tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250034092024-03-13T19:10:00.230-04:00 Pixel n' Plastic WonderlandA guided tour around a landscape dotted with video games, toys, pop culture and nostalgia, stopping to explore the obscure and the odd, too.Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.comBlogger480125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-18263160733298366122015-07-13T01:06:00.003-04:002015-07-13T01:06:46.954-04:00Sailor Moon Crystal Cafe Sweets Collection 7<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today's SM treat is the 'Romantic Couple Cake'. I love all of the detail that went into this one. You have chocolate(?) chibi bride and groom (who are we foolin here, that's what they are, even though it's not called a wedding cake by name) figurines of Usagi and Tuxedo Mask, on a very ornately decorated cake, under glass, on a fancy white cake stand. Then, you have a rose inside of a vase resembling - a tuxedo. There's even a silhouette of the happy couple embossed into the top of the cake stand. I couldn't get the photo of the two cake figurines quite right, as Usagi is white, and without flash she looked just as washed out somehow.Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-33837529994571488272015-07-07T23:37:00.001-04:002015-07-07T23:39:24.360-04:00Sailor Moon Crystal Cafe Sweets Collection 6<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today, we have the (boringly named) 'Afternoon Tea Set', not dedicated to any one sailor in particular. This one is pretty colorful, and I think the cakes on the bottom plate kinda look like Lucky Charms' marshmallows. I love the stand that this set has. The bright colors really pop against the somber gold of the shelves, and the clear crescent moon. I also cut out the paper "doilies", and the pink and purple look kinda cool, too. The tongs are also pretty neat, with the compact shapes on the ends.Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-53811884837811857742015-06-30T23:49:00.000-04:002015-06-30T23:49:18.305-04:00Sailor Moon Crystal Cafe Sweets Collection 5<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today's "Crystal Cafe Special" is 'Chibiusa ala mode'. Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-28857177883076006952015-06-26T02:47:00.004-04:002015-06-26T02:49:45.474-04:00Sailor Moon Crystal Cafe Sweets Collection 4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Cafe. Today's order is 'Sailor Jupiter Cherry Pie'. I like the tiny creamer pitcher with her sailor suit/colors emblazoned on it. I
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More from the Sailor Moon Crystal
Cafe. Very cute series. This time it's 'Sailor Mercury Soda Jelly'. I will be posting the remainder later. Enjoy! Still available <a href="http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=FIG-COL-8436&page=top%2Fsearch%2Flist%3Fs_keywords%3Dsailor+moon+re-ment%24pagemax%3D40%24getcnt%3D0%24pagecnt%3D1" target="_blank">here</a> at the time of this writing.
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This is the 'Sailor Venus Pancake Plate', from the Sailor Moon Crystal Cafe Sweets Collection by Re-Ment. Very cute series. I will be posting more, later on. Still available <a href="http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=FIG-COL-8436&page=top%2Fsearch%2Flist%3Fs_keywords%3Dsailor+moon+re-ment%24pagemax%3D40%24getcnt%3D0%24pagecnt%3D1" target="_blank">here</a> at the time of this writing.Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-76076360326369529412015-06-17T05:02:00.004-04:002015-06-17T05:07:26.973-04:00Aaaaaaaaand We're Back...<br />
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I can't imagine that anyone is still reading this blog, as not many people read it before I hadn't posted in a two-year span, when it was still active, haha. I originally started this blog in 2006 because, why not? Everyone else was doing it at the time. I didn't post too much right off the bat, but by mid-2006, a lot of my friends had left town for greener pastures, and my social life pretty much evaporated over the course of one summer. This led to a deep depression and lots more time spent online.<br />
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Eventually, this ended up at me frequenting different online communities, and using this blog more and more to talk about things I was interested in at the time. At the time, I thought I was really interested in "otaku culture", wasting all of my time and money on it for a good two years. This was just a symptom of being depressed and not wanting to deal with real life: not having relationships, any satisfying job or career, and casting my real interests aside for the stupidest of reasons. It was a completely shallow, ridiculous "hobby" and the only reason I think I took it on was because I felt like crap about myself, and "unworthy" of my former interests. It was a slippery slope, because I was so interested in Japanese culture, games and UFO catcher/Gashapon/Game Centers for so long, it felt like I was just getting into another legitimate part of it. I was wrong.<br />
