The Freedom Gundam will also be the first life-size Gundam statue of a robot that is not part of the franchise’s Universal Century timeline (which includes the original 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam ).
The Gundam China Project, announced by the Chinese division of toymaker Bandai through Chinese video streaming service Bilibili, will be the first life-size Gundam statue outside of Japan.
However, the Gundam Shanghai is getting isn’t any of those models, but rather the ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam, the “hero mecha” of 2002’s Mobile Suit Gundam Seed.
Within the Gundam anime franchise, there are no fewer than three Chinese-made Gundam models, all which appear in Mobile Fighter G Gundam representing the nation of New China: the GF13-011NC Dragon Gundam, GF7-010NC Kouga Gundam, and GF4-005NC Feilong Gundam.