Don't say goodbye, just say... see you later.

>>15284758
>that feel when I'll never see it IRL

I got to see in a day before my birthday when I went to Japan in 2015.
The year after that, I went to the Gundam Zaku statue in front of Expo city in osaka.
The difference between them is insane

>>15284771
>>15284788
He will be back. I'm still betting they are going to make it move and use it in the torch lighting for the Olympics in 2020.

The museum won't be empty though, this fall they are going to replace it with a life sized Gundam Unicorn.

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>>15284758

YAMEROOOOOOOOOO

>>15284758
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEzzIg6Wf50

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>>15284856
>they bring the gundam out near the end of the ceremony
>it's on one of those big flatbeds flat on its back
>suddenly a bunch of noise comes from it
>holy shit its leg just moved
>hits the ground
>Gundam Rises in front of all the world.
>eyes flash
>slowly raises its right hand, beam rifle in it
>does Last Shooting as the torch lights.

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>Never got to see the White Devil in person

If they don't make the damn thing move I'll be a sad little man.

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>>15284856

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>>15284914
>all while an instrumental version of tobe! Gundam is playing on the background.

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1/1 Zeta Gundam should be built next

>>15284771
sentence reminds me of John Q. I didn't come here for feels anon..

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>>15284914
>>15285057
>mfw

>>15285057
You almost had it. Soldiers of Sorrow is the way to go there.

>>15285015
The Gundam IS the torch. Last Shooting pose. Torch bearer hops into the cockpit and fires the beam rifle.

>>15284914
My penis can only get so erect anon.

>>15285015
>>15284914
Reality check

>it wont move
>it'll be rolled onto the field in a static last shooting pose with the olympic flame in hand
>you were born to early to have nice things like functioning Gundam

;w;

>>15284914
>>15285057
>>15285897

>not an orchestral version of Beginning

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>>15284771
>>15284933

>tfw I had the chance to see it IRL

Speaking of which, aren't they also closing Gundam Front Tokyo next month as well?

>>15286293
Both would be great.

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>>15284758
>>15287003
>finally get a chance to go to nipland in few months
>this happens
Guess I'll be back in 2019 or whenever the big anniversary thing is supposed to be.

>>15286293
Robert Fripp would sue Japan so hard, their economy would crash and burn into oblivion.

>>15287649
why

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>They're replacing it with the RX-0 Unicorn

Why is this shit robot from a shit OVA so popular? Did all those years without decent Gundam convince everyone that Unicorn was good?

>>15287678
FUUUUUCK.
Just cover this shit with paint

>>15287678
A symbol of UNDERSTANDING!

>>15287672
Because using a song that's suspiciously similiar to Lizard at the most important sports event in the world might catch his attention, unlike using it in some Chinese cartoons he probably doesn't even know about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vf2lyDUMrI

>>15287678
It looks cool

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>>15287708
?

>>15287810
shit you're right.
Soldier of Sorrow it is then.

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>>15287923
Honestly it would be absolutely phenomenal if they either had the flowering ELS Qan[T] or pic related as the centerpiece.

>>15287678

I'm sorry, but that just looks terrible compared to the RX-78

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>>15287678
Nips love it
Chinks love it
Misc Asians love it

Oh, and they also buy shitton of gunplas unlike you whiner

>>15287678

Asians have a hard-on for the kind of style it has. Folding out to reveal brightly colored lights beneath the armor.

I'm sure it has a specific term associated with it but I'm unfamiliar with what the concept would be called.

>>15288156
Not favouring Unicorn or anything but that's one of my mecha fetish too, looks cool as fuck.
Linebarrel also has this thing .

If they gimmick it so it actually opens and lights up it would be pretty cool.

>>15287678
to appeal bronies for olympics

>>15288275
>If they gimmick it so it actually opens and lights up it would be pretty cool.
The transformation barely even works in gunpla form. I am not holding out hope that they would do that, especially since I believe Gundam mode is physically taller than Unicorn mode?

Not impossible, but very hard to be made structurally sound.

>>15288311
I just want to add that RX-78 was designed in the age of diecast metal toys, and as such was originally envisioned in being able to stand up with metal parts. Much easier than Unicorn.

>>15288311
>Not impossible, but very hard to be made structurally sound.

You gotta believe in these guys.
After all, back when they started the whole 1:1 Gundam project, it was thought impossible to make it stand up and today they're trying to make the thing walk in some way.

>>15284758
ANN and Anime Suki look at this thinking this will confirm a third season of worst gundam

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>>15285996

>>15288374
what is the worst gundam?

>>15284758
You gonna carry that weight /m/?

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>>15287678
>timeless cultural icon replaced by soulless cash-in
fucking chinks.

>>15284758
>Not DANGAR
Those nips had one job

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>>15284914

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>>15284914

Kasarelia, Gundamu-san!

>>15287678
Maybe because the robot and OVA aren't shit?

>>15284758
>>15284771
It's an amazing site I've been lucky enough to see twice. My first trip was when they still had the Strike Freedom 1/1 bust/cockpit open and I paid for the overpriced picture in that.

>>15287003
Gundam Front is being replaced with Gundam Base (same thing but bigger store) in a couple of months (Summer Japanese time)
http://www.gundam-base.net/

>>15287923
>>15287942
>They say they're doing the Unicorn
>They actually put up a 00 or Qanta
I'd be down for that.

