1/1 RX-78-2 Gundam Statue @ Diver City Tokyo (Odaiba) - New Images ( 4/6/12 )

1/1 RX-78-2 Gundam Statue @ Diver City Tokyo (Odaiba)

The 1/1 Scale RX-78-2 Gundam statue will once again be standing tall in Japan! Starting from Spring 2012 thru March 2013 , the 1/1 Gundam will be on display in front of Diver City Tokyo (Odaiba, Tokyo).

Odaiba Gundam Front Tokyo ~ Opens On Apr. 19th, 2012

Official Website: http://gundamfront-tokyo.com/

Ticket Reservation Info: http://gundamfront-tokyo.com/news/2012/02/ticket/

Testing of the entire Gundam Statue (movement, lights & chest vent vaper)

 Image of the light up cockpit gimmick

 Gundam Cafe - Product shelf getting stocks

Today, testing of the vapor from the chest vents...

Haro Project? Wonder what this could be...

Backscreen monitor testing

Gundam CG video on monitors

 Cockpit light up gimmick

Source: buloblog via Gundam Guy

Life-Size Gundam's Final Touches Shot in Time-Lapse

Statue returns to Odaiba island next year after nearly 3 years away

The self-described "Gundam videographer" darwinfish has been streaming two new time-lapse videos of the 1/1-scale Gundam statue's reconstruction at Odaiba since last week. The videos (dated December 17 and December 23) feature the final touches on assembly and the exterior. According to darwinfish, the area surrounding the statue was also undergoing construction, now that the statue is largely finished.

The statue is being rebuilt at Diver City Tokyo, a complex under construction on the island by Mitsui Fudosan and Fuji TV. The life-size statue first stood at Odaiba in July of 2009 and attracted 4.15 million visitors before it closed the following month.

The statue rose again in Shizuoka — the self-described "model capital of the world" and the home of Bandai's plastic model factories — from July of last year to March of this year. The statue did return to Tokyo in August — in disassembled parts — as a charity drive after the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake (Higashi Nihon Daishinsai) disaster.

The videographer has posted several other videos chronicling the reconstruction of the Gundam since construction began a few weeks ago.

Source : ANN via G.G.

1/1 RX-78-2 Gundam Statue @ Diver City Tokyo (Odaiba) - New Images [12/23/2011]

1/1 RX-78-2 Gundam Statue @ Diver City Tokyo (Odaiba)

The 1/1 Scale RX-78-2 Gundam statue will once again be standing tall in Japan!  Starting from Spring 2012 thru March 2013 , the 1/1 Gundam will be on display in front of Diver City Tokyo (Odaiba, Tokyo).

New Images [12/23/2011]

Trees are being planted at various locaitons

Previous Images:

The six projects that had been set up in the risen cabinet was being tested.

Speakers are currently being installed into the feet.

A box is being lowered into the cockpit of the statue, and looks to a HG monitor.

Looks like this box will be housing six projectors. What they will be projecting is not known at this time.

Previous images:

Previuos Images [12/17/2011]

LAST UPDATED 12/15/11

Previous Updates:

The following are the current progress images:

Images from: http://buloblog.at.webry.info/201112/article_8.html | http://buloblog.at.webry.info/201112/article_22.html via gundamguy