Comments on: Trip Goodies

By: meronpan

meronpan — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:09:39 +0000

alas, i didn’t have my 5 detolfs at the time. looks a lot better with a whole wall of ‘em ^^; …though having figures throughout the room has its own charm too…

By: Fabrice

Fabrice — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:50:05 +0000

Pure jealolusy thats all i can say.
ye me too i got a copy of otacool, just checked to see your room ^^

By: meronpan

meronpan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:52:09 +0000

was expecting to see more rin stuff ‘cuz of the movie but i didn’t really spot much… ‘course i didn’t get to do as thorough of a search as usual orz

yeah, makes you wonder how many books they actually printed if they weren’t even able to spare a free copy to those in it ^^;; ah well

By: meronpan

meronpan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:48:44 +0000

there’s definitely no lack of things to spend your money on ^^ shouldn’t be too much trouble not speaking japanese… hand gestures will get you a long way ^^ usually all they’ll ask you at the counter is if you have a point card or want a cover for your book… sometimes they’ll ask you if you want the freebie mini poster or card or something but that should be pretty easy to understand ^^;

By: meronpan

meronpan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:42:25 +0000

actually i was referring to the regular store on the 6th floor i believe? the walls are lined with lots of stuff on display and this time i noticed a completed dora. was quite impressive ^^

you should build it! i’m sure it’ll turn out fine ^^

By: Wolfheinrich

Wolfheinrich — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:27:30 +0000

That’s a nice haul! Did you see a lot of Rin goodies over there? I need more Rin goodies X(

I never did pick up a copy of OTACOOL myself, haha, just didn’t feel right that I have to buy one out of my own money.

By: lovelyduckie

lovelyduckie — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:59:30 +0000

WOW sorry for all the typos…I need a spell check built into my head to catch those

By: lovelyduckie

lovelyduckie — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:58:25 +0000

I know I always seem to talk about my “SOMEDAY trip to Japan” with you. But it’s on my mind pretty often so taht’s probably why I emntion it so much, and your poll brings up something I was thinking about. OF COURSE I’m going to Akiba…but I wonder what I’ll buy? All of the newer figures I pre-order…so I wouldn’t uby any of those. As for anything with words, I don’t know the language. Honestly it’ll probably just be a few older figures, wall scrolls, and maybe some art books. I’m sure I’ll find many things to waste my money on though! I just hope I can move around Akiba and buy things without causing too much trouble (since I don’t know Japanese).

By: Q

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:44:31 +0000

The Volks store in Radio Kaikan? Would you mean the so-called Rental Showcase on the top floor (7th floor)?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/quentinlau/3777439231/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/quentinlau/3777439019/

That is indeed a nice place to stroll around, as well as to look for stuff that are hard to find or long sold out. Got a few shokugans that I or my friend wanted from there last year and the year before too I think. I somehow did not take notice of the Dora gun there (I didn’t know you took notice of that ‘ambition’ of mine lol…) orz. A completed 1/144 scale model would cost around 500USD, and a 1/35 scale… Don’t want to know about the price but from what I’ve seen before it’s about the length of my bed. I did manage to buy an unassemble model of a 1/144 version back home, but whether I am up for *making* military models again is another question, as it belongs to a **completely** differently league to, say, gundam models.

By: meronpan

meronpan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:36:41 +0000

yeah at first i thought it was pretty unforgiving. as i got closer to the end though the timing became easier and aiming for great on normal difficulty isn’t as much a pain as i thought it would be ^^;

definitely agree miku’s dancing does sometimes get distracting ^^;; they need to work out the game somehow so you can appreciate her dancing without botching the level ^^;

hmmm you could go up to the volks store in radio kaikan to fawn over the dora railway gun model they have on display? ^^; or perhaps you’ve already seen it ^^; but yeah, if you can already get your stuff localized, not much need for the akiba stores… at least around here i find that character goods are pretty hard to find, but hard to justify a whole trip to akiba just for those :P but if you’re there, always good to take a look ^^

i like the manga selection, but that’s mostly ‘cuz i like picking up new stuff i’ve never seen or (lately) getting stuff from the less popular publishers that don’t seem to be localized. lot harder to appreciate that if you don’t read japaense ^^;

touhou stuff is something i’ve appreciated a lot more recently – definitely nice having places like white canvas to go to to get my fill. no chance a store like that would make it overseas ^^;

hmm and not akiba specific, but i usually stop by the yodobashi camera or other stores to play with the dslrs they have ^^ don’t know of any stores here where i can just pick up a 5d mark 2 ^^ or a 500mm telezoom ^^

but yeah, if you’re already filling your needs with local stuff, not much else you’ll find in akiba except japanese versions? though personally i just love the atmostphere there. nowhere else i’ve been where i feel like the whole area is filled with shops tailed to my insanely particular tastes ^^;