Of Course Japan’s Latest Life-Size Gundam Statue Looks Great Animated

Another 12 months, one other life-sized duplicate of a strolling testomony to the atrocity of mechanized warfare. Yes, Japan has another life-sized Gundam statue on the best way quickly, and to have a good time, Sunrise has taken the newest cell go well with to hit the actual world and animated it… for the primary time.

The official Gundam YouTube channel has launched a short teaser for the upcoming public debut of the fourth present life-sized mecha statue from the franchise. Set to open to the general public in April, the statue relies on the Mitsui Shopping Park LaLaport in Fukuoka, Japan, and depicts an unique riff on one of many collection’ most iconic cell go well with designs. The RX-93FFν Gundam is an unique design closely based mostly on the equally named RX-93 Nu Gundam, the primary cell go well with piloted by the Gundam franchise’s unique protagonist, Amuro Ray, within the traditional 1988 film Char’s Counterattack. Aside from varied design tweaks to the primary physique of the Nu Gundam and a brand new colour scheme, the main departure for this latest design is in its back-mounted weaponry.

The Nu Gundam depicted in Char’s Counterattack was geared up with a “wing” of mentally managed beam cannons known as fin funnels; they indifferent from the primary go well with and served as singular drone turrets to help the Gundam in house fight. Perhaps deemed a contact impractical to duplicate in actual life, within the new design it’s been changed by a bigger, singular “Long Range” funnel, which might be seen being fired within the teaser above.

The transient animation is the primary time that the brand new design has really been depicted exterior of its “real” self as a statue, not like earlier Gundam statues, which have all been based mostly on designs already featured throughout a long time of Gundam animated collection. The FFν Gundam statue, the most important up to now at just below 25 meters tall, joins three extra statues from the collection throughout Asia: a mechanized “walking” model of the unique Gundam, the RX-78-2, based mostly in Yokohama; a reproduction of Gundam Unicorn’s titular mecha in Tokyo; and considered one of Gundam SEED’s Freedom Gundam in Shanghai, China.

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