Posts Tagged ‘Bandai’

18-Meter Gundam to Rise at Tokyo’s Odaiba Island in July “Life-size” statue to stand in island’s Shiokaze Park for two months March 11th, 2009

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18-Meter Gundam to Rise at Tokyo's Odaiba Island in July

Not-So-Daily Link of the Day: The official website for the 30th anniversary of Sunrise‘s Gundam robot anime franchise has announced on Wednesday that an 18-meter-tall (59-foot-tall), “life-size” statue of the title robot will be built at Tokyo’s artificial Odaiba island this July. The website proclaims that as part of the “Mobile Suit Gundam 30th Anniversary Project,” “Gundam will rise from the ground.” The “Real na Gundam” statue of the RX-78-2 Gundam model from the first anime series (1979) will be built at Odaiba’s Shiokaze Park at the beginning of July.

The statue will be free for viewing, but it will only stay up for two months. It will be built with fiberglass-reinforced plastic over a steel frame so it can be disassembled later. The head unit will move and the body will have 50 points that will emit light. Mist can shoot forth from 14 locations on the body. The park is just four trains stops from Tokyo Big Sight, the home of the Comic Market dōjinshi convention and the Gundam Big Expo convention that will be held from August 21 to August 23. Bandai Namco Group is still determining what to do with the statue after its allotted two months in the park are over.

source: Animenewsnetwork.com

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Upcoming projects from Bandai! February 24th, 2009

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New project for Gundam 30th Anniversary (Gundam ACE Magazine)

Title: Unknown

Mechanic Design: Katoki Hajime
Character Design: Suzuki Tatsuya

Mobile Suit: Phantom Gundam Unit No.7

*RX-78-7 original design by Kunio Okawara

EARTH FEDERATION PHANTOM SWEEP TEAM

Hughes Curro: Male. Age 32. A veteran officer who leads the Phantom Sweep special forces unit charged with hunting for Zeon remnants. He has a bitter experience in which his unit was annihilated in the past.

Sherry Allison: Female. Age 24. She was serving as a test pilot but was assigned to the special forces unit as a replacement.

ZEON FORCES INVINCIBLE KNIGHTS

Erik Blanque (Blank): Male. Age 20. A young officer whose family is a distinguished family in the Principality of Zeon. He takes command of the “Invincible Knights” in order to execute a counterattack operation against the Earth Federation Forces.

Story: The time is Universal Century 0081. One year has passed since the war. Although the world was regaining order, small-scale battles continued in various places by the Zeon remnants who still continued to resist. During the situation, a veteran soldier of the Earth Federation Forces is appointed to a cleanup operation of the Zeon remnant forces. Feelings mix on the battlefield as the young Zeon officers advance their secret strategy for the revival of Zeon…

Detail from Gundamnews

SDX SD Full Armor Knight Gundam

SDX Satan Gundam

SD Gundam Impact Vol.5

Source: SRW Hotnews

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PG Gundam Astray Red Frame January 18th, 2009

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PG Gundam Astray Red Frame

The Newest Perfect Grade from Bandai its a weird choice but not the worst (V Gundam!) Being released sometime in March its gonna retail for 18,000 Yen which is around $198.69 (at the current rate!)

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Bandai’s Gun O’clock: shoot the target or you’ll never snooze again October 22nd, 2008

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Bandai's Gun O'clock: shoot the target or you'll never snooze again

We’ve seen no shortage of unorthodox alarm clocks, but Bandai’s latest creation is nothing short of spectacular. Rather than making users defuse a bomb or catch a runaway helicopter, the appropriately named Gun O’clock actually forces heavy sleepers to aim a gun and successfully strike the bullseye to shut the undoubtedly obnoxious alarm up. Best of all, those who enjoy challenges can set it to “Hard” mode, requiring them to blast the center target no fewer than five times in order to hush it; after you’re satisfactorily awake, you can utilize the game mode to work on your aim. This magnificent wonder is all set to launch in Japan next month for ¥4,095 ($41), but we don’t see any obvious signs of it ever coming Stateside. Anyone feeling an online petition? We hear those work really well.

[Via Engadget.com]

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Bandai Entertainment to Release ‘Sola’ and ‘True Tears’ September 30th, 2008

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Bandai Entertainment to Release 'Sola' and 'True Tears'

Bandai Entertainment has announced that it will release the Sola and True Tears anime under its Anime Legend imprint. The Bandai Entertainment Anime Legend releases will be subtitled only, with a single, comprehensive product for each title. Thirteen episodes of Sola, along with two OVAs, will be released at a $44.98 MSRP. The entire series collection of True Tears will be released at $39.98 MSRP.

The titles were originally licensed to Bandai Visual, and had most recently been planned as subbed and dubbed Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise releases

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Preview of the upcoming VF-25F 1/72. September 14th, 2008

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Preview of the upcoming VF-25F 1/72.

The 1/72 scale VF-25F from Macross Frontier will be released soon/ It will be the Alto Saotome Version and Bandai will release it sometime in September this year.

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