After a long hiatus (even though I'm sure no one read this because I never really advertised it to anyone) I've returned and plan on updating this thing regularly now. Anyway, the items du jour have not arrived yet, so I'll be adding some random backlog till they arrive. Dealing directly with Japan to get Japanese items really sucks sometimes, because while it's usually cheaper to buy stuff directly from Japan (i.e. - people don't try and insult your intelligence about the value of something like has frequently happened when I deal with HK sellers on ebay that claim that something that weighs 6 ounces costs $27 to ship) because the business usually sells at close to the retail price in yen, I've found that Japanese businesses -- whether run by foreigners or Japanese -- always take a long time to "process" stuff. Also EMS is very expensive, but I have no complaints when I get something faster than I'd get it if it was shipped inside the US. At any rate, let's get to this week's haul:
Acquired:
- This week's big acquisition is a biggie, a
BACK TO THE FUTURE PACHINKO MACHINE! I was bored and browsing ebay for cheap pachinko machines the other night, and quite a few had really low bids on them, including this one, it started at a dollar believe it or not. Alas, I ended up paying like $125 for it, and then the shipping for this monster is $80, but I just got rid of my
Wii, so....
- A really awesome
Keroro Mascot Robo that talks and has expressions, and apparently "learns" from you and says things based on the seasons and holidays and such, so cool!
- Megami Tensei figures, this is from
collection #5, it has Shiva, Gabriel, Poltergeist, Luthol, Belfuigol, and Susano and I hope I get the secret one, I ordered a whole box =P.
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Shadow of the Colossus Trading Figure, these look terrific, mini vignettes from Shadow of the Colossus, or Wanda to Kyouzo depending on where you're from.
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Mini Collection Bakery in Brown shokugan set, awesome realistic bakery foodstuffs from the disgustingly talented people at
Megahouse.
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Street Fighter II Soundropkeychains, so good. Yoga Flame!
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Maneki Neko Gold Version, from the Hidamari no Tami series Tomy makes. His head bows and he beckons you with his paw when sunlight hits him!
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Winoa, it's Japanese-made chocolate with wine in it, sounds absolutely wonderful!
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Bourbon Chotos - Hokkaido Milk. Looked good when I was browsing around
J-List, so I figured why not?
Random Stuff From The Backlog:
- Here's a
buncha Animal Crossing figures I got a while back
- Some
Microman figures from smalljoes.com, the
Acroyear with the parasol,
Setsuna, is great, her color scheme rocks.
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World Tank Museum, assorted volume numbers, I think they're from
4, 6 and 9.
Packin it into the massive Wishlist:
- omg 超かわいい！,
want- I'm totally getting one of these
Aquapicts ASAP, I'm hopeless when it comes to the Japanese way of design. I especially like the way that the 'Deep Sea Mode' looks. Silicon jellyfish, so good.
- This looks way cool too, it's a
digital ant farm that changes with the seasons.
- This looks rather interesting as well, it recreates an
Aurora Borealis in your living room.
- This is a Moeart version of a
Shakugan no Shana figure I already have, and it's just as shiny and happy looking as the one I have, if not more. Unfortunately they're effing expensive and hard to come by.
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J-List is the man, they always, always, always have stuff I want, in this case it's a
Japanese SDF Light Armored Vehicle from Tomica and also a fantastic
Fate/Stay Night figure/outfit set. Yeah I know, I'm girly sometimes, eat me, lol.
食ううううう作戦完了！
銀魂 totally rocks, and is perfect for marketing apparently.
Lotsa toy booze, some pizza, snacks, etc. From the picture they're not terribly impressive, but up close they're really neat.
Megafry Chicken, with Captain Afro mascot.
All assembled, with the Luchadore beer ^^;
Megafry and Lucha Libre cerveza, deconstructed.
