A team of Japanese animators and engineers on Wednesday unveiled plans to build a moving 18-metre (60-foot) tall Gundam robot, in a nod to millions of science fiction fans.<\/p>\n
The “Mobile Suit Gundam” anime series first aired in Japan in 1979, and spin-offs featuring robots locked in intergalactic battles have won legions of enthusiastic fans in Asia, Europe and elsewhere.<\/p>\n
In 2009, the 30th anniversary of the show saw an 18-metre-tall Gundam statue erected in a Tokyo park.<\/p>\n
“When I created Gundam 35 years ago, I used my imagination freely because it wasn’t real,” Yoshiyuki Tomino told reporters in Tokyo Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“That is what creativity is for — when you dream of something. Four decades later, Gundam is growing into something new.”<\/p>\n
Now, the plan is to give a new giant Gundam some moves, and organisers are calling on the public for ideas about how to make it happen.<\/p>\n
Plausible suggestions would be used in constructing the robot by 2019, the series’ 40th anniversary and a year before Tokyo hosts the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n
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