Old news this is, but I thought I'd share it with everyone anyway. Found this while doing my daily random internet browsing, the price comes as a surprise to me actually, I would've thought the cost of an actual Gundam to be close to the billion mark, without the addition of R&D. But cool nonetheless.

The Japanese Science Portal has specced out and priced a giantmecha robot, the Gundam. It takes a certain mind to apply a mundane spreadsheet to something as out-and-out awesome as an 18 meter tall robot, but amongst the numbers are some great dream components.

The brain, for instance, would be IBM’s Blue Gene supercomputer (¥171 million or $1.6 million); 30 400KW motors would supply the movement (total cost $7.8 million), and the seven Apache helicopter engines needed to power them would be another $52 million each. Pink Tentacle provides a better translation that Google’s machine ever could, and the table from the site appears below. One thing is missing, though. An Orange County Choppers paintjob.