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Gundam (Page 7)

Japanese fashion app Wear has one user trying to make cardboard Gundam heads the new hot style

Scott Wilson
Sep 8, 2018
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Finally, an outfit for the clothes-conscious Gundam fan… who has some spare cardboard boxes.

Japan
(clothes • fashion • funny • Gundam • wear)

Awesome fan-made stop-motion video using Gundam models is a Gundam fan’s dream come true 【Videos】

Dale Roll
Aug 17, 2018

The scene is an exact reenactment of the original Mobile Suit Gundam anime, complete with CG special effects.

Japan
(anime • cool • Gundam • Mobile Suit Gundam • models • robots • stop motion • video)

Hollywood is making a live-action Gundam movie that’s sure to please…well, probably no one

Casey Baseel
Jul 6, 2018

Legendary Entertainment is ready to roll the dice on adapting the biggest anime mecha series of all time for the overseas live-action movie market.

Japan, USA
(anime • Anime Expo • COK • Gundam • Legendary Entertainment • Legendary Pictures • Live action • mecha • movies)

Japan now has a transforming giant robot/car that two full-sized adults can ride in【Video】

Casey Baseel
Apr 27, 2018

Anime becomes reality with help from the creator of the original Gundam, and it even has a strange, hard-to-pronounce anime mecha-style name!

Japan
(anime • awesome • cars • cool • crazy • Gundam • J-deite RIDE • robots • technology • video)

Tailors to Queen of England design ultra-luxurious Gundam cosplay outfit with jaw-dropping price

Casey Baseel
Apr 20, 2018

Savile Row suit maker recreates anime villain Char’s military uniform, and it costs far more than three times what a normal cosplay costume does.

Japan
(Char Aznable • cosplay • crazy • fashion • Gundam • Isetan • otaku)

New anime figure line boasts hyper-realistic skin, super-shapely butt on its debut release【Video】

Casey Baseel
Mar 30, 2018

Clever production innovation lets designers create amazingly convincing contrast between skin and other textures.

Japan
(anime • awesome • Bandai • cool • Figure-rise Labo • figures • Gundam)

This detailed Gundam “sketch” is actually an unbelievably colored 3-D model kit!【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Mar 9, 2018

One of Japan’s most talented anime modelers continues to create works of art that look more 2-D than most actual drawings.

Japan
(anime • awesome • beautiful • cool • Gundam • models • optical illusions • robots)

Ultimate Gundam ranking being held nationwide including all series and movies, voting on now!

Master Blaster
Mar 5, 2018

It’s time to stand up and be counted, and help choose the coolest stuff to ever come out of the entire 40-year universe of Gundam.

Japan
(anime • Gundam • mecha • mobile suit • NHK • ranking • vote)

Star Wars’ BB-8 is a “Gundam?” According to one canonical scene, yes, he is

Casey Baseel
Dec 19, 2017

Yep, there’s a scene in a Star Wars movie where someone calls BB-8 a “Gundam.”

Japan
(anime • cool • Gundam • J.J. Abrams • movies • robots • Star Wars • The Force Awakens)

Gundams take over interior of Tokyo shopping mall that already has a full-scale Gundam out front

Casey Baseel
Dec 16, 2017

Rare chance to ice skate next to giant anime robot also part of winter festivities.

Japan
(anime • COK • cool • Diver City • Gundam • Gundam statue • odaiba • robots • SNOJ • Tokyo)

Anime mecha Gundam will appear in Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One【Video】

Casey Baseel
Dec 12, 2017

Old-school anime robot icon makes its Hollywood debut in adaptation coming next year.

Japan
(anime • Gundam • mecha • movies • Ready Player One • Steven Spielberg • video)

Woman fears dick pic when man suddenly sends picture of “his Gundam,” love story ensues instead

Casey Baseel
Nov 29, 2017

Expecting an image of an unwanted member, she instead found the partner she desired.

Internet, USA
(anime • awesome • funny • Gundam • love • marriage • models • relationships • robots • romance)

Tokyo’s new giant Gundam anime robot statue is complete, and it’s awesome【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Sep 25, 2017

We spend a day straining our necks and filling our anime-loving hearts to bursting staring up at the brand-new, full-size Unicorn Gundam statue.

Japan
(anime • awesome • COK • cool • Gundam • Gundam Unicorn • odaiba • robots • SNO • statues • Tokyo • travel • Unicorn Gundam)

Tokyo’s new life-size Gundam giant robot statue to be completed, open to public next month

Casey Baseel
Aug 23, 2017

Tokyo will once again be able to boast a giant anime robot come September.

Japan
(anime • awesome • cool • Gundam • Gundam statue • Gundam Unicorn • odaiba • robots • statues • Tokyo • travel • Unicorn Gundam)

Tokyo’s new Gundam statue stands tall as torso and head are mounted【Video, photos】

Casey Baseel
Aug 18, 2017

From nearly 20 meters above the ground, the Unicorn Gundam looks out over Tokyo.

Japan
(anime • awesome • cool • Gundam • Gundam statue • Gundam Unicorn • odaiba • robots • Tokyo • travel • video)

Videos show Tokyo’s new life-size Gundam is nearing completion, and has an awesome moving head

Casey Baseel
Aug 9, 2017

Fans have been shooting photos and videos of the 19.7-meter (64.6-foot) Unicorn Gundam, and it looks incredible.

Japan
(anime • awesome • cool • Gundam • Gundam statue • life-size Gundam • odaiba • robots • travel • video)

Gundam model enthusiast turns plain smartphone case into amazing work of art

Meg Murphy
Jun 13, 2017

In one day, this artist adds years to this phone case.

Japan
(100 yen shop • 100 yen store • art • creative • DIY • Gundam • model kit)

These aren’t drawings – They’re amazingly painted anime models that look totally 2-D!【Photos】

Casey Baseel
May 1, 2017

Labor of love makes the latest Gundam mecha look like something from anime’s heady hand-drawn peak.

Japan
(anime • awesome • cool • Gundam • Iron-Blooded Orphans • models • optical illusion • robots)

Hackers to Gundam: 5 rumors about failed North Korean missile launch surface on Japanese Internet

Master Blaster
Apr 18, 2017

We cannot say with 100 percent certainty that a giant robot did not intervene at the last minute.

Japan, North Korea, USA
(Gundam • missile • politics • Pretty Cure)

Tokyo’s giant Gundam statue dismantled in anime-like scene that’s warming the hearts of fans

Oona McGee
Mar 14, 2017

The significance of the event is being felt by everyone, even the workers who stopped to pose with photos of the mecha’s gigantic detached body parts.