There was another park that was never built that had a 20ft tall Voltron statue out front. The statue is still there. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DlbJ1P7SQAA/Sds01H2Z9kI/AAAAAAAAAIo/_DhbxLG4MwQ/s400/483168812_133e57e18e.jpg
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Huuuge Robot Statue Coming To South Korea<http://www.geekologie.com/2009/09/huuuge_robot_statue_coming_to.php> MORE: aaaaahh<http://www.geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?tag=aaaaahh&blog_id=1>, amusement park<http://www.geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?tag=amusement%20park&blog_id=1>, apocalpyse<http://www.geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?tag=apocalpyse&blog_id=1>, bad ideas<http://www.geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?tag=bad%20ideas&blog_id=1>, death and destruction<http://www.geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?tag=death%20and%20destruction&blog_id=1>, giant <http://www.geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?tag=giant&blog_id=1>, huge<http://www.geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?tag=huge&blog_id=1>, i saw you eyeing lady liberty!<http://www.geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?tag=i%20saw%20you%20eyeing%20lady%20liberty%21&blog_id=1>, korea <http://www.geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?tag=korea&blog_id=1>, no no no<http://www.geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?tag=no%20no%20no&blog_id=1>, no thanks<http://www.geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?tag=no%20thanks&blog_id=1>, questionable<http://www.geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?tag=questionable&blog_id=1>, robots <http://www.geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?tag=robots&blog_id=1>, run for your life!<http://www.geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?tag=run%20for%20your%20life%21&blog_id=1>, south korea<http://www.geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?tag=south%20korea&blog_id=1>, uh-oh <http://www.geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?tag=uh-oh&blog_id=1> [image: terribly-bad-ideas.jpg] If you thought the 59-foot Gundam statue<http://www.geekologie.com/2009/06/japan_completes_lifesized_gund.php>in Japan was large <http://www.geekologie.com/2009/06/ooooh_hes_light_up_gundam_at_n.php>, boy were you wrong. Because South Korea is erecting a massive 364-foot statue (twice as large as the Statue of Liberty) of Robot Taekwon V (aka Voltar the Invincible). Scared? It gets worse. You see, the statue<http://www.geekologie.com/2009/07/great_japan_plans_another_gian.php>is being built for a new amusement park <http://www.geekologie.com/2009/08/im_proud_of_you_geekologie_rea.php>called *Robot Land*. Geez, talk about scarring your children for life. This is worse than coming downstairs on Christmas hoping for a Nintendo, only to find your mom gangbanging the Tooth Fairy and Easter Bunny underneath the tree. Nobody even ate the cookies! giant robot taekwon v statue will be six times as large as giant gundam statue<http://technabob.com/blog/2009/09/06/giant-robot-taekwon-v-statue-korea/>[technabob] This is another large statue that is just weird. http://www.bigempire.com/sake/themeparks.html On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > 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 > > > > -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
