This is pretty amazing, I one day hope to see full sized mecha rolling down the street at the Rose Bowl parade or at east floating in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.
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.
From Lonelocust I saw this link to a Chinese page where you can get construction pictures. Just click on the links and the photos will open.
[via lonelocust]
Gundam Lantern, 1:1 scale, lights up Taiwan lantern festival – Engadget