Fly Me to the Life-Size EVA-01 Construction Project<http://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/05/fly_me_to_the_life-size_eva-01_construction_projec.php> By Rob Bricken in Anime <http://www.toplessrobot.com/anime/> Wednesday, May. 12 2010 @ 9:47AM [image: 0596160d3e5cbfe1b42100de1596c048.jpg.jpg]<http://www.toplessrobot.com/0596160d3e5cbfe1b42100de1596c048.jpg.jpg> ​Looks like *Evangelion* wants into the giant robot statue game -- there's going to be a life-size Eva Unit constructed at the base of Mount Fuji. Unfortunately... well, I'll just let ANN tell it<http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-05-12/life-size-evangelion-bust-built-at-foot-of-mt-fuji> :
Japan's Fuji-Q HighLand amusement park has announced<http://www.fujikyu.co.jp/data/news_pdf/20100512143846_HL_EVANGERIONWORLD_20100512.pdf>on Wednesday that it will open a new pavilion called Evangelion: World - Life-Size EVA-01 Construction Project" on July 23. The pavilion will house the world's first life-size recreation of the scene where the Evangelion anime's main character Shinji Ikari encounters the Eva-01 unit for the first time. The recreation will have a mockup of the Evangelion unit from the bust up. The pavilion will also have a life-size cockpit of an Evangelion unit (from where visitors can pay to have their photos taken), a life-size figure of the character Kaworu Nagisa, a video corner, a museum, a studio gallery for taking photographs, and a shop. Fuji-Q HighLand's website will present the first interim report of the pavilion's 150-million-yen (about US$1.6 million) construction on May 26. Actually, the plan is to build the entirety of Unit-01, but the Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park figures the construction workers will only finish the shoulders up before they mentally break down, hide in the porta-potties crying for a few hours, then run away while muttering to themselves "I mustn't run away." I imagine that's a pretty good guess. --
