As I come back from a long weekend in Tokyo to my home sweet home in Yamaguchi, feeling like crap from a 5 hour train ride on the Shinkonsen bullet train wile getting what I can only guess to be Swine Flu from the poor venting section non-smoking section of the train, I can only feel a sense of self fulfillment.

Just to see this monolith was amazing. To think that a company would build a life size 1/1 scale Gundam for its fan base is simply impressive. Not to mention the fact that they are not charging to see the 35 ton robot titan, but the fact that they have guards and cleaning crew take watch over this great to make sure that it will be in its sparkling glory (even though it is the rainy season) before it is taken down.

On detail I would have to say this thing is scary as hell and with the masses of people watching over it gives me a bit of an unsettling feeling when looking at it. Its massive, its beautiful, and its brilliantly located. The surrounding area complements it very well and from some view would make you even imagine it gearing up for combat.

There was only one problem I had about it, and that is the fact that you can not even get really close to the thing as they have put up a fence around it that somewhat kills the mode and takes away from the epicness of a full 1/1 scale Gundam.

I am going to grade this 2 ways.
Epic greatness of things that Japan has made.
And
Pure crazy that this was even built.

On Epic greatness, unless you’re a hardcore Gundam fan you would not give 2 cents that this thing is even there. You might even give it a what so special about it if you did not look at the real detail of the giant.
As for me being a long standing fan, I loved it and had fun just taking pictures of it. But I live in Japan and it was not that hard for me to get there to look at it.
All that said I don’t think flying over to Japan to see the thing is the way to go if you don’t live here, Unlike the really nice group of German people I meet in a Gundam fan club which said they came to the monolith 4 days in a row just to be close to it. 7 of 10.

On pure crazy, I would have to say this thing was breath taking and gave me a feeling of hope/dread that a thing like this could really be made pushing us one step closer to giant robot warfare. Yes it looks that real in person. 10 of 10.

I might post some videos later but for now please enjoy the pictures.