tiki's eBay MANIAAAAAA!!!

[tikistitch]

So, this is Sailor Moon's Sparkling Castle playset.

It's from Japan, one of the original Japanese Bandai toys. It's probably one of the biggest Sailor Moon items ever made. It's definitely one of the bigget playsets we've ever seen, just a little bit smaller than the GI Joe aircraft carrier, but still. It was scaled for the 12" scale dolls. It also lights up or speaks or something if you put the right doll on the stand, though we've never actually taken it out to see.

How did we get ours? Many years ago, our buddy, Darla, who lived in Japan, scored a couple of these, and at great personal inconvenience, shipped them all the way to the USA for her Moon-iac buddies. We've always considered it one of the crowning items of our collection - the playset that could kick the ass of all the other playsets. It's just big and wonderful and crazy and stupid. It's got a million zillion teensy parts, that you could never do in the USA because kids would choke and die.

But, we've recently relocated our anime dolls to make room for our Disneyana, and this, like everything else, was listed on eBay.





We just opened it up for pretty much the first time. As you can see, everything is still wrapped up in the plastic, no stickers applied. And, the box is in nice shape.

We put this up at a starting bid of $20. It cost us a lot more, even at retail, considering the shipping from Japan, but we figure it would make a kick-ass display unit for some collector. It didn't get any bids. At $20. It did get a lot of questions - probably more than any other item we currently have up. Maybe more questions than any other item we've ever put on eBay.

Just to be clear, I'm the only person I know for sure who has this particular piece in the USA. There might be someone else from our old group of Sailor Moon collector buddies, but really, you're not going to see this item for sale maybe ever again.

So, here are some of the questions we received:

• Can you guarantee this comes from a non-smoking home?
  
• Does this come with a set of instructions in English?
  
• Can you guarantee that it has never been opened?
  
• Can you guarantee that this playset contains every single small part?
  
• Are there any wrinkles or creases on the box?
  
• Does this come with a doll included?
  
• Can't you reduce the shipping cost?
  
• Won't you ship overseas?
  
• Why have you banned me from bidding? I only wrote you 4 times in two minutes!
  

So, what did we do? We yanked it. Obviously, listing this item was taken as an insult to Sailor Moon collector everywhere, who merely wish more and better Sailor Saturn dolls.

We think it's gonna stay here at Tiki Labs. We're going to break everything out of the plastic, and apply all the stickers, and use it as President Barack Obama's Sparkling Oval Office playset. Because we can. Bwa ha ha.

Comments

[jeepersjournal.livejournal.com]

You know what would be evil? Posing a Sailor Saturn doll with every item you list [even non-Sailor Moon ones], and labelling them "Sailor Saturn not included".

[and tell them I have one....but they can't have it >:)]

All that said, I think that'd be something worth keeping anyways. Now Sailor Moon can be Vice President :)

[loli-cat.livejournal.com]

Well, what did I tell ya?? Putting my sailormoon stuff on ebay is what is primarily responsible for my not selling stuff on ebay!! :-P

[sakana-hime.livejournal.com]

Woooow. It didn't sell?? :O I'm glad you're keeping it. I hope the President is pleased as well.

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

I insist on seeing photos of Obama in his Sparkling Oval Office. And I'm very glad you're keeping that!

[aoi-no-neko.livejournal.com]

I'm curious, what did they want as the guarentee? A blood signed notarized document witnessed by seven other people?

I think because summer is coming and schools are slowly getting out, there are a lot more lame people on eBay. If my Fiesta dinnerware wasn't selling now and again, I'd close up shop till October.

Have fun playing with your set!

[jabberwockypie.livejournal.com]

I'm sure President Obama will love it. He can fight evil by daylight. And moonlight. He'll never run from a real fight. He is the one named Obama.

[onesoul.livejournal.com]

rock on... please please take photos when it is ready :)

[blowdry.livejournal.com]

I second the first commenter: put Saturn in every pic. LOL. It'll drive them nuts.

Anyway, this set looks awesome.

[n2-vs-life.livejournal.com]

Oh, goodness. I'm sorry I missed this on ebay -I would have bought it! Haha.

The president will probably make better use of it, though. (*￣∇￣*)

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

I see you read through my whining. Yeah, basically, I used to collect Sailor Moon stuffs, and am now trying to sell a bunch of it off, due to space constraints. But sometimes eBay buyers just make me wanna stab somebody in the eye with a fork. So, Obama has kinda moved into the shining palace for the time being.

[http://users.livejournal.com/galexia_/]

Hi there. I stumbled across this while searching for pictures of Italian Sailor Moon goodies ^_^

I don't know of many collectors who own this piece, but I for one love it. I spent over $50usd importing mine from Japan *^.^*
Out of curiousity, did you ever assemble it? :D

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Yup! If you poke around in my journal, my President Obama doll lives there now.

[http://users.livejournal.com/galexia_/]

lol! There is something strangely funny and twisted about seeing him with the Emperor and holding a pink margarita glass!