It isn’t known if Yoshiyuki Tomino, creator of the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise, has heard about the Twitter scandal to engulf the BBC. However, a horde of fans have already voiced their outrage at the public broadcaster for not knowing their mecha.
On Thursday August 6, the BBC Sport Twitter feed Tweeted a photograph of a speed climbing event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, with a life-size giant robot in the background. The caption reads, “Just when you thought speed climbing was frightening enough, you now need to impress a Transformer too at #Tokyo2020!”
As any ANN reader will see at the link, the robot is not a Transformer. It is, in fact, the lifesize statue of the Gundam Unicorn in Tokyo’s Odaiba district. It has been standing there since September 2017, replacing a previous statue of the RX-78-2 Gundam from the original 1979 Gundam series. (The anime Gundam Unicorn is…
