Gundam 3D on You Tube

Hello, you guys know GUNDAM right?

Some Japanese university kids made a real life video depicting themselves as GUNDAM (you know, the giant flying robots) for a school project back in 1991.

Click here for the You Tube Link for 3D GUNDAM.

The video has been released to YouTube, and there isn’t a semi-otaku or higher in Japan who hasn’t seen it yet. I would say this is as famous as the “Star Wars Kid” video you’re probably familiar with.

Some facts regarding this video are documented here in Japanese. Super summarized below.

Created in 1991 for a university school project. Initially, the kids were planning to create a horror flick, but decided to change it to GUNDAM the day before the project was due. They ran out and filmed the entire thing in a day. Who would play which GUNDAM character was determined on the spot by the colors of their clothes…

For example the guy wearing blue pants (also known as jeans…) would of course, be GUNDAM, cause Gundam’s legs are apparently blue. Then they added the necessary paint and stuff you see in the movie.

This was filmed on top of their University building.

The guy sitting in SEIZA position (remember seiza?) is supposed to be the GUNTANK. Imagine his legs as tank treds or something. I think that’s what the GUNTANK looks like anyway.

I honestly… don’t know much about GUNDAM at all… So am completely unqualified to speak about this.

So I’ll shut up now. Enjoy the video!!!

- Harvey