Giant Gundam in Odaiba - Tokyo Intro: Experience #15 of 55

A giant, towering robot stands in front of the Diver City Mall in Odaiba.  The robot statue has some limited movements and transformations, with a light show that runs every so often, but it looks best at night.  The RX-0 Unicorn Gundam is slightly taller and larger than the original RX-78-2 Gundam it replaced, and stands at 19.7 meters (64.7 feet) in height, but it also transforms into Destroy Mode by activating the Psycho Frame where it moves parts and glows bright red.  It is a very cool, very big 1:1 scale giant robot statue.

When you are done taking pictures of it, visit the Diver City Mall behind it.  Inside it is the Gundam Base Gunpla (Gundam model) store.  There are a ton of model kits to buy, a builder space, and tons of built kits on display. There are also some life-sized figures and big robot statues.  If you like models, you'll love this place and Gunpla is very popular in Japan (it doesn’t even need glue as the parts snap together so well).

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Diver City Tokyo is a shopping mall that has a main floor food court, big arcade, lots of neat shops, and a restaurant food floor with a Mai Dreaming Maid Cafe, conveyor belt sushi, and even a McDonald’s.  Diver City is located right behind the Fuji TV building.  You could make a long day here on the island by taking the monorail over to see the Miraikan Technology Museum, then make a medium-ish walk over to Diver City, then Fuji TV for cool architecture.  For more malls in the vicinity, there is Aqua City, the Decks, and the Roman themed mall VenusFort.

If you still want more giant robots, you can see the Macross Valkyrie VF-25F at the Chiba Institute of Technology Robot Museum at the Tokyo Skytree (8th floor of the Solomachi Mall there).  The Valkyrie is a partial, full-scale model of the robot in Gerwalk mode.

Note: A new attraction is supposed to open in the fall of 2020 next to the Gundam Factory Yokohama at Yamashita Pier.  It is supposed to have a giant animated RX-78 Gundam that can do test movements inside a hangar frame.  The attraction will end in 2023..

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