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Giant Robot Taekwon V tower will be six times the size of Japan's giant Gundam statue

Submitted by Corey Rollins on Thu, 09/10/2009 - 00:46
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I'll be dead honest with you and start by saying I haven’t ever heard of Robot Taekwon V or his North American name Voltar the Invincible before. But after this latest news, that is a thing of the past thanks to South Korea’s soon-to-be-built robot-themed amusement park, Robot Land.

This park will have a statue of the 70s South Korean cartoon hero. And if you thought the 59 ft tall Gundam statue was big, Robot Taekwon V’s statue will be freakishly huge at 364 feet. That's twice as large as the Statue of Liberty, even if you add the base it stands on into the measurement. The South Korean robot will still be much larger.

We're doomed. Especially when you find out it's not just a statue.

People who are able to read Korean can check out this newsletter as well as the theme park’s website for more details, but one reader on technabob.com claims:

[quote=109 September 9, 2009 at 6:10 pm]

Reading the picture details, this isn’t a ’statue’– the title in korean in the picture says its ‘Robot Taekwon V Tower’, where there will be exhibition about Taekwon V on the ground level, (showing movies, character exhibition, the history of Taekwon V, etc), and there will be an elevator where it will take you go the chest area which will be designed to be an observatory, [95m high from ground] and the head part [105m from the ground] is going to be astronomical observatory and maybe something that people can experience spaceship (the last part i’m not too sure)

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So there you have it. Kim Jong-il might have nukes in North Korea, but South Korea is jumping right to Giant Robot Tower. Awesome.

[Via Geekologie]

Thu, 09/10/2009 - 03:34
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This is amazing.

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Thu, 09/10/2009 - 10:10
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Wow! That is freaking crazy, 364 feet!!!! Now we got to look at Japan to see what their next move is to top this lol.

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Fri, 09/11/2009 - 08:59
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Damnj this shows you they love thier Mechs.

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