Cool Tokyo-retro shopping arcade
BoingBoing reader Rob Satterwhite says,
"This week Tokyo Q magazine is running a special feature on the Nakano Broadway complex in Tokyo. It's a very old shopping arcade that's now filled with tiny shops catering to all sorts of "otaku" collectors - shops selling comic books, collectible toys, cels from anime films, old movie posters, "costume play" shops selling full-size outfits for comic-book dress-up parties, etc. "One of my favorite shops is Rough Toys, which specializes in "urban vinyl" - limited-edition artistic hiphop action figures from Hong Kong (Link). Another nice shop is Robot Robot (Link), where you can find Ren and Stimpy dolls and thousands of other cartoon-related toys. This article covers the entire complex, with links at the bottom to seven more short articles about some of the most interesting individual shops. "
Sweet! I'm dying for one of the Robot Robot shop logo t-shirts -- a stick-figure 'bot sketch captioned, "childhood obsession with robots drove us insanity." Link
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