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Mobile Suit Gundam

New Gundam plush goods mix cosplay and comfort for Char-custom-level coziness [Pics]

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 13, 2026
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Even the Red Comet needs a nap sometimes, right?

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• Japan
• (anime • Char Aznable • cool • cosplay • crazy • cushions • Gundam • interior • manga • mecha • Mobile Suit Gundam • Premium Bandai • weird)

Opening of new Gundam anime superstore in America postponed indefinitely

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 3, 2026

Gundam Base Minneapolis grand opening has been derailed by “unforeseen circumstances.”

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• Japan
• (anime • Bandai Namco • Gundam • Gundam Base • Gundam store • Mall of America • manga • mecha • Mobile Suit Gundam)

New Gundam Base superstores coming soon in the U.S., with one opening this month

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 19, 2026

Bandai Namco’s store that’s all about anime Mobile Suits is moving into new territories.

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• Japan, USA
• (anime • Bandai Namco • Gundam • Gundam Base • Gundam store • Mall of America • manga • mecha • Mobile Suit Gundam)

New Gundam megastore announced for one of Tokyo’s most popular tourist neighborhoods

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 12, 2026

A new mecha mecca is coming to Shibuya.

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• Japan
• (anime • Gundam • Gundam Base • Gundam models • Gunpla • manga • Mobile Suit Gundam • plastic models • Shibuya • Shibuya Parco)

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.

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• Japan
• (anime • Chicken Tatsuta • fast food • food • fried chicken • funny • Gundam • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • mecha • Mobile Suit Gundam • robots • video)

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.

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• Japan
• (anime • Evangelion • fashion • GQuuuuuuX • Gundam • Gundam GQuuuuuuX • manga • mecha • Mobile Suit Gundam • Premium Bandai • Reebok • Reebok Pump • robots • shoes • sneakers • Strict-G)

Nope, these are NOT Gundam Char Aznable sunglasses! No siree…not at all…

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 19, 2025

Finally, someone who’s not Char gets to stand in the spotlight’s shine!

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• Japan
• (anime • Char Aznable • fashion • glasses • Gundam • manga • Mobile Suit Gundam • Premium Bandai • Quattro Vageena • robots • Strict-G • sunglasses • Zeta Gundam)

45 years of Gundam history assemble at Uniqlo for new anime T-shirt line【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 5, 2025

Hero mecha from across decades of anime history come together for a very cool group shot.

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• Japan
• (anime • fashion • Gundam • manga • Mobile Suit Gundam • shirts • t-shirts • Uniqlo • UT • With from Mercury)

Mickey Mouse in now a transforming robot created by the designer of Gundam【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 16, 2024

Mickey, ikimasu?

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• Japan
• (anime • Bandai • Bandai Spirits • cool • crazy • Disney • figures • funny • Gundam • manga • mecha • Mobile Suit Gundam • robots • Tamashii Nation • weird)

The heartwarming story of Japan’s “Weakling Gundam” and the fans who supported it in its hour of need

• Oona McGee
  Aug 27, 2024

A roadside mecha with a touching backstory.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • COK • cool • cute • Fukushima • Gundam • Gundam statue • heartwarming • Hetare Gundam • life-size Gundam • manga • Mobile Suit Gundam • robots • SNJO • touching • tourist sites • travel • Weak Gundam • Weakling Gundam)

Life-size Gundam statue to appear in Osaka for first time ever

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 27, 2024

Full-scale anime mecha strikes a new pose in Kansai.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • cool • Expo 2025 • full-size Gundam • Gundam • Gundam statue • life-size Gundam • manga • Mobile Suit Gundam • Osaka • robots)

Call of Duty’s Gundam crossover looks really weird (if you can read Japanese)【Pics】【Update】

• Casey Baseel
  May 21, 2024

Human-sized Gundams fighting on the streets of Tokyo aren’t as strange as some of the signage behind them.

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• Japan, USA
• (Activision • anime • call of duty • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 • Gundam • Japanese language • linguistics • manga • Mobile Suit Gundam • robots • video games • weird)

Japanese man tells friend to wear suit to wedding party, so he comes as Mobile Suit Gundam

• Casey Baseel
  May 15, 2024

Finds time to fight Evangelion while celebrating friend’s marriage.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • cosplay • cosplayers • crazy • Gundam • manga • Mobile Suit Gundam • otaku • robots • video • Wedding • wedding reception • World Cosplay Summit)

Awesome new Gundam manhole covers coming to Japanese prefecture for first time

• Casey Baseel
  May 4, 2024

Anime mecha poses with towns most delicious claim to fame.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • cool • Gundam • Gundam manhole covers • manga • manhole covers • Mobile Suit Gundam • robots)

Japan’s life-size moving Gundam closes down, gets sent off in style with fireworks, drone art 【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 1, 2024

Goodbye, Gundam.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • cool • Gundam • Gundam Factory Yokohama • Gundam statue • life-size Gundam • manga • Mobile Suit Gundam • moving Gundam • video • Yokohama)

Japanese handmade sneaker company teams up with Gundam for awesome mobile suit-themed shoes

• Dale Roll
  Aug 29, 2023

These made-in-Japan sneakers are super cool!

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• Japan
• (Gundam • made in japan • Mobile Suit Gundam • P-Bandai • shoes • sneakers • Strict-G • Zeta Gundam)

Great Gundam news! Japan’s life-size moving giant robot statue won’t close down this year after all

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 21, 2023

Gundam Factory extends operations for all the fans who couldn’t make it to Yokohama during the pandemic.

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• Japan
• (anime • full-scale Gundam • Gundam • Gundam Factory Yokohama • Gundam statue • life-size Gundam • manga • Mobile Suit Gundam • moving Gundam • robots • travel • Yokohama)

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?

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• 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.

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• Japan
• (anime • burgers • Char • Char Aznable • cool • fast food • food • Gundam • hamburgers • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • mecha • Mobile Suit Gundam • robots • video)

Gundam metaverse on the way, will let you send Gunpla you build in the real world into battle

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 30, 2022

Side-G will be made of colonies celebrating the many different facets of Gundam fandom.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • Gundam • Gunpla • metaverse • Mobile Suit Gundam • video games)

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