The Life-Sized Unicorn Gundam Statue is a full-scale statue of the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam from the series ''

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn is a novel by popular Japanese author Harutoshi Fukui (''Shūsen no Lorelei'', ''Bōkoku no Aegis'', '' Samurai Commando: Mission 1549''). The novel takes place in Gundam's Universal Century timeline. Character and mechanical designs are ...

'' installed outside

Odaiba today is a large artificial island in Tokyo Bay, Japan, across the Rainbow Bridge from central Tokyo. Odaiba was initially built in this area for defensive purposes in the 1850s. Reclaimed land offshore Shinagawa was dramatically expanded durin ...

's DiverCity Tokyo Plaza, in

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

, Japan. It replaced a previous statue of the

RX-78-2 Gundam The is a fictional manned robot (mecha), introduced in 1979 in Yoshiyuki Tomino's and Sunrise's anime series ''Mobile Suit Gundam''. In the series, it is a prototype weapon for the Earth Federation when it falls into the hands of Amuro Ray, the ...

. File:機動戦士ガンダム - panoramio (2).jpg, The old RX-78-2 Gundam statue outside DiverCity Tokyo Plaza, 2012

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* Gundam Odaiba Outdoor sculptures in Tokyo Statues in Japan Statues of fictional characters {{Japan-sculpture-stub