Posts Tagged ‘gundam’

Andrew W.K. Gundam Rock

Andrew W.K. of “Party Hard” fame was featured on “Mezamashi TV” yesterday because he’s created a new album to mark the 30th anniversary of Mobile Suit Gundam:

Gundam Rock will be sold through Amazon.com starting on September 15th.

Update: Here’s the music video of his Gundam main theme song cover. (Via Matt Alt)

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South Korea to build bigger robot than Japan

This giant robot project was supposedly started before Japan’s giant robot statues, but it’s being blogged about as a challenger to Japan’s robot landmarks:

The statue will be of Taekwon V, known stateside as Voltar the Invincible, and will stand some 364 feet tall, making it not only much bigger than the 59 and 60 foot statues in Japan, but roughly three times as tall as the Statue of Liberty itself. Giant robots are more important than freedom and liberty. I think that’s the message that’s being sent here.

The robot will be erected in the middle of something called Robot Land, a theme park in Incheon that’s entirely devoted to everything and anything that has to do with robots. “Fun & Fantasy with Robot” is the English motto for the place, which should serve no doubt as the place where the robot uprising will begin when it opens to the public, along with its giant mascot, in 2013.

Taekwon V is a copy of Japanese giant robot Mazinger Z, created in an era when Japanese copyright holders could not prevent Korean animators from “borrowing” their ideas.

As a symbol of Korean patriotism, Taekwon V has been active in defending the Liancourt Rocks from vile Japanese savages:

[hat tip to Aceface]

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The story behind the Gundam wedding

Here’s a subtitled TV news report about the anime-loving couple who got married earlier this week at Odaiba Gundam:

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Giant stone Gundam statue

A giant stone Gundam in the city of Yasu in Shiga Prefecture:

At a height of 4 meters and a weight of 10 tons, it is not quite as big as Tokyo’s 18 meter 35 ton 1:1 scale mobile suit.

It was created about 2 years ago by the owner of a stone sculpting business and has become a local landmark. Check out these Japanese blogs for more photos.

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Gundam Wedding

The ultimate otaku wedding was held recently at Odaiba’s giant Gundam:

See the whole story at Shibuya246!

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Gundam + Solar Eclipse

It was a cloudy day in Tokyo yesterday, but as this video shows, the partial eclipse was still visible in the sky above Odaiba’s giant Gundam:

For some really great pics and video of the eclipse as it appeared from non-cloudy areas, check out this post over at Mutant Frog.

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