GunDAMN!

A friend of mine is in Japan right now and she happened to visit the Tokyo bay. She mentions on her blog that on the small island of Odaiba lies a GIGANTIC Mobile Suit Gundam.

This intrigued me enough to do some digging to find out information about it. Here's what I found (in case you're interested):

The Gundam was built for two reasons - It is an attempt to promote the bid for the 2016 Olympics in Tokyo, it also promotes the 30th Anniversary since the creation of the Gundam franchise.
- It is a replica of the RX-78-2 Gundam which is an older model, but still cool-looking.
- The statue has lights, shoots out mist and moves its head.
- It is approximately 59' tall (18m) and weighs a whopping 25 tons.
- It is built of fiberglass-reinforced plastic over a steel frame.
- It is an exact 1:1 size replica of the size a mobile suit Gundam should be.
- They only plan to keep it up for two months before it is disassembled.
- The city of Kobe is working on a giant statue of "Gigantor" which will be much bigger and heavier. This is a video of the construction.