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https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan’s-newest-life-size-gundam-is-finished-receives-shinto-blessing-in-osaka-2

Japan’s newest life-size Gundam is finished; receives Shinto blessing in Osaka​

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By Casey Baseel, SoraNews24

TOKYO
When doing construction projects in Japan, it’s customary to have a Shinto priest come to the site to purify it, bestow a blessing upon the project, and pray for its safe completion. This practice is observed when building houses, office buildings, and, yes, real-world giant life-size anime robots.
We’re now less than half a year away from the opening of the Expo 2025 Osaka world’s fair, which will be held on Yumeshima Island in Osaka City. Among the presenters at the event will be Bandai Namco, the toymaker behind the vast array of Gundam merch. Rather than just show up with a bunch of scaled-down plastic model kits, though, the organizers of Bandai Namco’s Gundam Next Future Pavilion have built a full-size Gundam statue, dubbed the RX-78F00/E Gundam.


Japan’s eastern Kanto region has had three life-size Gundams to date, two in Tokyo and one in Yokohama, and the southwestern island of Kyushu has one as well. This is the first time for the central Kansai region to be Gundam-graced, however, and rather than wait until Expo 2025 opens to assemble the mecha or keep it under wraps, Bandai Namco has decided to finish its 1:1-scale Gunpla build early, and show off the results in a special preview video and shared photos.

The Shinto purification ceremony was held on Wednesday, prior to the final piece, Gundam’s head, being raised by a crane and placed atop his already completed body. The ceremony followed the same schedule as the ones for the Yokohama and Fukuoka (Kyushu) Gundams, which were also blessed by Shinto priests on the day that their heads were installed to pray that the workers be able to complete their projects without incident or injury.
In its tweet about the ceremony, the official Gundam Next Future Pavilion mentions that the RX-78F00/E Gundam has light blue paneling on its legs and armor skirting “which was not present on the moving Gundam Factory Yokohama Gundam,” and also that at Expo 2025 you’ll be able to get a close view of the Gundam’s feet and back, which “could not be seen closely” [at the Yokohama Gundam facility]. This would seem to imply that the Yokohama Gundam, which was disassembled this past spring, has been shipped to Osaka for the expo and given some new accouterments to repurpose it as the RX-78F00/E Gundam.
The Osaka Gundam having the same internals as the moving Yokohama one also makes sense in light of the RX-78F00/E Gundam’s complicated posing, in which the mecha is reaching out to touch the stars and “carve out a new space age with humanity.” It’s 16.72 meters from the ground to the tips of Gundam’s outstretched fingers.

I had my Roomba blessed late last year. It's been better at corners ever since. This is just that concept, scaled up.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

What is goofy about this???

well, gundams are way far from the top of the size scale, they're almost tiny. iirc, only macross (among the most famous) has smaller stuff. daitarn 3 is a proper "giant" robot, but that was made silly on purpose.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Daitarn 3 was awesome. I used to watch all those giant robot cartoons they were great.

 

[HeatEXTEND]

Hard for me to comprehend anyone with Y chromosomes would not love giant robots in any form.

I've always thought they're goofy, idk.

I was mildly entertained watching giant robots smashing faces with some monsters in that big stupid movie.... Pacific Rim. Does it count?

No, but it's a good movie so yes.

 

[The Decline]

What is goofy about this???

well, gundams are way far from the top of the size scale, they're almost tiny. iirc, only macross (among the most famous) has smaller stuff. daitarn 3 is a proper "giant" robot, but that was made silly on purpose.

Votoms, Full Metal Panic, Patlabor, and Code Geass all have smaller mecha, to name a few. Gundam mobile suits are pretty much the largest mecha in the Real Robot genre.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

patlabor and macross are the same. the others: who???

 

[deuxhero]

What is goofy about this???

well, gundams are way far from the top of the size scale, they're almost tiny. iirc, only macross (among the most famous) has smaller stuff. daitarn 3 is a proper "giant" robot, but that was made silly on purpose.

Gundam size varies by era. Late UC to X made all of the MS smaller because they came when Japan's economy was going poorly and this let them use less plastic while keeping the same scale (and the excuse of "Everything dies in one hit now, so its better to be a sleaker, lighter target to avoid being hit" holds up as an in-world explanation). Observe the dip.
Original: 18 meters
Zeta: 19.85
ZZ: 22.11
Victory: 15.2
Shining (G): 16.2 meters
Wing: 16.3 meters
X: 17.1 (this is inflated by the back fin.)
Turn A: 20.0

Of course, these are all above the 12 meter and under of ACs.

 

[Damned Registrations]

AC's always been pretty terrible about having consistent scale. Even within the same game you'll find really weird stuff when you try to compare them to background objects. Human scale stuff is just so rarely involved in missions it tends not to get noticed, and when it is there it's usually getting blown up from such a distance it's a speck.

The Wanzers of front mission are a lot smaller though (~6m) as an example. Battletech stuff is in the 8-16m range. And Evas are proper fucking giants at like 80m.

 

[Reality]

Played through this over last month.

It's good but even playing blind I felt like house ruling myself a lot.

NG Chapter 2-2
Mostly used Ranjetsu + Pistol with Laser Blade and vertical missle on backpack
NG Chapter 3-5
Ranjestsu + Ranjestsu with Laser Lance and Plasma missle on backpack
NG+ MT missions
Shotgun + shotgun with diffusion laser cannon x2 on back and Lightest quad legs (370 Kph flight)
NG+ boss / AC duel missions
Pulse blade + pistol with pile Bunker and laser drone on backpack

I like staggering with guns then punishing with melee. I kind of resent that songbirds/stun needle do the punish part so much safer and better.

Bosses have an interesting dynamic of like a 5-6 minute first fight, learn patterns etc... and just getting melted by player burst damage on rematches for S tank.

Feel like both quad legs and tank legs are cheating maybe more so than magic in DS.

 

[Big_poppa_pump]

patlabor and macross are the same. the others: who???

Full Metal Panic is pretty good for real robot just all the romcom comedy filters the tryhards