I went to Nakano Broadway yesterday and all the Mandarake stores were closed for once a year inventory. Oh well the one up store was cool. Now I'm going to walk around in the rain and get lost again.
bummer.. did you go back today??? more improtantly ...did you pop one station up to KOENJI and pay homage at THRASH OUT??
Went back to Mandarake today and scored a skull head joe for a good price.I even got a skullbrain that was missing from my collection! I went to thrashout after that and I was happy i did.Very nice people listening to Hardcore.They laughed pretty hard at me and my girlfriend acting like dorks.I bought her a pink pigmon. Tattoos tomorrow! In Japan food is expensive, records are cheap and toys are sold out.....
Bummer that all the cool toys are sold out! I have this perception in my mind that toy shopping in Japan would be really awesome.
Toy shopping in Japan is awesome!!!!! Trying to find the store is sometimes the best part.Bounty hunter for instance, I walked around for a long time asking people that I thought might know where it is.Almost gave up when I saw these 2 Japanese cholo dudes and they were sitting right out in front and I asked them and they laughed.This store was cool.The kaws/Bxh was sold out(most cool toys sell out at toy fests and never make it to the store) but I bought some clothes and finally they went in the back and found an unsold out one.They were listening to Brujeria here,Sweet. If you had someone taking you around to stores it would take ALOT less time. I came to japan wanting to complete my Pushead collection,I only found one piece.If you are looking for old or new Kaiju monsters there is alot.It depends on what you are looking for and how lucky you are. The skullbrains i got is the Secreter Hidden boss and atmos black metal.
