Giant 18M Tetsujin 28 Statue Nears Completion
- Categories: Anime Figures, News
- Date: Jun 28, 2009 15:20 JST
- Tags: Kobe, Marketing, Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Statues, Tetsujin 28, Tourism, Video Gallery
Mitsuteru Yokoyama’s Tetsujin 28-gō (鉄人28号, Iron Man #28, usually known in the US as Gigantor) is set to be permanently immortalised in Kobe as a 18m life size statue, and is nearing completion.
The statue, which will have it’s final base at Wakamatsu Park, was planned to be finished in August, but has now been pushed back to the end of September, with its official unveiling is due in October.
It can be seen in more detail below:
Unlike Bandai’s by now exceedingly famous RX-78 life size Gundam at Odaiba, the Tetsujin 28 is intended to commemorate the revitalision of Kobe, after the 1995 earthquake that nearly destroyed the city. As such, the statue’s main construction site is at Nagata Ward, the place hardest hit by the quake, though now fully recovered.
Costing some 135 million yen, it was also chosen as a memorial to Yokoyama-sensei himself, as a noted mangaka and one of Kobe’s most famous sons.
Partly funded by the city (who paid around 45M yen), the rest was garnered from sales of “Tetsujin Curry”. Unlike the Bandai’s Gundam, this statue cannot be moved, and so it will be a permanent feature.
Doubtless it is hoped that as a stimulus to tourism the Iron Man will more than recoup the investment…
Via the Kobe Shimbun.
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So japan is preparing for war afterall
giant robots everywhere!!!!
Japan should have it's own wonders now for the record. All we need now is some random magician char that can turn these statues... ALIVE!
japan should make an arcology* of the SDF-1 Macross
*enormous habitats (hyperstructures) of extremely high human population density. These largely hypothetical structures, called "arcologies," would contain a variety of residential and commercial facilities and minimize individual human environmental impact. They are often portrayed as self-contained or economically self-sufficient.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcologies
Rxの- 78から2対鉄人！
月にタイタンのバトルが始まる！
Or something like that :P
wth are you talking about?
poor gramma
uhh i wish they will make a GP-03 Dendrobium stamen and orchis!!!
This one looks old school but still good i wonder when will japan make them for mass destruction
next Great Mazinger,Combattler V,Astro Boy,a Zaku special,a nuclear-powered Giant Robo...or even Space Battleship Yamato or SDF Macross for their battleships.War is coming...
WHERE'S MAZINGER Z?!!!
Here, in the prefecture of Taragona (Outermost Western Japan):
http://ceo.upc.es/extras/eventos/mazinger/mazinger.htm
Where is my Mazinger statue, Japan?
Oh right.
IT'S IN FUCKING SPAIN.
Who wants to see rx-78-2 and gigantor beat the crap out of each other?the winner gets to fight godzilla
godzilla will be no match for the both of them.
THIS WILL CATCH THE NUCLEAR WEAPON THAT WILL BE LAUNCHED BY KOREA TO JAPAN!
COOL.............
But EVA is still the BEST !!!!
sheesh....still a kid.Space Runaway Ideon still holds the great casualty record in anime history.
First the giant gundams.Then, manga museums.Next, a giant Tetsujin robot?!
Why Japan wasted all the government money to built some characters from some manga? Yea,some said as a momentum from famous manga artist,blablabla.Why not then built gaint Astro Boy or Son Goku then. They famous.
Most they get those money from selling mangas,animes, some jobs(liked maid cafe) ect to worldwide.
I dunno, they have creative ideas on money making.
Ask them then.
It's a conspiracy i tell you!!! They are really operational when WWIII will break!
QTF lol.
Japan is secretly building up their military power. :P
Just wait a few Months and America will replace their Statue of Freedom with a supersized Transformer in cooperation with Hasbro and the U.S. Army.
Maybe in a few years they will carve up the moon to look like a death star.
That would be great. People could point to it and finally say "that's no moon."
But in the meantime, check this out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(moon)
Hey its only fair
Gi-joe will have a movie.
Gi-joe and his transformers?
They already shown the Transformers movie.
I know it is the classic original 28, but itn's there a cooler new design of the 28?
the same reason they used old Ichigo, Nigo, and V3 costume instead of the remake ones in the upcoming Kamen Rider Decade movie...
fanservice for the old fans...
Well, there's 28 FX:
http://miotd.com/2009/01/01/tetsujin-28-tetsujin-28-fx-and-the-original-tetsujin-28-gigantor/
Yea I actually liked the new designs better. The Black Ox looks freaking badass.
Nostalgic memories :3 Man will never forget these kinds of stuff.
shhhh its a secret defens against those disgusting feminazis and that midget korean comie
... why???
This just doesn't look as cool as the gundam...
it's quite old school, that tetsujin is cool. however I prefer Gundam
I guess it's only old mechafags who will get how sexy that metal is
It looks like an egg.
don't be a faggot.
I'll fap to that scrap metal.
Why? because that my friend is like the Grandaddy of all Large mechas
It looks more awesome than Gundam. Go back to your modern mecha shit. I prefer old school Chogokin
GIGANTOR!!
