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The remote controlled Gunwalker robot lets you walk the guy in "true two leg walking action" by using the "Magna Traction System".
How does this space-age technology work? Electro-magnets in the soles "communicates timing to the system so one foot remains planted on the combat field". In regular-speak, that means this guy shouldn't fall down when you're walking him around your dining room table. Plus, he comes with a gun, a bigger gun, a knife, a little man to step on, and a bright red cyclopean eye.
The Gundam is 7 meters high, 3 meters wide and apparently took over 10 months to build. There are several hydraulic pistons in the structure, one of them supposedly located in its crotch.
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Motu 3 years 3 months ago
The American leg of Japanese publisher Namco Bandai confirm that the PlayStation 3 actioner, Mobile Suit Gundam, is coming to the United States, Canada, and surrounding territories sometime within next year. Whether the announcement means that the game will be ready before the end of 2006 or many months afterward is still unknown.
Several years in the making and one of two next-generation Gundam titles in production (the other game is "One Year War" for Xbox 360), the Japanese version of Mobile Suit Gundam was recently profiled in the...
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Kenshi 3 years 3 months ago
The five-foot tall version of the Gundam sends red laser rays from its head and flashing lights through its eyes.
Weighing 77 pounds, the robot strikes poses, makes robotic noises and fires away with its "Vulcan" machine gun.
The metallic-bodied man-machine has been collected for years in miniature version.
While children may be enthralled by the life-size Gundam, at a price tag of 350,000 yen (3,000 dollars) the target audience is 20 to 40 year-old men.
"They can use the robot as part of interior decoration - decorating their...
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