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Asahikawa Winter Festival 16 Meter Optimus Prime Snow Sculpture

by El Duque » Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:44 am

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GUNJAP has shed some additional light on the story we brought you earlier via the recent TakaraTomy website update. Apparently this year's Asahikawa Winter Festival will feature a 16 meter snow sculpture of Transformers Prime Optimus Prime. Asahikawa Winter Festival takes place in Asahikawa, Hokkaido Prefecture from February 8th - 12th.

Artists are sculpting the giant robot from a 16-meter (about 53-foot) snow mound. Construction crews began piling snow on January 6, started work on the character’s head on January 10, and raised trusses to continue sculpting Optimus last Thursday.

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Winter Festival 16 Meter Optimus Prime Snow Sculpture

by El Duque » Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:50 am

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TakaraTomy has tweeted an image of the completed Transformers Prime Optimus Prime snow sculpture from the Asahikawa Winter Festival. The sculpture measures 16 meters or approximately 52.5 feet. Asahikawa Winter Festival takes place in Asahikawa, Hokkaido Prefecture from February 8th - 12th. Image mirrored below.

Re: Asahikawa Winter Festival 16 Meter Optimus Prime Snow Sculpture

by Bumblevivisector » Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:57 am

Re: Asahikawa Winter Festival 16 Meter Optimus Prime Snow Sculpture

by New Omen » Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:01 am

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great stuff. I'd like to see a time lapse of it being made. I'd probably enjoy a time lapse of him melting too.

Re: Asahikawa Winter Festival 16 Meter Optimus Prime Snow Sculpture

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Re: Asahikawa Winter Festival 16 Meter Optimus Prime Snow Sculpture

by El Duque » Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:50 am

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TakaraTomy has tweeted a few additional images from the Asahikawa Winter Festival. In addition to the giant Optimus Prime snow sculpture there is also a sculpture of Transformers Prime Bumblebee to greet guest. We also see a coupled of illuminated images of the Optimus Prime sculpture.

Re: Asahikawa Winter Festival 16 Meter Optimus Prime Snow Sculpture

by New Omen » Wed Feb 08, 2012 11:08 am

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Bumblebee needs more yellow snow damn it! What did they do... eat it all?
I for one am disappointed they thought they could get away with a white bee.

Asahikawa Winter Festival Prime, Megatron and Bumblebee!

by GetRightRobot » Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:14 pm

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Now that the Asahikawa Winter Festival is over, what will become of these awesome Snowmen? Mirrored below are more of the impressive, "life-sized" snow sculptures from this year's Asahikawa Winter Fest. Note that both Transformers Prime BumbleBee and movie Bumblebee were in attendance. Luckily, they did not wear the same outfit. Enjoy the pics below or, head over to the original post by clicking here.

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Re: Asahikawa Winter Festival 16 Meter Optimus Prime Snow Sculpture

by T-Macksimus » Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:16 pm

Awesome artistry but I do have to wonder why they didn't add some color. Very simple to do a solution that they could spray on and have it be non-harmful to the environment when everything thaws. Still,the sculptures turned out amazing.