Japan's Fuji-Q HighLand amusement park has unveiled the world's first life-size bust of the Evangelion  anime's EVA-01 unit before members of the media on Thursday. The public grand opening of the "Evangelion: World - Life-Size EVA-01 Construction Project" pavilion will actually take place next Friday, and the theme park plans to stream the event live on the Ustream website.

The pavilion's main attraction recreates the scene where the anime's main character Shinji Ikari encounters the EVA-01 unit in its 7th Cage hangar for the first time. The bust measures 9 meters (about 30 feet) tall and 16 meters (52 feet) wide. The pavilion also has a life-size Entry Plug cockpit of an Evangelion unit (from where visitors can pay to have their photos taken), life-size figures of the character Kaworu Nagisa and the SEELE monoliths, a miniature video theater, a museum, two studio galleries for taking photographs, and a shop. The construction costs of the whole facility eventually added up to 150 million yen (US$1.6 million).

The pavillion's official website is streaming the sixth and final progress report video on its construction. The video includes a summary of the previous videos, a tour of the facility, and a sneak peak of the life-size bust. The following websites have posted images from the press tour:

    * Jiji Press
    * Walker Plus
    * Sankei Sports
    * Response.jp

Fuji-Q HighLand is located near the foot of Mt. Fuji, and it has already hosted two amusement park attractions based on the Gundam anime franchise in the past, including a life-size Gundam figure (lying down on the ground). A second life-size Gundam figure stood on Tokyo's artificial Odaiba island last summer, and it will stand again with a full-length beam saber in Shizuoka, the home of Bandai's main Gundam plastic model kit factory. The city of Kobe unveiled a life-size figure of Tetsujin 28-gō (Ironman 28 or Gigantor), the manga/anime robot created by Kobe native Mitsuteru Yokoyama.

source: animenewsnetwork
some pics are get from the sites above

O_O Japanese girls...

(15/07/2010 09:05 PM)300nukez Wrote:  O_O Japanese girls...

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(15/07/2010 09:05 PM)300nukez Wrote:  O_O Japanese girls...

holy fudgeing spoon fucck they have japanese girls work in a japanese park


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on a serious note:
poll: to line up or not next friday?

(16/07/2010 01:58 AM)Kana Wrote:  ________________________________
on a serious note:
poll: to line up or not next friday?

DO EEET

(16/07/2010 07:27 AM)Davis Wrote:  Need... real... mecha.  

one of my goals in life is to rule a country
if I ever do I will make A FULLY FUNCTIONAL GUNDAM in its honor
not just a grandam statue like the one in japan

(16/07/2010 06:41 AM)eKusoshisut0 Wrote:  

(16/07/2010 01:58 AM)Kana Wrote:  ________________________________
on a serious note:
poll: to line up or not next friday?

DO EEET

one problem with the japanese is they LOVE lining up for something, this kebab stand was empty the other day, then me and 2 more friends lined up for it, immediately after that there was like 8 japanese people (not in one group for sure) just lined up behind us.

=/ so i bet if i don't be there at least 5 hours earlier i won't get in till much later.

(15/07/2010 07:33 PM)krystabegnalie Wrote:  

dibs on the red glasses