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Otaku outed at Bandai Museum

Today marks 7 days until I gotta go back to SF so I decided to do something absolutely silly.

I went to the Bandai Museum in Matsudo where I saw stuff like this:

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Right next to Matsudo Station on the JR Joban Line
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Entrance on the other side of Matsudo eki
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Quick, identify every character here! 

This is the Bandai Museum and there are features on every show and franchise Bandai holds.

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Kamen Rider, the first from 1971 and the start of the franchise
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The original Gorangers, the first of the Super Sentai series

The Gundam part of the museum is upstairs.

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Here you are immersed in the world of Universal Century (UC) Gundam.

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A 1/30000 scale model of a O’Neill cylinder that the Earth Federation built for space colonization.  
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One of several infographics that explains the physical attributes of a Zaku
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Only nine?  A Zaku looks heavier than that.  Especially with its onboard nuclear reactor
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A life size Zaku head with illuminated mono-eye

Zakus usually fall to this guy

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A life size RX-78 Gundam head
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These cosplayers are here for an event. Nice!

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And of course, you’ve got the Gift Shop at the end where there are silly things to see and buy

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Haro, pink Haro and a Zaku head…all plushy! 
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Come again!  
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Do as the sign says, otherwise….”swatch!”

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