Odaiba gundam

[Christoff]

Anyone know if these are still up? Thx!

[Taro Toporific]

Just in time for the most joyous season...

Merry Christmas from Gundam!
A Rinkya Blog
...The life sized Gundam in Odaiba is getting a light show to celebrate the holidays! ...These little Santa Gundams will pop up during the light show...

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More...

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gundamfront-tokyo.com/news



Gundam by Kentaro_oki, on Flickr

[GomiGirl]

I read this thread topic as Odaiba Gunman.
It could have been worse - Odaiba Gangnam

[matsuki]

LOL, fake robot santa.....TIJ

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

LOL, fake robot santa.....TIJ

I'll say! Thank God Santa's not fake (....or God, for that matter)

[matsuki]

LOL, fake robot santa.....TIJ

I'll say! Thank God Santa's not fake (....or God, for that matter)

That's not the point.....and besides, you know the only thing I think churches are good for, right?



Japanese fake weddings of course....but don't you counter with "Thank God Japanese marriages aren't fake" Nothing says love, marriage and happy family like sleeping in separate rooms and ignoring each other

[Coligny]

Japanese fake weddings of course....but don't you counter with "Thank God Japanese marriages aren't fake" Nothing says love, marriage and happy family like sleeping in separate rooms and ignoring each other

FUCK YOU...

/it was me or the TV...

[yanpa]

Which transvestite?

[matsuki]

Japanese fake weddings of course....but don't you counter with "Thank God Japanese marriages aren't fake" Nothing says love, marriage and happy family like sleeping in separate rooms and ignoring each other

FUCK YOU...

/it was me or the TV...

So why are you sticking around after she has clearly chosen the TV?

[Coligny]

Japanese fake weddings of course....but don't you counter with "Thank God Japanese marriages aren't fake" Nothing says love, marriage and happy family like sleeping in separate rooms and ignoring each other

FUCK YOU...

/it was me or the TV...

So why are you sticking around after she has clearly chosen the TV?

Next in private forum

[matsuki]

Japanese fake weddings of course....but don't you counter with "Thank God Japanese marriages aren't fake" Nothing says love, marriage and happy family like sleeping in separate rooms and ignoring each other

FUCK YOU...

/it was me or the TV...

So why are you sticking around after she has clearly chosen the TV?

Next in private forum

Don't worry Coligny, the power of K-drama is proving too much for China and Japan...hell, between that and K-pop, WWIII may end up being South Korea vs. the rest of Asia.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Japanese fake weddings of course....but don't you counter with "Thank God Japanese marriages aren't fake" Nothing says love, marriage and happy family like sleeping in separate rooms and ignoring each other

FUCK YOU...

/it was me or the TV...

So why are you sticking around after she has clearly chosen the TV?

She's rich and he's unemployable. You do the math(s).

[Coligny]

She's rich and he's unemployable lazy as fuck. You do the math(s).

In private corporations, sure no hope, there never was any.
But I was sysadmin in academics/research. with different values...

Plus, spending others people money is much much more fun than spending your own money. You should try one day...

[Taro Toporific]

Anyone know if these are still up? Thx!

Gundam down! GUNDAM DOWN!
(That damn Gundam seems to be sleeping on the job again…)

ずっと立ちっぱなしだったから疲れたんだろーね(笑)＠お台場 pic.twitter.com/OLhPlGy514--- SHU 4 (@shusyhoo)’s twitter September 22, 2013

[Russell]

So, what happened?

I visited it with the family just one month ago, and it was all OK.

Will they remove it?

[sublight]

Just passed by it today, standing as usual.

[Taro Toporific]

Just passed by it today, standing as usual.

When I saw this on twitter today, I just had to check "ガンダム お台場" on Google News, etc. Nip, Null, nothing.
I should've known that all the news stations, even NHK, would be covering "Gundam Down" event on live TV.

(The Photoshop is good, but the blue sky in photo is a dead giveaway since Tokyo Bay has been overcast all day.)

[Coligny]

Just passed by it today, standing as usual.

When I saw this on twitter today, I just had to check "ガンダム お台場" on Google News, etc. Nip, Null, nothing.
I should've known that all the news stations, even NHK, would be covering "Gundam Down" event on live TV.

(The Photoshop is good, but the blue sky in photo is a dead giveaway since Tokyo Bay has been overcast all day.)

Left shoulder shadow, seems to go counter to peoples on the ground shadows...

[Christoff]

LOL, fake robot santa.....TIJ

...but don't you counter with "Thank God Japanese marriages aren't fake" Nothing says love, marriage and happy family like sleeping in separate rooms and ignoring each other

Nothing says most American marriages like the above statement.

