Any Gundam fans out there? … this life-sized Gundam Statue in Japan is almost ready, and it looks pretty cool!
Taken from Engadget … No matter how many times a new Gundam statue goes up in Japan, it’s always a sight to behold. This week was no different when workers attached the head of the RX-93FF V to its body as a crowd of onlookers and journalists came to watch the spectacle.
福岡市に姿を現したのは、高さおよそ25mの「ν（ニュー）ガンダム」。
クレーンで頭部が持ち上げられ胴体にドッキングされると拍手が上がっていました。https://t.co/lgfiHvQQj8#nhk_video pic.twitter.com/zSj59o7LPR— NHKニュース (@nhk_news) December 22, 2021
The one-to-one recreation is a riff on Amuro Ray’s Nu Gundam from 1988’s Char’s Counterattack. It stands 81.3 feet tall and is located in front of the LaLaport shopping center in Fukuoka, the most populous city on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu. Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino was involved in the design of the statue, including the new tri-tone color scheme that adorns it.
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