![]() See even more photos in Moko’s photostream on Flickr and on his blog. If you’re in Japan, you can see Moko’s Evangelion unit in person at the Osaka University LEGO Club’s upcoming display on May 2nd and 3rd, during Golden Week. Plus, he did not paint or modify any bricks, and it’s articulated! Check out the second image for a sense of the scale of this marvel. A hovercraft-based land battleship, the Big Tray was propelled by thermonuclear jet engines and capable of rapidly traversing all terrains, including water. It also appears in Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team and Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO 2: The Gravity Front. Thirdly, Moko’s deft sense of style added to the equation results in probably one of the best LEGO mechas I’ve ever seen. The Big Tray-class is a series of large land battleships first seen in Mobile Suit Gundam. Moko was able to pull off a build that is similar in scale, but so much more elegant and slim, as befitting the source material, the Evangelion Unit-01. ![]() One of the limitations of that design was the bulk that resulted from all the gearing in the joints to support the weight of large scale mechas. We’ve seen large-scale, articulated mechas before, most of them based on Brian Cooper’s Teknomeka design. ![]() All that purple must have cost a pretty penny. I feel words will fail me in trying to encapsulate its awesomeness, but here goes.įirst off, the color is spectacular. The model stands 120 cm (nearly 4 feet) tall, and weighs 9.4 kg (20.7 pounds). Moko has been teasing us with work-in-progress images of his Neon Genesis Evangelion mecha for the last three years, and the finished model is finally revealed. ![]() I’ve been waiting a long time to blog this. ![]()
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