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| Above, yours truly with the Gundam Lift at the Bandai Museum in 2005. |
Fans of Japan's Gundam are in ecstasy over a full size 18 meter (59 foot) Gundam statue in Yokohama that can now move.
According to Sora News 24:
Last month residents of Yokohama, as well as anime fans around the globe, were thrilled to get their first glimpse of the life-size RX-78 Gundam anime mecha standing in the city’s bayside district, roughly 45 minutes south of Tokyo. But even that was just a precursor to the real excitement.
See, while Japan has had other full-scale Gundam statues, Yokohama’s is the first that will be able to move, and it just so happens that Japanese Twitter user @nansei2 was in the area during a recent test and recorded this amazing video of the mobile suit in motion.
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