Dudes! I saw a giant fucking robot!
So apparently this thing is about as tall as a 3-4 story building, it’s not enormous to be truly breathtaking, but it is still amazingly cool that they would build such a thing. It’s more or less a fancy statue to the cartoon robot Gundam, but the attention to detail and moving aspects of it have turned it into a giant “robot”.
Not certain on this, but seems plausible that the giant robot could be quite feasible with today’s manufacturing technology. I don’t think we, as a species, are as advanced with rocketry and fuel technologies to get the flight issues worked out, actually making a giant, functional robot is definitely possible. I don’t know about long term reliability or whatever, but Japan seems like a likely starting point if anyone could ever find a reason to actually build them large.
Signs also seemed to indicate it was the Gundam series’ 30th birthday, which means it really was a embedded in the mind of more or less an entire generation of Japanese kids, who are now the engineers working with top of the line technology today. It’s just a matter of time until someone connects a need for something with the powers that be to actually build it. Probably not in our life time, I know. I swear to god that I had a “what if” moment, when looking at directly in the eyes, when I could actually imagine it being real.