RX-78 lantern at Taiwan Lantern Festival

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engadget reports on the appearance of a large RX-78 Gundam lantern at a lantern festival in Taipei. Though the article says the Gundam is 1/1 scale, judging by further pictures of its construction it falls short of that mark but is nonetheless extremely impressive.

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http://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php?f=181&t=288059&last=2401480

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http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/04/gundam-lantern-1-1-scale-lights-up-taiwan-lantern-festival/

Gundam Lantern, 1:1 scale, lights up Taiwan lantern festival

As part of a celebration for the Lantern Festival, a Chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunar year, the Taiwanese district of Jiayi put up a 1:1 scale model of the original Gundam in lantern form. Traditionally, an animal lantern is used as the central display, but this year a competition was run and as you can see, the RX-78 Gundam lantern won out. Not that the citizens had any choice in the matter: paper sheets have never looked so formidable. It still does "NOT!" top our Engadget pumpkin though.

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Thanks to Dr. Core for additional info from the construction link. The height of the roughly 1/2.5 scale lantern is 7.5 meters (sitting) and took 2 1/2 months and 9 people to build.

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