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So meandering around Chinatown in San Fran on a Sunday has to be one of the more interesting trips we've done.
Our first trip was to JapanTown for crepes and noodles and toys. They had a FULL set of Sailor Moon figures on sale. I couldn't resist snagging the bunch off the shelf (they were the last ones). I think they were the ones where you pay $7 for a box of a random toy and don't know what you'll get. Whatever. I'm happy with them. They have a nice new home on the shelf.
Then Chinatown. Sunday is apparently the day everyone goes shopping so we walked through all the markets, sniffed all the fresh food, and drooled over meatbuns (sadly it got cold so we never got one. next time!). And then, I found it. The thing I look for and collect. BOOTLEG SAILOR MOON TOYS. I love bootleg toys! They're so bad and amusing!
So the box looks like an official SuperS box, but the toys were definitely not in their original box. It came with Sailor Moon and Uranus of all characters. Moon has a huge chest and leans backwards. Uranus has these scary red eyebrows and leans sideways. Her feet aren't even.
I took a photo of the official and bootlegs next to each other. I need to fit the other official figures (and other bootlegs) on the shelf with them so I have a full shelf of SM on my wall. Right now, they're sitting next to Jessie and James from pokemon (well until Jessie decided to take a nosedive off my shelf to SOMEWHERE).
( pic! )
Oh and I got a small dagger I'm now using as a letter opener and a lot of taffy when we hit up Little Italy.
Our first trip was to JapanTown for crepes and noodles and toys. They had a FULL set of Sailor Moon figures on sale. I couldn't resist snagging the bunch off the shelf (they were the last ones). I think they were the ones where you pay $7 for a box of a random toy and don't know what you'll get. Whatever. I'm happy with them. They have a nice new home on the shelf.
Then Chinatown. Sunday is apparently the day everyone goes shopping so we walked through all the markets, sniffed all the fresh food, and drooled over meatbuns (sadly it got cold so we never got one. next time!). And then, I found it. The thing I look for and collect. BOOTLEG SAILOR MOON TOYS. I love bootleg toys! They're so bad and amusing!
So the box looks like an official SuperS box, but the toys were definitely not in their original box. It came with Sailor Moon and Uranus of all characters. Moon has a huge chest and leans backwards. Uranus has these scary red eyebrows and leans sideways. Her feet aren't even.
I took a photo of the official and bootlegs next to each other. I need to fit the other official figures (and other bootlegs) on the shelf with them so I have a full shelf of SM on my wall. Right now, they're sitting next to Jessie and James from pokemon (well until Jessie decided to take a nosedive off my shelf to SOMEWHERE).
( pic! )
Oh and I got a small dagger I'm now using as a letter opener and a lot of taffy when we hit up Little Italy.
