Odaiba Gundam Wedding

Finally, the Gundam wedding took place. The Wedding Planning company, T&G (Take & Give) had a special wedding ceremony planned for one lucky couple this past Tuesday 25th August at 8:45pm. The couple were picked from the many 548 entries back in July.

Here’s a subtitled video (ganked via JapanProbe) of the special wedding ceremony that was held at the base of the 1/1 Gundam RX-78. Naturally, there was cosplay. The groom, dressed as Amuro Ray escorted his normally-dressed bride down the Gundam alter. The couple had been married, but had not held a formal wedding ceremony until now. Now how amazing is that? Hands down, best wedding ever. What an amazing way to kick off your marriage.

Extensive photo gallery of the wedding event over at Shibuya246.

Gundam Big Expo 2009

As part of Gundam 30th anniversary celebration, the 3 day Gundam Big Expo 2009 is currently being held this weekend August 21-23 at Tokyo Big Sight in Odaiba, Tokyo.

Digged around through my usual otaku blog sources for coverage on the Gundam Big Expo. Being the big gundam whore that I am, you can imagine how excited I got with all the neat gunpla that was shown.

However, this sexy beast of a plastic got me hella ecstatic like you wouldn’t believe, the 1/35 scale Gundam Fix Figuration RX-78-2 Ver.Ka. It was the main talk of the event amongst the attendees. It’s going to be 500mm (50cm tall)–that’s almost 2 FEET TALL. It will come with a display base with lighting gimmick and metal plate with a unique serial number. No price as of yet but I imagine it’ll cost an arm and a leg and a few organs (I’m thinking a few hundreds here and there.). Release date is March 2010. Some nice close-up shots at Akiba Hobby.

I’m not one to dish out that much money for something like this, but that’s one sexy piece of plastic that’s tempting me to save up and buy it. Other than that, the other thing that caught my eye was the Perfect Grade 00-Raiser (more PG 00-Raiser pics here). Oh Gundam, look what you do to me!

Source and coverage of the event:
—Akiba Hobby
–Moeyo: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9

Life Size Odaiba Gundam PhotoBook

Shueisha has launched a photobook, 「Real-G～1/1scale GUNDAM Photographs～」, that documents plenty of gorgeous photographs of the statues conceptualization, construction and unveiling.

The book, being sold for 1,050yen and released this July 30th, contains 96 pages of Gundam epic-ness. The photobook also includes interviews of the staff that were involved in the project.

The book can be found at Amazon.jp but is currently sold out. A MUST HAVE FOR ME so I hope they put more copies back in stock soon, otherwise I’ll have to special order it from Sasuga Books or something.

Source:
—Moeyo | Akiba Blog

Odaiba Gundam Opening Ceremony

I was going to post about this yesterday but it totally slipped my mind, orz.

After all the hard work that was put into building the 1/1 scale (18 meter tall, 35 ton) life size Gundam, the statue was finally unveiled in the opening ceremony that was held this past Friday, July 10th.

The event was attended by Amuro Ray’s seiyuu, Tohru Furuya, who opened the ceremony with “Green Tokyo Gundam Project, Ikimaasu!”. GACKT was also included among the special guests. More pics of the ceremony at Mainichi Mantan.

Again, the Gundam will be standing from July 11th to August 31st.

A few youtube videos of the opening ceremony after the jump; vids ganked via DannyChoo & Japan Probe. The ceremony looked amazing. Wish I could’ve seen it with my own eyes!

Odaiba RX-78 Gundam Night Clip

Why yes, this is another RX-78 post. Found this recent video while browsing Akiba Hobby just now. It shows Odaiba’s Gundam lit up at night with the jet mist coming out of its chest and legs (which looks way more epic than the day video I posted a few days back) along with some awesome neck movement. Unfortunately there is no SFX. It also seems the fence has been removed. I love it when the people go into awe as soon as the head/neck moves upward. Aaaaah!

Via; Akiba Hobby

ETA: Extensive photoshoots at;
—AkibaHobby
—AZURE Toy-Box
—Cutanews (has nice close-up shots)

Odaiba RX-78 Gundam Moves w/ SFX

Odaiba’s Gundam now moves! And they’ve finally added the mist and SFX too; it sounds like it’ll take off any minute! IT’S ALIIIIVE! I’m in awe.

Via; DannyChoo

Odaiba RX-78 Gundam Lit Up

After sunset, Tokyo Gundam comes to life. Yes, RX-78 now lights up at night. Can’t put into words how epic this is. I love the lighting. FUCKIN’ BEAUTIFUL. Now all that’s left is movement and the mist that’ll come out from the joints of the body. A couple of pics after the jump.

Via DannyChoo; more pics over at Pink Tentacle.