Hands of Justice
The Lounge => The Dog & Duck => Topic started by: Mangala on June 09, 2009, 08:11:25 AM
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http://mdn.mainichi.jp/photospecials/graph/gundam/
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first broadcast of the "Mobile Suit Gundam" animated television series, an 18-meter-tall, "full scale" Gundam statue is currently being built at Shiokaze Park in Tokyo's Odaiba.
The lower half of Gundam's body, which measures about 11 meters high, has already been constructed. After other parts of the character's body are finished, including the head, arms and torso, they will all be assembled.
The completed Gundam statue is expected to weigh nearly 35 tons, move its head and emit light or mist from 50 points of its body.
The statue will be on display to the public at the park from July 11 to August 31, free of charge.
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(http://sageoftriforce.net/darkmessiah/Images/JapanGundam.jpg)
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Oh, since i'm going to japan in 2 weeks, mabye i'll just swing by this =)
any other hot tips for Tokyo?
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Oh, since i'm going to japan in 2 weeks, mabye i'll just swing by this =)
any other hot tips for Tokyo?
I'll speak to a buddy or two - onbe lives there, the other studied there for a year :)
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I like these details:
(http://mdn.mainichi.jp/photospecials/graph/gundam/13.jpg)
(they sure make it hard to link to foto's directly, had to use pagesource :P)
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Oh, since i'm going to japan in 2 weeks, mabye i'll just swing by this =)
any other hot tips for Tokyo?
well with more Mitchelin star restaurants than any other city id say eat out :) oh and take as many bottles of nice Single Malt Scotch Whisky with you as you can Japs are very bribable with it ;D
and that statue is awesome something about giant robots makes me wetter than a schoolgirl.
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Oh, since i'm going to japan in 2 weeks, mabye i'll just swing by this =)
any other hot tips for Tokyo?
Could you run around Tokyo for a bit yelling 'Hido sensei, hido sensei'?
Want to know if my old foreign exchange students are still around. ;D
Even though they all studied at Kyoto university. ::)
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Oh, since i'm going to japan in 2 weeks, mabye i'll just swing by this =)
any other hot tips for Tokyo?
well with more Mitchelin star restaurants than any other city id say eat out :) oh and take as many bottles of nice Single Malt Scotch Whisky with you as you can Japs are very bribable with it ;D
Eat out!! I'd check the prices if i were you. I won't frighten you with the prices there 2 years ago when i was last there but I would assume things will only be more expensive now.
One tip i would give is... Don't expect to drink to much alcohol out there. Its the most expensive place ive ever drunk . (even more expensive than Venice and copenhagen were ) ???
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As the statue comes together, is there a young Japanese guy in a red and white uniform shouting "FORM FEET AND LEGS! FORM ARMS AND TORSO!" etc etc?
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Oh, since i'm going to japan in 2 weeks, mabye i'll just swing by this =)
any other hot tips for Tokyo?
well with more Mitchelin star restaurants than any other city id say eat out :) oh and take as many bottles of nice Single Malt Scotch Whisky with you as you can Japs are very bribable with it ;D
Eat out!! I'd check the prices if i were you. I won't frighten you with the prices there 2 years ago when i was last there but I would assume things will only be more expensive now.
One tip i would give is... Don't expect to drink to much alcohol out there. Its the most expensive place ive ever drunk . (even more expensive than Venice and copenhagen were ) ???
Copenhagen? Expensive drinks??? wth...
We swedes go there to by and lug carloads home since it is much cheeper than here (was before the skr dropped 50% or so in 6 months at least)
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Ahh but then NO-ONE in their right mind would go drinking in Sweden... unless of course they'd won the lottery or robbed a bank prior to the trip... I'm still having hypnotherapy for 2 reasons.
1. to get over the shock of the alcohol prices in stockholm and
2. to try and forget what i was silly enough to pay for a cup of coffee in St marks square in Venice the last time i was there.... :P
Its my Scottish blood. It rebels and paying more than half a crown for a wee dram ;D