Shopping days will do that.\u00c2\u00a0 Caught the subway out to Shiroishi and went to Shuugakusou Shiroishi to turn about $270 USD into things made out of titanium.\u00c2\u00a0 Their Snow*Peak signature store is pretty awesome.\u00c2\u00a0 They also have various other domestic titanium backpacking cookware and tableware manufacturers that don’t carry as heavy a price tag, but the stuff is still not cheap.\u00c2\u00a0 Nice thing though the mystery Japan ti brands are not much more than mystery China ti stuff like GSI Outdoors.<\/p>\n
After unfruitfully looking for Indian food for lunch, I spun by Excel Hobby.\u00c2\u00a0 They had the new KSC Springfield XD-M\u00c2\u00a0GBB’s in black and tan in the compact model, and black in the full-sized version.\u00c2\u00a0 Mojo Dave asked me to look for\u00c2\u00a0those, but at 17000-yen (about $218 USD), I don’t think he’d be interested.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0They had\u00c2\u00a0the same MSM\u00c2\u00a0and Magpul PTS patches they had last time, along with\u00c2\u00a0two TAD knockoff patches, one rectangle with the TAD skull\u00c2\u00a0as\u00c2\u00a0the center of a Jolly Roger pirate flag, and\u00c2\u00a0another that was the TAD skull\u00c2\u00a0blended with the bent arms of the USAF logo.\u00c2\u00a0 New was their own logo patch with a pretty angry, grimacing skull with a reticle eye and their shop name and “Sapporo”.\u00c2\u00a0 I was totally going to get one, but the colors were all off<\/strong><\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 The tan was almost cream, the Coyote was brassy, and the green was more Peter Pan than OD.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know.\u00c2\u00a0 I may still pick one up if I am in that area again in the next few days.\u00c2\u00a0 I stopped into their 4th floor minicar\/plastic model shop.\u00c2\u00a0 Not much interesting there.\u00c2\u00a0 They had some of the newer Hasegawa Maschinen Krieger<\/em> kits.\u00c2\u00a0 They had a diecast black BMW Z3 Coupe, but it wasn’t the M version, so I resisted getting it, besides, $76 USD was a little steep.\u00c2\u00a0 Whee.<\/p>\n After a brief stop at the Patagonia store, I had another round of\u00c2\u00a0MOS (Tobikiri Cheese this time – review to come) then went by Toranoana and Animate and blew another $93 USD on manga.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m still surprised that they are still marketing Evangelion<\/em> goods.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s one good cash cow for Gainax.\u00c2\u00a0 That “everybody is going to die” magical girl property has a lot of merchandising too.\u00c2\u00a0 I went by the Cosmo Mall to visit Mandarake, but it is gone.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh well.\u00c2\u00a0 After a brief stop for 2800-yen (about $36 USD) of tea, it was time to call it a day.<\/p>\n Now it’s time to kick back with a Belgian Vedett Extra White Weiss (review forthcoming)\u00c2\u00a0and play with my new titanium toys and read my perverse comic books!\u00c2\u00a0 Woo hoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shopping days will do that.\u00c2\u00a0 Caught the subway out to Shiroishi and went to Shuugakusou Shiroishi to turn about $270 USD into things made out of titanium.\u00c2\u00a0 Their Snow*Peak signature store is pretty awesome.\u00c2\u00a0 They also have various other domestic titanium backpacking cookware and tableware manufacturers that don’t carry as heavy a price tag, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,6,7,9,11,12,18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-1DG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6312,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304\/revisions\/6312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}