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It eventually became elucidated to me that it was nearly all just perversion, albeit later than I'd like to admit. But there was a saturation point for a realist like myself. For as gradually as I slumped into the world of "moe" and weeaboo-tainted crap, I snapped out of it very suddenly. There was a time when anime with vaguely-interesting-but-barely-cohesive stories broke down into total garbage whose key frames were the only things holding moaning, scantily clad animated females together. Then came the "daughters" and "waifu" and crap, and I was out. Socially arrested "men" showcasing their "daughters" (dolls that are a foot or two tall, that cost thousands of dollars) is the stop where I get off. Unfortunately, the chunk of life that this crap and the depression took were prime years - I'd say part of 26 through around 29. The majority of my posts so far are from that period of time.<br />
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Then, around 2010 I got a new job, and spent the majority of my time offline, eschewing Facebook and Twitter - the latter of which I spent nearly all of my time on in 2009. My posts got a lot fewer and farther between, and mainly consisted of pictures of stuff I bought. Then, in 2012 my PC bit the dust, literally. The case I bought was clear lucite, and poorly made. It was open and unsealed in several spots; and though it lasted around 6 years, the air filtration kinda sucks in here, and dust gathered to the point where it looked no worse visibly, but I guess choked the fan and the heatsink stopped working properly, the thermal paste dried up, and my processor died.<br />
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So, rather than build another mediocre PC, I just wound up getting an iPad. Which wasn't the worst choice in the world, but the blogger apps available for it were atrocious. The default app <b>by</b> blogger is terrible, and the only good third-party app stopped working with blogger's API about a month into me having downloaded it. Not to mention that the simplest things - like inserting pictures - were still remarkably difficult to format in a consistent way. So due to this, and the fact that not many people were reading about my niche interests of video game opinions, Japanese auctions and vinyl toys in the first place, I basically gave up.<br />
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Then came 2015. Some two and a half years later, I've built another rig, and intend on reviving this blog with my actual interests and positivity. I hope to see you around!<br />
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PS - I still absolutely love Japan and I still like anime, so don't take anything I've said about weeb-y stuff as me bashing either one of those things in general. The disingenuously creepy, gross, cultureless stuff is what I'm denouncing. That, and things that are marketed by assbags that like to try and build a brand on their daddy's money, or exploit people's interests to make a quick buck. You know who you are.Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-36661261434621119442015-06-17T02:57:00.001-04:002015-06-17T05:06:51.698-04:00Secret of Mana Nintendo Power Snippet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This was the reason I loved Nintendo Power: random art from Japanese game magazines, manuals and such. I knew that was the source, then, but there was no internet to browse, where people had scanned every page of every book ever. So, I was reliant on waiting by the mailbox to see new Japanese-y art on full display.Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-41456256872439017062013-11-13T23:47:00.000-05:002013-11-14T03:11:26.658-05:00Lowlights of this generation; i.e. - why I won't be buying a PS4 tomorrow nightFor whatever reason - poor impulse control, rabid fandom, obsessive desire for material objects, being a tech addict - I've always been an early adopter of game systems. Up until I was in college, coinciding with the release of the PS2, I was a day zero purchaser of nearly every game system that came out in the 90s. I got my NES Control Deck for my 7th birthday after I got a Fisher Price PXL camcorder and as disappointed that it was black and white, or was required to be plugged in or something. Mind you, this wasn't even my idea. My parents chose this as a surprise, and what a surprise it was. Up until that point I had been used to playing with action figures and drawing in my short little life. But I'm pretty sure that Thundercats and M.A.S.K. dovetailed nicely into another hobby that was largely creative in nature.<div><br></div><div>Anyway, after that, I was hooked. Soon enough, I was staking out Nintendo Power for SNES news, and had that the day it came out. Before the days when gaming was popular enough to even have preorders or reservations. I remember my mom taking me to Children's Palace and pouncing on their meager supply the day that they arrived. Past that, I had a job to pay for my habits: I caddied and used my xmas earnings to buy a Sega Genesis and Sega CD (the latter being a very poor choice), worked at a restaurant to snag a Saturn and Playstation 1 on launch day, and a hardware store to get a Dreamcast right on schedule. This isn't even mentioning the handhelds I had. I think I had every incarnation of the Gameboy at one time, a Game Gear, you get the picture.</div><div><br></div><div>But then college came, and in addition to being largely poor due to being on a rural campus and not having a car, thus not being able to have a job, my interest had started to wane a bit. Not because I'd "grown up", or any of the standard reasons that anyone would think up when they hear that your interest in video games had dropped off a bit. One, I didn't have time. Two, I picked up an even nerdier hobby (that would later prove to contribute to being the bane of my life for almost 10 years) in the form of anime, thanks to a girl I came to love but that did not return the sentiment. And finally, three, the game related reasons...