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Unicorn Gundam

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ODAIBA, TOKYO, JAPAN - October 18th, 2019: "The Life-Sized Unicorn Gundam Statue" in Odaiba, Tokyo. Unicorn Gundam is a fictional robot featured in one of the titles of a famous Japanese anime series.

This is truly an only-in-Tokyo sight: a 19.7m-tall model of an RX-0 Unicorn Gundam from the wildly popular Mobile Suit Gundam anime franchise. It undergoes a transformation four times a day (at 11am, 1pm, 3pm and 5pm) into 'destroy mode'; light shows take place on the half-hour between 7pm and 9.30pm. The statue is in front of the Diver City shopping mall.

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