Gizmodo: tetsujin

Gigantor Lives!

Mark Wilson — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:00:00 EDT

Free from the planning and the scaffolding, the $1.5 million Gigantor (or Tetsujin) statue is now complete.

Measuring 60 feet tall and weighing in at 50 tons, just pray that a lightning bolt doesn't strike the giant robot, lest he develop a consciousness before doing movie/TV impressions all day long.

[Robot Watch via CrunchGear]

Japan's Love of Gigantic Robots Continues with Kobe's Tetsujin

Adam Frucci — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:20:00 EDT

First, it was a life-sized Gundam in Tokyo. Now, Kobe has just completed its life-sized Tetsujin, or Gigantor, robot. Haven't you seen your own disaster movies, Japan? This isn't going to end well.

[Japan Probe]

Korea's Massive 364-Foot Taekwon V Statue Will Crush Puny Humans

Danny Allen — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:45:55 EDT

Holy crap! So Japan builds giant Gundam and Testsujin statues (59 and 60-feet, respectively), now Korea is building this freakin' huge Taekwon V (Voltar the Invincible) replica that will be more than twice the height of the Statue of Liberty.

Taekwon V will be the center-piece of Robot Land, a nearly $600 million dollar development of entertainment areas, exhibition halls, research centers and businesses that we've mentioned in the past. Though it broke ground long before the Japanese projects, many believe Korea's Taekwon V cartoons copied Japan's Mazinger Z in the first place. Reow.

The park is set to open to the public in 2012, with full access starting in 2013. And yes, that's a monorail whizzing past Taekwon V's ankles. Awesome. [Robot Land (translated) via Plastic Pals]

Japan Building Another Gigantic Robot: Tetsujin

Mark Wilson — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:00:00 EDT

We knew this day would come. Japan builds one giant robot and, like a first taste of heroin, the country follows a destructive path of building opulent robo statues until there's a 60-foot robot for every man, woman and child.

Now that the Gundam is complete, Kobe's Wakamatsu Park is next on the list to build their very own life-sized Tetsujin (also known as Gigantor, I believe). 60 feet tall and weighing in at 50 tons, Tetsujin will be on permanent display starting in October (an installation that may turn to semi-permanent should Tetsujin grow tired of photo ops).

And as you can see in the clip and gallery below, building a fake giant robot can't look much different from building a real giant robot. Sparks. Hardhats. Subtitles. Imminent human death. Yeah, this is about as real as fiction gets. [Kobe Tetsujin Project via toysrevil via The Awesomer via botropolis] The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.