An 18-meter-tall (59-foot-tall) 1/1 scale RX-78-2 Gundam model, from the first Gundam anime series (1979), was built at Odaiba’s Shiokaze Park in July. It’s located just close to Gundam Big Expo convention which was held in August ’09 in Tokyo.
My cousin was visiting Japan in July ’09 and he got the chance to see it. Unfortunately, as it was announced, the model will only stay for a couple of months before it’s totally removed from there! On the other hand, Tetsujin 28-go statue is still being planned to be built in Kobe, the birthplace of its creator, Mitsuteru Yokoyama. Hope Astroganga statue will be planned to be built too soon 😉
いらっしゃいませ！ 
Sep 02, 2009 @ 23:55:54
That thing is huge! 0_o If Gundams were real I would almost say that was live size. That really is awesome though. Leave it up to the Japanese to do something that cool.
Sep 03, 2009 @ 09:52:40
always the high quality type of works!
Sep 30, 2009 @ 23:40:51
Next its Kobe ! Maybe you’ll get your wish and they’ll also make Jongar 🙂
http://bloggermathai.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/kobe-tetsujin/
Oct 01, 2009 @ 06:46:01
yeah I wish so, I’ll cosplay Kantaru! 😉
Jan 18, 2010 @ 06:44:22
I am so envious of your cousin for seeing the Gundam!
Jan 20, 2010 @ 21:23:29
he didn’t plan for it though! very lucky!!