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LEGO Eva Gundam: Mech This Official

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Have you ever wondered what the offspring of the Unit 01 Evangelion and the RX-78 Gundam would look like? Wonder no more. Here’s a sick LEGO amalgam made by MOCpages member Gyuta K., fusing two of the most famous mecha to make one bad ass machine.…

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April 13th, 2012 by: Lambert Varias

Gundam Learns How to Walk

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I always thought the Gundam already knew how to walk, but apparently the giant mech never really knew how to do it properly. So leave it to some enterprising Japanese geek to come up with a way to get Gundam to learn how to walk using a CGI physics engine.…

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February 24th, 2012 by: Technabob

13-Foot-Tall Robot is Stepping Stone to Life-Size Walking Gundam

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Robots are cool and rather fascinating not because they tend to do anything particularly mind-blowing yet, but because they hint at a future where we have robots that will do cool and really useful stuff for us on a daily basis. Hajime Sakamoto, president of Hajime Research Institute, has a…

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December 21st, 2011 by: Shane McGlaun

7 Foot Papercraft Gundam FTW!

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The title pretty much says it all. This incredible 7 foot-tall papercraft Gundam is about the greatest thing I’ve seen all day week month… year.

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November 8th, 2011 by: Technabob

Giant Gundam in Pieces, World Comes to an End

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Japan’s Giant Gundam sculpture was one of my favorite man-made since I started writing this here site. So when I stumbled onto these images and video footage of the recently-dismantled Gundam statue, I wept. Okay, so I had just been cutting onions, but it still made me sad.…

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August 21st, 2011 by: Technabob

Gundam Head Ashtray: Who’s Been Putting Their Coals Out in My Mobile Suit?

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I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but Japan can be a weird place. At least if you judge the country strictly by the oddball gadgets and toys that they release, on a regular basis, they are. Take, for example, this wacky bit of Gundam-inspired schwag from the island nation.…

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January 20th, 2011 by: Technabob

Cardboard Gundam: Too Awesome for Words

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Twitter user cadeson stumbled upon the polar opposite of that other cardboard Gundam:

This jaw-dropping creation is a replica of the ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam from Gundam SEED…. What it lacks in color it more than makes up for in detail, particularly on its head and fingers.

I don’t know

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January 5th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

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Shanzhai Gundam

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If you can make it, China can copy it:

While other Japanese have been busy building another classic robot statue, and South Koreans are building a gigantic robot statue of their own, this orange Gundam copycat is being built in a theme park in Sichuan, China. It might just be…

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December 10th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Your Very Own Mini Giant Gundam

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If you’re lucky enough to live in Japan, you’ve had plenty of opportunity to check out the giant Gundam statue that’s been around for the last year or so. But for those of us here in the States and other places around the world, we’ve got no giant Gundam love.…

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November 13th, 2010 by: Technabob

Gundam Robot Phone: Only in Japan?

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If you don’t have an iPhone or an Android phone yet, why not get a Gundam Robot Phone instead?

This phone will be released by Japan’s third biggest mobile phone carrier, SoftBank Mobile, who has 25 million subscribers. The phone itself is based on a Sharp 945SH, which has 3.2-inch…

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September 13th, 2010 by: Range

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