Surely you remember the giant 1:1 Gundam Japan erected in 2009. Built by Bandai, the monolithic robot has stood watch ovef Tokyo and spawned many imitators in the last year and a bit. Some of you probably take a sort of ‘so-what’ attitude here. That’s understandable: Gundams are practically space-faring robot ninjas in the show, and this guy can barely turn his head. So what indeed, right? Well, check out this time-lapse video, directed by ‘darwinfish105′, which is a beautiful testament to the epic stoicism of the statue….

I have a couple friends who are big into building scale models of Gundams. I’ve never really understood the appeal (of building tiny giant robots, not of giant robots themselves – they’re the bee’s knees), but it seems to be quite a phenomenon. Have you ever built a model? Y’know all those little plastic runners that are left over when you’re finished? The ones you had to twist all the little pieces out of? What the hell are you supposed to do with those when you’re done? Why, you build another Gundam out of them, of course. A quick trip to Hirotyun’s web page reveals him to be quite the trash-building Gundam…