Greetings from Japan!!

Ikijigoku · Post by **Ikijigoku** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:58 am

Been in Japan for three days now. A few disappoints. I had a bunch of old spots for vintage　Transformer　that I wanted to hit. Namely six. Unfortunately, Ｉ　ｈａｖｅｎｔ visited Japan in almost eleven years. A lot has changed. One of these sｐotｓ　ｃｌｏｓｅd down. Another just shut the doors the day I arrived. This was the same place that I got my Grand Maximus. I know for a fact shes got a bunch of vintage, but she wont let me in. Two other toy stores have completely converted to Video game stoers. Bremen, the store I got my original Convoy, Sludge and Snarl 12 years ago had a few. Unfortunately their oldest Transformers are from the Beat Wars era. They had some pretty goods ones too. I picked up a RM Convoy with CD, RM Starscream, RM Mirage, RM Skyfire, RM Victory Saber, SL Kicker　and ２　ｒｅｉｓｓｕｅ　Ｂｌｉｔｚｗｉｎｇｓ　（just came out today). Ive visted tons of Department stores also. A few have a very small toy department if any. It seems that toys do not sell well here. If there is any toys, it limited to baby toys, Legos, dolls, and Ultraman. The only boy toys I see everywhere are Legos, Ultraman, a weird bug thingy, and Gundam models. I did see a few SL here and there. The seires just started last week on TV. THey are expensive too. I did pick up a Grand Convoy, and Galvatron for half off ($25 a piece).

Bremen had a few red Thrust but I passed. They had a good selection of Beast Wars, Binal Tech, reissues, SL, Armada, and reissues. THey were pretty steep, since they were all marked for retail. Reissues were mostly 3000￥ ($30). The Insecticon set was 3600￥($36) . Binal Tech was 5000￥ ($50), and Predaking was 15000￥ ($150). GF Prime and Megs were a whooping 5000￥. It appears that it is cheaper to buy from BBTS of ebay. I never would have thought that retail prices within Japan are higher than the online prices. Availabilty sucks too. The differences in the size of toy sections from 10 years ago is a little depressing. I kind of blame the video game market. It has changed the way kids use their imagination. Kids depend on the video game developers for their imagination now a days. Its a shame. From what Ive seen so far here, toys may become a thing of the past. This doesnt look good for Takara.

I also picked up the deluxe Transformers Generation book, and two new books that just came out. One was a collectors guide for RM and various Transformers and the other is a newer G1 collectors guide with a small sneak peak at GF.

Post by **Best First** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:54 am

my reslove to not get GF is weakening.

nice to hear from you iki.take care.

Post by **Kaylee** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:15 pm

こんいちは！

または多分。。。

こんばんは！

よい休日!

{enjoys Japanese text input function

}

Señior's Covenant · Post by **Señior's Covenant** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 2:11 pm

Karl Lynch wrote:こんいちは！

または多分。。。

こんばんは！

よい休日!

{enjoys Japanese text input function }

HA! Laughed so hard on that one, people at work started staring.

Post by **Kaylee** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:02 pm

If you're trying to translate it using Babelfish don't bother- it insists on Konnichiwa being translated as soemthing like 'it is dense' or something stupid.

Emperor_Starscream · Post by **Emperor_Starscream** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:52 am

so...Karl Lynch what that japanese text means?

Post by **Kaylee** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:30 pm

Good morning

Or possibly...

Good evening.

Have a good holiday!

Dylan · Post by **Dylan** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:21 pm

Hey Iki, have fun and take care. Must be strange to be back.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 1:30 pm

Enjoy yourself Iki.