This $250,000 Gundam will rock your, uh, socks

What's better than a 5-inch Gundam? Why a 5-inch Gundam slathered in platinum with diamonds for eyes, of course. This $250,000 robot soldier is manufactured by Bandai and will be on display next month at Baselworld, in Basel Switzerland. You know, for the big watch and jewelry show everyone's been talking about... sheez. Great, but we're not interested until this can be produced on a 1:1 scale.

[Via Impress]

[Schaferhund @ Mar 30th 2007 9:55AM]

I am 100% sure this means the terrorists have won.

[Michael Maley @ Mar 30th 2007 10:01AM]

I wonder how much a 1:1 would cost @.@

[Iceseven @ Mar 30th 2007 10:36AM]

Nice one. But please, Thomas Ricker, start up Google Earth and check your spelling. It's called "Basle".

[Gabe @ Mar 31st 2007 11:53AM]

Not quite right. Its spelled Basel

[cc @ Mar 30th 2007 12:55PM]

I had a teacher from Basel and he always spelled it with the "e" first... It's spelled "Basel" in German and that's the usual spelling used in English too, I thought. (but according to Wikipedia, "Basle" is the traditional spelling)

I suppose it's ok if you still call Beijing "Peking"... :)

[shmengie @ Mar 30th 2007 11:02AM]

i, for one, welcome our lavish, gaudy overlords...

[Quentin @ Mar 30th 2007 11:35AM]

Having that iced-out bling, bling Gundam in a 1:1 scale would probably rival the GDP of many industrialized nations.

[AbbydonKrafts @ Mar 30th 2007 1:40PM]

That earned a vote from me. LOL

[MarkG @ Mar 30th 2007 12:56PM]

Iceseven, it used to be called Basle, but now it's called Basel (Swiss-German), Bâle (Swiss-French) or Basilea (Swiss-Italian). Normally, the German spelling dominates, it being a very German oriented city.

As to the point of this thread, some people would think a dog turd was attractive if it was platinum plated and studded with diamonds. Very sad.

[Iceseven @ Mar 30th 2007 1:44PM]

I know that it's called Basel in swiss-german, but my company here in Basel still writes "Basle" if they write some stuff in english.

And yes, some may really think that it's kind of a dork-conversation going on here...

[Steve @ Mar 30th 2007 1:40PM]

Out of curiosity, with a $250,000.00 price tag I would think you could make a functional 1:1 scale out of raw metal... I might think about selling all my stocks to get one then... I just dont know where I'd get the other $249,500.00...

[Sean Jackson @ Mar 30th 2007 3:05PM]

I'd be more impressed for a million dollar poseable Masterpiece Starscream

[bob @ Mar 31st 2007 2:18PM]

I came when i saw this picture.

[islue @ Apr 2nd 2007 12:03PM]

汗，好好的白金就被说成了白银……

[Nishu @ Apr 7th 2007 3:22AM]

Well, it do catch eye balls. I am apprehensive about this robot soldier worth $250,000. How sensible is it to spend big bucks on this 5-inch Gundam.

[Edil @ Mar 29th 2008 3:46AM]

a real life gundam can be found here:

gundamdoublezero(.)blogspot(.)com

it has a brain plus 7 helicopter engines for movement... And it costs $700,000,000