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Tokyo’s life-size Gundam is getting a new look before its end-of-summer removal
- Casey Baseel
Jun 15, 2026 - Tweet
Farewell celebration includes giveaways to help fans look a little more like Gundam themselves.
- Japan
- (anime • Gundam • Gundam statue • Japan travel • life-size Gundam • manga • mecha • odaiba • robots • Tokyo Gundam • tourism • travel • Unicorn Gundam)
Gundam teams up with 300-year-old daruma maker for wood-carved anime mecha figures[Photos]
- Casey Baseel
May 24, 2026
![Gundam teams up with 300-year-old daruma maker for wood-carved anime mecha figures[Photos]](https://soranews24.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/05/gd-1.jpg?w=640 "Gundam teams up with 300-year-old daruma maker for wood-carved anime mecha figures[Photos]")
It’s a Gun-daruma!
- Japan
- (anime • art • cool • culture • daruma • Freedom Gundam • Fukushima • Fukushima prefecture • Gundam • Gundam SEED • Justice Gundam • mecha • robots • shirakawa)
Tokyo’s life-size Gundam anime mecha statue will be removed this summer
- Casey Baseel
May 15, 2026
Goodbye (again), Gundam.
- Japan
- (anime • Gundam • Gundam statue • Japan travel • life-size Gundam • manga • mecha • odaiba • robots • Tokyo Gundam • tourism • travel • Unicorn Gundam)
McDonald’s and Gundam team up for customized anime mecha and fried chicken sandwiches[Video]
- Casey Baseel
Apr 9, 2026
Char’s invasion of Side 7 looks a little different in this continuity.
- Japan
- (anime • Chicken Tatsuta • fast food • food • fried chicken • funny • Gundam • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • mecha • Mobile Suit Gundam • robots • video)
Which Gundam is the favorite for fans in different countries? Gundam election announces results
- Casey Baseel
Apr 1, 2026
Top vote-getters for different languages have a gap of more than 30 years between them.
Gundam and Reebok team up for new GQuuuuuuX Pumps【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 11, 2025
GQuuuuuuX kicks are ready to help you walk around in mobile suit style.
- Japan
- (anime • Evangelion • fashion • GQuuuuuuX • Gundam • Gundam GQuuuuuuX • manga • mecha • Mobile Suit Gundam • Premium Bandai • Reebok • Reebok Pump • robots • shoes • sneakers • Strict-G)
New anime mecha figure’s pilot is…you!?!【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 7, 2025
Tokyo gift shop offers to put you in the cockpit of the very first anime mecha that had one.
- Japan
- (3-D Printing • 3-D scanning • anime • awesome • clever • cool • figures • manga • Mazinger Z • mecha • robots)
Tokyo hotel has a special room just for Gundam Gunpla plastic model builders【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 27, 2025
Anime-themed room has everything you need to build a Gundam model, including free kits.
- Japan
- (anime • COK • cool • Gundam • Gundam models • Gunpla • hotels • manga • mecha • models • robots • SNJO • tourism • travel)
Gundam Wing dinner show to be held at fancy hotel in downtown Tokyo with brand-new scene
- Casey Baseel
Aug 11, 2025
Heero Yuy isn’t going to kill you while you eat, but his voice actor is going to read an all-new Gundam Wing scene.
- Japan
- (anime • cool • Gundam • Gundam Wing • hotels • manga • mecha • Prince Hotels • robots • voice actors • voice actresses • weird)
Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno is writing for the new Gundam anime TV series【Vido】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 4, 2024
Anno working with other key members of the Evangelion and FLCL staff on a brand-new Gundam series full of teenage girl angst and robot team battles.
Mickey Mouse in now a transforming robot created by the designer of Gundam【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 16, 2024
Mickey, ikimasu?
- Japan
- (anime • Bandai • Bandai Spirits • cool • crazy • Disney • figures • funny • Gundam • manga • mecha • Mobile Suit Gundam • robots • Tamashii Nation • weird)
Japanese police are not messing around, with Patlabor robot mecha out on display 【Video】
- Oona McGee
Aug 28, 2024
Giant Ingram steps out of the anime world to fight crime in Japan on behalf of the police force.
- Japan
- (anime • cool • crazy • giant robot • Ingram • manga • mecha • news • only in Japan • Patlabor • police • robots • twitter • videos • weird)
Real-life pilotable anime-style robots now on sale in Japan【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Sep 28, 2023
Pre-orders open for Archax, which follows anime tradition right down to having an awesome start-up sequence.
- Japan
- (awesome • cool • crazy • mecha • robots • technology • Tsubame Industries • video)
It’s not Gunpla, it’s Gunele! Witch from Mercury fan builds awesome Gundam Aerial from Legos【Pics】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 13, 2023
And there’s even a secret hidden inside.
- Japan
- (anime • awesome • cool • Gundam • Gundam Aerial • Gundam models • Gundam Witch from Mercury • Gunpla • LEGO • manga • mecha • Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury • plastic models • robots • Witch from Mercury)
We visit the full-scale Evangelion statue in Kyoto and particularly delight in the food tie-ins
- Krista Rogers
Dec 13, 2022
Sure, testing your Eva synchronization rate in the entry plug is pretty cool, but so is the food faithfully recreated from the anime.
- Japan
- (anime • COK • entry plug • Evangelion • food • Kyoto • mecha • Neon Genesis Evangelion • robots • Saya Togashi • SNJO • theme park • Toei Eigamura • Toei Kyoto Studio Park)
McDonald’s Japan gives us a taste of the anime world with new series of Gundam burgers
- Oona McGee
Jun 25, 2022
Char takes over McDonald’s for a limited time, but are his burgers as good as he says they are?
- Japan
- (anime • burgers • Char • Char Aznable • cool • fast food • food • Gundam • hamburgers • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • mecha • Mobile Suit Gundam • robots • video)
McDonald’s Japan is selling Gundam burgers, endorsed by anime’s most charismatic antagonist【Vids】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 15, 2022
Char is here, and he’s brought a whole line of Char Custom burgers with him.
- Japan
- (anime • burgers • Char • Char Aznable • cool • fast food • food • Gundam • hamburgers • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • mecha • Mobile Suit Gundam • robots • video)
This lucky bag of anime models is also a decades-long history lesson for our mecha newbie
- Casey Baseel
Jan 5, 2022
Yellow Submarine takes us on a dive into the past with its New Year’s fukubako.
- Japan
- (anime • COK • fukubako • fukubukuro • Gunpla • Lucky Bag Roundup 2022 • Lucky Bags • lucky boxes • mecha • plastic models • robots • SNJO)
Gorgeous gold Gundams are good-God expensive【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
May 3, 2021
For the discerning, deep-pocketed fan who wants to go from Gunpla to Gungold.
- Japan
- (anime • crazy • expenive • figures • gold • Gundam • mecha • Mobile Suit Gundam • robots • Zaku)
All aboard the Rei Ayanami Line! Nagoya train line gets makeover to celebrate final EVA film
- Ingrid Tsai
Mar 19, 2021
Another reminder that anything can and will become Evangelion-ized.
- Japan
- (Aichi • anime • collaboration • Evangelion • limited edition • Maker's Pier • mecha • Nagoya • Neon Genesis Evangelion • Rei Ayanami • Tekuteku Life • train)
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