By LB Bryant 2 years, 6 months ago
I think most anime geeks remember the erection of the life size Gundam statue in Odaiba last year. It was quite the spectacle that even included a star studded grand opening and one super lucky couple getting married! Even before construction was finished, pictures of the statue were flooding the interwebs bringing a proud tear to the eyes of Gundam fans all over the world. In fact, let’s take one more look at it.

Beautiful isn’t it?
But if you thought that was impressive, you haven’t seen anything yet! New pictures are surfacing of a project currently under construction at a theme park in Sichuan, China.

I understand that you might not be able to actually see it until your eyes learn to look past the day glo orange paint but once you do, you’ll notice that China is building its own giant robot that looks remarkably similar to a Gundam. Obviously it’s not because China would never do something devious/lazy like copy a creation from another country (NSFW). That’s just plain ludicrous.
Via Japan Probe
UPDATE: According to ANN, a rep from the Chengdu Guosetianxiang park has stated that the design is not a copy, but acknowledged that “Since there are reports of similarities, we are currently working on modifications.”
I call BS. The shoulder marks function as a dead giveaway, as they attempt to mimic the marks on the Odaiba/Shizuoka 1:1 Gundam which you can see here. It’s the RX-78-2 down to a “T”. According to the ANN article the height of it has changed as well.
I’m reminded of the comedian Bill Hicks when he talked about Denis Leary stealing his jokes: “I have a scoop for you. I stole his [Leary’s] act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and, to really throw people off, I did it before he did.”


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L.B. is a coffee fueled anime junkie living in Oregon. When not writing for Ani.me, he can also be found posting anime DVD reviews at Otaku Review and anime ramblings on Twitter.
anime, china, gundam, news, odaiba, plagiarism
WOOOOOWW!!! haha, this makes me laugh! this is amazing!!! :D
It looks so COOL!!! :D I wish i was there to see it! :D
I like how the workers are just using bamboo poles without an actual platform.
If you look at the video report that ANN posted on their piece regarding this, the bootleg Gundam looks like a pile of crap...I'm so glad the Chinese are so bad at imitation...
That is so cool~ I want one!
remind's me of the time when they built a life size evangelion 01
Sooooo cool wish i could be there ,someone sould do this with a TRANSFORMER.
World War 3 is totally going to be a robot war!
I think they should actually make real gundams and if they did i would so wanna pilot one XD.
Wow, those are some serious fans to get married under it
thats incredible
Im telling you this is where WW3 shall begin those are real gundams!! See how you always see them fully complete and not while they are being built?! Rofl but hell yeah!!! America needs to make some damn Gundams D:<
as made in China? wow just like everything else in the world.
thats amazing it would be cool if u could drive it
I love these, They gotta make one in Melbourne,Australia!!!
holy! wow there is some serious fans
wow, big,cool thats all i need to say
SO COOL!
AWESOME !!!!
Cool!!
awesome :D
AWESOME!!!!Great work guys!!! i wanna see giant Gundam,,and go to that place!!!
WOOWW!!i really want to go to that place and see that gundam,i want one in my home too XD
Kuttsinister7
2 years, 6 months agoAWESOME...Silly yet simple and refined...