Bandai Namco Holdings Inc. has formally opened its GUNDAM NEXT FUTURE PAVILION at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, that includes a powerful 17-meter-tall life-sized GUNDAM statue with one hand reaching towards house, symbolizing humanity’s future. The pavilion goals to attach folks globally by the GUNDAM universe whereas exploring themes of life in house and applied sciences not but realized.
The pavilion affords guests an immersive 50-minute journey by eight phases, simulating journey from Yumeshima Terminal in Osaka to the fictional Star Jaburo station through an orbital elevator, set in a brand new interpretation of the franchise’s Common Century timeline. The expertise options authentic footage titled GUNDAM: Subsequent Common Century and showcases varied cell fits, together with a GUNDAM geared up with a glass feather on its again.
Cellular Go well with Gundam’s Chief Director Yoshiyuki Tomino shared a message for the pavilion’s guidebook, noting that whereas the reveals signify pure fantasy, they serve an essential goal by displaying “such prospects exist, so please don’t lose hope for the long run.”
To enhance the bodily exhibition, a digital model of the pavilion shall be out there within the Expo’s Digital Expo – Yumeshima Islands within the Sky digital house from April 21 to Might 20, 2025. Moreover, a Pavilion Day occasion that includes the Osaka Symphony Orchestra and performances by artists together with Takanori Nishikawa shall be held on July 20 on the Expo Corridor Shining Hat.
The GUNDAM NEXT FUTURE PAVILION shall be open to guests from April 13 to October 13, 2025, with the outside GUNDAM statue viewable from 9:00 AM to 10:00 PM with out reservation. The pavilion expertise itself requires advance or same-day reservations and operates from 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM every day.
An official guidebook detailing the pavilion, together with Tomino’s full message, design sketches, and interviews with manufacturing workers, shall be out there for buy beginning April 13, 2025, for 3,850 yen.
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