[matsuki]

LOL, fake robot santa.....TIJ

...but don't you counter with "Thank God Japanese marriages aren't fake" Nothing says love, marriage and happy family like sleeping in separate rooms and ignoring each other

Nothing says most American marriages like the above statement.

I dunno about your family but most couples I know that fall to that level tend to divorce. (or stay married til the wife goes nuts and tries to murder him)

[Taro Toporific]

The newswires have been in a tither about Japan wanting to build a real moving GUNDAN by the year 2019.
-- http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big-story/asia-report/japan/story/japan-plans-18-metre-tall-gundam-robot-moves-20140710
-- http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/07/10/tokyos-giant-gundam-statue-scheduled-to-get-upgrade-and-start-moving-in-2019/

GUNDAM GROBAL CHALLENGE
gundam-challenge.com | Press Release of July 10, 2014
Take up the challenge of the ultimate dream and make the full-scale GUNDAM move.
We are looking for ideas from around the world.
In 2009, the 18m full-scale GUNDAM statue made its appearance. With its majestic figure it captured the heart of many people and showed us the potential of a dream.
Now, GUNDAM moves Japan and the whole world towards 2019, the year of GUNDAM 40th Anniversary.
"Challenge the dream: GUNDAM moves and it moves the world"
Bringing global knowledge together to challenge the ultimate dream! The aim is to make the 18m GUNDAM move.
To achieve this ambitious goal, we will develop a global project based in Japan, building a project team and collecting ideas and plans from around the world.
More....

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[matsuki]

How about "challenging" the dream of useful robots all over Japan? Instead we have VR wanking machines, million dollar robots that can hardly do more than kancho, and still the rest of the world buying into "the Japanese have all these crazy robots" mentality... Arguably we are already past the point where kaigai robots are more of a reality and the local shit is mostly gimmicks....just like garakei being outdone by sumaho, it's just a matter of time til people recognize it.

[Coligny]

It's not 1982 anymore... You can build this kind of stuff with otc parts in few weeks.

Hydraulics: alibaba.com/ made in china
Sensors: the phidget lineup
Guidance: ardupilot

It should be nothing more than a highschool team graduation project...

[matsuki]

It's not 1982 anymore... You can build this kind of stuff with otc parts in few weeks.

Hydraulics: alibaba.com/ made in china
Sensors: the phidget lineup
Guidance: ardupilot

It should be nothing more than a highschool team graduation project...

2014...subtract 30 years because TIJ, 1984....seems about right?

[Samurai_Jerk]

It should be nothing more than a highschool team graduation project...

So you think high school kids could make a fully functional weaponized Gundam suit? Those kids in Toyohashi must be pretty smart.

[matsuki]

It should be nothing more than a highschool team graduation project...

So you think high school kids could make a fully functional weaponized Gundam suit? Those kids in Toyohashi must be pretty smart.

They just want it to move...not create " a fully functional weaponized Gundam suit."

Boston Dynamics gonna ruin their dreams of either though...

[Coligny]

It should be nothing more than a highschool team graduation project...

So you think high school kids could make a fully functional weaponized Gundam suit? Those kids in Toyohashi must be pretty smart.

Pretty much, yes...

http://www.tut.ac.jp/english/

Now more seriously, with the colossal advance in cheap sensors and actuators these last few years you'd be surprised by what can be build with of the shelf --CHEAP-- parts. Especially if it's to be operator controlled and not autonomous.

I always followed from far robotics tournaments. With the excuse of it being to expensive to go that way. But these days... i'd worry more about the price of aluminum for the chassis than for the actual robotic parts.

Edit:

Seems you can even already by one 36 milliuns yenz:

http://www.sakakibara-kikai.co.jp/products/other/LW.htm

[matsuki]

New origami-style robot can assemble itself, walk

http://rt.com/usa/178860-origami-robot-assembles-walks/

[Taro Toporific]

Tokyo’s famous “Gundam Front” complex, now has a cafe offering “Mc.Danield’s (sic) Hamburgers" in a special “SALT BURGER” variation.
Details: http://g-cafe.jp/

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[Taro Toporific]

So you think high school kids could make a fully functional weaponized Gundam suit? ...

Well, there is now a Flip Gundam...



The Gundamguy blog describes the above as a, '"Life-Size Statue of the RX-78-2 Gundam at the Jed's Island Resort on the McArthur Highway, Calumpit, Bulacan in The Philippines." The resort has other mecha statues too (more photos).

For comparison, the faux-Gundam of China circa 2010 (techcrunch.com).