</div><div><br></div><div>For one, when you're 7 and you have an NES and it's the 80s, your main sources of info come once a month in magazines and in the Sears xmas catalog. Because of the tech then everything had to be programmed from scratch, and as a consequence games came out kinda infrequently. You heard about them in Nintendo Power for months at a time, and there were hardly ever firm release dates for titles then. I read recently that over five thousand games were released for the XBox 360 in its seven-plus years. The original Nintendo had around 850, and that's with redumps over different territories, also including Famicom games. Also, when you're 7, you tend to be dependent on others to buy you games, so you know your limitations. That, and games back then, by and large, took a few hours to beat or get bored with, excluding rare examples like Zelda. As time ran on, naturally games got more complex and thus more involved and time-consuming. A few of my favorite games, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6 and Final Fantasy Tactics, ate up a ton of my time in high school. My main save on FFT had the clock at 99:99:99, so yeah, I played a lot. But my point is that, even just between 1987 and 1994 - 7 years - the complexity of games had ballooned in size greatly. Even Final Fantasy 4, which came out in 1991, took my 11 year-old self 40 or 50 hours to conquer. (I was a total completist, I explored every nook n cranny) I was used to games that a) didn't usually take that long, and b) weren't massively complex except for the above mentioned cases and a few others, which meant I was free to sample and I didn't feel like I was missing anything. When the PS1 era came along, there started to be more and more releases (a lot of which were crummy, but more on that in a minute) every week and by the time the PS2 was in stores, forget about it. There were just ridiculous amounts of games on shelves, and aside from the money factor, when every game takes up a bunch of your time, you need to pick and choose what you get to play.</div><div><br></div><div>Another gaming-related reason, as I said, loads more games were releasing every week - and not that the NES and SNES' library didn't have their share of turds - but there were more horrible games than ever. And I viewed everything beyond the 16-bit era as a transitional phase to the current gen (360 and PS3, that is) that we have today. I was raised on pixel graphics and a certain kind of gameplay, and try as they might, the Saturn, the PS1, none of them really ever impressed me that much. Knowing what could be from tech demos for the then-Ultra 64 (Nintendo 64) and even Pixar movies like Toy Story, which came out in 1995, you knew what was eventually coming. So it was hard for me to get excited about blurry, lo-res textures, or even flat-shaded, low-polygon models of things in games. It all just looked kind of awkward to me, I guess. That's not to say that there weren't some legitimately good games in that generation, but I just never saw the "amazing quality" of Final Fantasy 7, for instance, even when it was new. Final Fantasy 6 on the SNES was a masterpiece, hand-crafted pixel-by-pixel, with music that was insanely wonderful. I waited for 7 for three long years, and they made it out to be this CGI spectacle, and that was the problem. The character models on the map were "popeye-armed" to use the term coined back then, the music was okay, but it was more MIDI synth than symphonic like its 16-bit predecessor had, the textures were grainy, as were the "prerendered" backgrounds, and translation was atrocious. It always baffled me how, after spending years on development not only of the game, but the technology to <b>make</b> the game, how they could put so little effort into the translation. True, RPGs weren't really a big Western thing then - when it came to console gaming at least - but ironically, even though the translation is awful (and RPGs are based on story and character development), it brought RPGs into the spotlight in the West. Stuff like this, bad scripts and voice acting in games like Resident Evil 1-3, grainy video, bad collision and hit detection sort of soured me on gaming in general, then.</div><div><br></div><div>Around 2000 I tried getting back into the swing after seeing that Final Fantasy 9 would be like a throwback to the older games. But there again, it presented a problem that I'd dealt with before, as well as a new one. Final Fantasy 8 had turned me off with its goofy Triple Triad card game, and side quests and such. The Gold Saucer in FF7 was okay, but it was merely a collection of minigames secluded in one section of the game. FF8 was festooned with stupid complexities that just made the game less fun overall. Magazines to collect for skills or whatever, having to suck magic out of enemies, card games, some BS with salary and such. So I start up disc 1 of FF9, and what is one of the first scenarios I'm greeted with? A button-matching minigame. Worse, a button-matching minigame which, if I got a lower score, I didn't get a item. So there was a tangible consequence to being bad at Simon. And this introduced me to the thing that still has a bad taste in my mouth to