*tears*
What fond memories you bring... for you and Astro Boy.. were the ones to change my young life...leading me down this path to which I follow now...
Animé (and all forms of it)
Thank You!
aand by 2015, Japan's Tourist spot will consist of giant robots statues...
that will be fucking awesome. wait for it.. Legendary.
By 2015, who says that they'll just be statues?
Can we get a life size Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann next?
Isn't Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann larger than the earth?
Larger than the entire milky way galaxy actually.
it's impossible to make a 1:1 scale of that in Earth.
Sorry, It has to be more then 20 years till it has a popularty to get a Statue.
Need Bismark to troll those Saber RIder fans
Evangelion isn't 20 years old and many people are wanting a statue of it.
Well they might as well make Statues of every Robot that had a TV show put them all in Display at a Theme part just to make money.
but i doubt dat disney will agree to that idea since it's not their own franchise.
Sarcasm fail? Or is mine failing?
There is a long list of Super Robot and Robot shows that should get a statue.
Nowadays kids only know Gundam seed or gurren lagann or naruto, etc.
They dont know mazinger z or testujin 28, or others.
they're just morons, shitheads
they dont know the difference between "classic" and "short-term popularity"
Eurofag spotted.
But, yeah, Goldorak would be an awesome statue.
And I want a life-size Arcadia ;_;
tsss only in france ! Mazinger is actually more famous.
gundam is a classic right?
Grendizer,sorry...
Goldorak is most famous...
Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann holding earth in it's hands. O_O That be awesome!!!
Still no sign of Evangelion?
Was about to say that =/
japan is rich...
i wish china is rich too, so they dun make those... mistakes?
Yea they are rich.
what ever happen to "japan will go poor without ergoe" XD that shit doesn't run japan just the japanese okatu community.
apparently there is still part of the otaku participation here <_< if not consumerism in connection and that eroge is only a part of the consumer products that ero otakus if not otakus also buy so getting that out your limited with manga and anime [both ero and non-ero] (which sooner or later will too be removed seeing how things goes with the eroge community)
The Evas isn't too many tall for a statue?
it is not necessary 1:1 scale...
lol, competition.
*Statue Gundam vs giant 18M Tetsujin*
for me, Gundam es better, because have good form
but this.....classic mecha anime O_O...type mazindac....oldes O_O;
the gundam is way better than tetsujin however tetsujin is quite nostalgic. but gundam is better overall
The Japanese are getting ready for the future of war
with robots that dont move or barely move
take another look at the Gundam statue leg joints...
Irony detection fail.
Exactly. The army of giant robots they're keeping hidden from the public, well it's just not hidden anymore. If you want to hide something put in the open approach?
I don't think they're quite as advanced as that, yet. This one has its fingers welded shut; the Gundam statue is made mostly of plastic -- not very practical for a "real" fighting robot.
However, the JSDF+MITI+various companies probably are developing the technology to make "real" fighting mecha.
The statues are just to get people used to seeing them, and not be frightened when the "real thing" shows up.
the plastic used in the Gundam will materialize into phase-shift armor + gundanium alloy. XP
It worked for Daimajin and Golion...
My mom told me about Gigantor when I was young, I really didn't care because I didn't know what it was. Today he's one of my favorite giant robots. I love his retro design, hated those redesigns from the 80s, but even today he's pretty bad ass.
So....Japan is building another robot of mass destruction...Wish I could own one too.
These statues are getting annoying.
When will we see loli's get the large
statue treatment? D:
loli + large = does not compute
plus, those aren't really "large statues"(as in enlarged version). They are 1/1 non functional replica.
Sure does. There would be tons of otaku taking pictures up it's skirt. ^_^
They're wasting money.
With that amount, they could fund people for a promising hikikomori life.
Did they? From what I watched, they are just a bunch of individualistic people who don't have any ambition in life, and if it was not for Akira making them work together, they can't do anything. Nothing said about Japs hating them or anything
Trolling are you? Considering that they would get more visitors from all over JApan and outside teh country to Kobe, they can use the fund to fully revitilise the city, instead of giving it all to people who shut themselves in and dies when another earthquake happens
Japan haet NEETs, didn't Eden of the East taught you that?
I want a VF-1 Valkyrie (skull leader ver.) on my front porch!
First a life sized gundam and now this? WTF Japan's really bringing the shit recently. What next? Life sized Eva? Life sized Voltes V? Mazinger Z? Gurren Lagann?
Lol epic lol
haha!
japans building up an army of giant robots..
soon well get the 1/1scale Eva, then 1/1 scale SDF1..
and finally..
1/1 scale tengen Toppa Gurren Laggan..!!!
and 1:1 scale of the genesis system and 1:1 macross frontier and macross galaxy fleet
I hope they make it earthquake proof.
yes..old robot ass is sexy..lolz
I want...TRANSFORMATIONS with some sense damn it!!!
I want robots to depict the reasons for their evolution and blah blah blah
Rather than hearing about them being able to transform just because they ought to..Bullshit..
a marvelous sight to behold when that's finish