Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Closed down at the end of March, the life-size walking Gundam in ...

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With the ongoing success of life-size Gundam statues in Japan, it was only a matter of time until we saw more statues turn up in other countries. The first of these exports will be in Shanghai, China ...

What a brave new world. A giant, true-to-life robot has gone live in Japan as the main attraction at the Gundam Factory Yokohama, on Yamashita Pier, and the big unveiling was truly something else. The ...

A 60-foot-tall replica of a Gundam Robot in Japan that actually moves has been taken for a test spin, with videos showing it kneeling, moving its head and pointing to the sky in a fluid motion. The ...

After decades on the scene, Gundam remains one of the biggest anime series in the world, and it has the merch to prove it. The franchise consistently ranks as one of the highest-grossing in Japan when ...

As the Gundam franchise celebrates over 40 years of celebrated anime, popular toy lines and gunpla models, and even some popular video games, Japan is one step closer to making the giant mecha a ...

What’s better than a drawn-out intergalactic space war causing entire space colonies to crash land into, and utterly destroy Australia on multiple occasions? A cool giant robot that can play rock ...

The Gundam attraction in Yokohama will last until March 2022. As people gradually adapted to the new normal living with the coronavirus, a number of attractions have begun to open their doors to ...