How Did The Giant Gundam Affect The Environment?

"Nothing says "environment" like trampling grass and creating waste."

Tell that to the cows.

The title says "Effect." Should be "Affect." That is all.
Although I enjoy the irony of the pictures.

It's not the Gundam's or the people's fault. It's global warming I tell you! :P

We must stop the evil and the first thing to do so is by stopping those that has contributed to the Global Warming...
...
Kill the humans!

its a prototype! in a few years, they will try to fly that gundam!!!

@Mister Jack can has cheezburger?: Funny, but I think this community was too hard on the guy for what he said. I like video games as much as the next guy, but even I can see that had a good point.

Surfninja

Drop a space colony on them I say! That'll help the earth for sure.

@Mister Jack can has cheezburger?:
See all those people? they go there and spend money buying overpriced food, going out to bars nearby, hitting on chicks.
All sounds pretty good for society to me.

Rotsujin

@Mister Jack can has cheezburger?:

But when aliens finally visit our barren, husk of a planet, at least they will know how awesome we were.

Gundam is evil. It doesn't provide any support to our daily lives, and all these statues are just wasting resources. Let's say we have 1000 people wasting their time on this statue, bringing no productivity at all. Add 10,000 more statues, and what would happen to our planet? Gundam is assisting the death of our planet!

Mister Jack can has cheezburger?

I'd shit my pants if on the other side of town was a Zaku, and that each day they got slowly closer to each other.

Then on the last day when the mobile suits clash, nobody will be outside at all in fear of being crushed and dying the most awesomeist death being on the pancaked on mobile suit's foot.

Wait, what were talking about again?

LOL how ironic.
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treegreen

hide my comment because you lack simple grammar?

not to mention how toxic the fuel is...

no, it is a giant idol and this is a sweaty temple of humanity. Worship it before it wakes up and goes eye laser pew pew on your ass.

kitsuneconundrum

Because nothing screams Olympic Games like a giant Gundam.

Maxyboy13

The ironing is delicious.

affect*

What everyone fails to realize is that it's all a part of Char's insidious plan to make humans abandon the Earth in favor of space.

Betcha' Amuro was pretty pissed when he learned Char stole the RX-78-2 to accomplish that goal...

@Mister Jack can has cheezburger?: ART KILLS EARTH

@Kyolux is in your base killing your dudes:

@thesircuddles: i rike it.

@Maxyboy13: YES. I say we scrap the Olympics as is, and instead institute Gundam Olympics. It will be every 40 years instead of 4 though, so the planet will have time to heal

Darkly Dreaming svenhoek

@DivergentRunoff: lol "That is all." in your post reminded me of this

tdk08

Its obvious they are worshiping it as a God in Japan. Even the Christian God with his no false idols rule is letting this one slide, because its so awesome.

As for the grass, why are you paying attention to grass when there's a 40 foot Gundam standing in front of you! The fuck is wrong with you dude?!

Darkly Dreaming svenhoek

@Mister Jack can has cheezburger?: If GW was still in office, he would think the Gundam was a weapon of mass destruction. Besides, Gundams are the next tanks. Don't worry, you'll be in one by World War III. Hopefully you'll be a hip and happenin' teenager by then, then they can make a sweet show about you and call it "Gundam Seed".

@thesircuddles: The ironing?

I have got to get one of those for my freakin yard! Grass is over-rated. I like trees and flowers and all that, but grass? Grass can go get bent!

still_here85

@(Zombie) Goldwings: Death to humans!

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I love Futurama.

@Mister Jack can has cheezburger?: But it's cool...

TheCodexx

I love the smell of irony in the morning.

@Nervvv: Booo. You're the first person I have actually heard that supports the Olympics in Chicago. Too bad they don't build a massive Snow Plow like the above to promote it.

All I can say is Chicago 2016.

@DivergentRunoff: I'm prety sure it's suppose to be affect. Effect=Noun Affect=Verb of course there are certain situations you have to use effect as verb but not here.

JetPogi

They should have built a Zaku. It would have been Green then.

@Darkly Dreaming svenhoek:
You've pretty much just described the plot of G Gundam. I think you're on to something.

That doesn't look like it's just been trampled, it looks like they actually put sand or whatever that is on the grass.

Or it's a very, very fragile grass. I mean, there's not even a sign that there was grass there before!

*gasp* The Gundam did not harm, it loved...and others loved back. It also helped newlywed's remember their marriage.

"Yes, I married this wo/man and I will never forget it"
"Why?"
"Because a Gundam was there to watch over us."

