Mobile Suit Gundam

Having already chronicled the proud presentation of the 1/1 scale Mobile Suit Gundam in Shizuoka, Japan last year, YouTube user darwinfish105 has returned to see the mech warrior reassembled in Odaiba. Gundam's legs get most of the love here as crews work to return the RX-78-2 to its rightful configuration. It's basically the biggest exercise in gunpla (Gundam model kit building) known to man. See

Art: Adam Koford illustrates The Seven Deadly Sins of Jabba's Palace. Cyber Monday: Top Shelf Productions is offering a 30% discount on everything in its Web store, including Blankets and Infinite Kung Fu. Statues: It looks like a new 1:1 scale Mobile Suit Gundam statue will come to Tokyo's Odaiba in spring 2013...

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If you're a Japanese otaku growing bored of your crippling iPhone GPS dependence, Namco Bandai could have the solution for you -- gaming your way to destinations with Mobile Suit Gundam. Gundam Navi, the first of a line of Character Navi programs, is a new GPS app that transforms a user's commute into "battle events" that pit a location marker against randomly generated enemies lined up

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If there's one franchise that's covered the videogame console market (and, well, every market) in Japan and abroad it's Gundam. But considering the iPhone and iPod touch's ever growing role as a gaming device, it's no surprise that the property is continuing to reach beyond conventional handheld devices this winter with three new apps designed with the mecha crowd in mind...

Well, you can chalk up another example of geek culture either being full-on embraced by the mainstream or possibly already on the downturn, depending on your stance on nü-metal rap-rock. If you're a fan of "Gundam" and Linkin Park, you're gonna want to sit down for this one, because as reported by the Anime News Network yesterday, not only will the band be providing the theme song for th

Remember the beginnings of that awesome fan-made "Mobile Suit Gundam" statue constructed entirely from model kit runners (the plastic frames that builders pop pieces from) that was shaping up in Japan a few months back? Well, it's finally fully-formed and the results may be more impressive than any single regularly-assembled Namco Bandai kit...