Minmay and Yor buttons to add to my backpack.
New anime button badge acquisitions: Macross and Spy Family
Nadia iron bead sprite complete!
Glad to have learned of Artkal beads on the r/Beadsprites subreddit! Perler is American, Hama is British, and Artkal is Chinese. Artkal provides such a broader palette of color than the other two companies do! Artkal S82 made this project possible. That and Perler Brown are the two main fleshtones for Nadia. Her hair is Perler Midnight and Pastel Blue, while her vest is Perler Cherry and Red.
The pixel artwork was taken from the Fushigi no Umi no Nadia game for the PC Engine CD.
Here she is, ironed and pinned to my wall.
Transformers IRL
Hasegawa’s big 1:72 Macross Queadluun Rau model kit spotted in Yodobashi
Yesterday I went to Yodobashi Camera in Utsunomiya with my friend Lou who is visiting Japan. Here is me in the Macross section of the model department. This is the first time seeing the new Q-Rau model in-person. Wow, what a big box! I have enough Yodobashi points that I could have walked out of the store with this kit without paying for it, but unfortunately I have to buy my daughter a crappy Chromebook for her schoolwork and I will need to use those points on that instead.
Pac-Man dietary supplement
This is a video advertising display at Welchia Drug Store for Pakkun, a digestive aid supplement featuring Pac-Man.
Famicom gachapon at Mandai
The Mandai Shoten store in Maebashi has a Famicom gachapon machine. For 200 yen, you can receive a random Famicom game. You never know what you will get! How exciting! What could it be? Pac Man? 1943? Arkanoid? Dragon Quest? Tetris? ZANAC?
My friend Lou got Derby Stallion, the boring-as-hell horse race simulator. Oh joy.
Just ignore him and he might go away
This is what I’d do. I wouldn’t even acknowledge the kid sniffer.
MOAR ’80s game arcade memes
So, here is Pac-Man, Frogger, Centipede, Donkey Kong, Asteroids, Defender, and the last two on the right are kind of small and I can’t recognize them.
For me, when my family would go to Valley West Mall in Glendale, Arizona, there was a game arcade there called Bag-A-Tel. My first go-to game was Atari’s Star Wars sit-down cabinet! If someone was there already, I’d go to Atari/Namco’s Pole Position II sit-down cabinet. I have so many great memories of that arcade. Valley West Mall died, was reborn as Manistee Town Center and died again. It was eventually demolished for the movie “Eight-Legged Freaks.”
Related: A couple of clever ’80s game arcade memes
Imai 1:100 Armored Valkyrie plastic model box art
Pointy Max visits Mt. Fuji
Pointy Max finds pointy symmetry with Mt. Fuji.
Pointy Max seeks solace in Aokigahara Jukai Forest in Japan.
Pointy Max pauses to reflect upon the beauty of Shiraito Falls.