this day. Way back when, you had your Nintendo Powers, your Tips & Tricks Magazines, EGM, Gamefan, whatever. You had a few finite pages with tips and tricks, and with games not being that complex for the most part, you were kind of left to your own devices to figure things out, and it was fun to <b>play</b> the game. With this game, like never before - and I acknowledge it had been around before, but not in the same capacity - I'd been going back and forth between GameFAQs on my PC screen and the TV. It boiled down to me following instructions if I wanted to obtain everything. So I quit playing. If I wasn't playing for fun, and just following a guide step-by-step, it wasn't worth it. Games now are more open-ended for the most part, but there's still this complexity, where, I feel if I'm not using a guide, I'm not getting to see everything. And with all of the releases around now, I don't have the time to play everything all over again to perfection. Nor would I want to, most of the time. I just hate feeling like I didn't have the complete experience. Or for games like Dark Souls that are superfrigginhard, you worry about being underpowered or stepping into the wrong area if you're not looking online for info while playing.</div><div><br></div><div>But I got trapped in these old ways. I was used to games not keeping me entertained forever, and only playing one or two a year that would genuinely hold my interest for 50 hours at a time. So, I drifted off the path for almost the entirety of the PS2/XBox/GameCube generation (I owned all three, but purely out of habit). I was mainly into handheld gaming for the longest time, playing games like Fire Emblem, Mario Golf, Warioware, Treasure's Astroboy game, the 2D Metroids, the 2D Zeldas, Phoenix Wright and the excellent last-of-the-2D Castlevania games. (And I thought the neatest thing ever was the GBA SP, that screen was so sharp!) The other big distraction was that my friend got me into World of Warcraft in 2004. We hung out near-constantly at one point in time, and that game spoiled me in every definition of the word, for other games. First in the good sense, then the bad. It had been the first online game I'd ever really played with any sort of seriousness. I had Final Fantasy 11 which I lost interest in pretty quickly (and that froze my computer fairly often), Ragnarok Online which was terrible, and some earlier PC junk in the late 90s. But WoW was, well, WOW. I had always liked the Warcraft lore, and this brought all of those races to real, living color. You got to get involved in adventures you dictated and characters your tailored to your specifications. The exploration was long and arduous but rewarding. The environments were rich, things were deep, complex in a graspable way, there seemed to be an infinite amount of fun to be had. But once you'd explored every zone, it just became a race for gear, on a treadmill. You were mandated to using one of a few cookie cutter builds for your character because everything boils down to math, and if you want mega healz or DPS out the wazoo, you did what was necessary to stay in your guild and get phatty lewts. You did the same rotations, and had to have the same gear as others, because you'd get replaced if not. Then they started going overboard with things that were "limited edition" in game items and ridiculous achievements, and you had to be logged in like it was a full-time job. At first, the expansions revitalized the experience with more zones to explore and new mechanics, but after so many similar experiences, it just wasn't happening anymore. And after quitting and coming back a few times, I was spent on any future gaming, period, for a good, long stretch.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2007 I purchased an XBox 360, as I had seen some of the games and was impressed and decided that I wanted to get back into gaming. But it sat. And sat. And sat some more. Oh, I bought games, but I didn't play any of them for more than ten minutes at a time. I don't know if I was still burnt out from Warcraft, or if taking an entire generation off from ever-more-complex games (my rationale when I was a WoW-lover, was that I was "building something" with the characters I made, with standalone games, I'd finish it and it wouldn't matter or amount to anything) made my head spin because now every game took at least 20-30 hours to see everything, but I just didn't play. Plus, I had games from other generations to play (I'm talking PS1 games, when the 360 was out for a few years) that I had almost... guilt(?) about not playing. I guess the whole point of this article is the fact that, before I never had a "backlog" of games. I stuck that cart in the NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, I kicked Andross in the balls and watched the ending. But then stuff piled up. I'd start Metal Gear Solid 2 with every intention of finishing it, and then Wind Waker (the original) would come along, then Katamari Damacy, then Godhand, then Shadow of the Colossus comes out, and the ball keeps a-rollin.