1/1 Scale Gundam RX-78-2 Opening Ceremony

24-7-2009(Friday)

The grand opening of the 1/1 Scale Gundam RX-78-2 at Shiokaze Park at 10PM on July 10th! ^^It has not being a very long wait actually, between the announcement of "Real G" Project in MARCHand the earlier completion of the statue in mid june. ^^ As a fan... I'm having feel of an enormous excitement, to see it's going to be officiated, and how the reception will be like.Below are the pictures during the ceremony...BANZAII~!!!!

alots of ppl....came to the opening ceremony.....alot of stall...foods and merchandices were sold there.....
the statue.....of the 1/1 scale GUNDAM
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GUNDAM HEADING OUT~!!!!!!!
the head....IT MOVES~!!!!!!...MY GOD

whao...the way they conducted the opening ceremony was...MIND BLASTING....with alots of light n laser effect...it make the Gundam looks nice....

The ceremony featured amazing show of laser beams, as you can see from the photos show.


There were also speeches from Yoshiyuki Tomino-sensei(creator of GUNDAM) and Toru Furuya, the seiyuu for Amuro Ray, pilot of Gundam RX-78-2. The ceremony also featured guest appearance of GACKT, and he performed right beneath the statue.
Gundam limited items and biscuits....along that....all the stalls profit from the sales will be contributed to Green-Tokyo Fund (「緑の東京募金」) and Metropolitan Park Supporter Fund (「都立公園サポーター基金」).

Apart from celebrating Gundam 30th Anniversary, the statue also serves two important role:

(1) Support the bidding of Tokyo 2016 Olympics Paralympics Games

The statue will help to promote Tokyo as a green city to create such image for the bidding. For that reason, there will be a Tokyo 2016 Olympics Paralympics Games bidding support logo on the statue's left shoulder from August 1st till the 31st.
(2) Green Tokyo project

Exhibit areas and special stalls will be set up on the surroundings of the statue, with participation from all companies and units under Bandai Namco, as well as other organizations from Tokyo. Special items like eco-back (? - エコバック), T shirt, fan and others have being planned. The earning from the sales will be contributed to Green Tokyo Fund (緑の東京募金), Metropolitan Park Supporter Fund (都立公園サポーター基金) plus a few other units not mentioned. The statue will be removed from the park after August 31st. Sounds really fun and meaningful to me. ^^ Fans who can visit Tokyo between July and September should definitely go and take a look, especially when Gundam will not be remaining in the same venue all the time, and will vanish from enemy detection (XD) after August 31st. We might see it again after that, or maybe not.

Wish that I were there.....><

sources from... http://ngeekhiong.blogspot.com