Giant Gigantor Monument in Kobe Japan

30 Jun 2009

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Watch out Gundam! Residents of Kobe took one look at Odaiba's life-size Gundam statue and thought they could do better. The muse to their project is a Tetsujin-28 Gigantor. It'll stand just as tall at 59 ft but weighs in at a hefty 50 tons. OH SNAP! Those is some fightin' words!

P.S. When can I move to Japan? Better yet when is America going to build some giant statue in honor our popular culture - hmm, I vote for a massive and I do mean MASSIVE real-life enactment of Springfield, working nuclear reactor and all. I call dibs on the Simpson's house. Damn the recession. Let's do it!

Video after the jump.

via Crunchgear

Posted by Long Tran on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 6:50 AM

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