Gundam figurine in platinum

Posted on August 2, 2007 by Nils

The idea behind today’s wacky Japanese item isn’t really all that weird. No weirder than, say, a diamond encrusted iPod, anyway.

In March 2007, Bandai – the toy company – announced that they are going to make a model of a Gundam Mobile Suit from pure platinum. A diamond was also used as part of the head of the figure.

Platinum Gundam Mobile Suit

The figure is 12.5cm tall and weighs 1.4 kg. It is estimated to be worth US$250,000.

(Via Akihabara News.)

About Nils

By day, Nils Jeppe is a 37 years old service- and project manager in the IT industry. By night, his secret identity as a world builder, writer, and cartographer is revealed and his feverish imagination roams the multiverse in search of interesting worlds that he then documents on his blog, Enderra.com. You can follow Nils on Twitter.
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