Among the presenters at the event will be Bandai Namco, the toymaker behind the vast array of Gundam merch.
This would seem to imply that the Yokohama Gundam, which was disassembled this past spring, has been shipped to Osaka for the expo and given some new accouterments to repurpose it as the RX-78F00/E Gundam.
Rather than just show up with a bunch of scaled-down plastic model kits, though, the organizers of Bandai Namco’s Gundam Next Future Pavilion have built a full-size Gundam statue, dubbed the RX-78F00/E Gundam.
This practice is observed when building houses, office buildings, and, yes, real-world giant life-size anime robots.