お台場ガンダム・オープニングセレモニー

It looks really cool!

absolutely beautiful

freaking awesome!!! i wish i could be there...

Gundam kakoii~

It certainly is a thing of a beauty.

Shame I cannot visit it myself.

This is the coolest thing on the planet.

Awesome. When the old Gundam Opening song started, I had a vision that the Gundam would dance to it lol. Something like the Transforming car advert ^^

this just looks awesome - im gonna cry if its not there when i go in october. I hope they decide to make it permanent, or at least extend it by a few months!

I am just hoping my trip to Japan will materialize in August, then I can say I have seen the Odaiba Gundam in person! Awesome stuff!

Looks amazing! Now I really want to go back to Japan.

This seriously should be named as a national monument!

That looks pretty awesome.

Only wish I could go and see it for myself.

Awesome. I love that you can walk right up to it and touch it. You wouldn't be able to do that here in Seattle or probably anywhere in the states.

Really, really wish I could go to see it. But not even a chance...:-(

Lights shows XD smoke effects wth its like gundam turned model, err hope they will make it a permanent site like tetsujin28

Excellent!!!
Too bad can't be in Japan b4 end of August...

SUCH EPICNESS XD and lighting effects =3 muauahaah

Pity I can't visit Japan now... Would want to see it with my own bare eyes...

So awesome its a shame i won't be there while its still up.

Ahhh sugoi!! So many people turned up for the opening! So awesome!!

The lightshow reminds me of Disneyland, or a similar theme park kinda thing. Super awesome.

Lights everywhere, I don't think they really fit into the scene though, but I suppose they need something to show the audience at night time. The commentator was awesome, haha!

dammit! i want to be there! TT_TT

whoa!

wow, it already looks like it has some weathering/discolouration on it's panels
do they ever wash this regularly?

i wish i was there >_<

Hopefully the Gundam will have such a positive reception that it will stay for a long time...

Yeah have to say that is impressive. Like everyone else I hope they definitely extend how long it will be on display.

Nice! :D So wish I was there....

I really want to see it with my very own eyes. (>_<)

LAZERS yayy ^-^

Too bad it couldn't have picked up a gun as the commentator was talking. Now *that* would have been epic beyond words.

Wait! Maybe that's what they plan to do for an *ending* ceremony! They'll have it pick up the gun, then blow off its head as it raises the gun high for a reenactment of the final battle! *That's* why the statue's not permanent! It all makes sense now!

Woah! It looks so cool!! I want to see it with my own two eyes one day lol

Yum...gundam...now to watch it move in real time and start shooting at Zeon forces may be posted in Shibuya?? how about Hiroshima??

Looks great, would've been better if I understood what he was saying. ^^; I'm still hoping they'll keep it up for a couple years.

I want to see the statues, timer. Hence how our "beacon of hopes" tells how much time we have left before an invasion force arrives.

i want to go japan and see it with my own eyes!!

Aaaaaah! AMAZING! :D

Awesome light show...man I wished they keep it up forever...

looks great! any festivities in August?

This is EPIC!

Not for long, we will have a REAL Gundam moving around us... I Hope...

It's really touching that people can get together and enjoy something like this. A kind of cross-generational memorial that Gundam was and still is the big thing.

The majority of the visitors looked like your average folks though. I expected to see more otagei. Or at least Char cosplay.

Very nice robot and nice festivities too. The daylight shots are more interesting than the night ones.

too bad we couldn't touch his feets lol I hope they will keep it forever!!!

Thanks Danny, even though I couldn't see the open ceremony in person when I visited, your blog post fills my curiosity.

Bad frigga liggin ass!

That is the most beautiful thing that I ever seen

lol
thats
the ultimate awesome ever

Laser light show is pretty cool. Kind of surprised there are so many people when it's be done for a while even though the actual ceremony hadn't occurred yet.

thstd tight...this is the part where i want to make love with my all my gundams XD!!!!!!!!!! lol jk :P

Lasers! *.*

Awesome ^^
Little do people know that it is actually fully working and is just one part of Japan's missle defense program! XD

cool, i wish i could of seen it in person l;ike everyone else
the festival look nice too

if it is real, i wanna be the pilot..^^;

So when in the ceremony will the Gundam pull out a beam saber and fly off into space? That would be even more bad ass if it could do that :)

The only thing that disappoints me is it can't roam around and start DESTROYING everything in site. What to do when you are piloting a giant robot? Of course it is to destroy things right?

Beautiful lights, I wish I could see it with my own eyes, a life sized gundam is too good to be true especially if it could be operated like one in the anime.

gundam celebration... I should be there...

Can only marvel at this masterpiece! if only it moved!

Epic, but they're taking it down after August? (saw some of the comments) -.-

I almost posted this myself because I hadn't seen it yet.

Gackt was there too~ he did some narration and they played the song of his that Gundam used a few years back. I have a feeling almost no Gackt fans knew he would be there because I couldn't hear many screams of joy from the audience. Strange... /random

That send a few shivers down my back...
All this Gundam hype recently actually made me watch the shows and i enjoyed the mecha madness more then i thought i would. ;)

If they did a full-size Eva Unit for the fifteenth or twentieth, I'd weep.
Weep, I say.

