All Posts by Danny Choo with tag "gundam"

Now it moves! Looks like they now got the steam, head movements and sound effects going. Sounds like its going to take off! And for those who missed it - the photos are in the Gundam Odaiba photo article. Original text from wcloudx below.Someo...

Just got back from Odaiba to see the 1/1 scale RX78 Gundam. WOW. Seen pics of it by day and wanted to see it by night.

Update: The night time shots I took tonight are up in the Gundam Odaiba photo article. Its complete and Punynari has more pics at his burogu! (update: and more!) Cant wait to see it with my own eyes! As for the location - it should be right he...

Update: Its complete! Father of many Dollfie daughters Punynari updates us with more progress on the 1/1 scale Gundam that's being built in Odaiba - more pics at his burogu. Gundam dolphin looks great. Up skirt shot. Love the decals. This is...

Punynari gets along to Odaiba and takes a few pics for us of the 1/1 scale Gundam thats currently being built - more pics at his burogu. From the looks of these photos, it looks like they've done a really good job in making RX78 look more than dec...

Late hijack desu. Very much looking forward to seeing this life size Gundam thats going to be built in Odaiba round the corner. Apart from the head being able to move up/down/side to side, there will be devices all over the body that will let of so...

Awesome fanmade Gundam Unicorn OP. Love the animation style - reminded me of one of my fave Gundam OP's -Stardust memory. And Stardust Memory below. And while I'm at it - don't let the OP of War in the Pocket below fool you - a brilliant an...

Today we look at the rest of the Mecha and "boys toys" from the weekends Chara Hobby - and does this Volks Gurren look stunning or what?

Looks like Bandai want a piece of the articulated figure market and are jumping on the bandwagon with their Robot Damashi (Robot Spirits) line. No need for assembly and are ready to play out of the box. The ones they had on display looked like color...

Marvin asks "What was your first Gundam?" Remember clearly my first Gundam - GFF GP01 - awesome detail. My first kit was PG MKII - pics here. Original text from marvin below.I remember Danny asked what was your first figure and how old were you...

Introducing the ZGMF-X42HZ Destiny Haruhi. Until I started to play around with the Figma series by comrades Max Factory and GoodSmile, I wasn't too sure about the elbow joint in particular which looked kinda large in photos. The joints however do...

Now that April the 1st is over in *all* time zones, we can resume with the regular articles starting with the last bit of the Tokyo Anime Fair 2008. Before we start however, I should probably go over all the lies I've told so far ^^; The first...

Gundam.info has announced that there will be a live action movie of "Gundam RX78 - Hajimari" - "Hajimari" meaning "Beginning." They also named the actor for Amuro which will be Hiroshi Tamaki who you may already know from shows like Nodame. More in...

Member Gordon has more pics of bootleg Gundams and Figures found at his local store in Singapore. Items with yellow stickers are half price of what originals cost. Does this mean there is a tacit understanding that yellow-sticker-items are bootlegs...

Some of you asked for the full res version of this the other day under this post so here it is. Cant remember the source so if anyone knows do let us know. And thanks for the feedback ^^ YouTube search for "sumeragi" turns up this video - spoiler...

A bronze statue has been placed at the south exit of Kamiigusa station in Tokyo and cost [currency=20000000] to erect. According to the article at Yomiuri, Kamiigusa was where Sunrise first set up. While the young folks may like the statue, the old...

LOL at the size of Psycho Gundam compared to some of the even bigger ones. You may need to go to Byonavi to check out a bigger version of this pic. Psycho Gundam really only 40 meters tall? If you could pilot one of these - what would you choose...

Akiba Hobby has more pics of this 1/100 scale Gundam Astraea together with more Gunpla goodies from the Miyazawa Mokei show. This looks good. I've never looked at the quality of the 1/100 scale kits recently - are they coming close to MG standard?

Member Melon pan gives us a glimpse of his otaku shrine - more pics of his big ball and stuff hanging off it at his burogu.

The Tieria version of the Yoko Photo Scans. Maybe it includes pics like this. Any takers? Via Neta. I've been missing a lot of Gundam 00 lately. How is the story progressing?

The first time I've seen Gundam cosplay without the Gundam mask...Coolio... Via Cosplay Land.

Asobit City is a chain of hobby related stores owned by the Laox group. There are three Asobit City stores in Akiba - one is Asobit Game, the Asobit Hobby is near Akihabara station and today we are going to spend some time in Asobit Chara City - th...

More photographic evidence that Gundams have been in used in previous battles between humans on Earth. Via Neta.

Check out more mobile suit mods at Ngee Khiong including a Turn A Doraemon. Would be interesting to see if anybody would actually do a bash kit of these. Via Marvin Ryan.