Japan Planning To Build A Moving Giant Gundam Robot

Above, a Gundam display at the Bandai Museum. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

This was eventually bound to happen. Japan is planning to build a moving giant Gundam robot.

According to Japan Today:

TOKYO —A team of Japanese animators and engineers on Wednesday unveiled plans to build a moving 18-meter-tall Gundam robot, in a nod to millions of science fiction fans. 

The “Mobile Suit Gundam” anime series first aired in Japan in 1979, and spin-offs featuring robots locked in intergalactic battles have won legions of enthusiastic fans in Asia, Europe and elsewhere.

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