Crunchyroll previously reported on the theft of the statue’s original beam rifle and its replacement with an ad-hoc hyper bazooka made of duct tape and plastic bottles.
@shikishinobu concludes with a famous quote from the original 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam TV series, where Amuro Ray muses that his father really went overboard with the design of the RX-78-2 Gundam mobile suit.
According to an informal chronology posted to Twitter by a local fan, Fukushima’s loveably off-model local attraction, the “Hetare Gundam” statue, has recovered from a recent robbery and is now packing more high-tech (and low fidelity) weaponry than ever before.