South Korea's Giant Robot Statue to Dwarf Japan's

[HobbesMkii]

The statue will be of Taekwon V, known stateside as Voltar the Invincible, and will stand some 364 feet tall, making it not only much bigger than the 59 and 60 foot statues in Japan, but roughly three times as tall as the Statue of Liberty itself.

The Statue of Liberty is 151 feet tall, and over 300 with the base. That's a pretty rough three you're getting out of that. It's so rough, it looks more like a two.

I don't mean to split hairs on this. I see how it happens. What was "nearly 2.5 times" becomes "roughly three times" pretty easily. But that's roughly 75 feet you've added onto the Korean statue, that doesn't exist.

Plus, it's just standing there. Where's its base?

 

[ElegantSwordsman]

Guess we need to build a 1:1 scale Castle of Lions, complete with Voltron now. Oh, this battle is so ON!

 

[GrinningManiac]

How about they just build giant penises and cut out the subtle middleman.

Serious: Woah, that's just...pointless, but awesome-pointless, like poking a snake, not stupid-pointless, like...poking a...poisonous snake

 

[The_Echo]

No, no, no, you're thinking too small! We must build a giant robot on the moon!

You're thinking too small; we need to make the moon itself a giant robot.

Row, row. Fight the power.

Anything from that anime would probably cause our planet to break under its mighty size. Especially the titular mecha.

 

[Doom_bringer58]

Dude.

DUDE.

DUDE.

We're falling behind! I demand that we build a 380-foot-tall Megas XLR, stat!

EPIC WIN!

 

[Ancientgamer]

Giant robots are more important than freedom and liberty. I think that's the message that's being sent here.

This is south korea we're talking about, right?

 

[Mrsoupcup]

We should totally build the Iron giant.

 

[Pendragon9]

Considering it's Korea, I thought it would be a Goliath, to celebrate their national pastime.

 

[Superlordbasil]

Its all a secret arms race they are real robots they just making sure the west never knows. In fact China working on their 500 feet robot to trump the others.

 

[Nimbus]

That picture dosn't give a very good idea of scale.

 

[Liberaliterr]

People need to remember this is south korea.

I think America should build a 400 ft Optimus Prime.

 

[Sewblon]

Dude.

DUDE.

DUDE.

We're falling behind! I demand that we build a 380-foot-tall Megas XLR, stat!

It needs to be the size of the sun and have all the functions it had on the show. The show also needs a DVD release.

 

[RavingPenguin]

Why do I get this funny feeling within the next 10 years we will all be stuck in some wierd giant robot fighting anime

Because we will be and it will be Epic!

OT: America needs some sort of giant robot, maybe a giant Liberty Prime, or some sort of giant mech (an Atlus model would be awesome).

 

[somekindarobot]

Pffft. Giant Robots are soooooooo last decade. Nanomachines are where it's at nowadays.

We'll build a nanobot one millimeter tall! (By nano standards that's huge.)

 

[are.you.the.god.its.me.vader]

I love you South Korea.

 

[IxionIndustries]

Dude.

DUDE.

DUDE.

We're falling behind! I demand that we build a 380-foot-tall Megas XLR, stat!

Screw that, we need a 400 foot Cylon Centurion!

No... We must build this ************:

EDIT: Actually, scratch that.
We need to make the ginormous Bender statue from Futurama.
Kinda like this:

 

[Danny Ocean]

No, no, no, you're thinking too small! We must build a giant robot on the moon!

No no no, we need to make a robot to the moon. Feet on earth, and the whole moon in his hands.

Edit: Hmm, seems I've been 1-up'd. I'll go sit in the corner now.

 

[Go Fighting In The War Room]

Dude.

DUDE.

DUDE.

We're falling behind! I demand that we build a 380-foot-tall Megas XLR, stat!

I bet you after this one is built someone in Vegas or Dubai is going to build one 3 times taller than that.

 

[ffxfriek]

No, no, no, you're thinking too small! We must build a giant robot on the moon!

with guns?

 

[Strategia]

Japan to counter with 400ft "Voltron: Defender of the Universe" statue. News at 11:00.

What do we have in America though? Quickly someone plumb our history for ideas!

Statue of Liberty? Liberty Prime? Megas XLR? Optimus Prime? Something from GI Joe? Mecha Lincoln?

Liberty Prime, all in favour say "aye". Aye!

This thread is full of win and awesome.