Sanshin Stitch

OK, so, a secondary aim of our going on a spontaneous shopping expedition to Tokyo (after the retail assault on the Disney Resort's Tiki Tiki Room) was going after various effluvia that was bound to be associated with the new anime cartoon, Stitch!



So, we're embarrassed to say, we walked right past this item in Toys R Us. It's only after we dispatched Mr. Tikistitch on "OMG go get a shopping cart" duty that our grinning spouse returned with this lovely item in the basket.



Stitch has the sanshin that a lot of the promotional material for Stitch! has him playing, though unfortunately, he's not wearing the little purple hat.



And, you stick the batteries up his butt! Hee. And the concept is you jiggle him and he'll talk or play his sanshin.

But what you wanna know is, is it fun???

Yup. We're totally dying over how he calls himself "Stitchie." That's just the closest Japanese pronunciation, but it's so darned adorable.

Actually, we've noticed if you leave him turned "on," sometimes when he's just sitting there, he'll spontaneously burst into giggles. Swear to god!

Reminder!

Stuff is ending. Soon. Stuff like this:



(BTW, if we can't get 40 bucks for this one, we're just gonna keep her. We mean, she's kinda cool.)

And more stuff going up soon.

You say it's your birthday

We don't have an extensive collection of Stitch jigsaw puzzles, but couldn't resist this one. It's just so huge and wonderful.



A lot of neat details, like Stitch has a cake with a Stitch, and Lilo and Stitch have Lilo and Stitch toys!