It's a Gundam!

A couple of weeks ago I headed down to Odaiba for the first time and wandered around some of the main attractions. It's a very artificial and commercial area, with some great shops and interesting sites. Unfortunately my pictures don't do any justice as the rainy season has brought nothing but muggy days with grey skies and clouds.


The 30th anniversary of Gundam was this year and for the event they actually have an actual scaled ratio Gundam standing in the middle of one of the parks. The construction has been completed and it's rumored to also light up and move later on. After seeing this I honestly don't believe there isn't anything Japan can't do.

Tokyo Gundam Expo... for free?!

Checked out Ikebukuro today, famous for being a well-known shopping district. The mall was quite large but unfortunately most of the stores cater to females since a fair amount of them are clothing, make-up, and accessories. There were like seven floors to explore, but the top floors had designated expo rooms for random events going on. Kyle and I had no idea but there was coincidentally a Gundam expo happening at the same time of our visit. There were random posters setup around the mall and we finally found the entrance on the 5th floor. We decided to check it out since we were there and weren't expecting much of anything. Turns out it was quite intricate and really cool for a free expo.


There were tv monitors looping 20 years of Gundam intro's and music. Most of the standing models were scaled 1/6th of size of the actual gundam, with the amount of detail metticulously accurate. Gundam Seed was my favourite saga so it was awesome finding the display for it mid-way through the expo.


The new intro for Gundam 00: Season 2