But this is still pure B.A.-ery, and I much appreciate it!

I hope that not only never remove from there.
attraction is so beautiful that would be the biggest sin!

I was there but didn`t stay for the evening ceremony.. :( Took loads of pictures in the day and could touch it too!! Amazing!! Very impressive!! I`m going back tonight to take some night shots!! Anyone want to come with me??? ;) Nippon banzai!!

Makes me want to be there even more than I want to.

I'm crying not only because of how amazing it is, but also because I know that I'll never be able to see it in person. TT______TT

soon you'll probs see a shrine dedicated to the god gundam. well it can be turned into a religion. :)

The laser show made it look kinda cheesy and underwhelming... good thing there's a life-size Gundam right there XD

can't wait to be there :Q_____

I love it!!!!

wow thats cool

Saw it yesterday. Not as big as expected, but that would make my expectations bigger than technical specs. Did not walk under it unfortunately.

Love it

"Gundamu ...Gundamu...."

*Starts shooting deadly laser beam to the spectators

*Panic ensues

awesome

It's so amazing...

that's so cool

Man.. Wish i was there to see the real thing >.<

I seriously need a ticket to Japan now.

They should totally make the other Gundams next.
Freedom life-sized anyone? XD

Woah this is really cool!

Would love to be there OMG!

I was there from 6 PM but why I didn't see any lasers. >_>
For information, the fences has been removed so you could go and touch the feet.

That must have been a ubercool event!

spectacular light show. Looks like it would just suddenly start moving.

Man, I really want to see it with my own eyes. In pictures, the Gundam looks so puny...

LOL when the song came up, it kinda looked like a disco event with all the lights blinking XD

Awsome!!

so it still cant move anywhere except its head huh.....

but i guess tats good enough already

lol very cool, when the music started (guessing it was a opening theme or something), i was thinking that is AWESOME!!!!

So cool. Wish I could go see it again. Would love to take some better weather pics and see it all lit up.

Big ass RX-78 FTW!

This is sooooo EPIC! They even allow to get so close in touching the Gundam!!!

Awesome classic opening~~~~~~~

Hope it wont be dismantle as schedule, or move it to Tokyo Disney Land~~~~

If that was in Austalian, someone would come out of the pub, after a cuppla and think it would be a funny prank to put it in the back of a ute and move it to ya mates front lawn!!

Thats why we dont do these things!!!

Cool!!!!!!!!!the most beautiful things i see n better than fireworks in disneyland, hope i can go there to feel the epic!!!!!

Awesome statue. Next project... 1/1 scale of pikachu (but bigger). its bound to happen. lol

The defination of awesome right there.Wish I could go see it in real life.Now all we need is some 1/1 evas and a gurren lagahn

MAN! This thing is awesome, but I REALLY wish it's arms would move!

woooooow.
wish i were there.

Wicked awesome...wish i had the power to be there...

They never did give him a rifle then, did they?

How can he defend Japan with no weapons?
Well, I shouldn't say NO weapons, he's still got the beam-sabers on his back.

It was awesome being there. I still can't believe I was lucky enough to be able to go to the opening ceremony. Ended up spending way too much cash on merch there too. Had to get the gunpla version of it. Ended up buying several of it and lots of other stuff. ^^'

For those able to go I highly recommend it. It's an awesome sight to see for real and not only on pictures. I was stupid enough to only bring along the camera without any extra batteries.. didn't even think about bringing the battery grip. So I've decided that I will have to go again. Will be easier getting better pictures when the place is not flooded with people too. ^^'

That is amazing. I wish I could have the chance to go and see it.

Cool! Do they ever thought about making a live action film out of it? I see how the film industry could produce something like the Transformer movies, they could probably try making a Gundam movie too! Although the storyline for the live action of Transformer movie was kinda crappy though...

i just shed manly tears~ ;A;

Words can not describe how badly I want to go see this thing in person. >_<

Now they need a Zaku II Char's custom mobile suit out there now, that would be even more EPIC!

tears...tears...so beautiful

I wish i had the money to go to japan. This alone would be worth it.

epic... I still don't get how they build it and make it look so detail

Wish I could be there...

Hiya, I'm in Japan right now. So cool, its my first time. I'll be going out to see the gundam early on Thursday, around 9-10. After that, I'm taking my first long trip to Akihabara.

Now that it's finished, what will their next project be??

I'm so jealous right now!! I wanna see the gundam.. T.T

It walks! It walks! It walks! like in the future. :D

The state of cool has been defined. It is "Gundam".

GO GUNDAM! Man... I haven't collected for a long time.

1:1 gundam really attractive, i am planning go japan 4 days for visiting him

Wow that's amazing
ten more years or lesser and that gundam will start to move

:)

Wow that's amazing
ten more years or lesser and that gundam will start to move

:)

Can't wait to go there again this August.

Thats awesome! Mi wish is to see it at live! But its a long journey from where I am... But it isn't impossible al all! XD

i shed tears for this...