Be-set, Part The Third

[tikistitch]

Got swamped and couldn't finish this yesterday, but herein we present, the sets that got away!!! Yes, to our eternal shame, we have incomplete sets.

Like these guys!



This is more Stitchie Valentines Day merch. The little envelopes they're holding open up, so you can insert a note to your sweetie. Or, a little note telling them they're not really your Valentine (twotone schooled us on this earlier). But, the critical point, there is another! Yep, a light brown guy, on whom we kept getting outbid. Why the run on taupe Valentines Stitches? Some things must remain a mystery.





Sometimes, this lack of completion boils down to our own damn fault. As in these elegantly clad Stitch and Angel plushies.



Like the dragons? They had other permutations of this look, including more sizes, but for whatever reason, these particular items lacked a fiery coolness factor that drove us on to collect 'em all.



Some holy grails, however, defy us. We shared this image yesterday, a Pooh Bear dressed as pink Stitch. But, as we've known for at least a year now, these guys come in all the colors of the rainbow! Our friend Boneboy brought back actual photographic evidence from Japan. Yet, we only have this one. Oh, the pain!!



Here is the thing that truly makes us cross about collecting Japanese UFO catcher goods. Even when you've collected 'em all, they'll change the rules! Exhibit A, we had a set of winking/non-winking chibi Pooh-as-Stitch, then we came across this scary chibi Pooh-as-GREY-Stitch. Wait, mutant color variations now?



Exhibit B. We were also oh so smug about our complete collection of See No Evil monkey catchers, until we spied this King Kong-sized example. You mean they make them in giant size too? Ach!!

Back to the auction boards for tiki.....

Comments

[sarahpolk.livejournal.com]

My Stitch loot run to Japan yielded a bunch of stuff but we couldn't win any of the UFO Catcher stuff. We discovered that the claws are only two-pronged, and very slippery to boot (I suspect they are sprayed with silicone). Worse, the springs on them are almost nonexistent, so while they open up when they land, they also hold almost no weight on the pull.

I only saw one black Stitch and the rest were normal blue.

I did score quite a few goodies from the official Disney Store. Oddly enough, the hotel convenience store also sold a ton of Disney stuff including Angel (Exp 624) plush, so I bought EVERY SINGLE ONE of the Angels with the intent to sell the extras on eBay. And I thought the mark-up was bad on the Japanese Yahoo Auctions, but looking at the original pricetags (which the store increased with its own sticky pricetags by about 10%), they aren't cheap to begin with. A standard beanie Angel plush for 1800 yen. Whoa.

...of course, she is ADORABLE and is soft as lost-duckling down. Mmmmmmm.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Ha, buy 'em all! A woman after my own heart.

The secret I've heard on UFO catchers is to maneuver the item closer to the slot and then *knock* it down with the claw. You're right, those things couldn't lift a postage stamp.

[sarahpolk.livejournal.com]

The secret I've heard on UFO catchers

Gaaa.... now I know. Well, for my next trip. lol

"buy 'em all" BTW meant basically 2 extra sets of the large, medium, and small plushes. I still managed to spend $180 worth in that store alone. A convenience store. That didn't take credit cards. And whose in-store ATM wouldn't take Cirrus or Plus. So I had to go to the concierge desk and ask where the "yubinkyoku" was, and then walk to the post office, try to figure out how to withdraw money from the "ATM" -- turns out I could only withdraw $100 as a visitor to the system. What a pain; what should have only taken me 5 minutes to shop ended up taking me 30.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

You can also sometimes talk the arcade attendant into positioning the item so it's closer to the slot. They usually seemed pretty sympathetic to us since were were obviously gaijin.

I had stores refuse to take my credit card pretty much at random--I could use it at one Disney Store, but not another in the same town. I ended up like you did, going to the post office nearly every morning for cash.

Did you get to Tokyo Disneyland?

[sarahpolk.livejournal.com]

Did you get to Tokyo Disneyland?

Yesssssh, 'twas the primary goal of this trip.

Gyoza dogs. Mmmmmm.

[twotone]

Mmmm. Chocolate-colored Stitch...

[celesse.livejournal.com]

The amount of variety of the Stitchu products in Japan never ceases to amaze me :O There's never just one type, it is always accompanied by at least two others that are slightly varied (like normal-eyes, sleepy-eyes and angry-eyes). Due to my limited budget I find myself having to choose only one, which can be rather painful.

I really wanted one of those earthy-colored Valentine's Stitchus, but I didn't have the money at the time...and now I don't see any on Y!J anymore. *sniffle*

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Patience! It happens to me too, all the time. First, when you're broke, there's bajillions of them, and then comes payday, and they all disappear. But usually if you wait a month or two, they start popping up again. I try to keep a "Stitch slush fund" set aside for such emergencies, but the little buggers keep my running.

[reichiere.livejournal.com]

When I look at the v-day Stitch's I think white chocolate and dark chocolate Stitchs... so I'm thinking the reason that the lighter color stitch is so popular right now is because White Day is March 14th... mebbe?

btw.. I'm jealous of your collection... must collect them all...

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

You are the second person today who's called them choco Stitchies! But of course, the pale one is OBVIOUSLY lemon-flavored!! ^_^

[angelwolf24.livejournal.com]

Gifty :D

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Eeee, blinky Tikistitch!!

Thankee!!!