</div><div><br></div><div>So when pressure - in the form of friends talking about it, TV ads (again, remember, this gaming thing wasn't super hip until a few years ago, so now they milk it for all it's worth), e-mails, previews, reviews, etc - really started to buckle my resolve not to buy a PS4 on launch day, I had to go back to my pile of unplayed or unfinished games from this generation. My "lowlights" if you will. I have approximately 35 XBox 360 games, around 10 3DS games and 2 PS3 games. Amongst all of these, I finished most of my 3DS library, so kudos to me. But I've never even opened Kid Icarus (over a year old) and Resident Evil Revelations (also over a year old). Other failures of note:</div><div><br></div><div>- Abandoned Animal Crossing village after about 200 hours (Not a huge deal, since I <b>did</b> play it that long, but I expected to perpetually keep my village going. But even rudimentary upkeep takes like an hour a day, and eff that)</div><div><br></div><div>- Bought original Left 4 Dead when it was newish, never played it. About as useful as an AOL startup disk now.</div><div><br></div><div>- Got hooked on Borderlands, bought the xpacs and Borderlands 2. Played the xpacs, never touched BL2.</div><div><br></div><div>- Bought Bionic Commando (nuff said)</div><div><br></div><div>- Actually played Bionic Commando</div><div><br></div><div>- Bought Tales of Vesperia and Devil May Cry 4 with the 360, never played either.</div><div><br></div><div>- Didn't finish Dead Rising once</div><div><br></div><div>- Didn't play Fallout 3 or New Vegas until 2013.</div><div><br></div><div>- Have Gears of War, never played.</div><div><br></div><div>- Fable 2 & 3, ditto (the original Fable was my favorite original XBox game)</div><div><br></div><div>-Dead Space 1 & 2, nope.</div><div><br></div><div>- Have Dead Rising 2, never played.</div><div><br></div><div>- Farcry 3 made me motion sick so no go there.</div><div><br></div><div>- Didn't finish Mass Effect 2</div><div><br></div><div>- Played like 30 hours of Red Dead Redemption, didn't finish</div><div><br></div><div>- Castlevania has never been in the drive</div><div><br></div><div>- Dishonored is still in the wrapper</div><div><br></div><div>- Played Batman: Arkham Asylum most of the way through, got bored, never even opened Arkham City</div><div><br></div><div>- Have had Resident Evil 5 since 2008, you guessed it, not played.</div><div><br></div><div>- Diablo 3 sits in hell waiting to be played</div><div><br></div><div>- Dragon Age Origins, never played</div><div><br></div><div>- MvC 3, still sealed</div><div><br></div><div>- Finished 3 chapters of Telltale's Walking Dead</div><div><br></div><div>and the two biggies:</div><div><br></div><div>- Have every Assassin's Creed except 4, have never played any except the first, thought it was boring, so I quit. (To be fair, I didn't buy any but the first and third ones, and the first was like $10 at Best Buy, my friend worked for Ubisoft at the time and would give them to us as xmas gifts every year)</div><div><br></div><div>- Bought a PS3 essentially for The Last of Us. It is now collecting dust underneath the clock that I've sat on top of it. No idea why I haven't played it. (Also got the Kingdom Hearts HD remake, and I guess my tastes have improved, because I couldn't sit through more than Wonderland before I hit pause forever)</div><div><br></div><div>So there you have it. My list to refer to tomorrow, when that clock strikes 12 and I get any big ideas to fly out to Best Buy or GameStop for the big launch and snag a livingroom-monolith of my very own.</div>Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-10459742422811909422013-10-19T18:39:00.000-04:002013-10-19T18:46:34.930-04:00Lunartik SDCC 2013 Exclusive Mys'tea'rious and Plum Bubble Tea<div><font face="Times"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-apHsMJzfTOY/UmMLx1KN2QI/AAAAAAAAEYg/mJ0erql6tos/I/photo_221150.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></span></font></div><div><div><font face="Times"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-2QgBluhXEEk/UmMLyCDE0JI/AAAAAAAAEYk/GMdVyANJhuY/I/photo_77494.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></span></font></div><div><div><font face="Times"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-X07H7CLvk-A/UmMLyR1SW6I/AAAAAAAAEYs/nmn4H8eumfQ/I/photo_692044.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></span></font></div><font face="Times"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br>I believe I've featured UK-based Matt Jones' Lunartik here before, but I've acquired 2 new ones recently. The first is a San Diego Comicon 2013 exclusive version "mystery tea", Mys'tea'rious (get it?!), and the second is from series 2, the Plum Bubble Tea variety.</span></font></div></div>Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-23258575656711690882013-10-19T18:09:00.000-04:002013-10-19T18:14:08.015-04:00KidRobot x Street Fighter Series 2: Gen, Charlie and Fei Long<div><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Ig-ncR3KAj0/UmMELPxAWkI/AAAAAAAAET4/2JeL9JkfX30/I/photo_847536.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><div><div><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-AM3rCg556QM/UmMELmIbaWI/AAAAAAAAET8/fehdASvxTEk/I/photo_788939.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><br><br> <br></div><br><br> Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-64573991774193161732013-10-19T18:00:00.000-04:002013-10-19T18:04:15.992-04:00Batman: The Animated Series Kubricks<div><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-lyeQ1RozDsc/UmMB3k3PUEI/AAAAAAAAETs/ShxPuYPgBdM/I/photo_532066.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><div><br></div><div>I somehow missed these... For almost 10 years. These are from 2004 and I only just found out about em this year. There are some Batman Beyond ones, too.