Do you particularly enjoy the corporate mascot of the Famicom Disk System, the adorable yellow Disk-kun? Got a pocket full of hundred yen coins? Is the year 1987? Do you have a variety of stationary-related needs, able to be sated only with tiny capsule machine toys created specifically for a person like you? Search no further!! This is the furthest you have to search.
Twist the crank, and receive one of the eight shocking parts of the Famicom Disk Stationary series! Each one has a handy purpose. The one I purchased, based solely on the original Metroid disk label stickers that I could just barely see through the plastic capsule (which was sitting on a shelf in one of my local geek stores), happens to be a pencil holder. It is well-suited for golf pencils, which are the only pencils children can use, because they have such tiny, breakable hands.
Part of the appeal of these little toys is that you assemble the various pieces yourself. Some of them, like the spring-loaded shoot-out hidden ballpoint pen look like they would be pretty fun to put together. Others, like my pencil holder, are a little less complex.
Each one includes a pamphlet with handy assembly instructions, as well as a reverse-side advertisement: a glimpse into the awesome toys you could have gotten but didn't. Other possibilities: colored pencil, magnifying glass, memo pad, empty case, eraser, and scales to draw shapes. There are also a variety of disk labels, which any self-respecting modern-day hoarder of useless Nintendo crap would never remove from the sticker sheet.
The cost for these things at your local Japanese dork emporium? 315 yen a pop, only 200 more than what they would have cost twenty years ago. WORTH IT
Twist the crank, and receive one of the eight shocking parts of the Famicom Disk Stationary series! Each one has a handy purpose. The one I purchased, based solely on the original Metroid disk label stickers that I could just barely see through the plastic capsule (which was sitting on a shelf in one of my local geek stores), happens to be a pencil holder. It is well-suited for golf pencils, which are the only pencils children can use, because they have such tiny, breakable hands.
Part of the appeal of these little toys is that you assemble the various pieces yourself. Some of them, like the spring-loaded shoot-out hidden ballpoint pen look like they would be pretty fun to put together. Others, like my pencil holder, are a little less complex.
Each one includes a pamphlet with handy assembly instructions, as well as a reverse-side advertisement: a glimpse into the awesome toys you could have gotten but didn't. Other possibilities: colored pencil, magnifying glass, memo pad, empty case, eraser, and scales to draw shapes. There are also a variety of disk labels, which any self-respecting modern-day hoarder of useless Nintendo crap would never remove from the sticker sheet.
The cost for these things at your local Japanese dork emporium? 315 yen a pop, only 200 more than what they would have cost twenty years ago. WORTH IT