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NEWS: Giant Gundam Lantern




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coffee



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:55 pm Reply with quote
Officially the best lamp ever. The best part was how he made the hand do the rocker symbol, that's just hilarious seeing a gundam make that gesture.
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dutchdevil



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:11 pm Reply with quote
Thats amazing! i personally like the head the most since it's the face of the gundam so Smile
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Emerje



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:23 pm Reply with quote
coffee wrote:
Officially the best lamp ever. The best part was how he made the hand do the rocker symbol, that's just hilarious seeing a gundam make that gesture.


It's also sign language for "love" which is more likely the reason for using it.

But yes, that's an amazing likeness.

Emerje
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Riyousha



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:42 pm Reply with quote
OMG! That is so *lion roar*in' awesome!

This makes me wanna make sculptures of giant robots out of different material. If only someone could make an M&M's mosaic of Demolishor.
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penguintruth



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:01 am Reply with quote
I hear they were going to do one of Char's mobile suits, but they decided against it, because it would burn out three times faster.
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dormcat
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:10 pm Reply with quote
UPDATE: After the lantern festival, the Gundam lantern was ferried back to Taipei National University of the Arts. However, a TNUA alumnus who has been busy saving Losheng Sanatorium, a leprosy / Hansen's disease "hospital" (de facto a quarantine center), had an idea and borrowed the lantern from its creator. He and the creator reassembled it in front of the Sanatorium and use it as a guardian of the aging building, an act that highly welcomed by its residents, for they regard the lantern as a symbol of justice.

Pictures can be found here: http://picasaweb.google.com.tw/jinyao.lin/maYugK
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dormcat
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:37 pm Reply with quote
More update: a video recorded how the lantern was disassembled at TNUA, transported, and reassembled at Losheng Sanatorium.

Can anyone identify the background music?
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