I'd love to see it, but they can keep the massive angst. Haven't they done something similar to this before, tossing up a giant bot in the middle of the way for all to gawk at?
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Mr. Worf <hellomahog...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Fly Me to the Life-Size EVA-01 Construction > Project<http://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/05/fly_me_to_the_life-size_eva-01_construction_projec.php> > By Rob Bricken in Anime <http://www.toplessrobot.com/anime/> > Wednesday, May. 12 2010 @ 9:47AM > [image: > 0596160d3e5cbfe1b42100de1596c048.jpg.jpg]<http://www.toplessrobot.com/0596160d3e5cbfe1b42100de1596c048.jpg.jpg>​Looks > like *Evangelion* wants into the giant robot statue game -- there's going > to be a life-size Eva Unit constructed at the base of Mount Fuji. > Unfortunately... well, I'll just let ANN tell > it<http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-05-12/life-size-evangelion-bust-built-at-foot-of-mt-fuji> > : > > Japan's Fuji-Q HighLand amusement park has > announced<http://www.fujikyu.co.jp/data/news_pdf/20100512143846_HL_EVANGERIONWORLD_20100512.pdf>on > Wednesday that it will open a new pavilion called Evangelion: World - > Life-Size EVA-01 Construction Project" on July 23. The pavilion will house > the world's first life-size recreation of the scene where the Evangelion > anime's main character Shinji Ikari encounters the Eva-01 unit for the first > time. The recreation will have a mockup of the Evangelion unit from the bust > up. > > The pavilion will also have a life-size cockpit of an Evangelion unit (from > where visitors can pay to have their photos taken), a life-size figure of > the character Kaworu Nagisa, a video corner, a museum, a studio gallery for > taking photographs, and a shop. Fuji-Q HighLand's website will present the > first interim report of the pavilion's 150-million-yen (about US$1.6 > million) construction on May 26. > > Actually, the plan is to build the entirety of Unit-01, but the Fuji-Q > Highland Amusement Park figures the construction workers will only finish > the shoulders up before they mentally break down, hide in the porta-potties > crying for a few hours, then run away while muttering to themselves "I > mustn't run away." I imagine that's a pretty good guess. > -- > > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
