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1/1-Scale Gundam Highlights New Park Attraction
posted on by Egan Loo
The Mobile Suit Gundam Taneshi website reports that the Fuji-Q HighLand amusement park will open a new Gundam attraction featuring a life-size, 1/1-scale Gundam model. The Gundam Crisis walkthrough attraction is scheduled to open in July of 2007 for 800 yen ($7, or free with an all-day free ).
40 attendees at a time can clear the different mission stages of the attraction, which depicts a hanger on the Earth Federation-occupied Solomon space fortress of the first mecha pursue them.
At 18 meters (59 feet) tall, a life-size RX-78-2 Gundam can comfortably look into a five-story window, although the attraction's description implies that its model will not be standing. Even though the attraction will the exhibit as the "world's first life-size, full-body 1/1 Gundam," the city of Jiayi, Taiwan made a life-size RX-78-2 Gundam lantern for its Lantern Festival this year.
Other examples of large Gundams include a 2/3-scale LM312V04 sold to a private collector.
Source: Gunota Headlines