>>15284914
>Japan then reveals that they built an army of fully-functioning ones
>war for world domination begins

>>15287923

Seems like covering a mech-sized statue with flowers would be a bitch of a job

>not DANGAR
one job

>>15291119
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFKpBT7eb5k

Here we go

>>15287810
eh, after the stairway to heaven lawsuit I think are weary of suing over music likeness.

>>15291215
Fripp is pretty anal when it comes to copyrights though. For the longest time websites like last.fm couldn't even use the cover images to King Crimson albums, and finding full, album versions of their songs on streaming sites like YouTube can be pretty hard.

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Been in Odaiba last fall, at least I have several pictures taken for this soon to be disassembled white devil.

>>15290951
unicorn is garbage beyond garbage, m8

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This corridor is pretty cool, it leads you to the dome mini-theatre.

>>15287678
That's gay

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>>15291689
also, I'm not a fan of the Freedom but this thing is damn cool

>>15291702
I wanted to see this but didn't feel like paying the fee.
Was content enough to get a picture with the RX-78-2

>>15287678
Because Unicorn is the most iconic design since the Strike Freedom

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>>15284758
>>15284933
dude's pretty tall, you pretty much never understand it real height during the original show due to fucked up proportions.

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>>15291709
Well, since I don't know when and if I'll be able to get back in there I gladly spent the overpriced fee.
The 360° show was pretty cool (except for the Gundam Destiny part about couples and love).

>>15285088
There's already something Zeta-related inside.

>>15291709

You missed out on the 3 Gundam shorts they played in the Gundam Dome.

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>>15291709
>>15291730
exactly, the fee is basically for the show plus a small museum-like area with the Freedom (you can get inside and they will take 3 pictures in it with you in), a large timeline with pictures, posters from each show/movie, an unicorn-look-alike large chair with painted screens, a very large A Baoa Qu diorama and two large spots where you could take pictures with your favourite character (they even added some uniform jackets to wear for the photo) and a good reproduction of the crashed core fighter

Del Taco might not have the same reaction to a 1/1 Unicorn...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-zCQGA4fdY

>>15288275
They maybe can do the unicorn V fin to unwrap and light those lights.

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>>15284758
>>15287678

>>15287678
Unicorn broke every record for OVA sales, the statue's probably getting built because they couldn't figure out what to do with all the money it made.

>>15294107
To be fair, it did take a long time for Unicorn to show its ass, and it did have some great fanservice in the earlier episodes.

I wish I was on /m/ when the last episode came out.

>>15294107
>Japan gets another earthquake
>Unicorn statue breaks open
>Is full of gold
>Bandai releases a statement saying that they had no where else to put it

It's already gone now isn't it?

>>15291141

We can't PROVE that George Takei isn't actually the secret ruler of Japan.

>>15291141
Is that a Gundam Frame?

Moved my trip to Japan up earlier to see it before it came down.

I almost got suckered into buying some cookies with gundams on them and crappy shirt, instead I got suckered into buying exclusive gunpla.

>>15294272
It's been gone since I made this thread

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>>15291747
That Core Fighter was pretty based.

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>>15291747
didn't get to see the Gundam Front exhibit, but instead got to see the Art of Gundam exhibit they had in Osaka, back in 2014.

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>>15294575
Indeed it was.
I regret not caring about Build Fighters until after I went to it, twice, and failing to comprehend how cool the mini gunpla battle setup was. I hope it's still there when Gundam Base opens up.

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>>15294585

>>15293898

That's actually pretty cool.

>>15293898
Why does nip TV always have facecams of a bunch of women going "Ehhh" and "aaahh"?

Why do nips always have a random woman to sit around while someone is presenting something, making noises without actually saying a single sentence?

>>15295107
same reason why people watch reaction videos.

>>15293898
The zaku helped design chero alpha? where da monoeye at dt

Wake me up when I can sit in the Cockpit and pretend to be a Gundam pilot.

>>15295664
They had a 1/1 bust with cockpit for the Strike Freedom. It was pretty cool but they stopped letting people in to it when they opened up the gunpla factory section.

Well, they officially announced that the RX-78-2 statue is being used as part of the Gundam Challenge (moving Gundam) with no current plans for it to be put back as a statue.
http://en.gundam.info/topics/white/127914

Gundam Base seems to just be a giant gunpla shop/area.
http://en.gundam.info/topics/white/127919

>>15288156
>I'm sure it has a specific term associated with it
Ugly.

>>15291713
>iconic
Buzzword.

>>15293898
>buys a third house for gunpla dioramas

>>15295705
Missed to chance to name it after one of the many warships used in Gundam, like "White Base", or "Nahel Argama", or "Radish".

>>15295725
Just because you don't think so doesn't make it untrue

>>15294387
All I bought were some snacks (nice wrapping) and some jaburobean coffee
Fucking tourism

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Was just at the statue about a week ago grabbed the 3.0 rx-78 and some other touristy stuff.

>>15284914
Imagine the global shitstorm over a fully working Gundam.

The tagline for the Gundam Challenge would be very appropriate.
>When the Gundam moves, it moves the world