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Revoltech Expo

Great! Now I have to sink more money to my Revoltech addiction. Tokyo Hunter made a trip to the Revoltech Expo this past weekend and snap a load of pictures to titillate you upcoming years fancy of Revoltech line. I just posted the ones that I’m drooling over like the Alien, Jack Skellington and the T-Rex from Jurassic Park. Allow me to go grab some paper towels to wipe my desk while you take a look at these pictures!

Oh I forgot to mention, they’re also releasing fully transformable Valkyries.

Odaiba Gundam

Went to see the Gundam today! Well worth it not going to Comic Con for. I felt like a little kid going to a toy store for the first time. More picutres to come when I get back to the states!

Beatles Rock Band Commercial

Passion Pictures has done it once again by animating an amazing commercial! Premiered during this weeks E3 expo. Harmonix showed off their latest promo piece for the popular game with a Beatles addition coming soon. Passion Pictures is most notably known for their work on the Gorillaz music videos and other commercials. Love the caricatures of the band by Robert Valley. Awesome!

16th Prize Fair Goods-Gimme gimme gimme!

Degenki Online has pictures of the lastest prize goods that are set to be released this fall at your local UFO catchers in Japan. You can probably order some of these at the usual online outlets once released, or you can just make a trip to Japan and try your skill at catching one of these prizes!

Some awesome Poogies from MonHan.

Docodemo Pumpkins!

I’m more interested in the Real Figures of Ami and Taiga.

Puchi Miku.

Gold Experience Requiem from Jojo’s Vento Aureo arc.

Panson Works X One Piece key and phone straps! That’s definitely on my want list!

I found this the most appealing of the prized goods. There’s no description but it seems to be Cyborg 009 figures designed by the urban vinyl artist Kaijin.

Here’s the rest of the team.

You can catch the rest of the images here from the event.

Japan 2008: Super Festival 48

While in Japan, I got a chance to check out another event, Super Festival 48. This event mainly focused on toys and figures, which is another hobby of mine. I first heard about this on Toybot Studios blog and decided it would be cool to check out before returning back to the States. SF48 had all types of toys ranging from American to Japanese kaiju to nostalgic items. Here are a couple of pictures I took at the event:

Some of the booths were selling garage kits.

Others were displaying their skills. Caught this pretty cool plug unit from Eva.

The model was so detailed that you could clearly see the pilots.

Here’s a shot of the attendees buying toys. Seems like there’s a small market for American toys. The booth in the picture were selling Transformer Animated figures.

Popsoda’s Many Many Many Mey Dynamite Custom Show.

Overall, I enjoyed my first figure event. It was the complete opposite compared to comiket, small, low key and less crowded. Hopefully, my next trip will allow me to go to another figure event like WF…if it comes back. You can check out the rest of the images at the bottom gallery. Enjoy!

Tora Dora-Fail Whale

Seems that everyone’s favorite palmtop tiger is on the Twitter wagon. I want that mug now!

Japan 2008: Comiket Day 3

So the day of reckoning! We literally had no idea what we were doing at all! In the morning we met up with Shingo from HD and Andrew at the station. We then all headed to into the Big Sight.

We got the west hall and underneath a table we found a cardboard box. When we opened it, this is what we found.

300 copies of our hardwork and labor! The quality of the book was everything we could ask for. We were thoroughly happy with the end product result.

The rest of the event was us selling the books and me running around procuring books like a chicken with it’s head cut off. During the event, I had a couple of friends visit us and took me to the industry booth where they introduced me to Good Smile and Max Watanabe! Max Watanabe puts the Max in Max Factory. After the introductions, I got a chance to take a couple of snapshots of GSC latest selection of Nendroids.

At the end of the day, we were too tired to take pictures or have any images to document or day. All that remains were our memories, scoring a tour of the GSC’s office (seperate post) and Junpei catching the flu.^^;

Overall, we loved the experience of making a doujinshi. We learned from the mistakes we made and will apply them to future books when we make them. Our next intended date for attending Comic Market is C77. So please look forward to our next book!

Japan 2008: Comiket Day 1

If you saw the Queue report post, this post is the continuation of what happened after we got into the Big Sight.

Most of the time was just walking around and scoring a couple of new books here and there. Most of the time we just walked around and took some pictures. Once the frenzy was soaked up, we decided to take a walk into the cosplay area and take a couple of pictures.

Once everything was bought, we headed out of Ariake and decided met with Shipon for the first time and definitely not the last! We ended up in Shinagawa afterwards looking for a place to accomodate 8 people for a small nomikai to celebrate the end of our first day at Comiket. Walking around we finally ended up at a small izakaya.

Afterwards, we headed down to Tsukiji for the most wanted dish since last years trip. You would think it would be sushi right? Nope, it was for the best tasting curry udon you will ever taste in your life.

Every year I come to Japan, this is my most must have dish in all of the trip. The restaurant, which I can’t recall, is tucked away in the alleyways of Tsukiji’s many restaurants and is simply amazing.

This pretty sums up the first day!

つつ”く。。。

Japan 2008: Comiket Day 2, Well Sort of…

Finally feeling better! Looks like the bird flu knocked me out and delayed the postings. Now let’s resume where we left of shall we?

We didn’t end up going to the second day of the Comic Market, instead we got busy making a copy book for the day ahead of us. As we live in the states most of our equipment would be way across the Pacific Ocean. So most of the day resulted in looking for a scanner and finishing up the drawing we intended for the copy book:

After acquiring the scanner we all headed over to Star Kebab and had a celebratory Big Boy Kebab Plate with a side of Pomegranate Juice!

Later on that night we met up with Shipon for a small nomikai at an izakaya where they served anime themed drinks!

They had Gundam, EVA and Kamen Rider themed drinks. Shipon has a more detailed write up here. Next up! Day 3 of Comiket!

Back from Japan!

…and jetlagged. Lots of posts to write about the things we did in Japan. Here’s a quick general list of what we did.

• Went and sold at Comic Market 75
• Stayed away from Akihabara like the plague.
• Karaoke for the first time in Japan!
• Kobe: Home away from home.
• Osaka: Loved the Aquarium.
• Hiroshima, beautiful and depressing.
• Kyoto: Beautiful temples.
• Nara: Killer deer.
• Visited Good Smile Company.
• Visited Sunrise.
• Hung out, saw and met friends at Danny Choo’s house!
• Rode an unmarked taxi.
• Went to Super Festival 48.
• Ate tons of good food.
• Bought tons of crap!
• Learned a lot more Japanese.
• Finally locked down Tokyo’s subway system, JR and Metro. Thanks Eric!

I’ll post most of the important stories in the near future and get them out as soon as I can! お楽しみにお願いします！

The trip wouldn’t have been as great if it wasn’t for new friends and old. Thanks guys!