The ever-popular "Beckoning Cat", or Maneki Neko, I just had to get the gold one. When the sun hits him his paw moves and his head bows, makes me feel empowered by the Sun Goddess 天照大神様 ＾＿＾；
Wine chocolate? Hell yes! (and yes it does have an alcohol content, it's like 0.8%, but it IS alcoholic ~_^)
From the Dragon Quest series (there's definitely some series of this before it, I've ebayed it before and yikes is it expensive, like @_@ expensive) here is the "Missing Metal Equipment"
I didn't get the secret figure =/
absent from photo: Dragonlord, damned packaging company -_-;.
has a 1-up 'shroom on the other side
There's a button you can press for an explanation of features, which shows various scenes from the actual "game", here we have BttFIII with Marty lassoing numbers, haha.
the machine in its entirety, finally a place to put more of my UFO Catcher swag at the top! there's リセットさん from 動物の森 as well as Monkey D. Luffy with a pirate hat on (so incredibly hard to find, I spent 2 months finding him when I gave up and accidentally found him browsing on ebay one day) and a pillow of リーくん's head.
all art should be 8-bit
Here's the attract mode for the machine, complete with a polygon model of the DeLorean driving down the street. The monitor looks pretty high-def in person.
The flash didn't go off on this one so it's kinda hard to see, but there's Marty playing Johnny B Goode at the enchantment under the sea dance, lol.
Dude, why isn't the little Dragon Quest 1 guy carrying the cool gold shield?!
Flying car chase that wasn't in any of the movies.
Here's anime Doc at the clock tower scene.
If you're wondering about the girl in the bunny ears, DQIII let you pick the classes of your characters and you could pick a jester/fuckoff class which apparently looked like a casino drink wench.... or something.
Dreaming of demons =P
Pachi-Pachi
Check out the toilet monster, and it looks like Shiva's about to take out Susanoo's leg with his trident ~_^
Yes, that is a toilet with the one demon. *cough*
Coolest box ever. btw - One Coin Figure means they're ￥500 a piece, one 500 yen coin, lol.
So cute. So very very cute. And awesome. He should be alive and be my best friend.
Hm, let's see, what do we have here, an L tea cup and saucer from Death Note, 2 銀魂 yunomi tea cups, a D. Gray Man glass and mug, a little Allen Walker stamp, a really awesome Illumicube that hooks up to your ipod and lights like a disco floor to the music, a Parappa mug that my cousin brought me back from Japan in 1998, a Hijikata donburi bowl, a Shinku music box from Rozen Maiden and last but definitely not least a ケロロ軍曹 season plate from last year, this one happens to be autumn.
My ワン・ピース Going Merry pirate flag, so cool!
My pachinko machine with an Inuyasha 祭 doll in front of it. The machine itself is themed as ゲゲゲの鬼太郎
More pachinko, this time the top, with Domo-kun, Kiba from Naruto and Kenpachi and Byakuya from Bleach.
A tapestry, prolly a furoshiki from a penpal of mine in Japan, also 2 months of the Naruto 2007 Shueisha calendar, both taken from the manga.
Some Jump issues, a Trigun bust, an awesome teapot I got in Squirrel Hill back in like 2001 that is from -- you guessed it -- Japan, part of a Naruto figure and really pretty cans/bottles of tea that were too great to throw out.
Rumble Roses Figumate figures, Konami makes a whole line of Figumate stuff, you can also see various Keroro things behind them, I need to rearrange them so the Gunsou is in the front, because to not display him prominently would be a crime! ^^;
Packaging from apple and muscat gumis, Pocky boxes, Calbee ホット＆スパイシー potato chips, part of my Gintama calendar, though you can barely see the panels hanging up, another tapestry sent by a Japanese friend, a big metal windchime thing that I made out of cut up Japanese drink cans (and their cans are made from steel, no crushing em on your head!), and the largest part of the picture is the Death Note 2006 calendar that I turned into posters with some clever cleaving.
Finally, a ton of manga, mostly Death Note, Claymore, D Gray Man, Zombie Powder (the first manga by the mangaka that did Bleach), Busou Renkin, Katekyo Hitman Reborn! and HunterXHunter volumes. On top we have a ridiculously cool clock my host fam gave me back in 1996 when I was in Kagoshima on Kyushu, a Turn A Gundam bank whose green LED eyes light up when you put money into it, Kotori no Dayori, a solar powered bird whose beak moves and makes various chirping and crowing sounds when the sun hits her, an SD Godzilla rubix cube (also gotten while I was in Japan in '96), and a whoooooole bunch of Shokugan food toys like the Kongari no Pan-ya san precisely glued into place so they look awesome.
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