Japan’s next door neighbor Korea must have gotten a little envious of their giant gundam, and have decided to build a giant mecha of their own.
This new giant Robot is planned to be 364 ft (111 M) tall. Thats more than five times as tall as Japan’s gundam-60 ft (18 M), and more than twice the size of the Statue of Liberty -151 ft (46 m). It will be built at the Korean amusement park “Robot World,” and is a tribute to the Korean anime Taekwon V (A rip off of Japanese mecha series Mazinger Z.) Lets hope Japan and South Korea stay on good terms or else we will have a mecha war at hand.
You can see more about the mecha here and here.
Sources: Anime Vice, Plastic Pals
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hmm… I’m not sure how I felt about this… I mean, the Odaiba Gundam made lots people go “wow”. But it’s because of that, reading this piece of news just make me go: “oh.. ok another giant robot”.
Japan better hope they stay on good terms with S.Korea; we all know a real robot like gundam doesn’t stand a chance against a super robot, Mazinger rip-off or not.
renaming the sea of japan? and now trying to build a bigger statue? this “tension/rivalry” between them always seems to amuse me. and i like the fact they use “foreigners” in their ad http://www.robotics.or.kr/eletter/robotworld/2009/images/robotland.jpg
In fact a lot of early Korean animations are heavily influenced (or more properly, copied) from the Japanese. I only knew about it when a guy on a forum mentioned about it.
Whoa!! Surreal!!