I've literally had dreams where I found a shop like this. I found the first shop that sold these when I was a kid in the mid-90's in San Fran, and thought that it was amazing, but this is INSANE. Thanks so much for making this video!
Gundam Base? more like Gundam Valhalla, the heaven of all heavens!! god's own celestial scale store that has everything spontaneously materialize into reality when you just think what you wished for.
@@garyunwin6537 Technically, in Norse Mythology, Valhalla is a place where fallen warriors go when they die to fight with Odin. Gundam Build Fighters is commonly called "Gundam Valhalla" due to the fact that there is a ton of cameos from multiple people across the Gundam Universe. Majority of them are dead in their series. This led fans (Such as myself) to believe that when the characters died in their respective series, they would come into the GBF universe in order to live full lives in peace. And Gunpla Battle. It was also confirmed by the director of the series.
This looks insane. It looks like heaven, like a library or catalog of every gunpla. If I go here I'm afraid I'll destroy my wallet. I could spend so much time here.
Metal Gear can't fly that by itself is a major disadvantages. more so the rex don't have beam weapon and rely almost entirely by it's stolen railgun. so yeah... damn liquid.
All of the metal gears are just not MOBILE(pun kinda intended) enough to keep up with even a zaku, sure they could kill one just can't catch it. Against Gundams from wing or 00 or later, a metal gear is a JOKE
+LoneSoul06 the initial reason they took the RX-78-2 away was to attempt to make it walk by 2020. They had a competition for engineers to try and figure it out, but I haven't seen anything about it since.
I swear here in the states I've never seen even the barest fraction of those kits in person. Stores here that sell Gunpla are few and far between and they tend to only stock a few dozen boxes so I'm at the mercy of what the owners decide or are able to order. I'd love to visit Japan and the Gundam Base sometime but I'd be afraid of walking out in massive debt.
I was just there on my most recent trip to Japan. I hadn't built a GunPla since I was a kid almost two decades ago, but I picked up my first RG from there and now I'm obsessed.
Wanted to say thanks a ton for your videos, but especially for taking the time to walk through the entire thing. I see travel videos all the time and people don't just stop and let us see what's going on you did that and more! I REALLY want to go now. Beau
I went to Japan in a group and only have 1 day free. So I went to Disney Sea. But I saw a glimpse of the 1:1 RX-78-2 on the way from the airport. I will definitely go there next time.
I probably can't thank you enough for doing this video. I always wanted to go to Japan and I really love Gundam related stuff. Thank you very, very much!!!
Knowing Japan was the first country to design a successful bipedal robot, I won’t be surprised if they made a robot Gundam that can actually move by itself with no support.
and then a couple years after that the Japanese army is restored with the help o the USA and they have a complete working Gundam for milltary use ...god just imagine china or Russia in the middle of attacking some places then they see a mother fucking working Gundam plowing through a building like it's nothing
Just went to Odaiba my self last week and the 1/1 Scale Unicorn blew my head literally that they have to put it back together before I can start to breath again. Thank god there are no missing pieces. Oh and it is already been completed, I even manage to see its transformation into Destroy mode which cause my head to blew up again.
Me a 2 months ago: "You know I wanna get into Gundam more. I've been needing to get caught up on all the classics, and hey I watched Gundam as a Kid, how hard can it be-?" *Learns there are literally 40+ Series of Gundam* "Okay keep it together. Just need to watch all the ones you know you'll be interested and like, you got this..." *After finishing most of the UC time line* (Haven't watched F91, Victory, or G no Reconguista yet) "Okay after UC timeline just gonna watch two series of Alternate Universe Timelines, and I'm done, or else my mind is gonna explode with how much I wanna watch" "Heard Gunpla is fun. and I really would like to get a bunch of models of some suits I like, let's get into it-" *100+ Gunpla tutorials, builds, reviews, etc. later* I can say with 100% confidence, that I have blown multiple blood vessels in my head simultaneously. Came into this franchise expecting to watch some like 9 season classic anime, and build like 2 gunpla sets, now I'm going to watch 75% of all it's series, and god knows how many gunpla kits I wanna order...
in my case I was introduced to gunpla about 4 years ago, at the time I mentioned to a freind, while waiting for a match of MWO to load that I was making Star Trek kits and he mentioned mentioned having purchased some PG gundam, a few weeks later I had done some research and got a few MG and RG kits, I am a relitively experianced model maker but for a first time I recomend HG or MG, I love making the RG kits but they have tiny parts and a 500+ parts count, so far about 50 kits made (mostly RG and MG but 2 each HG and PG) and about another 200 I want to purchace and assemble (although I fully expect that number to go up). and so far I have "only" watched 8 Gundam shows right through. I probably average about a model kit every 2 weeks but that is mostly split between Star Trek, Star Wars and Gundam with a few other random kits thrown in.