Anime ja nai.

As a proponent of Chicago 2016, I am mildly amused. As Kira says, 'JUST ACCORDING TO PLAN.' or was it 'I'll take a potato chip AND EAT IT.'

hm.

@Patient: I support it as it's probably the closest the Olympics will make it to me a few decades. Dare you destroy my happiness?

I was there a cuople months back and it was already going to hell, not surprised it completed the trip since.

@simpledespot: Hmmmm a full sized gundam vs Kanye West's hometown. Let the epic battle begin.

DouglasJayFalcon

thats the cleanest, most organized field dirt i've ever seen.

Jotsy

@Insomnia Bob: That's from ZZ, try again. But I guess you're technically right, it's not anime.

@AlKusanagi: Promoted.

I blame this on Char. Personally.

Rachel Fogg

Be glad our mecha overlord left your city standing, dirty hippies!!!

that's fucked up

rich8606

By chance, is that area prone to thunderstorms?

After all, with such flat terrain, that Gundam is the closet thing to the sky for some distance it seems.

Atomsk88

I was there last month and yeah, not a terribly pleasant place. Gundam was totally awesome, but vendors gouging the hell out of you and mud everywhere not so nice.

Destrado

Who needs the normal Olympics?

Mecha Olympics Tokyo 2016 FTW!

mcderek3000

This is a great example of how I don't understand the Japanese. It's one of the six million robots Japanese anime loves to showcase made into a statue and people show up like it's the fourth of July.

@Rachel Fogg: Ironic considering Char loves the Earth more than Greenpeace. So much so, that he was willing to wipe out all of humanity on Earth in Char's Counterattack in order to preserve it. I blame those damn Gundam Fighters.

Lawns are probably the least enviromentally friendly things in the world. They're artificial, require far too much water, and are a waste of land that could otherwise be developed or have plants that photosynthesize at much higher rates.

beetnek

Irony doesn't often taste this sweet

Rinaldus

@beetnek: yes, but despite my lack of a biological degree, I'm almost certain that the rate of photosynthesis in grass is significantly higher than the rate of photosynthesis in dirt. Further research may be required to prove my hypothesis, though.

@mcderek3000:
G Gundam?

Blah8

@Doeseph:
Yeah...

... shoulda been Gurren Lagann...

Blah8

But the dirt.... it looks clean!

@Blah8: Oh god no, do you want the moon to crash down on us?

Skyman747

@Sonira - not a zombie!: ART IS A BLAST... or in Viz's translation - AN EXPLOSION!!

@Doeseph: This one moves.

@Xelioth: This.

(Sorry for posting something rather worthless here, but Kotaku doesn't have a chubby/lame system like Achewood.)

(If it did, I'd also lame beetnek. Grass is awesome and probably much less environmentally unfriendly than concrete, asphalt, motor vehicles, industry, etc.)

Bah, who needs the environment when you have irony at the environments expense, right?

you forgot to mention that a few years ago, there was not even Odaiba to start with.

@Skyman747: Well, obviously, if [Arc] Gurren Lagann was there, it would stop it... besides, that wasn't the real moon - it was a space station! (of sorts).
>_>

What Japan really needs to get working on is the life-size model of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. That'd scare off any intergalactic trouble makers!

Blah8

@DancingCorpse:
actually it's not made of iron
it's made of Gundanium alloy.

one time a car salesman was telling my friend about a car and he said "the car is really a steal"

and I, being in a goofy mood that day, responded with "Dude! You should get it! It's made out of steel!!"

Ha! I can see its underwear... no wait, is that a chastity belt?

grass or dirt, doesn't matter that much once the seizer-strobe lights go up.

That gundam does have seizer-strobe lights, right?

@Cathaoir: Cows eat grass and they're very environmentally unfriendly. I mean, their farts cause skin cancer and greenhouse something something!

Dragon_Warrior

@Blah8: THIS HAND OF MINE IS BURNING RED

Vorpal

@Mad as a Hatter: Was there sarcastic humour in there that I missed,or what?

shufflemoomin

@Doeseph: It's not just any giant robot, it's the first Gundam from a series that practically created the Real Robot genre of anime and is an iconic cartoon character in Japanese popular culture.

It's also the first[?] full-scale version of a robot from an animated series to be displayed upright and is only going to be up for a limited time, so I guess people are flocking to see it before it's taken down.

