Jun 14 2009Ooooh, He's Light Up: Gundam At Night
Thought the Japanese Gundam statue looked good during the day? Well check it out at night! The statue is chock-full of blinky blinks and other lighting effects to help assure the citizens of Japan they're safe from attack. Unless it's an inside job. *ahem* I'm looking at you, RX-78.
Hit the jump for a bunch more and a link to the HQ versions in case you want to print em out and make love to them. Sicko.
Photos: Nocturnal Gundam [pinktentacle]
Thanks to shogunu, who wants to see it hump the Statue of Liberty.
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Reader Comments
1. super cooper - June 14, 2009 8:12 PM
i want one
2. naas - June 14, 2009 8:17 PM
That's AWESOME on top of awesome, with a large side of awesomesauce
3. Tennist0 - June 14, 2009 8:20 PM
soo...its head moves? (3rd pic after jump)
4. Phil says, "huh?" - June 14, 2009 8:43 PM
Now that I've seen this greatness, my life is complete.
5. Wes - June 14, 2009 8:56 PM
lit*
6. gizmoduck - June 14, 2009 9:03 PM
Its raining men
7. blabla - June 14, 2009 9:17 PM
waaa D:
it really scares me D:
8. John - June 14, 2009 9:23 PM
It would be cool if the Gundam suit can move.
9. JJtoob - June 14, 2009 9:37 PM
It wouldn't be cool, it would be rad to the power of SICK!! Except for GW I guess...
10. GLADIATOR - June 14, 2009 10:16 PM
It would be cool if it was actually F U N C T I O N I N G ! ! ! ! ! !
Alas it's just a state.
Move along people ...
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11. Alex - June 14, 2009 10:29 PM
hahah ..Like Powerfull ..
12. Truk - June 14, 2009 10:45 PM
Looks awesome with the people crowded around it (just like a cartoon about giant robots in Japan coincidentally), but I can't get over how tacky it is as a statue, and I just keep imagining it in a couple of years covered in rust.
Can you climb inside of it like the Statue of Liberty?
13. new school old school .com - June 14, 2009 11:24 PM
i feel like at the bottom of all those pictures there needs to be crowds of people cheering.
or at least running around and screaming in hysteria.
14. jp - June 14, 2009 11:42 PM
I wish the US would geek out some pride...maybe a 1/1 AT-AT, or Enterprise, or somethin'.
'Course everyone 'll just rant 'waste of money' etc. liitle yuppie larvae.
15. nadalo日本にいます。(also in Japan) - June 14, 2009 11:48 PM
Is just to awesome for any comment...it broke the rad to power of sick level...
16. Ethan - June 15, 2009 12:21 AM
@nadalo
rad to power of sick level??? that must mean awesome squared.
17. Daisy - June 15, 2009 12:29 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was trying to be discrete, and ended up blowing up an apartment that was filled with tooth faries. Later he punched smokey guy in the face, and wrecked his spacesuit.
18. Findlay D - June 15, 2009 1:00 AM
AWESOME!!!
19. jacobb - June 15, 2009 1:37 AM
woot i went to Odaiba yesterday and saw it
20. FDSY - June 15, 2009 2:09 AM
Listen.
We ooh and awe now. But when the robopocalypse comes these will be tearing into our apartments and squeezing you to death.
AND don't give that "FDSY, it's a mech. It's a machine piloted by a HUMAN."
SO!!??
You don't think the mechanical overlords will build a machine to pilot them? I do. And when they do there will be little to stop them.
21. kreebilicus - June 15, 2009 4:59 AM
that is fu<king sick!!!
hope its still there by the time i arrive
@20 its a statue of a cartoon mecha. with lights on. let's not get ahead of ourselves
22. Captain - June 15, 2009 5:32 AM
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23. Cindy - June 15, 2009 6:08 AM
Oh it's huge .
more details:http://www.led-screen.org
24. thatoneguy - June 15, 2009 7:27 AM
@ jp-
i would love to see that!
25. Imposterer - June 15, 2009 7:38 AM
I just found the "new" geekologie website : www.rotten.com
26. Polo - June 15, 2009 7:44 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8GThDoW9yU&feature=related
that vid changed my life
27. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - June 15, 2009 9:49 AM
Bad-to-the-ASS!
28. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 15, 2009 10:01 AM
@25
Welcome to the interwebz. Be prepared to have every shread of human decency stripped from you. Enjoy the japanese girl squirting diarrhea into her own mouth. It's a classic!
29. kelehendros - June 15, 2009 10:28 AM
mmmmm....yeaaa........gundum pics oooh oOoohhh OOOOHHH
30. DarkDeathRay - June 15, 2009 11:38 AM
That is just so cool. Yet another reason to go visit Japan.
31. naas - June 15, 2009 3:11 PM
@25 I haven't been to rotten (or ogrish) in years, they're still around? It's been awhile since viewing unfiltered pictures from a traffic accident from south america
32. ffffff - June 15, 2009 5:57 PM
@3 In the first Gundam artricle he said the head moves. or of u hit the jumps after the jump
33. whatever - June 15, 2009 8:53 PM
OK, THIS IS THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD, F**NG DAISY SHOULD NOT BE SPEAKING IN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
34. asian invasion - June 16, 2009 12:34 AM
@10
stop promoting your stupid game
35. Jaded Icon - June 16, 2009 8:16 AM
Not Fair!!! Japan has all the cool stuff.....except blondes.
36. Evank - June 16, 2009 2:03 PM
I can't wait untill they make a battle-ready one! (just joking... kinda.)
37. Darth - June 16, 2009 3:47 PM
Pretty impressive,it almost looks alive.
38. NVG - June 18, 2009 11:39 PM
GEEKS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
You really should start building a 1:1 Millenium Falcon in case this thing moves.
39. NVG - June 18, 2009 11:41 PM
Come on, Ultraman...
We know you're out there.