</div><br><br> Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-53183924319013249502013-10-19T16:53:00.000-04:002013-10-19T17:00:03.293-04:00Pokemon Rumble Figures<div><div><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cVoe0CUPMOU/UmLyzz39XcI/AAAAAAAAERA/nxdYK8zfqp4/I/photo_222868.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QfkkINDAnlY/UmLy0QsresI/AAAAAAAAERI/C3CYAhCOzWU/I/photo_904139.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div></div></div><div><br></div>These are the "domestic" versions sold exclusively at GameStop here in the US, but these were gashapon time, I believe, in Japan. They're NFC (near-field communication) figures that can be used to put the pokemon figure you hold, into the Wii U game of the same name. I bought them just for the figures, as I don't own a Wii U, and snapped up a few of the specific ones I want from eBay when I didn't get them from a random dip.<div><br></div><div>I got Genesect, Bulbasaur, Piplup, Torchic, Victini and blue dude whose name I can't remember and don't care to look up.</div>Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-6144266070780044442013-10-19T16:49:00.000-04:002013-10-19T16:51:30.745-04:00Parappa the Rapper Mug<div><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-W-Y04W5Tz7M/UmLw0CCjERI/AAAAAAAAEQ0/X5PAvq_bfsQ/I/photo_199103.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><div><br></div><div>Circa-1998, my favorite gift ever, brought back for me by my cousin from her first trip to Japan.</div><br><br> Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-2859396770827799412013-10-19T16:43:00.000-04:002013-10-19T16:44:36.146-04:00Zelda Minish Cap Keychain<div><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-dGojCFwPHR4/UmLvMWQ8KGI/AAAAAAAAEQo/Wl4D7FL1-IA/I/photo_63490.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><div><br></div><div>I got the wrong one, I was supposed to get the one with Link holding the pot in the picture, but got this one instead. It's still awesomely Zelda, however.</div><br><br> Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-1429802522146326292013-10-19T16:07:00.000-04:002013-10-19T17:37:17.126-04:0010-Doh! 10-Doh! 10-Doh!<div><div><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-bRNkb-utBOc/UmL7h2MPK0I/AAAAAAAAETE/ZvgMdhebgKI/I/photo_11432.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><div><div><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-jzoxjCMA8jA/UmL7iF8lnFI/AAAAAAAAETI/hgR9AhNBwD4/I/photo_929814.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><div><div><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6kTJYz8rBnM/UmL7ikJ45nI/AAAAAAAAETQ/59-OHKR2iCA/I/photo_982226.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><div><div><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-hlnj_PHZug0/UmL7i4BvAwI/AAAAAAAAETY/ZAmU5TV3TyY/I/photo_85095.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><br></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div>It made a certain amount sense to put these <a href="http://squidkidsink.bigcartel.com">Squid Kids Ink</a> 10-Doh! figures on top of the Mario Brothers ? And brick blocks that I affixed to the wall with double-sided mounting tape to make shelves. The blocks are actually really tiny banks that make Mario noises when you put coins in em.</div><div><br></div><div>They're all pretty awesome, but I like the ones that mimic real NES cart art the most. Zombey Kong and Momma Brain (as in from Metroid) are fantastic.</div><br><br> <br></div><br><br> <br></div><br><br> <br></div><br><br> Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-83064728469688955362013-10-17T20:25:00.000-04:002013-10-17T20:45:18.494-04:00Sket One Ketchup Dunny<div><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-NrlUQlg_z60/UmCEm8xEGqI/AAAAAAAAENo/6rA1D8LxcyE/I/photo_508605.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><div><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RwqjzLqCPcE/UmCEnc7lmQI/AAAAAAAAENs/0Yh-ojsUhBU/I/photo_879809.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><div>I ran across this Dunny from 2010 a long while ago, but every time a new series debuts, I will invariably want several in the set. Usually the common, cheaper ones, but more often than not, also the rarer (read: more expensive on eBay) kind if not the chase figures. So when I started getting into these, I was enamored by more than just this set at the time, thus my forgetting that this oddball beauty existed.</div><div><br></div><div>The problem with these when I was originally looking for one, was that people were selling them in sets. There was a mustard one,a relish one, a mayo one, and this one. I forget which is the chase figure, but they'd sell all four for crazygonuts amounts of money like $150. I didn't want mayo, I wanted ketchup. Finally, the other day I was doing a search for the new Dunny Evolution set, and for some reason an auction for this one popped up, and for way less than I'd seen it before.</div><div><br></div><div>Aside from being the coolest, my favorite, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup#History">most mysterious</a> condiment, ketchup (that is, the modern one) has been produced and perfected mainly in my hometown, Pittsburgh, by Heinz. That, and I've always loved the Heinz logo/ketchup label.</div><br><br> <br><br> <br>Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-65930206353353168562013-10-17T19:53:00.000-04:002013-10-17T21:11:03.226-04:00Japanese Snacks, etc<div><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-11_8Pg5mKSI/UmCJ-gma4sI/AAAAAAAAEPM/fasnO5HAbVw/I/photo_674903.