Mazinger Z
Monday, 23rd October 2006 by James Turnbull
Mazinger Z is a giant manga robot who had his own anime show in the early 70s, and according to Wikipedia had a great influence on the Super Robot genre.
In this satellite photograph we can see a giant statue of Mazinger, standing proudly in a Spanish field. Nope that wasn't a typo ('Japanese' being quite a few keystrokes away) - this really is in Spain! But who built him there and why?
I'd never heard of Mazinger Z, but the show was a surprise hit in Spain, despite being edited down from the original violent Japanese version. A babelfish translation of this Spanish article might shed more light on the statue's origins...
The statue of the Mazinger was constructed 20-25 ago years, when they emitted the series by tele, so Mazinger is the guardian of our urbanization.
Umm, nope, that didn't help much. Loved the Power Rangers poses though.
Thanks: Gumbor
’emitted the series by tele’ tele = television = tv ’emited on tv’
Maaaaaaaaaaazingaaaaaaa!! (the italian for Mazinger…)
I remember watching “Tranzor Z” as a kid. There was a pink female robot that lauched its breasts as missles, and a fat sidekick that had an equally fat, clumsy robot.
The female robot was Afrodita, and the clumsy robot was made up by scrap metal, by Mazinger’s pilot’s competitor. Kind of reminds me of the “Festival of the robots”, a collection of animes including “El Vengador”, “El Galáctico”, “El Gran Dragón del Espacio” and “Super Magnetrón”. The “Vengador” (or Avenger in english) had quite the same script as Mazinger. Kind of neat to remember. Here is a link in spanish for some Mazinger stuff. http://zonadibujos.8m.com/mazinger2.htm
Am I the only one to notice the funky shaped swimming pool just north of the statue?
Yeah James, that is a funky shape for that pool….almost like a guitar, but more like the plastic jars of honey that are shaped like bears, if you know what i am talking about….
It’s a statue made in a estate more than 20 years ago, when the tv show was being aired here in Spain (don’t know why) but here is a link that shows some pictures.
http://ceo.upc.es/extras/eventos/mazinger/mazinger.htm
Ups… the link was repeated.. sorry
The explanation (in spanish) and few pics are here
The statue is located at the “Mas de Plata” urbanization’s pinewood, which was a project, but was never built. Mazinger was raised at the first ’80s with the point to be the main entrance to the place.