+dekaconvoy I spent 11 days in Japan the first time I took a trip to Japan. Disneyland was the only thing I did on the trip that felt like I wasted a day. However Disney Sea is the bomb. Time it to make sure Japanese kids are at school, and you can literally ride the rides a couple of times each!
THX for the tour! My student loan debt are preventing me to have a visit to japan, so its really nice that u us the Gundam Base, and im superb hyped for the finished 1/1 Unicorn gundam By the way, the camera ur using seems to fail a bit when ur moving, maybe u need a go pro or sth? just suggesting
Very cool video, thanks for all of the detail of what's available in the shop. Amazed that so many of the older kits are still available. Could do without the artsy "twist-the-camera" thing when you were showing the 1 to 1 Unicorn (made it hard to observe the details) but otherwise good stuff!
....I really want to go but I don't have the cash..the mech fan in me is crying right now..and it was such a good week too, I found a guy in my town that actually knows SOMETHING about Gunpla...and he does weathering and battle damage to his models too. Great conversation with the guy..where I live sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who knows what the heck Gunpla are..I even said "Gunpla" and he KNEW what I meant...I thought only my friends who've known me for awhile were the only ones in this whole town who knew that.
+Itz_HuskyLynx TH-cam As far as Gundam goes, it's the best I've ever seen. The Build Fighters event should have changed by then to something else, and the statue should be perfectly fictional by then too. If the old statue is anything to go by, they'll probably have a light/movement/transformation show every hour after sundown.
when i went to Odaiba which is where the gundam base is i saw the Unicorn gundam and play a gacha there got strike freedom or freedom gundam idek since both MS look similar to me
'gundam jewelry'... so could you get bracelets, like the one Atra made for herself, Mika & Kudelia? cause that would be some really interesting stuff then X3
One thing I learned about Gunpla and general scale modeling, don't force a paint project. its something you have to want to do. If str8 builds are good for you, than so be it.
i'm drooling and fangasming at all those gunplas around lol but rhey really do need to make those MG of the Gundam 00 kits gdi bandai get urself together on that
I’m going to Tokyo for 5 days in September and this is definitely gonna be one of my stops! Question though, any P-Bandai stuff sold at the base or no?
I know some people dislike the Unicorn Gundam, but it's the thing and design that got me into Gundam and Gunpla in the first place! I'm really happy to have it built in 1/1 scale.
Fantastic video MechaGaikotsu! I love the amount of content you've been putting out lately and videos like this that aren't just a review are always awesome. Curious question but do you have any plans on doing a Q/A type of video in the future again?
+CV I'm glad you like it, they're actually way more fun for me to do as well. I did record a Q/A video just after the RG Unicorn review, but I went and formatted the SD card it was on like a fool. I've lost count of the amount of stuff I've deleted/lost at this point... As for another, I want to, but my camera is a piece of crap, it's a DSLR from just slightly before Canon decided to make a dedicated video mode on their cameras. It doesn't auto focus in videos and craps out all the time while recording :/
Gunpla Builders was in fact not the Seed for Build Fighters. the real Seed for Build Fighters was the 1982 manga Plamo-Kyoshiro which featured kids building Gundam model kits and battling them. you might also be familiar with some Gundams from that series Perfect Gundam and Amazing Red Warrior. gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Plamo-Kyoshiro
You're right, there wasn't enough orange, green, and purple in the Gundam 00 display. I like Exia as much as the next guy, but I prefer Kyrios, would've liked to see that.
I would love to see a gundam building like that in the USA but for the gundam go American use the Heavyarms custom endless Waltz it would be stunning and with moving parts would be wicked as the day is long
make a review of the 1/1 scale unicorn when it's done, dude... I wanna see the articulation of that thing...
