Workers\r\n install the head of a full-size Gundam character onto its main body in \r\nShanghai, on April 26, 2021. [Photo by Gao Erqiang/chinadaily.com.cn]

The 0.3-ton, 3.1-meter-high head of the Gundam Freedom statue was installed successfully in Shanghai on April 26.

Located at the Mitsui Shopping Park LaLaport in Shanghai's Pudong New\r\n Area, the 50-ton, 18.03-meter-high Gundam statue is the first of its \r\nkind to be displayed outside Japan.

It will make its official debut on May 28, according to Sunrise, the studio behind the hugely popular Gundam anime series.

The statue, which comprises 288 parts, took five months to \r\nmanufacture in Jiangsu province, and another four months to put \r\ntogether.