. you do know that the Statue of Liberty can be moved/ dismantled if need be right?...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty
it was really beautiful, it literally made me tear up...this is like one of the things we are suppose to be thankful enough living right now, next hopefully are the fully capable mobile suits....
Gundamn sexy.
So awesome.
True ^_^
woooooo °O° awesome colors in the night.
This is a great innovation :D
i'll have it in my yard...
Awesome.
I hope the day when we'll see real Mecha in action, is near ^__^
Near in a relative sense from the beginning of time, maybe.
Doubt not the power of Japanese mecha engineers, unbeliever!
i will lol very hard when it turns out that is a real gundam!
Damn who here wants it to walk off on the last day. Can you imagine it... Godliz... err Gundamzilla
i bet it'll be able to move it's joints, except it's feet by the aforementioned date.
This is the crisis and they make a big things like this... lol joking SO AWESOME and F--K crisis
"censored by equality now"
Oh wow. I appreciated it before, but that beautiful sunset picture gives it a whole new quality. It's really remarkable..
It's beautiful...
I came.
That has the most inefficient pair of workers I've ever seen. One standing around doing nothing and the other taking insane care with the PACKAGING MATERIAL?
Nice gundam though, looks bigger than I expected it to be.. or the the rather small japanese people walking around there just make it look that tall :)
WANT!!!
parfecto >..<
After japan makes this fully functional, America will need to turn the statue of liberty into a functioning mecha so that they can battle each other.
Gundam vs Lady Liberty?
FUND IT!
This could be a very sexy doujinshi.
reminds me of G Gundam's Neo America's Liberty Cannon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykamCJsKFBI
Gundam vs Liberty Prime.
Oh come on, everyone know the Statue of Liberty is a giant laser cannon...
She's also french so she will just surrender without using her firin' her lazor.
It's actually a Mega Maid, ready to go from suck to blow.
Good God sir, you win!
GundamXLady Liberty rule 34, let it happen.
GundamXLady Liberty rule 35, it WILL happen.
There's a mini statue of liberty at Odaiba already, actually.
did it get bigger?
While Japan builds RX-78-2, North Korea is enriching uranium.
The truth is North Korea hastily producing uranium because of fear that Japan Gundam might move and retaliate.
Odaiba Gundam. Dorobou Kozou. Hasshin suru!
I wonder what they're going to do with it.
What's with the red goatee?
Deploy GN Field
It's a trademark, nothing more.
Nice. Now its only a matter of time before they make a fully fuctioning one. Watch out N. Korea!!
For a moment I though I saw Dailailama walking in the last pic...
surprised no one else has commented on it
It's official now - the RX-78 has Buddha's approval.
Oh my Haruhi. Its......its.....its beautiful.
Now I really wanna go there if I can just to see that!
so good that even a monk rock up with dslr camera.
they should have made an actual cockpit and let people get inside and sit.
I'd gladly pay 500-1000$ for 3 minutes inside.
Maybe it does, they're not showing it publicly yet for security reasons.
yeah cuz who knows...what if someone turned it on stepped on the pedal?
All the pics are just awesome. Fucking awesome, you can't even find words for it.
(.T_T.)
It's cool,huge,beautiful,awesome,marvelous,epic...(complete this list)
fabulous.
It seems japan finally has a counter against Godzilla attacks.
All we need is an Amuro and everything will be done :3
NEEDS A DECENT AMURO RAY COSPLAYER.
NEEDS TORU FURUYA
I think Char Aznabel will be a BETTER candidate.
If he ever had the chance to get into the Gundam... oh, forget about it, he was being beaten senseless by Amuro.
Fucking sexy~
You will NEVER see awesome shit like that in the US!
Hopefuly the U.S.A makes a Flag
Guess you haven't seen the Statue of Liberty.
The statue of liberty was a gift from France so technically the US can't take credit for her.
T_T I shed manly tears
It's alive~!!
The 5th picture made me shed tears when seeing it, this is GUNDAM !!
Madness ? This is GUNDAM !!!
I'm not a Gundam fan but now I wish I was one...
scary
them birds better not make a nest on it >:O
the birds better not be shitting on it!
