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15-Meter Space Battleship Yamato Model Rises in Tokyo
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The official blog of the live-action TBS Akasaka Sacas area in Tokyo. The exhibit will remain on display from November 20 to December 4.
The film uses computer graphics (CG) to depict the spaceship, so the model is based on the film's CG data for its design. The exhibit will feature a "Wave Motion Gun Laser Show" complete with the "firing" of the ship's trademark bow armament. There will also be a Yamato Gallery with actual costumes, props, and miniatures (including the Cosmo Zero, Cosmo Tiger, and Gamilas/Gamilon craft) from the film.
According to the official blog, the live-action film's Yamato spaceship is 533.6 meters long, which makes the exhibit model about 1/36-scale. The original anime version of the spaceship was 265.8 meters long, or just under half the length of the new live-action version's spaceship. A five-meter-long (16-feet-long) film. The English-language Starblazers.com website posted images of a smaller two-meter-long (seven-feet-long) cutaway model that first went on display in 1977.
37-year-old Yoshinobu Nishizaki.
Source: Cinema Today
Image © 2010 Space Battleship Yamato Production Committee
