Latest Eggstravaganza.

Those eggcellent folks at Furuta have come up with Series 7 of Disney Choco-eggs and this time they're capitalizing on the success of Zootopia. Much to my surprise, they are only featuring  ニック　ワイルド (Nick Wild) from that movie. I suppose they'll introduce other characters in future series.

This is what the box looks like if you want to keep an eye out for it. 2 years ago, these were only 150 yen but the price has now jumped to 180 yen before tax. The price of chocolate has gone up, I guess.

(If you want a look at a previous series, take a look at this. WARNING, the gal's voice is extremely annoying!)

The first egg I bought was Minnie above. I was fortunate enough to get two of them with the first two eggs purchased. Did that sour me to continue shopping? I think you know the answer to that.

Next, I landed a Sleeping Beauty variant. The one in the index has Princess Aurora with her eyes closed. This version must be just after her snog from Prince Phillip.

Today I landed the secret! Woohoo! It's Oswald. I wish it were actually molded in Black and White, but this version looks pretty cool.

Looking over the lineup here, I could survive without getting any others, although it would be nice to get a Mickey to match Minnie. And Hughie, Dewey and Louie! I can't forgo that. I could probably do without Rapunzel, yet then it would give Aurora someone to hang around with. Oooh, Alladin's Genie! I simply must get that as a tribute to Robin Williams. I always liked Captain Hook and can Tinkerbell be far behind? Those Tsum Tsums are pretty nice too. Cruella, Alice and the Cheshire Cat (just in time for the new movie) and of course Olaf!
Okay, maybe I will buy a few more eggs...

I happened to feature a few Disney characters as special guests in my lesson today. I had all the kids come up in pairs to practice the old "How are you? I'm Hungry. And you? I'm sleepy" routine. I usually only get a handful of volunteers but when you throw in some hand-puppets, everyone wanted a crack at it.

I wish I had a hand-puppet of Godzilla, instead kids had to just grasp him by the tail.

Hey cool, Godzilla is cosplaying Buzz!

I'll update this with future egg contents when appropriate.

Everyone Into the Pool.

The Deadpool, that is. Though I saw it in Canada when it first opened, I've waited until its Japanese release to comment upon it. It's a very fun, violent, funny, violent, sexy, violent, exciting, violent movie. Did I mention that there was a little violence in it? As a result, it is rated R+15 here in Japan, which I assume those under 15 are Restricted. That's a tad more restricting than in North America and over here it's probably due to the naughty bits shown during the gratuitous cameo scene. Because it was just released today, I will avoid spoilers for my Nihon-brethren. If you don't mind a lot of violins, violence and some sporadic nudity and lots of nsfw dialogue, I recommend you go see it.

Biggest disappointment? The extreme lack of goods available. NO CLEAR FILES! This is unheard of! A couple of note pads and a few key chain accessories but that's it!!

I picked up a sticker for my new iPhone and a towel, but otherwise slim pickings.

This is the flyer that one can pick up at the cinema. The coy pose of Deadpool slays me.

Scamming from the Deadpool Facebook page, here are several photos and videos leading up to its premiere here.

Advanced tickets anyone?

Now 18? Now you can vote. (Note to Ryan, you don't have to be 18 here in Japan. 15 is the cutoff age.)

A spoiler-heavy almost three minute trailer. (ps. The two X-men featured above were excellent.)


For the ladies. (By the way Ryan, June 1st is not just Lady's Day, it's a cheap day for everyone.)



What I like about some of the promos are them playing up the romantic angle.

I'm sad that this item wasn't available locally, only 60,000 available at a cinema in Tokyo. Dang.

Deadpool rappers.

 I'd like to check out this cafe.

I hope this truck comes to Sendai!

Awesome randomness.

Bedtime for me. I'll try and dig up a few more goodies at other cinemas. I hope I'm successful.

ps. I have a challenge to all those who see a subtitled version of the movie. (Slight spoiler alert.) When Francis is asking Deadpool about his name, Wade makes several suggestions. What is the Katakana subtitled name used when he guesses Basil Fawlty?

Happy Geeky Star Wars Towel Day!

I'm a geek (or maybe a nerd, definitely not a dweeb) and proud of it. Today is Geek Pride Day and I have a few geeky items to showcase today. Since it also happens to be Star Wars Day and Towel Day, I'll start with a Star Wars Towel. (Forgive me if I've shown any of these before, I don't plan on searching right now. You can just click Towels in the "Labels" and hunt yourself.)

 I'm not sure where I got the above though for some reason I have two of them.

 I've had this Darth for well over a decade now.

 Chewie,

 Wicket,

BB8

and Yoda (looking an awful lot like Mel Brooks) are all UFO Catch acquisitions from last X-mas.

This is a more recent swag snag, a BB8 throw rug. I don't really want to use it as a rug because it is too cool to tread upon. Perhaps I'll hang it somewhere.

Here are several Disney towels collected over the last few years. This Sleeping Beauty is new as of Sunday and the Zootopia from a few days before that.

This Monster's Inc. one is huge, about twice size of a regular beach towel (in order to snap a pic of the whole thing, I'd have to stand on a chair.)

 I have no idea when or where I got this Pooh.

 These Donald towels are from a Disney Lucky Draw from 2 years ago.

 Once again, no idea where this hanky came from.

Some miscellaneous items. Starting with this Terminator Genysis silk handkerchief.

 An Atom hanky and an Atomu/Ishinomori collaborative hand-towel.

 I think I found this at Mandai for a buck. An interesting take on Bubbles.

 A soccer towel from Hub's grand opening two years ago.

 Some Dragonball lengthy towel.

 I reckon I won this at Conbini Lucky Draw but I couldn't say for sure.

 NO idea what this is, or where/when I got this.

The less said about this genital cloth, the better. I do believe I bought it at the Kanamara Matsuri. (VERY NSFW pictures at that link.)

Let's see what I can amass between now and next Towel Day!