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><div><br></div><div>Got a small load of snacks and junk from J-List today, including the unfortunately-named, yet really yummy Maple flavored Collon.</div><div><br></div><div><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-FQ2FwTf62sw/UmCJ-zLNO_I/AAAAAAAAEPU/4vWNWmSpPqg/I/photo_644548.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><div><br></div><div>Jagarico potato sticks (じゃがいも jagaimo means potato, or just plain 芋 imo) in lemon pepper flavor. The regular 'salt flavor' is really Goodall I love lemon pepper seasoning, so I figured I'd try some.</div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Kx5lH8uOB-Q/UmCKoqZHmlI/AAAAAAAAEQI/wgLrmV2U4Ng/I/photo_89195.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><br></div><div>Holoholone Dolce is what the box says, they're supposedly honey apple flavored, so again, I figured I'd give em a whirl.</div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-KdVJ9N2ymsE/UmCKo5DAAoI/AAAAAAAAEQQ/2t_hgVlz3yw/I/photo_27786.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><br></div><div>The Penguin? (Yes, the product has the '?' In the name, because it's supposed to be a Kappa but it sorta looks like a cute penguin) from San-X's Sumikko Gurashi, or "Things Living in the Corner" line. I really wanted a Tonkatsu one (it resembles a hamster, or Diglett from the original Kanto Pokemon series) but alas, it sold out before I was able to grab it. He's a coin pouch, but he'll prolly end up with my other Sanrio/San-X stuff on my non-book bookshelf.</div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rlsPLOzUQVY/UmCKpUeoRxI/AAAAAAAAEQU/o6WO-sROYcQ/I/photo_205324.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><br></div><div>And lastly, a Sasara pen (yeah, I've never heard of em, either) that is a collaborative effort with Lipton, that is scented like tea. There are a bunch, lemon, black, berry, peach, but I went for the OG.</div><br><br> <br><br> <br><br> <div><br></div><br><br> <div><br></div><br><br> <br><br> Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-72723570924761866572013-08-31T14:01:00.000-04:002013-08-31T15:34:30.838-04:00Animal Crossing Chara Stamp Collection<div><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3LBlli7JyKQ/UiJE0OlMD5I/AAAAAAAAEGg/KLss8H7eFmg/I/photo_55900.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-tB2dRWDMP_c/UiJE0jpdvOI/AAAAAAAAEGo/_n9XVBiUYF4/I/photo_804465.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-EPJP_PZjV7w/UiJE0828AxI/AAAAAAAAEGw/mbTfIjSeTrM/I/photo_362637.jpg" border="0" 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border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><br><br> <div><br></div><div><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-lm_8uAMWLiY/UiJFNu2M_SI/AAAAAAAAEMY/A0zYXqZDTkI/I/photo_6133.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><br><br> <div><br></div><br><br> <div><br></div><div><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-LfvkAK3Zjtc/UiJFN5quhfI/AAAAAAAAEMg/z4XoXkEvOIQ/I/photo_985588.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><br><br> A recent acquisition from <a href="http://www.ncsx.com">NCSX</a>, these were announced (on NCS' website anyway, which is by no means "official") on the same day that a new edition of the now-over-10-year-old gashapon and blister-packed series was announced. (The fact that a series of "insignificant" capsule machine and tiny packaged toys has gone on - albeit sporadically - for over 10 years, is uniquely Japanese to me) Anyway, I had assumed that these were going to be of the same size and material as the other toys in the series, sort of unfortunately I was wrong.<div><br></div><div>This series of toys began in 2001 with the initial batch of houses, mini figures and furniture collection. They're really quite well-made, and detailed, too. The figures, especially the animal citizens, are basically miniature versions of their in-game counterparts. The furniture, too, looks just like the furniture in the game, shrunk down to the size of a fingertip. The houses are furnishable, and actually come with flooring and wallpaper - again, just like in the game. Later additions to the series saw a "plate" system sort of playset mechanic come along, as well as a two-storey home, like you could expand to in the actual games.</div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FibmSRHjjYU/UiJFOd6nsLI/AAAAAAAAEMo/4gnfDwfgHf4/I/photo_153192.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><br><div><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-LzY2-cyhruE/UiJFO7QPFlI/AAAAAAAAEMw/qOhb_DaDfYc/I/photo_473095.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><br><br></div><div><br></div><div>Then there were 50(!) character and furniture blister packs released. Other buildings were added to the series, a post office, Tom Nook's store, a police box, even a shrine and the museum. As a special "purezento", an upgraded Nook Conbini was given away (and I snagged it in a Japanese auction ^^), complete with a tall sign outside, clear windows that allow you to see inside, tables to sit items for sale on and a register. Then in about 2004 or 5, they started producing sets of gashapon houses and figures. Usually, this involved "modular" houses - broken into 4 pieces of "land" you can attach to form a foundation of the house (how else would they fit it into a capsule?), walls and a door, a mailbox, a fence, roof pieces and a chimney, these even came with hangable wallpaper and flooring - with a figure and furniture, and a set or two of 2 or 3 figures with a bunch of furniture. These releases seemed to coincide with a game release, and one for the AC movie that came out in 2006.