In celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Mobile Suit Gundam space opera franchise, a 18-meter (59 feet) tall life-size Gundam statue is built and almost near completion. It is set to unveil in July and be open for public viewing for two months on Tokyo’s artificial Odaiba island. More at ANN.

More awesome pictures at Mainichi.

I believe when the global technological conflict of World War III comes around, Japan will clearly have an advantage. They have their life-size Gundam unit ready to deploy at any moment for aerial battle, and they have old men building 15-ton Armored Beetle Tanks to fight on the ground. Its only a matter of time before they build life-size EVA units to take over the world, colonize the moon while harvesting minerals from Mars and refurbishing Pluto as a gigantic nuclear explosive to repel Angels from invading. AH!

At least the Chinese have giant Buddhas to defend themselves…oh crap Japan has way more giant Buddhas than us. India and Afghanistan have them too! NOOOOO!
Hides in cave like a terrorist.

-phibz.