The Nu Gundam depicted in Char’s Counterattack was equipped with a “wing” of mentally controlled beam cannons called fin funnels; they detached from the main suit and served as singular drone turrets to aid the Gundam in space combat. Perhaps deemed a touch impractical to replicate in real life, in the new design it’s been replaced by a larger, singular “Long Range” funnel, which can be seen being fired in the teaser above.
The brief animation is the first time that the new design has actually been depicted outside of its “real” self as a statue, unlike previous Gundam statues, which have all been based on designs already featured across decades of Gundam animated series. The FFν Gundam statue, the largest so far at just under 25 meters tall, joins three more statues from the series across Asia: a mechanized “walking” version of the original Gundam, the RX-78-2, based in Yokohama; a replica of Gundam Unicorn’s titular mecha in Tokyo; and one of Gundam SEED’s Freedom Gundam in Shanghai, China.
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