Koreans building massive, massive giant robot

Maybe some South Koreans became jealous when hearing about Japan's massive Gundam statue. Or maybe they just saw it and thought it was a good idea. But for what ever the reason, a much larger, massive-er, crazier giant robot statue is going to be built, in South Korea.

Planned to be an epic-sized, 364 feet tall permanent tower, the new addition to Google Maps is going to be a star attraction at a new robot-themed theme park, being built, inventively called Robot Land. 

The robot chosen to be immortalized in statue form? Voltar the Invincible. Also known to some as Robot Taekwon.

Voltar the Invincible is a much-loved Korean old-timer robot. Back in the late '70s, Voltar starred in 로보트 태권 V, in which the mountain-high robot fought all sorts of robots and stuff with laser beams and things, and made a great killing at the box office for director Kim Cheong-gi. Oh -- also, Voltar is a taekwon-do expert. Totally Korean through-and-through, Voltar is seen as the protector of the Koreans (source), guarding them metaphorically from the robot-mastering Japanese (who've been known to be partial to invading Korea in the past).

The South Korean designers behind the project no doubt hope that an alien-radiated meteorite will not fall from the sky bringing Voltar the Invincible to life, in an insatiable, furious pent-up rage -- because then, only Godzilla would then be able to save the day, and that would be a national embarrassment to have to rely on him again.