Less than 12 days ago, I recently subscribed one of the best anime/blogs on the planet (DannyChoo.com). This young Malaysian man by the name of Danny Choo (who is also the son of the world’s infamous women’s shoemaker, Jimmy Choo, would you believe it??) is really amazing. His portal is the gateway to everything about Japan from its food, culture, music, figurines and novelty festivities and he knows how to astound people outside Japan so many incredible facts and stories in Japan, especially in anime since he’s a full time otaku.
And one of his great stories he’s shared with the community recently is that there’s 1/1 scale of an actual Gundam model which was erected in a park named Odaiba, situated in Tokyo.  From Danny’s link,  he’s gotten the amazing footage of the 18-m foot giant robot standing so tall, looking across the horizon of Tokyo City and the normal citizens of Tokyo city looking at it with great awe. (see below)
I must admit that this really blew me away, swept my legs off the floor as soon as I flicked his blogging pages. The designs, the precise measurements, the exact match of the colours vs the classic Gundam model in 70s TV show, the Gundam head etc etc. Everything! Top to bottom! No mistake about it.
Sad thing about this project (codenamed Green G Project) is they’re planning to take it down part by part by the end of August 09. But why, oh, why, or why??? Why took so much effort and crazy man hours to construct such an incredible feat to show the rest of the world, and only to put it on display for a measley 10 weeks? Come on! Don’t take it down! In my humble opinion (which I stand), this is supposed to be one of Japanese’s treasured landmark figures just as the USA with their Status of Liberty. At least they got something to compete with them now, even though its historical influence does not have as much significant bearings as the States’, ie socio-political or economic impact etc etc.
Nevertheless, the drive, the passion and the ambition that the project team had clearly turned the ‘impossible’ into a reality and its success warrants the recognition by the public that Japan’s got something to showcase for the tourism industry to see. If only longer than the 31 August deadline, that is….
For more photos from Danny’s amazing capture on his travel to Odaiba, here’s the link.
http://www.dannychoo.com/adp/eng/1717/Gundam+Odaiba.html
Source: DannyChoo.com, TheWesterworld.net, Zuco.org
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June 24th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Pretty good post. I just found your blog and wanted to say
that I’ve really enjoyed reading your blog posts. In any case
I’ll be subscribing to your blog and I hope you write again soon!
June 26th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Loved your latest post, by the way.
July 3rd, 2009 at 9:11 pm
No worries. And I just posted another link about second giant robot project to be done in Japan. A lot of exciting stuff going on there. Have a read when you can!