Okay, that's a load of crap. But i can't imagine they'd go to the expense and never display the Gundam again, so hopefully it'll spring back up for other events eventually.
In the meantime, a few of us were talking about the 'bot at KumoriCon-- I think it was Toshi (Yoshida, ADR producer on Gurren Lagann and Kurokami for Bandai Entertainment) who said that he'd calculated the rough shipping costs of the Gundam at $3 million-- which doesn't include the purchase of the Gundam itself, or a place to put it. In other words, it'd be cheaper to build our own than to import the one from Odaiba.
Just sayin'.