Hope there is also unboxing video for 1/1 scale unicorn
hahahah! THAT would be MOST fascinating!
I can only imagine the size of the damn runners!
Plust FULLY FUNCTIONAL COCKPIT! HAVE FUN!
XD and don’t forget to check to see if it can do the splits
So this is how heaven looks like
AdrianFTJD can't believe it can't sell in the USA
AdrianFTJD Japan is heaven for nerds
With ryusei go phone cases and gundam wing socks and more
also those round cute bots
Really now i wanna die
Wow, the kind of heaven every gunpla builder want to go.
and the kind of hell for their wallets
Yeah and also gundam factory Yokohama
@@memebot4320 taken from all records of time.
I swear I ******ed 5 times in this video(sorry for indecency but come on guys)
I've literally had dreams where I found a shop like this. I found the first shop that sold these when I was a kid in the mid-90's in San Fran, and thought that it was amazing, but this is INSANE. Thanks so much for making this video!
Gundam Base? more like Gundam Valhalla, the heaven of all heavens!! god's own celestial scale store that has everything spontaneously materialize into reality when you just think what you wished for.
Sorry, Gundam Valhalla was taken by the Build Fighters series.
Would this be the training grounds in Gundam Valhalla while we await the Gundam equivilant of Ragnarok?
@@anhilliator1 what do you mean?
@@garyunwin6537 Technically, in Norse Mythology, Valhalla is a place where fallen warriors go when they die to fight with Odin. Gundam Build Fighters is commonly called "Gundam Valhalla" due to the fact that there is a ton of cameos from multiple people across the Gundam Universe. Majority of them are dead in their series. This led fans (Such as myself) to believe that when the characters died in their respective series, they would come into the GBF universe in order to live full lives in peace. And Gunpla Battle. It was also confirmed by the director of the series.
We are Celestial Being!
This........gives my wallet a heart attack
my wallet would be gone, so does my clothing, my bike, my house and my life
thetruehellfiregaming buying gunpla in japan is pretty cheap
"Shut up and take my money!"
Its actually pretty affordable ive been there and picked up a few decals and gunpla
It gave mine 6 aneurisms
This looks insane. It looks like heaven, like a library or catalog of every gunpla. If I go here I'm afraid I'll destroy my wallet. I could spend so much time here.
that's where I don't have to worry.... Because I'm to poor to buy it
A gundam to surpass the Metal Gear?!
Ayush Pandey that's just most gundams, the metal gears tend to be slow, it's basically like fighting a mobile armor.
Metal Gear Ray could probably hold it's own against some GMs or maybe even the RX-78-2 Gundam
Metal Gear can't fly that by itself is a major disadvantages. more so the rex don't have beam weapon and rely almost entirely by it's stolen railgun. so yeah... damn liquid.
pennyfortheguy all they need is a weapons system that works, as in no huge blind spots or obvious weaknesses.
All of the metal gears are just not MOBILE(pun kinda intended) enough to keep up with even a zaku, sure they could kill one just can't catch it. Against Gundams from wing or 00 or later, a metal gear is a JOKE
After seeing that life size Unicorn Gundam, I dare someone to create a true functioning mobile suit.
+LoneSoul06 the initial reason they took the RX-78-2 away was to attempt to make it walk by 2020. They had a competition for engineers to try and figure it out, but I haven't seen anything about it since.
+LoneSoul06 ah boo, it was cancelled. gundam-challenge.com/en/
2020 Tokyo Olympics here we come.
@@MechaGaikotsu Real reason was teenage kids kept trying to climb in and steal it.
@@SalinaMoonfall good job on describing the plot of Gundam unicorn lol.
I swear here in the states I've never seen even the barest fraction of those kits in person. Stores here that sell Gunpla are few and far between and they tend to only stock a few dozen boxes so I'm at the mercy of what the owners decide or are able to order. I'd love to visit Japan and the Gundam Base sometime but I'd be afraid of walking out in massive debt.
Duuuude... that gunpla section is heaven on earth... jesus! Thanks for this video!
I was just there on my most recent trip to Japan. I hadn't built a GunPla since I was a kid almost two decades ago, but I picked up my first RG from there and now I'm obsessed.
