The Japanese have built themselves a giant robot to play with!

boy meets gundam
Originally uploaded by nuetaipoo

Economic crisis? What economic crisis? In Japan, they've built a (totally for-reals) life size gundam!! Now, it can't really move (other than it's head), but it looks totally badass during the day, and even more badass at night. If this (as well as the dismal reviews of Transformers 2) are to be believed, Americans still have a ways to go before we catch up to the Japanese in the field of robot badassery.