18-m Tetsujin 28/Gigantor Statue's Construction Video Streamed
Anime News Network — [image] Not-So-Daily Link of the Day: A construction video of the "life-size," 18-meter-tall statue of Mitsuteru Yokoyama 's Tetsujin 28 -gō (Ironman #28 or Gigantor ) robot has been posted on the YouTube website on Tuesday. The parts of the 59-foot-tall statue will be transported to the final site at Kobe's Wakamatsu Park for assembly at the end of July. It was scheduled to be constructed in August, but its completion is now planned for the end of September with a ceremony on October 4. (The initial plans called for a spring 2008 opening.) The Kobe Tetsujin Project's statue is ...

Gigantor VS Gundam: Which Is Cooler?
AnimeVice Site Mashup — So you've seen a lot of footage of Japan's “life-size Gundam” in Odaiba now. But how much have you seen of the 18-meter-tall “life-size” Gigantor (or Tetsujin-28) statue in Kobe? It's probably not entirely fair to compare the projects, since the Kobe statue-- in commemoration of the city's revival after the 1995 earthquake –is a permanent fixture, and I believe one that won't have any flashy lights or other effects going on, while the Gundam, of course, is going to be short-lived but moves and lights up. Still, the two projects going on around the same time simply invite comparisons. The ...

dannychoo.com: Kobe Tetsujin
AnimeBlogger.net Antenna — Tokyo gets the 1/1 scale Gundam and Kobe gets the 1/1 scale Tetsujin 28. Tetsujin will be 18 meters tall and is in the middle of construction. Construction cost of the monument is 135,000,000 yen (1.4 million USD) with 45,000,000 yen of that being paid by the city of Kobe. The rest is being paid by donations and businesses. The monument will be completed on the 4th of October and you will be able to see it in Shin-Nagata Kobe. Video and photos below of some of the construction work going on. Maybe these 1/1 scale mecha's being constructed around Japan are our secret defense system? ^^; Some retro Tetsujin below. And for those who have not seen ...

Tetsujin 28 Huge mecha delayed!
Cartoon Leap Anime Blog — Tetsujin 28 Huge mecha delayed! A couple of days ago, We reported the news about Japan building another huge mecha for August. It seems the release date will be delayed at least for two months. [image] A construction video of the “life-size,” 18-meter-tall statue of Mitsuteru Yokoyama’s Tetsujin 28-gō (Ironman #28 or Gigantor) robot has been posted on the YouTube website on Tuesday. The parts of the 59-foot-tall statue will be transported to the final site at Kobe’s Wakamatsu Park for assembly at the end of July. It was scheduled to be constructed in August, but its completion is now planned for the end of September with a ceremony on October 4. (The initial plans ...

Sankaku Complex: Giant 18M Tetsujin 28 Statue Nears Completion
AnimeBlogger.net Antenna — kobe-tetsujin-28-project-2.jpg Mitsuteru Yokoyama’s Tetsujin 28-gō (鉄人 28 号, Iron Man #28, usually known in the US as Gigantor) is set to be permanently immortalised in Kobe as a 18m life size statue, and is nearing completion. The statue, which will have it’s final base at Wakamatsu Park, was planned to be finished in August, but has now been pushed back to the end of September, with its official unveiling is due in October. It can be seen in more detail below: kobe-tetsujin-28-project.jpg Unlike Bandai’s by now exceedingly famous RX-78 life size Gundam at Odaiba , the Tetsujin 28 is intended to commemorate the revitalision of Kobe, after the 1995 ...

Iron God Of Peace ~ Kobe Tetsujin Project
NeoShinka — Tetsujin 28-go Tetsujin 28-gō (鉄人28号, Iron Man #28″) is a 1956 manga written and illustrated by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, who also created Giant Robo. The manga was later adapted into several anime TV series, the first in 1963. It was the first manga to feature a giant robot. The 1963 series was later ...

Kobe Tetsujin Project Almost Finished
alafista.com — Gigazine has posted up some photos of the Kobe Tetsujin project, and it seems like the 1/1 scale giant robot is almost complete ^^ The project is scheduled to be completed by October and it seems like they are on schedule. Here’s a poster showing how finished statue would look like: Source: Gigazine Here’s an youtube video of the early parts of the construction: This is gonna be an awesome landmark in Kobe. I’m glad that it will be a permanent fixture unlike the 1/1 Gundam Statue which will be taken down soon. Related ...