I'm glad I got to see the 1/1 Granddaddy Gundam when it was still up. And now I have to go back for the Unicorn.
I'm curious about the price tho.
Everything retail. Other shops are way cheaper.
This, right here.
Still, you're paying for the atmosphere and the experience.
Third parties are probably cheaper. ;)
@@cissuperdroid Honestly probably still worth it, if I ever go to Japan this is at the top of the list
Wanted to say thanks a ton for your videos, but especially for taking the time to walk through the entire thing. I see travel videos all the time and people don't just stop and let us see what's going on you did that and more! I REALLY want to go now.
Beau
Thanks for the tour! Just gave me one more reason to book a trip to Japan soon!
+Kris Jou do it :)
next year, hopefully!
I love watching your tour videos! You should do them more!
How many runners does the 1/1 scale have?
CrazyDino12 probably one for every piece
Probably 200+
3000
Dude i want the p-bandai rg astraea type f 144!!! That kit is just marvelous!
I recalled there's a P-Bandai section at the event corner, isn't it ??
Rei Liwey Ummmmm.......pfp source? For research.
"It just sounds like Evangelion around there"That got a good chuckle out of me
I went to Japan in a group and only have 1 day free.
So I went to Disney Sea. But I saw a glimpse of the 1:1 RX-78-2 on the way from the airport.
I will definitely go there next time.
I probably can't thank you enough for doing this video. I always wanted to go to Japan and I really love Gundam related stuff.
Thank you very, very much!!!
Seeing all those gundam's, I'm drooling
rip...I was there back in July when it was just a tube frame. Amazed at how fast they managed to build it in such a short time
Knowing Japan was the first country to design a successful bipedal robot, I won’t be surprised if they made a robot Gundam that can actually move by itself with no support.
and then a couple years after that the Japanese army is restored with the help o the USA and they have a complete working Gundam for milltary use ...god just imagine china or Russia in the middle of attacking some places then they see a mother fucking working Gundam plowing through a building like it's nothing
Just went to Odaiba my self last week and the 1/1 Scale Unicorn blew my head literally that they have to put it back together before I can start to breath again. Thank god there are no missing pieces. Oh and it is already been completed, I even manage to see its transformation into Destroy mode which cause my head to blew up again.
That moment...
When you really liked a kit and waited for a very VERY long time for the money to come in your wallet,
But it isn't enouh😓
Tq Mecha Gaikotsu for showing a full tour of Gundam Base Tokyo n Unicorn 1:1 scale.. Can't wait to go there
gundam 00 is not only one of my favorite gundam series but also my favorite anime overall
Me a 2 months ago: "You know I wanna get into Gundam more. I've been needing to get caught up on all the classics, and hey I watched Gundam as a Kid, how hard can it be-?"
*Learns there are literally 40+ Series of Gundam*
"Okay keep it together. Just need to watch all the ones you know you'll be interested and like, you got this..."
*After finishing most of the UC time line* (Haven't watched F91, Victory, or G no Reconguista yet)
"Okay after UC timeline just gonna watch two series of Alternate Universe Timelines, and I'm done, or else my mind is gonna explode with how much I wanna watch"
"Heard Gunpla is fun. and I really would like to get a bunch of models of some suits I like, let's get into it-"
*100+ Gunpla tutorials, builds, reviews, etc. later*
I can say with 100% confidence, that I have blown multiple blood vessels in my head simultaneously.
Came into this franchise expecting to watch some like 9 season classic anime, and build like 2 gunpla sets, now I'm going to watch 75% of all it's series, and god knows how many gunpla kits I wanna order...
in my case I was introduced to gunpla about 4 years ago, at the time I mentioned to a freind, while waiting for a match of MWO to load that I was making Star Trek kits and he mentioned mentioned having purchased some PG gundam, a few weeks later I had done some research and got a few MG and RG kits, I am a relitively experianced model maker but for a first time I recomend HG or MG, I love making the RG kits but they have tiny parts and a 500+ parts count, so far about 50 kits made (mostly RG and MG but 2 each HG and PG) and about another 200 I want to purchace and assemble (although I fully expect that number to go up). and so far I have "only" watched 8 Gundam shows right through.
