indiegames
January 8th, 2010, 05:30
Forget that enormous Gundam (http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/11/st_giant_robots/) statue! How about enormously expensive hand carved red wood Zaku II?
This is hardly the first wooden Gundam, and a wooden statue was released back in 2007 (http://kotaku.com/250950/even-in-wood-gundam-is-expensive).
Priced at ¥99,750 (US$1069), the statue is over a foot tall and is being sold by legendary robot company Bullmark (http://www.toyboxdx.com/datafiles/data/bullmark/). The figure is designed by Plex (http://altjapan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/05/the-joy-of-plex.html), an arm of Bandai that designs robot toys.
If you think a thousand bucks is expensive for a Zaku II, check out the prices (http://www.m-arts-shop.com/marts/9.3/44266/-/mother_Catalog_num.44228/cnt.1/flag.z_price/order.asc/) for a wooden Godzilla or King Giddra.
Thanks Matt Alt and his robot friend (http://altjapan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/01/incept-date.html) for the tip!
???????????????????????????????!?????????????????? ??!??????????? MS-06S ZAKU-II???????????1228?:????? ????? (http://item.rakuten.co.jp/tamafuriya/sg028/) [Rakuten]
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This is hardly the first wooden Gundam, and a wooden statue was released back in 2007 (http://kotaku.com/250950/even-in-wood-gundam-is-expensive).
Priced at ¥99,750 (US$1069), the statue is over a foot tall and is being sold by legendary robot company Bullmark (http://www.toyboxdx.com/datafiles/data/bullmark/). The figure is designed by Plex (http://altjapan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/05/the-joy-of-plex.html), an arm of Bandai that designs robot toys.
If you think a thousand bucks is expensive for a Zaku II, check out the prices (http://www.m-arts-shop.com/marts/9.3/44266/-/mother_Catalog_num.44228/cnt.1/flag.z_price/order.asc/) for a wooden Godzilla or King Giddra.
Thanks Matt Alt and his robot friend (http://altjapan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/01/incept-date.html) for the tip!
???????????????????????????????!?????????????????? ??!??????????? MS-06S ZAKU-II???????????1228?:????? ????? (http://item.rakuten.co.jp/tamafuriya/sg028/) [Rakuten]
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http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2010/01/500x_robotzaku.jpg (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2010/01/robotzaku.jpg)
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