I was browsing the internet the other day and came across an interesting article about the Japanese Science Portal specing the cost for making a real-life gundam unit in Japan. They priced it as a meer 725 million dollars.

 They measure the unit to be approximately 18 meter's tall using IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer (¥171 million or $1.6 million); 30 400KW motors would supply the movement (total cost $7.8 million), and the seven Apache helicopter engines needed to power them would be another $52 million each.

Estimated cost of Gundam parts:

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Someone should foward this to Bill Gates.  He is rich enough and nerdy enough to get this done.

Make two and have em fight. 

Isnt some concept car taking some technology from that anime gundam?

or some shit like that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_GT-R

Nissan chief creative officer, Shiro Nakamura, has likened the new GT-R to the eponymous giant robots of the Gundam series. Nakamura states: "The GT-R is unique because it is not simply a copy of a European-designed supercar, it had to really reflect Japanese culture." Specifically, Nakamura noted that the GT-R's square lines and vents were influenced by Gundam. Designers from Japan, America, and Europe contributed to the final GT-R shape.[35][36]

Gran Turismo creators Polyphony Digital were themselves involved in the development of the GT-R, having been contracted to design the GT-R's multifunction display.[37]

only the Japanese are capable of something like this. 10yrs from now wars will be fought by huge mechanical robots from the likes of gundam and Robotech

and the opposition could be Transformers

I have heard about this a long time ago, but feel like I have to comment on it anyway just because:

Comments.

Done.

but the question is will it work, and if so how well.

 or Arm Slaves (from Full Metal Panic).

Cool .. I would be interested to buy one .... or I could simply buy 1.5 million PS3s :P