I drew the three stooges for my friend

It's my own fault for going into the LEGO Store...

He sure did.

My perfect little friend.

Sure, who cares? Let's go. Whatever you got. Gimmie some Peeps that taste like the purple stuff.

After coming back from Japan with a Tomica toy of a Yamato Transport delivery truck (again, the company with the best corporate logo), I was browsing around for Yamato merch (I want that logo on a shirt) and came across this: a TRANSFORMING Yamato delivery truck! Off to Amazon Japan I went!

Cripes, Geats is so stupid/great.

I stand by my offer. bsky.app/profile/whim...

Hey, remember when I went to Japan a couple weeks ago? www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-n...

I hope Toy Story 5 ends with Woody and the evil Leapfrog tablet mutually discovering the values of both toys and technology. Then, they hook up and give birth to the first Skylander.

This probably goes without saying, but the speed at which I placed my preorder for this after learning that it had gone live was so fast, time moved backwards for a couple nanoseconds.

The verbal back-and-forth between Ake and Braka in the most recent episode of Starfleet Academy was very tense, but I have to admit that this line took me out of the story a bit.

I wasn't prepared for how beautiful it is.

album art redraw #musuwi.art

Oh yeah, that's right, today's the anniversary of this happening (with Schulz having died just the day before). Between that and 9/11, it was a hell of a time to be working at a newspaper.

Yes... ha ha ha... YES!

The Great Muppet Caper (1981) Return of the Jedi (1983) UHF (1989) Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) Ghost in the Shell (1995) The Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996) Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996) Princess Mononoke (1997) Iron Giant (1999) Speed Racer (2008)

The potential for Trace Crow to meet Bill Crow is as exciting to me as any multi-Doctor Doctor Who story was to nerds back in the day.

Ordered, ordered, absolutely ordered. But c'mon, @konamina.bsky.social... I will GLADLY double dip for a localized version.

Low-key one of my favorite things that I got in Japan is this replica gacha handle. It fits perfectly in the palm of your hand and makes a loud clicking sound when you turn it. All the auditory and tactile satisfaction of pulling a gacha toy without having to drop a couple hundred yen.

Best part of that game was Lady Gaga singing the Jigglypuff song.

Adding to my "weirdly large collection of wooden blocks that I bought in Japan," I also picked up a few rubber stamps. After visiting the craft store today to snag some stamp pads, I've learned that there's genuine technique to using stamps. I don't quite have it down yet, but I'm working on it.

I don't buy many toy cars, but I couldn't pass up a Tomica toy of a Yamato Transport delivery truck, the company with the best corporate logo.

The new LEGO Minifigures Series has allowed me to create a pretty decent Brick Frog Minifigure.

Everyone wants their picture taken with the Hero of Yokohama.

Sitting on the plane, ready to head back to Seattle.

The old school arcade in Akihabara is RETRO:G in GiGO Akihabara Building 3. Turns out it’s on the 6th floor. Here’s a (not complete) list of their games off their website.

During this trip, I was SHOCKED to find an arcade in Akihabara that actually still has old arcade games.

Trying to cram a bit of culture into my final day in Tokyo.

Another game I’ve been wanting to pick up forever that I found in Shinjuku: the Urusei Yatsura game for Mega CD. I’ve owned the soundtrack on CD since the mid/late ‘90s, and now I finally have the game (complete with the pack-in poster).

Akihabara certainly isn’t what it used to be in terms of old game shoppin’, but I DID manage to find a couple Godzilla games I’ve been looking for.

Browsing Kamen Rider toys in a sub-basement Mandarake as Real Life Real Heart by Kaela Kimura (which was featured in Ouendan 2) starts playing is kinda peak Japan for me.l

Samurai Woody and Ninja Buzz are pretty wild.

I’ve purchased a few dumb things on this Japan trip, but eight pairs of Urusei Yatsura socks might be the dumbest.

Why the hell have I not previously explored the Babies “R” Us section of this Japanese Toys “R” Us???

Holy crap! I have found myself in the middle of a full-on Bayblade tournament!

I love Japan’s obsession with gashapon and crane games, but I can’t say I really “get” this. The whole arcade was just stuff like this. Cleaning supplies and pre-packaged food. Just, like, grocery store items.

Got back to my hotel just in time to catch my favorite anime.

I’m buying way too many sets of wooden children’s blocks on this trip…

Back to mess up some menacing men.

The department store that had the Kamen Rider jammies also had the Picross game I was looking for, so everything’s comin’ up Philhouse. It’s a Jupiter-developed Picross game that, as far as I know, isn’t scheduled for a U.S. release. Also, physical release, which is rad.

Not me standing in a Japanese department store wishing my son was still young enough to dress in whatever clothes I wanted.

Main character, I get it, but THIS is the person from this series you want to put on the shampoo bottles?

My big purchase at the Shibuya Nintendo Store was this set of My Mario blocks. The character blocks also function as amiibo.

Did I eat at McDonald’s for my first meal in Japan? Of course I did! I needed to try their spicy garlic pepper McNuggets and get a Crayon Shinchan Happy Meal. (And I gotta go back at some point to get a Dragon Quest burger…)

It was nice to see this crew today.

Look Around You may be my favorite TV show of all time. Give it a watch if you like absurdist British humour.

Kamen Rider Geats (2022) Episode 22