Right now is Bandai with Gundam...I hope it to be Konami with REX and RAY the next time XD
Keep dreaming.
Now THAT, is what i call a GUNDAM!
It's Gundam supreme!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBuzODqOYo4
Do you mean this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd02MWQMQrU ?
Hawt Gundam is Hawt..
Soon there will be war in the Future and Falling Huge Colony from the sky
i totally lost it. WOW!IORI@NTON#T Completely unbelievably good.
Oh My Gundam...
(First video, 3:36, Buddhism supports Gundam)
Last pic.: Gundam Worshipper?
Looks all powered up and ready to take over the world!
:O. This single gundam could trigger an arms race between superpowers, bringing in Zakus, Minosvky particle research and a masked man in a cape.
Let me pilot it!
America should step up to the plate and built life size Transformer... that transforms! O_o
or technically Transformer came from Japan. Again. American cant take credit for it. They could make M.A.S.K?
Keep up these articles Quen. Positive stuff about the otaku culture that gives everyone that warm, tingly feeling, yet in a manly way.
I swear, that thing looks like it can move...
I'll do my best.
It seems it's head can move and I believe it's arms is on the way. Who knows when will the legs active???
That monk made my day. Actually I kinda felt the pacifism and peace message of all Gundam series have been completed with that one shot. Even it's a coincidence it looks awesome. And lastly; the lights rock and sunset shot is like from directly out of anime, totally amazing.
Last time, there was a Gaijin giving the Peace sign on the last pic; Now we have an Otaku monk holding a camera with straps..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McWCK-OVOvw
what's the point of having many light
it's like saying to the enemy that "IM HERE! IM HERE!"
Did you even watch the show? Besides that, Gundam's colors already anounce it in open space, but we have to thank Bandai for it, since Tomino wanted it to look more real.
I need to make my pilgrimage! The Eight Fold Path doesn't seem to hard to accomplish anymore!
it will need an emo kid to pilot it and has the guts to go to North Korea.
Emo kids with guts? For that you need a Bright Noah to slap them into MANLINESS.
N.Korea may have nukes... but Japan has a Gundam. They SAY only its head moves, but I wouldnt' be overly surprised if countries start seeing some gundam pwning everything the next time a war comes along.
This gundam just needs four of these. 20ft x 6ft (20ft x 24ft)(6m x 7.3m). 40years at 0.8 Megawatts.
http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news-toshiba-micro-nuclear-12.17b.html
Should take 33-40% of its overall mass.
They should also add gundam wings doing 2 Megawatts each solar panels.
by 2030 it can have a space solar to laser too.
http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/933/
what i wouldnt do for some of that ghostbusters ooze gunk that they used to bring the statue of liberty to life..
Also we have to play "Tobe! Gundam" to make it move.
For a secound I thought the guy in the last pic was a Lala cosplayer.
WTF even the monk have a better cam than me
No one will ever says that gundam is sexy and cute anymore when they`re equipped with vulcan cannon and nuclear warhead in their backpack and ACTUALLY gunning your house and bombing your city.....
Anyone here will be gladly die in front of their adored gundam for a reason entirely wrong? :P
If japan really can make gundam move, even just in ground (dont talk about flying gundam yet), then all country in asia pacific would really be alerted, and gundam can be one of many unknown yet factor of world war 3...
That probably won't happen not before skynet becomes selfware and uses usa robotic army to terminate us. I heard ps3 can just power up by it self even when you think it was off.
I present to you RX-78-GP02A: http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/0083/rx-78gp02a.htm . Equipped with a nuclear missile bazooka and everything needed to resist it's blast.
My love for gundam has reach 9999%
welcome gundamism. we even have a monk to headspear our campaign.
cool, now time to shoot down those korean missiles lol
*Imagining*
*Giant gundam walking* *BOOM... BOOM... BOOM...(Of course it should weigh very)*
*falling down* *Haha!! I told you LOL *
That's no Eva, boy! No Eva!
that's is so beautiful~
and now to make it move >.<
hope it stay still...
and wont move...
cuz when it move...
a new era of war shall begin...
XD