Gundam

When it comes to model kits, my love for Bandai's scores of Gundam toys really knows no bounds. They do have one weakness, though: waste. Unlike conventional action figures, the model kits leave behind some excess plastic in the form of "runners," which hold each model piece into place prior to assembly...

It may not tap the burgeoning powers of newtypes in a colonial war spanning the Earth and the stars, but Bandai's soon-to-open Gundam Café will reportedly serve a mean cup of java - and even a fried mobile suit? The Gundam Café is set to open on April 24 in Tokyo and will seat up to 60 visitors. Menu items i...

Illustrators, if you're looking to shake up your drawing style with some unexplored forms of technology, you don't have to wait around for Apple's iPad to come out and you don't need a new expensive tablet. All you need is Microsoft Excel. YouTube user and artist shukei01 has just blown me away with this video showing how Excel can be used as an illustration tool...

As if it wasn't bad enough that Japan has already constructed a 60-foot Gundam statue that's destined to murder us all, now we've got remote controlled fighting versions of the mecha suits to worry about as well. Kotaku has posted a video from the International Robot Expo in Tokyo featuring a one-on-one battle between two remote controlled Gundam robots...

Japan may have just completed another insanely awesome scale giant robot replica in the form of Gigantor, and yes, the 1:1 scale Gundam RX-78-2 from this summer was generally spectacular, but there's one bot who did it first and did it best: Giganta - the robot playground...

Short of learning to sing in Japanese, most English-speaking anime and J-Pop fans must content themselves with shoving translated approximations from fan dubs into their favorite theme song melodies. Thanks to rocker Andrew W.K., however, fans of the "Mobile Suit Gundam" trilogy now have 16 translated tracks care of Universal Music Japan to shout along to whenever the musical mood strike

Maybe I'm the only one who feels slightly terrified by this life-sized "Gundam" mecha, which stands 60 feet tall and was recently constructed in Japan for the popular anime's 30th anniversary. As I have watched "Gundam," these pictures make me feel as though it could come to life at any moment and lay waste to a major metropolitan area...