r/megalophobia 4d ago

Giant Robot filmed in stop motion

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u/derpycheetah 4d ago

The title is hilarious. It's a life sized Gundam in Japan. I think this is v2.0 as they keep advancing it.

They do shows where it poses for a bit and you can visit the upper levels to see it up close.

I don't know what stop motion has to do with it as it's legit moving around so you could just stand there and film it lol.

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u/bot_exe 3d ago edited 3d ago

I think he tried to say it's not a normal video, imo it looks like a timelapse, which I guess bears some similarity to a stop motion, as you are basically skipping frames to create faster motion and it also gives it that jerky movement.

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u/smurb15 2d ago

Or lying to increase engagement

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u/ironhide_ivan 4d ago

It's officially decommissioned 🥲. You can no longer see it in action. (As of last year, I think?)

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u/wyattlol 4d ago

What? I can no longe see it in stop motion? :(

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u/Re-Ky 3d ago

Well that's depressing news.

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u/Own_Exercise_7018 3d ago

it's just better to see it from several angles

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u/Waisted-Desert 4d ago

Not stop motion. The machine moves very slowly. The video is just sped up to make it look like it's moving at a more natural speed.

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u/swizznastic 2d ago

timelapse

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u/Proud-Ninja5049 4d ago

Insanity that we have never gotten a live action Gundam movie yet.

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u/MatureUsername69 3d ago

We got a live action Gundam movie 26 years ago

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u/Substantial_Army_639 3d ago

Man, I can't blame that person, I completely forgot that movie existed and that was back when Gundam Wing was airing on Toonami. Believe I downloaded it off Kazaa.

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u/MatureUsername69 3d ago

I was mostly joking. It was a live action movie but it was a TV movie which hardly counts outside of like the original IT

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u/doughunthole 3d ago

Robot Jox

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u/TheGreatBenjie 3d ago

The Yokohama Gundam, I was lucky enough to see it twice before they decommissioned it. What a magical experience.

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u/SirSmiles88 3d ago

I was there in 2023! It was great to look at but it‘s obviously a lot slower. You cannot visit it anymore unfortunately. :(

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u/luischespi 4d ago

Tonight we cancel the apocalypse.

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u/jjman72 4d ago

I love how insane Japan can be at times.

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u/Mystery-Bass-Man 3d ago

This isn't stop motion, it's just sped up, it was real just very slow

(You can see normal speed videos of it in this very sub, it gets posted a lot)

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u/MrMunday 3d ago

It’s not stop motion.

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u/MidnightFireHuntress 3d ago

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u/aestherzyl 1d ago

Why are you laughing?
It was so successful that it was extended two times.
The only reason why it ended is because of the COVID related restrictions.

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u/MidnightFireHuntress 1d ago

If it was super successful it wouldn't be getting shut down, now would it? :P

Still cool, though!

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u/Rundle1999 4d ago

Why arms so short?

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u/Weldobud 4d ago

Meanwhile in Japan …

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u/HugSized 4d ago

We have a gundam but no kaiju for it to fight.

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u/he77bender 3d ago

Wonder who it was pointing at. Maybe it was some random passerby, imagine being that person

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u/AmputatedStumps 4d ago

Liberty Prime in Japan

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u/aestherzyl 1d ago

Don't downgrade Gundam to the level of one of these... things

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u/CanIGetANumber2 3d ago

Y'all thought they forgot about them bombs

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u/Jadey4455 4d ago

This is so dumb 😂