Oh, and the statue weighs 80 metric tons (176,370 pounds). Even more impressive is that the tip of the long-range fin funnels, as the weaponry stacked behind the Nu Gundam is called, reach a height of 24.8 meters (81.4 feet). As part of the ceremony, the designers revealed its official specs, and the highest part of the head is 20.5 meters (67.3 feet) off the ground, 0.8 meters taller than the Tokyo’s Unicorn Gundam, and the height gap is even larger when compared to Yokohama’s RX-78 or Shanghai’s ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam. While all of the life-size Gundam statues are huge, the Nu Gundam is the biggest yet. ▼ A high-speed time-lapse video of the entire lifting/installation
A similar event took place during the building of Yokohama’s Gundam, in which Shinto priests offered blessings on the head and prayed for the workers’ safety during the rest of the project, before the head was lifted up by a crane and placed on the mecha’s body. Wednesday was a big day for the big robot, as the construction crew held a jotoushiki, or “head-raising ceremony,” for the Nu Gundam. So while Tokyo has a life-size statue of the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam, and Yokohama has one of the RX-78-2 Gundam, there are still plenty of other Gundams waiting their turn, and now the wait is almost over for the life-size RX-93 ν (“Nu”) Gundam that’s under construction in Fukuoka. In the 42 years since the debut of the original Mobile Suit Gundam TV series, the anime franchise has gone on to have dozens of sequels and side stories with their own variations on the titular hero mech. Head-raising ceremony held for new/Nu Gundam, the first life-size mobile suit in west Japan.
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