{"id":11155,"date":"2024-05-18T20:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T03:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11155"},"modified":"2024-04-13T20:06:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T03:06:29","slug":"the-giant-gundam-in-yokohama-says-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11155","title":{"rendered":"The Giant Gundam in Yokohama says Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bandai has decided to send it&#8217;s giant Gundam out in style. I got to see 2 different iterations of the Gundam one my trips to Japan &#8211; and the mini-shows were really great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 18 meter tall, life-sized replica of the classic RX-78-2 Gundam\u2014the original main mobile suit of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/zeta-gundam-streaming-crunchyroll-anime-mecha-1850429617\">the 1979 anime<\/a>\u2014originally opened to the public at the Yokohama Gundam Base in Tokyo Bay in December 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bandai sent the Gundam out in style last night with one final exhibition, which featured luminaries from across the franchise\u2019s history\u2014including a few words from\u00a0<em>Gundam\u00a0<\/em>creator Yoshiyuki Tomino<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p7cWoYef8CM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Article<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/yokohama-gundam-closing-ceremony-witch-from-mercury-1851378366\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/yokohama-gundam-closing-ceremony-witch-from-mercury-1851378366<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bandai has decided to send it&#8217;s giant Gundam out in style. I got to see 2 different iterations of the Gundam one my trips to Japan &#8211; and the mini-shows were really great. The 18 meter tall, life-sized replica of the classic RX-78-2 Gundam\u2014the original main mobile suit of\u00a0the 1979 anime\u2014originally opened to the public at the Yokohama Gundam Base in Tokyo Bay in December 2020. Bandai sent the Gundam out in style last night with one final exhibition, which&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11155\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-2TV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11156,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11155\/revisions\/11156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}