Gundam Support for Olympic Athletes
ISE, Mie — A 4-meter-high Gundam statue holding a banner wishing good luck to Ise-native and reigning Olympic women’s marathon champion Mizuki Noguchi has been set up at a shopping center here.
The banner bears a message wishing Noguchi success at the Beijing Olympics, where she will attempt to repeat her gold medal-winning performance at the Games in Athens four years ago.
The statue has been erected at the Takayanagi shopping center in Ise, and was provided by a local Ground Self-Defense Force base, which made the statue of the popular anime character in parades and other similar events.
First a Gundam statue welcoming visitors at a local sub station, and now one that carries a well wishing banner for an Olympic marathoner champion. Seemed like a regular news to me until I read this part “provided by a local Ground Self-Defense Force base”. Wait a minute ! Provided by the SDF ? Could this be one of their earlier rejected prototypes that didn’t quite made it to mass production? It’s all fun and games until some emo kid hijacks one of these things and tries to end all the conflicts in the world 
Mainichi News Daily - Gundam rolled out to support Olympic marathoners
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