Those of you savvy enough on the internet, or at least the kind that might care about this kind of thing, probably already know about this, but just in case:

They’ve built a 1:1 scale Gundam in Tokyo!

I’ll be linking a bunch of different articles about it, mostly from dannychoo, but suffice to say, it looks awesome and I wish I was rich so that I could fly there and see it in person.

Not 100% sure who financed it, but I suspect it was Bandai mostly. It’s for the 30th anniversary of the original Gundam and I think it’ll only be around for another month or two. Maybe someone can start a petition to keep it there for good 😉

Anyway, here are the links to many wonderful pictures and a little video:

http://punynari.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/assembled-life-sized-rx78-gundam-part-1/

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/06/gundam-night-pics/

http://www.dannychoo.com/adp/eng/1717/Gundam+Odaiba.html

http://www.dannychoo.com/detail/mac/eng/image/20239/Gundam+Lit+Up.html

http://www.dannychoo.com/detail/mac/eng/image/20261/RX-78.html

It’s soooooooo cool!

Wonder if they’ll make a resin kit from it…. 😉