Well, I committed to the thing. I bought the sibling capsule vending machine to @nonasuch ’s, after almost a month of waffling about it. The goal is to have a cross between a wunderkammer and an automat. Black light. Potentially cursed toy surprises… “toy” being a flexible term.
If any of this sounds cool to you, and you’d like to help with set-up costs, donations are appreciated! Paypal.me/strangehours with whatever works. (I lost my income source for this month, so I’m left to pull it together by bits and pieces instead of all at once.) <3
A cursed object vending machine possibly the most absurd thing I’ve done for my business yet, but I’m fairly certain that the ability to release serotonin is the real selling point here.
so excited to see how yours turns out! and very glad to have more weird vending machines in the world
Ooh, sweet! As if I need more reasons to order patches and pins … all of these potential objects look amazing, like things to work into pieces of jewelry and spell foci.
Can I just…like…pay you to ship me one of each?
@deliriumcrow - Etsy only offers up yea so much potential cursed-object-toy-surprises in bulk lots, but it’s a good starting point for a mood board. The minerals choices are curated to my own tastes I must admit, but it’s not complete. My list of an ideal mix has more of a mudlarking vibe to it, or maybe a really good cache of things a crow has been hoarding. (Weirdly, if you make a blind box fancy enough, people will want one just to know what’s inside.)
@daemonvatis - I’d have to do a cost estimate of how many eggs would be feasible to stuff in a box before it’d be worth it to pay for shipping? (I have not ordered eggs yet, see previous “I have to pull it together in bits & pieces.”) If you’re in the US, I will have the Cursed Object vending machine at my Oddities & Curiosities Expo gigs this year. Probably easier to seek it out in person if that’s available to you. Strange Hours Atelier will be at the following:
Oddities & Curiosities Expo Charlotte, NC | Feb 26th
Well, I committed to the thing. I bought the sibling capsule vending machine to @nonasuch ’s, after almost a month of waffling about it. The goal is to have a cross between a wunderkammer and an automat. Black light. Potentially cursed toy surprises… “toy” being a flexible term.
If any of this sounds cool to you, and you’d like to help with set-up costs, donations are appreciated! Paypal.me/strangehours with whatever works. (I lost my income source for this month, so I’m left to pull it together by bits and pieces instead of all at once.) <3
A cursed object vending machine possibly the most absurd thing I’ve done for my business yet, but I’m fairly certain that the ability to release serotonin is the real selling point here.
so excited to see how yours turns out! and very glad to have more weird vending machines in the world
Ooh, sweet! As if I need more reasons to order patches and pins … all of these potential objects look amazing, like things to work into pieces of jewelry and spell foci.
Can I just…like…pay you to ship me one of each?
@deliriumcrow - Etsy only offers up yea so much potential cursed-object-toy-surprises in bulk lots, but it’s a good starting point for a mood board. The minerals choices are curated to my own tastes I must admit, but it’s not complete. My list of an ideal mix has more of a mudlarking vibe to it, or maybe a really good cache of things a crow has been hoarding. (Weirdly, if you make a blind box fancy enough, people will want one just to know what’s inside.)
@daemonvatis - I’d have to do a cost estimate of how many eggs would be feasible to stuff in a box before it’d be worth it to pay for shipping? (I have not ordered eggs yet, see previous “I have to pull it together in bits & pieces.”) If you’re in the US, I will have the Cursed Object vending machine at my Oddities & Curiosities Expo gigs this year. Probably easier to seek it out in person if that’s available to you. Strange Hours Atelier will be at the following:
Oddities & Curiosities Expo Charlotte, NC | Feb 26th
Well, I committed to the thing. I bought the sibling capsule vending machine to @nonasuch ’s, after almost a month of waffling about it. The goal is to have a cross between a wunderkammer and an automat. Black light. Potentially cursed toy surprises… “toy” being a flexible term.
If any of this sounds cool to you, and you’d like to help with set-up costs, donations are appreciated! Paypal.me/strangehours with whatever works. (I lost my income source for this month, so I’m left to pull it together by bits and pieces instead of all at once.) <3
A cursed object vending machine possibly the most absurd thing I’ve done for my business yet, but I’m fairly certain that the ability to release serotonin is the real selling point here.
so excited to see how yours turns out! and very glad to have more weird vending machines in the world
Ooh, sweet! As if I need more reasons to order patches and pins … all of these potential objects look amazing, like things to work into pieces of jewelry and spell foci.
Can I just…like…pay you to ship me one of each?
@deliriumcrow - Etsy only offers up yea so much potential cursed-object-toy-surprises in bulk lots, but it’s a good starting point for a mood board. The minerals choices are curated to my own tastes I must admit, but it’s not complete. My list of an ideal mix has more of a mudlarking vibe to it, or maybe a really good cache of things a crow has been hoarding. (Weirdly, if you make a blind box fancy enough, people will want one just to know what’s inside.)
@daemonvatis - I’d have to do a cost estimate of how many eggs would be feasible to stuff in a box before it’d be worth it to pay for shipping? (I have not ordered eggs yet, see previous “I have to pull it together in bits & pieces.”) If you’re in the US, I will have the Cursed Object vending machine at my Oddities & Curiosities Expo gigs this year. Probably easier to seek it out in person if that’s available to you. Strange Hours Atelier will be at the following:
Oddities & Curiosities Expo Charlotte, NC | Feb 26th
Well, I committed to the thing. I bought the sibling capsule vending machine to @nonasuch ’s, after almost a month of waffling about it. The goal is to have a cross between a wunderkammer and an automat. Black light. Potentially cursed toy surprises… “toy” being a flexible term.
