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Japanese politicians want to build a real, working Gundam bot. Really.
There have been a few Gundam bot statues erected in Japan over the last few years, but Japanese politicians now want to claim their pre-ordained role in being the first nation to have actual working Gundams. For reals and shit.
In an upcoming broadcast on Japanese video platform Nico Nico Live, members of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party are apparently going to discuss the idea of building a real life Gundam.
The Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled Japan for over fifty years after World War II, is not actually “liberal”. Rather, the party is conservative. As ANN pointed out, party members Masaaki Taira and Hideki Niwa are slated to discuss how the LDP is “seriously considering the development of Gundam.”
Back in 2008, it was estimated that a working (not just a full scale mock-up like above), one-to-one scale would cost US$725,000,000 for parts and materials. That figure doesn’t include the cost of labor or the cost of insanity required to build such a machine.
These politicians probably do not mean they want to make a 60-foot tall, 43.7 metric ton Gundam replica (at least I hope they don’t), but instead, large mecha contraptions that could be used by, presumably, the country’s Self Defense Force. In an age of drone attacks, however, mecha don’t exactly seem ideal on the battlefield.
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posted 29 June, 2012
by cranberryzero
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i am moving to Japan and I am becoming a gundam pilot
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WE ALL WANT THAT! HURRY THE FUCK UP!
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Rest of the World: Why? Why the fuck not?
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CAUSE WHAT REASON IS THERE TO NOT MAKE A WORKING GUNDAM?
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see y’all asses want to fuck around and fund an unneeded war in Afghanistan. meanwhile, Japan is over here on some other...
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Japan… don’t you have enough nice things?
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