</div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-e04dQuznSrA/UiJFPQVhxBI/AAAAAAAAEM4/WKwexs1Gd84/I/photo_389239.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><div><div><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ObIYs_rk-MI/UiJFPlUTnaI/AAAAAAAAENA/MBrvPjtuRjY/I/photo_507910.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><div><div><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-RpWk1mnkKXk/UiJFQM91MDI/AAAAAAAAENI/0DMQtZ5VmLI/I/photo_480339.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><br><br><br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-fec2OxzgsQE/UiJFQkSbGNI/AAAAAAAAENQ/IE8c-pdtM5k/I/photo_285299.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><br><div><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-zt0DVjK2C8I/UiJFRFlLrhI/AAAAAAAAENY/y583kAQ_aP0/I/photo_712912.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><br><br> <br></div><div><br></div><div>So naturally, for the latest AC release for the 3DS last year, they made a Tobidase! Doubutsu no Mori set for the 300 yen capsule machines again this year. So when the "Chara Stamp Collection" was announced, and looked almost exactly the same in photos, I assumed that they were going to be, well, the same. These are more like a stationery set than the previous entries in the AC series of toys.</div><div><br></div><div>Oddly enough, the older stuff seems to be of a higher quality than these, despite being more expensive and newer. (Thus being produced by a more "sophisticated" process, no doubt. If you doubt this, look at the difference between prizes/toys in the 90s and even those produced in the early 2000s) The old sets' figures seem to be made of some sort of... almost rubber? They're certainly not PVC. These seem to be painted PVC, but instead of details being molded into them like the old sets, there are stickers with graphics on them, which I'm really not a fan of. This seems cheap. On the bottom of every piece is a rubber stamp, with a saying or graphic or both. The sets with the houses do not have an open, decorable back, as the older sets do. Instead, there is a drawer that pops out, and for some reason there is flooring included, but honestly, there's not much to display. The houses themselves, too, are made of monochromatic plastic with stickers on them, and have no yard, mailbox, doors that open, fence, etc. Neat, though they may be, they are definitely a Duplo block to the much cooler Lego of the packaged and gashapon sets.</div>Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-16102584287502583342013-08-16T02:03:00.000-04:002013-08-16T02:05:13.885-04:00Sunset 夕暮れ<div><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-O7wswgHqCa0/Ug3BFT6jj6I/AAAAAAAAEGA/UgOB6R9xpuA/I/photo_480365.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_5PRbOtMW38/Ug3BFr3XfVI/AAAAAAAAEGI/MbaousAGzOc/I/photo_508193.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-_mDIrsi3xUs/Ug3BGKSEznI/AAAAAAAAEGQ/59V2RV0Ua0k/I/photo_511175.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><br><br> </div><br> <br></div><br><br> Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-15616567402004694462013-08-16T01:47:00.000-04:002013-08-16T02:00:00.140-04:00Megaman Soft Keychain ロックマンソフトキーホルダー<div><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5LjJBGcqVNY/Ug2_26whlDI/AAAAAAAAEFg/_mGsKBjNlxM/I/photo_151961.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nGS_UaZqOHM/Ug2_3HJJ_7I/AAAAAAAAEFo/dYNqLyCXs6s/I/photo_684440.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-NkS03haxeAI/Ug2_3lMpN7I/AAAAAAAAEFw/xa0cBYudVgU/I/photo_538090.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><div><br></div><div>The name attached to this line is "soft keyholder", and while it is hollow, thus meeting the standard for sofubi (in Japanese, short for, "soft vinyl") toys, I think that it might be made of a harder plastic than PVC figures are. </div><br><br> <br></div><br><br> <br></div><br><br> Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-46059089432316919812013-08-15T23:21:00.000-04:002013-08-15T23:23:14.921-04:00SDCC Street Fighter x KidRobot Mecha Zangief Figure<div><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Vf4ZO4c11jE/Ug2bIcRo7tI/AAAAAAAAEDk/9Sjl_U62Opw/I/photo_800675.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><br><br> Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-46011300618903101162013-08-15T23:19:00.000-04:002013-08-15T23:21:13.620-04:00Huhuhuhuh Fap...<div><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8GsBz2tpQ-k/Ug2aqIsVVZI/AAAAAAAAEDc/f8Ejj6rpdEw/I/photo_94620.jpg" border="0" class="bloggoimg"></div><br><br> Takarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251256193556314285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25003409.post-67597622330868613172013-08-15T23:15:00.000-04:002015-06-19T00:20:39.822-04:00Tachikoma Car<div>
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Saw this on my drive home today. The color even matches the paintjob on the tank. Must be one hell of a Ghost in the Shell fan!</div>
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