I probably average about a model kit every 2 weeks but that is mostly split between Star Trek, Star Wars and Gundam with a few other random kits thrown in.
I can't believe I got into gunpla AFTER buying some random kits while visiting japan and I never visited this place GOD DAMNIT.
this video tour is awesome i hope one day i can visit and buy a lot of kits from that paradise and also take picture with that 1/1 unicorn scale
Amazing tour, thanks for the show.
I am actually surprised that Bandai still produce the oldest kits.
Those 00 Raiser ones looked sick
I’m going to Tokyo next summer, and I’ll definitely be stopping by to buy some exclusive kits or something cool.
Wow that gundam base shocked me i was a fan on gundam
6:40
The one on the far left is literally what I just ordered..
It looks sooo dang kool!!!
This place and Tokyo Disney are on my bucket list
+dekaconvoy I spent 11 days in Japan the first time I took a trip to Japan. Disneyland was the only thing I did on the trip that felt like I wasted a day. However Disney Sea is the bomb. Time it to make sure Japanese kids are at school, and you can literally ride the rides a couple of times each!
Thanks for bringing them closer to me man.. when do i ever be on there
+M. F. G no problem!
5:12 The music in the background is Build Fighters opening 1.......
SUCH A BEAUTIFUL PLACE OMG!!!!!!!!!
Heaven looks better than I imagined!
THX for the tour! My student loan debt are preventing me to have a visit to japan, so its really nice that u us the Gundam Base, and im superb hyped for the finished 1/1 Unicorn gundam
By the way, the camera ur using seems to fail a bit when ur moving, maybe u need a go pro or sth? just suggesting
I am happy you went there because I was starting to curious about the 1:1
Gundam unicorn :D
Cant wait to panel lining that 1/1 unicorn
That's so cooooool!
I wonder if it can be hit by thunders....
Very cool video, thanks for all of the detail of what's available in the shop. Amazed that so many of the older kits are still available. Could do without the artsy "twist-the-camera" thing when you were showing the 1 to 1 Unicorn (made it hard to observe the details) but otherwise good stuff!
This is super cool, I went there last year and this is a great thing to look back on, thanks heaps
Thank you for the tour. I'd love to visit there some day. :)
that store is a dream
at 13:45, THAT ZEONG IS TERRIFYING!
Thank you for doing this Mecha Gaikotsu. I appreciate it.
Going back to Japan for College. Sooo exited!! I went to Driver City when it was the RX-78-2 too.
+Mariano Dessardo watch out for dem nukes :/
Now I want to see you review old school Gunpla
Man thanks for the most badass tour ever
Am I really the only one who loves the banshee!?
Well i do
not even 1 minute into the video and i am already hearing about a guy yanking his tank in the bathroom
Year of the Unicorn baby!
....I really want to go but I don't have the cash..the mech fan in me is crying right now..and it was such a good week too, I found a guy in my town that actually knows SOMETHING about Gunpla...and he does weathering and battle damage to his models too. Great conversation with the guy..where I live sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who knows what the heck Gunpla are..I even said "Gunpla" and he KNEW what I meant...I thought only my friends who've known me for awhile were the only ones in this whole town who knew that.
I would love to visit one day
Man well glad I know if I ever am looking for a gundam I can just go to japan
Im going there in october....now im gonna have very high expectations of this gundam base!
+Itz_HuskyLynx TH-cam As far as Gundam goes, it's the best I've ever seen. The Build Fighters event should have changed by then to something else, and the statue should be perfectly fictional by then too. If the old statue is anything to go by, they'll probably have a light/movement/transformation show every hour after sundown.
Nah the story at 0:30 was WILD 💀
This is amazing!! Time to save up moola to go to Tokyo and visit! Holy moly
when i went to Odaiba which is where the gundam base is i saw the Unicorn gundam and play a gacha there got strike freedom or freedom gundam idek since both MS look similar to me
Thank you so much for sharing this man. If I ever make it over there I'll have to check that place out. Maybe we can chill !
+sabresswords you have to!
'gundam jewelry'... so could you get bracelets, like the one Atra made for herself, Mika & Kudelia?
cause that would be some really interesting stuff then X3
Gundam Base = Bucket List
So they they like the Ryusei-Go and the Banshee Gundam, eh? Can't say I disagree.
