Odaiba RX-78 Gundam

This beautiful piece of work may have been already taken down and there may already be about a billion pictures of this amazing robot in the net but I’m still uploading mine :)

Life-size RX-78 Gundam at Odaiba

Life-size RX-78 Gundam at Odaiba

To all those who have seen it, this moving, life-sized Gundam replica was truly an amazing sight!

(And from the looks of it, it seems like the world-wide recession means nothing to the Japanese. The RX-78 Gundam spits on recession’s face!)

Terminator Exhibit, Miraikan, Odaiba, Tokyo

Went to catch the Terminator Exhibit being held at the  National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation/ Miraikan in Odaiba, Tokyo last Saturday. In conjunction with the Terminator Salvation release and I suppose as a celebration to the fragile bond between Man and Machine, an exhibition of the robots, artworks and actual costumes used in the Terminator movies and series are being displayed until June 28.

I was expecting more props and robots to be showcased but nonetheless, the exhibit was still interesting and the robots and production tidbits were enlightening. It was a cool experience to see the actual robots and artworks used in some of the most unforgettable movies of all time. I’ll be back.

Terminator Exhibition – Battle or Coexistence?

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Terminator Exhibit ・ターミネーター展(Ta-mine-ta-ten )

T-800

T-800 Endoskeleton

Appearance: The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Terminator Salvation

Hasta la Vista Baby

T-800 in the flesh

“Death rendered in steel” as James Cameron would put it. The T-800 is designed to look and act like human. Made of a yet undiscovered, ultrastrong alloy, the T-800 likes to wear dark glasses and has a knack for spilling unforgettable, comical one-liners.

T-X

Appearance: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

T-X in another view

T-X

The T-X appeared in the what I think is the worst Terminator movie in the pack. A combination of the skeletal T-800 and the mighty morphing T-1000, this Terminator is the first to bring future weapons back to the present. T-X portrayed by Kristanna Loken is also the hottest Terminator to date.

Cameron Phillips

Cameron Phillips

Appearance: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Cameron Phillips (TOK715)

Cameron Phillips (TOK715)

Named after  Terminator’s creator, James Cameron, Cameron Phillips/TOK715 is the Terminator sent to protect John and Sarah around 1999. The TO715 is disguised as a beautiful, petite, teenage infiltrator.

T-1

T-1

Appearance: Terminator3: Rise of the Machines, Terminator Salvation

The T-1 is an autonomous military robot with a rather anthropomorphic head, sensor eyes, gatling guns for arms, a torso that swivels like a human and caterpillar tracks for legs.

Hydrobot

Hydrobot

Appearance: Terminator Salvation

Hydrobots are serpentine aquatic units that move in swarms and patrol the waters.

T-600

T-600 Endoskeleton

Appearance: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Terminator Salvation

The sinister-looking T-600 units are covered in a sheet of rubber skin meant for espionage and infiltration purposes. The T-600′s are superseded by the newer and more advanced T-800s.

Moto-Terminator

Moto-Terminator

Appearance: Terminator Salvation

Moto-Terminators  are high-speed pursuit units using motorcycle chassis. In the Terminator Salvation scene where John Conner reprograms a Moto-Terminator for use, I just can’t help but think of Batman’s Batpod and wait for Christian Bale to spill his line: “I’m Batman.”

By the way, In the movie John Conner also uses a Vaio UX Micro PC. ;)

Actroid

Actroid-DER3

Other highlights of the exhibit were the Actroid DER3 and a creepy, almost real-looking moving arm. The Actroid DER3 is a humanoid robot with strong visual human-likeness developed by Osaka University and manufactured by Kokoro Company, Ltd. The Actroid DER3 can move and talk – like, whoa!

Isn’t this robotic arm just amazingly creepy!

Moving Robot Hand

Moving Robot Hand

More pictures can be seen here.