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That's the one! We'll be there in an hourish
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# ? Jan 5, 2019 07:53 |
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extradite THIS! posted:I am glad to report I have successfully bought my first ever piece of pro wrestling merch: A COLD SKULL SANADA shirt. Was initially extremely worried as there was only S and M sizes of the shirt on the shelf but then a nice lady conjured up some bigger sizes from somewhere. Here's hoping the Japanese XL is big enough for my dumb fat rear end. If it isn't, well, guess I'll just display the shirt somewhere I think you'll be fine. I only have the Lion Mark shirt because I'm tall to boot
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# ? Jan 5, 2019 10:14 |
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I'm on the Keisei Skyliner to Narita It's been a hell of a trip, wonderful to meet all of you goons! Until next time, I suppose!
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 00:21 |
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It was great meeting you! See you next time
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 00:50 |
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It was awesome to meet you guys! Next year I’ll be sure to go to the actual show with everyone, for certain.
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 02:49 |
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I'm at the airport waiting for my flight, I had a blast this trip. It's my 3rd year making the trip for WK. The first year it was a curiosity thing and I got hooked on NJPW, subscribed to World the very next day. Last year I learned about the indy shows in Korakuen just before the end of my trip, this year thanks to extradite THIS!'s schedule OP, I saw a ton more and I can't say there was anything even close to a bad show in the bunch. I loved WK but I think the New Years Eve event was still my favourite show and I'd highly recommend making that part of anyone's schedule in the future. I know we didn't manage to meet everyone who was on the trip but it was great to hang out at Yano's bar on the 3rd and in the Hub last night. Nothing quite like a pub yelling Kaze Ni Nare together. Thanks again to Bushi for adding us last minute to the Eberitas party. If anyone makes it out next year, I'll be there for sure again and I can't recommend the trip out highly enough. The Tokyo excursion for the holidays is basically a routine now!
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 05:02 |
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Although there may not be an opportunity for me, I want to do it again, and hope to meet up next time. I can probably do a “how NOT to travel to Japan” next year because I made so many mistakes (note: 11:30 hours in to a 13 hour layover so living out these mistakes) that people might find useful. But I still had a lot of fun. So much fun. Japan is amazing.
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 06:42 |
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where are you laid over
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 06:44 |
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Did anyone happen to pick up an extra WK tote bag? We had hoped to avoid the merch lines at the Dome and pick one up at the NJPW Shop but it seems like the one piece of WK merch they weren't selling there.
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 07:01 |
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STONE COLD 64 posted:where are you laid over Hawaii. Originally when I saw it I was going to make the best of it and do some Hawaii stuff but I hurt my knee at some point and after the flight it was super swollen and I could barely walk so decided to check in. This airport is…not a great place to spend any amount of time in (although some looks nice). Also I might have lost my luggage! United is pretty confident they haven’t lost it yet but I won’t be shocked if my luggage doesn’t make it home. This isn’t my worst lay over, I had eight hours in Kingman, Arizona (literally longer than it would have taken me to drive home).
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 07:20 |
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how does kingman have an airport vegas is *right* there
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 07:27 |
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I'm still in Japan for another week so I still got plenty to do. We're going to Ribera tonight. Also if I lived here Gashapon would be a real issue for me. I keep telling myself I won't buy another one and then I see something really cool and I buy it. I also bought a Lupin figure for 800 yen.
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 07:39 |
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rob come with me for the g1
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 07:55 |
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STONE COLD 64 posted:how does kingman have an airport My mom somehow came to the conclusion that this was the best way to get me to Laughlin. I guess by raw distance, it makes sense.
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 08:16 |
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The_Rob posted:I'm still in Japan for another week so I still got plenty to do. We're going to Ribera tonight. Also if I lived here Gashapon would be a real issue for me. I keep telling myself I won't buy another one and then I see something really cool and I buy it. I also bought a Lupin figure for 800 yen. You buy it from one of those resale shops that just are filled wall-to-wall with people's personal figures, or did you grab it from a more regular retail store? Because holy poo poo the resale shops are the sort of places you can get lost for hours in. Still kinda wish I had bought this tiny Totoro clock i found in one the... first time I went? If only it had been like... not almost 10,000 yen for something maybe two inches tall. Thing was tiny. Then again, I did get a Shin Godzilla figure that is surprisingly massive (the tail is, true to the movie, about as big as the rest of the figure) for like, 300 yen, so those regular shops have their benefits, too.
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 08:28 |
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The Cameo posted:You buy it from one of those resale shops that just are filled wall-to-wall with people's personal figures, or did you grab it from a more regular retail store? Because holy poo poo the resale shops are the sort of places you can get lost for hours in. Still kinda wish I had bought this tiny Totoro clock i found in one the... first time I went? If only it had been like... not almost 10,000 yen for something maybe two inches tall. Thing was tiny. I bought it from a regular retail shop.
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 08:36 |
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If you ever see one of those resale shops (they're incredibly obvious, you'll just see towering blocks of display cases), go in. You will see poo poo you weren't aware anyone made anything from, you'll see things people made themselves or altered completely to match changes in whatever manga it came from, characters from US and British shows that you're like "I thought they pulled this show off the air before anyone merchandis -- wait is that a loving Archie Bunker figurine?!", there's tons of impossibly rare and gorgeous stuff in those places. Weirdly some of my favorite places to stop in at if I'm in Tokyo.