If any of this sounds cool to you, and you’d like to help with set-up costs, donations are appreciated! Paypal.me/strangehours with whatever works. (I lost my income source for this month, so I’m left to pull it together by bits and pieces instead of all at once.) <3
A cursed object vending machine possibly the most absurd thing I’ve done for my business yet, but I’m fairly certain that the ability to release serotonin is the real selling point here.
Tiny Vinyl Umbrellas and a Convenience store style Umbrella stand (human figures not included.
Various famous Hokusai Woodblock Print artworks in 3d gacha form
Safes you can put coins in, with a “genuine dial”
Girls and boys PE uniforms for your Smartphone
A variety of train models, made to look like they are scrapped and decommissioned, that when collected and piled up, can be used to play a puzzle style game. ???????
A themed post this time, showcasing the wonderful world of Food Gacha.
In order, we have: Light up Latte Art, a sumo wrestler made of Mochi that creeps into food and sleeps (the おすもっち pun is choice), little bags made to look like gum packets, Dog Loaves, and then the last two.
One is squeezy bread with a bite out of it that smells like the different ‘flavours’ (choco spread, strawberry jam etc)
Silly Gachapon and UFO Catchers - Moustachioed Poop Edition:
Let’s just get right into it shall we. Yes, that is a yellow poop wearing glasses and a moustache, in large pillow form. “Peraperapeter, why?” You may ask. Because this poop is the mascot of the wildly popular “Poop Kanji Training” series of books, where kids learn Japanese Kanji by writing sentences that are all to do with poop (”This flower looks like poop.”, “The king demanded a castle made of poop”). Bonus non-gacha pic: The board game you can buy for Poop Kanji Training.
Other ‘wonderful’ examples we have here are: Pull-back luggage trucks (in both go-forward and U-turn varieties!), a variety of 1/2000 scale authentic Japanese naval vessels (with, incredibly, full hull, waterline, and a place to make the aircraft carrier look like it’s plane elevators are either down or up), squeezable stress ball purin, and a UFO with a variety of spoons holding food, including curry, tempura and rice omelettes
It’s apparently been like a year since my last gachapon post - which means I have a literal year of gachapon pics to catch up with. Gonna queue up some weird gacha each week for a while.
This edition, we have - “Plain bodies” and scooters (with little helmets under the seats), Jelly that wiggles, stretchy natto, mini beauty products, “Slimy Tapioca”, and Miniature Sniper, where a tiny sniper is hidden in a variety of everyday objects, like a gum packet and a tiny milk container
Whoa!! Tumblr now has native Sketchfab support! Didn’t have to mess around with any embed code for what you see above. :D Neat stuff.
I’m back with another project, which is kind of like 3 mini projects in one. I’ve stuffed my favorite little robo pals into gachapon capsules for your viewing pleasure. And then I took them out and posed them individually, also for your viewing pleasure. Be sure to click through the annotations to jump to the posed figures; the left/right buttons are found on the bottom of the viewport!
In einem Kapselautomaten-Laden in Akihabara. Viele kennen diese Automaten unter “Gashapon”, doch das sind eigentlich nur die von der Firma Bandai. Die Japaner nennen sie auch gern “Gacha Gacha”, “Gachapon” oder nur “Kapuserujidôhanbaiki” - Kapselautomat.
In verschiedenen Preisspannen gibt es in den Kapseln Anhänger, Figuren, Aufsteller, Stempel, Handy-Zubehör etc. und in vielen Elektronikmärkten stehen halbe Etagen damit voll.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOTHER 2! As August 27th, 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the cult classic video game known to us as Earthbound, and because I have my own fanimation devoted to it that is very close to being completed, today I will post about my “authentic” Mother 2 experience during my recent visit to Japan this summer.
As some of you may know, Japan has many “Gashapon” (or Gachapon) capsule dispensers that are essentially gumball machines with toys instead of candy. There is a dense concentration of them in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo known for carrying a huge selection of anime, manga and game-related goods- everything from DVDs, toys and accessories to cosplay fashion and idol band merchandise.
Somewhere in all of this pop culture chaos exist a small number of Mother 2 Gashapon dispensers. The one I encountered was on the upper floor of a well-known retro game store called Super Potato (pictured above). I’ve heard there are one or two others, but this was the only one I ran into.
Like most Gashapons, each attempt at nabbing a toy costs 200 yen, about 2 US dollars. The selection is completely randomized, which means I spent the better part of 10 minutes just cramming money into the slot and feverishly opening each plastic ball to inspect the contents in mounting frustration. I have included a highly scientific illustration of this process below:
Countless 100 yen coins and extra Paulas later, I finally acquired the final figure and completed the entire set: Ness, Jeff, Paula, Poo, Master Barf, Master Belch, and of course the elusive Mr. Saturn! The pink monster is supposedly “rare” but I have two of him to Mr. Saturn’s one. Not a bad investment as the Mr. Saturn goes for about 5 times the Gachapon price on eBay and re-sell stores. (Technically I think these are phone straps which are hugely popular in Japan, but to me they’d be more amusing as Christmas tree ornaments.)
The Super Potato store also carries original copies of the Mother 2 Famicom game, and features a huge print-out of the Magicant map from Mother 1 in one of their many stairwells. Pretty cool!
The only evidence of Mother 3 that I saw were copies of the actual game in a glass display case going for $80 (?!), but it was probably good for my wallet that there wasn’t any merch of Lucas or the Magypsies. Anyway, if you ever find yourself in Tokyo, definitely check this place out and have a go at collecting your own Mother 2 souvenirs straight from the source!