More like they are pushing the Ryusei-Go and Banshee because they are overstocked cuz no one is buying them.
G M Because they totally have T-shirts of every other Mobile Suit in the franchise.
G M I hope they go on sale.
@@WaifuTrashWeeb Tbh, I've always preferred the Banshee over the Unicorn Gundam. Blue is my favorite color after all
Omg im nerding out how this looks all these gundam I want to go so bad
I know the life size gundam is sick but we’re not gonna talk about the dude who was just wracking it
One thing I learned about Gunpla and general scale modeling, don't force a paint project. its something you have to want to do. If str8 builds are good for you, than so be it.
Good thing i had visit the last gundam n took picture last year before it change to unicorn.
i'm drooling and fangasming at all those gunplas around lol but rhey really do need to make those MG of the Gundam 00 kits gdi bandai get urself together on that
I’m going to Tokyo for 5 days in September and this is definitely gonna be one of my stops! Question though, any P-Bandai stuff sold at the base or no?
I know some people dislike the Unicorn Gundam, but it's the thing and design that got me into Gundam and Gunpla in the first place! I'm really happy to have it built in 1/1 scale.
+thesaiyanlegacy the Unicorn is awesome :)
That place is insane. Makes my head spin.
Fantastic video MechaGaikotsu! I love the amount of content you've been putting out lately and videos like this that aren't just a review are always awesome.
Curious question but do you have any plans on doing a Q/A type of video in the future again?
+CV I'm glad you like it, they're actually way more fun for me to do as well.
I did record a Q/A video just after the RG Unicorn review, but I went and formatted the SD card it was on like a fool. I've lost count of the amount of stuff I've deleted/lost at this point...
As for another, I want to, but my camera is a piece of crap, it's a DSLR from just slightly before Canon decided to make a dedicated video mode on their cameras. It doesn't auto focus in videos and craps out all the time while recording :/
This is my Disney world I need to visit this one day
Excellent Video👍🔝
From what I've heard you can use the plastic in the bucket to make your own gunpla piece at the Gunpla producing machine.
Six years later, thank you TH-cam!
thanks for the tour vid 👍 really wanna go there someday
Thanks for doing this, my mouth was watering..i will definitely visit the gundam base when i go to Japan! More power to you :D
Couldn't agree more. If they made the 00 series kits as MGs or RGs I would sell my soul to the devil for them.
+Man Upon the Precipice still don't know why they never bothered
Mecha Gaikotsu Because SEED was still a thing somehow in their minds and took precident more compared to 00.
Dude thanks for the upload! Sooo fucking dope!
Why am I drooling?
Gunpla Builders was in fact not the Seed for Build Fighters. the real Seed for Build Fighters was the 1982 manga Plamo-Kyoshiro which featured kids building Gundam model kits and battling them. you might also be familiar with some Gundams from that series Perfect Gundam and Amazing Red Warrior. gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Plamo-Kyoshiro
No words to explain tho, i wish i got the chance to go there. It really is the most exciting experience of gunpla !!!
You're right, there wasn't enough orange, green, and purple in the Gundam 00 display. I like Exia as much as the next guy, but I prefer Kyrios, would've liked to see that.
Chullain but sunrise is so blue
RickTrajan Fair enough
You just blew my mind.
I need to check that out when I go to Japan again sometime
BIG BIG THANKS for the tour!
I would absolutely love to go to this place. I would probably go nuts.
Ty so much for this vid!!
It was freakin awesome!!
You should make more of there road trip kinda vids (if you have time ofcourse)
I'm so pissed, I went to Japan in April this year, unfortunately the RX-78-2 was torn down, and Gundam Front was under construction, FML
I would love to see a gundam building like that in the USA but for the gundam go American use the Heavyarms custom endless Waltz it would be stunning and with moving parts would be wicked as the day is long
me: goes to odaiba*
me who is not a fan of gundam yet and had the oportunity to do so:
Thanks for the tour! Looks awesome
*heavy breathing
Wow. I can't believe some dude went into the stall next to yours and beat himself off! That guy needs helps lol
+Mahogany Black I think it's just a Tokyo thing.
I'm pretty sure Elon Musk already has one that flies!😎
Ugh, no.