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 08:51 |
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The Cameo posted:If you ever see one of those resale shops (they're incredibly obvious, you'll just see towering blocks of display cases), go in. You will see poo poo you weren't aware anyone made anything from, you'll see things people made themselves or altered completely to match changes in whatever manga it came from, characters from US and British shows that you're like "I thought they pulled this show off the air before anyone merchandis -- wait is that a loving Archie Bunker figurine?!", there's tons of impossibly rare and gorgeous stuff in those places. Weirdly some of my favorite places to stop in at if I'm in Tokyo. Yeah if you want a ton of that go to Nakano Broadway. It's a mall with pretty much nothing but that.
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 09:04 |
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I randomly bought a Psylocke keychain figurine the first time I was in Tokyo. The keychain part fell off but the figurine is still good and I still have it. But yeah, Nakano Broadway is infinitely better than Akiba is for that kind of stuff. There's a chain also called Hobby Off that has this kind of thing alongside old model kits. Hobby Off is part of the Book Off family, a family which includes the greatest store name in Japan. It sells used hardware, musical instruments, and the like. It is called Hard Off.
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 09:18 |
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The_Rob posted:Yeah if you want a ton of that go to Nakano Broadway. It's a mall with pretty much nothing but that. That's where I got the Godzilla, actually. (and my roommate found the "complete" Shirobako, more just every separate release shrink wrapped together, for like... $50. Ridiculous deal.) I wonder if the shop that looks like a UFO set from an Ed Wood movie - actually was there anything in there? It might have just been someone's art showcase - is still there.
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 09:27 |
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The Cameo posted:That's where I got the Godzilla, actually. (and my roommate found the "complete" Shirobako, more just every separate release shrink wrapped together, for like... $50. Ridiculous deal.) I was just there today. It's the offices for the staff who do online orders and all that.
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 09:30 |
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Auritech posted:I randomly bought a Psylocke keychain figurine the first time I was in Tokyo. The keychain part fell off but the figurine is still good and I still have it. But yeah, Nakano Broadway is infinitely better than Akiba is for that kind of stuff. The shopping shotengai near where I used to live in Tokyo is now branded as "Off Street" and has Mode-Off (clothes and shoes), Book-Off, Hard-Off (which also has plenty of game stuff), Hobby-Off and...Liquor-Off.
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 10:10 |
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The_Rob posted:I was just there today. It's the offices for the staff who do online orders and all that. So that's what it is. There was nobody around except for another confused pair of people wondering what the hell this empty, weird looking place in the middle of the mall was when we went in that one.
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 10:24 |
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harperdc posted:The shopping shotengai near where I used to live in Tokyo is now branded as "Off Street" and has Mode-Off (clothes and shoes), Book-Off, Hard-Off (which also has plenty of game stuff), Hobby-Off and...Liquor-Off. I saw a Liquor Off once. It was confusing. And yeah, Hard Off and Hobby Off both have games sections, but I hit up the regular Book Offs since more people sell back to those and also since I’ve found so many obscure gems there (including a JWP vs All Japan Women’s game for PC Engine CD that is actually a Fire Pro Wrestling game with a sweet rock intro).
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 13:40 |
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Just got back from Ribera. It's really cool to see all the pictures. We had one of Benoit giving us a really creepy look right next to us. All the 80's mullets are out and it's real good.
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 13:41 |
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The_Rob posted:Just got back from Ribera. It's really cool to see all the pictures. We had one of Benoit giving us a really creepy look right next to us. All the 80's mullets are out and it's real good. When I went there a few years ago the signed Benoit one was peering down on me from directly above. It was a weird meal.
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 13:57 |
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Book Off is where I ended up finally finding a 3DS charger.
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 16:17 |
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I spent hundreds of dollars at the NJPW Shop and Toudoukan today. Did I need any of it? No. But I now have a signed Akira Hokuto book and a packaged Suzuki vs Lyger action figure set amongst other things. I'm a happy doofus.
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# ? Jan 6, 2019 16:53 |
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So my wife got tonsillitis, and now we're sitting in a Japanese hospital trying to get antibiotics. They're all very nice here but man not where I thought my vacation would go.
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# ? Jan 7, 2019 02:38 |
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I’m still not home. Officially is going to take longer to get to Tucson from San Francisco than Tucson to Japan.
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# ? Jan 7, 2019 06:26 |
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The_Rob posted:So my wife got tonsillitis, and now we're sitting in a Japanese hospital trying to get antibiotics. They're all very nice here but man not where I thought my vacation would go. oh no she isn't due for surgery is she
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# ? Jan 7, 2019 06:54 |
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STONE COLD 64 posted:oh no she isn't due for surgery is she No she's fine. She's a nurse so she already figured out what was going on , and they ended up agreeing. They gave her some antibiotics and it seems to be ok. Obviously they told her if it gets worst to come back.
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# ? Jan 7, 2019 08:07 |
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I'm gonna try to make it to one of the Budokan shows this year, probably Day 1. Go Ace.
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