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Life-Size Moving Gundam to Stay on Display Until March 2023

Sunrise's statue — will remain open until March 31, 2023. This extends the time it will remain open by a year. However, the facility will close for maintenance from mid-May to mid-July to prepare for the extension.

The announcement noted that the extension was due to the current COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting states of emergency in Japan preventing many people from visiting the site. The new extension will now allow more people both locally and abroad to visit.

The facility was originally slated to close on March 31 this year. (It was planned to be open for only a limited time.)

In addition, the online retail service Bandai will once again offer the model kits and other items previously exclusive to Gundam Factory Yokohama, from January 31 to February 15. A bus decorated with an illustrated wrapping of the statue will start running from the Yokohama train station to the stop next to Gundam Factory Yokohama on February 23.

The 18-meter-high (59-foot-tall) life-size, moving Gundam held its grand closure of the other four Gundam Cafes this month, the Yokohama Satellite cafe at Gundam Factory Yokohama will be the only Gundam Cafe left open.

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A fourth statue will be Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack anime film.

Source: Gundam.info