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lostbizzo

Having been there and seen the massive amounts of crowds, I was honestly surprised when I saw the photos of it being made and the grass surrounding it was green. When I was there (and i believe they took it down already?) the crowds were crazy and there was a kiddie fair in the same vicinity. The air was just filled with dust from the hard packed ground too. Getting there was probably the most packed subway I was on in Tokyo. It was insane.

worrpyro

Who cares about the grass when there is a giant gundam to be seen ...

drizzt_rocks

@Vorpal: IT'S TELLING ME NOT TO USE THE GAY ENGLISH DUB

@Doeseph: What has more significance? A giant green lady holding some book and a torch, or a freaking giant robot with laser swords?

Your inner child has died if you choose the former.

@Insomnia Bob: Honto no kokosai!

GenRedLeader

Are you kidding me? Why is grass so difficult to grow? And considering how clean they have to keep it, I'd say not to worry about people trash. Someone does a good job of cleaning it all up.

If you want to equate human beings with environment destroyers that fine with me, but last I checked lawn grass isn't the worlds largest source of oxygen.

AlucardsQuest

@kitsuneconundrum: Gundams don't have eye lasers. Only Super Robots have them. :p

GenRedLeader

@Mister Jack can has cheezburger?: Meh. It was a crumby planet anyway. Let's just move on to the next one already. :p

GenRedLeader

@shufflemoomin: yea, there was a little;
not a whole lot.

@shufflemoomin: it's okay, just sit down. don't think about it too much. there's a good lad/lass.

Oh... the SHAME!

Inzoum

Well, if its a 'going green' message they're promoting with the Gundam statue - I'd say they slammed this one outta the (dirt) park. That's a pretty huge turn out.

That's probably the proper way to look at this. But hey - I prefer to be a 'the glass is half full' kinda guy.

Sure beats the hell outta those lame 'going green' TV ads that interrupt the shows you're watching. I know they don't motivate me at all.

Also- I would like the Gundam Statue relocated to my backyard, please. ...Wait - Make that my front yard.

-Niric

@beetnek: so say our mighty lords penn and and teller

Telias

At least it's better than when I went, about a week before the official opening (it was there, but the lights and mist sprayers and such weren't on). All that dirt + the rainy season = MUD

This happens at every Glastonbury. Your point is?

Scuzgob

I'd like to believe that all this makes sense. I remember the last time I saw a giant robot in my neighborhood- ruined everyone's lawn.

To be honest, it's just some grass. Big deal.

Sourside21

@Mad as a Hatter: Its okay, I thought you were funny.

@beetnek: If only there were a way for nature to water the lawns by itself.

@Kyolux is in your base killing your dudes:

@mgbenz: Err...actually...there's two of em. One in Odaiba and one in Shimoda. Because I'm too lazy, here's some wiki info for you:

"The French Statue of Liberty came to Odaiba, the beach area of Tokyo since April 1998 until May 1999 in commemoration of "The French year in Japan". Because of its popularity, in 2000, a replica of the French Statue of Liberty was erected at the same place (Photo). Also in Japan, a small Statue of Liberty is in the Amerika-mura (American Village) shopping district in Osaka, Japan. Another replica is located near the town of Shimoda south of Misawa, Japan where the United States has a U.S. Air Force base with 8,000 military members. This replica is located on the same latitude as the original statue in New York"

@UltimatePancakeSensation:

Bec. obviously the Statue of Liberty is in Japan.

mgbenz

Look at all those parasols. Why not plant some trees? More natural than a manicured lawn, provides shade and looks better.

If you look closely at the gundam in the second picture you can see a solitary tear rolling down it's faceplate.

QueeniePashosh

@Mister Jack can has cheezburger?: :( So many people don't get it.

Thats hilarious! :D

Go GUNDAM!

I forget, but wasn't the Gundam supposedly a short term thing? I recall news of it only going to be on site for a few months. But anywho... just be thankful they didn't build a Zion Goff. If the two mechs fought it out, Tokyo would be a disaster area.

~19

Black_Ops_19

@Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.: true. but then you start to hide the statue

IcyM

Why would those fools stay so close to it! We cannot predict the actions of machines!!

Gundammit!

trevortibble

they so need to keep it there though...

velvet396

@Xelioth: The rate of photosynthesis is entirely irrelevant. The grass takes up Co2, and makes its biomass. Oxygen is created in the process. The grass dies and decomposes. Oxygen is used in the process. Net carbon effect? Zero.

Carbon credits my ass.

Hey_Blinkon

It doesn't really matter. Grass lawns, especially really nice ones (as nice = fertilizer) are AWFUL for the environment.

Hey_Blinkon