#picture keychain

[sweetbunnytears]

[roserocksrapidly]

when I was 15 I bought my first anime keychain of one Vash the Stampede and I loved it so much that I wanted to take it to school with me too but I was embarrassed to have it on the outside of my backpack so I compromised by keeping it inside my backpack which meant that when things got stressful I was like "I think seeing vash would fix me" and I would just, like, unzip my bag a little and peer inside. What I'm saying is I was doing this:

[fishbloc]

keychain samples are here 🥳

[hiimspooks]

Poptart wore his eye protection, and this is what he saw!

[madredhattie]

did you guys know that BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) has anime mascots and you can buy merch of them???? And that at Fanime if you cosplayed a transit worker from any series you'd get a 5% discount?? anyway Fanime was an absolute blast, I genuinely forgot that extremely specific vibe anime cons have, but I thrived!! I even got to meet and befriend @manchasama by pure chance!

As always, Ingo is me, and Emmet is my incomparable roommate @stedecore-speedwhore!

[doodlejoltik]

POV: you're a random Starly about to be caught unawares

I got @waywardstation's keychains and they're phenomenal! Some of my favourite keychains ever, look at these lil guys :D They went on a mini Survey Corps Expedition together

Home and sleepy...

A few more pics under the cut of Just Rei haha

Gracidea flowers perhaps....

he's just. a little guy!!!!! I love him

[serenedash]

"I'm going to become a virus and overwrite the program that is this world's future."

So excited to finally show the cosplay I did for the zine Error: 0x46921!!! This was an amazing project to be apart of full of so many talented and passionate people <3

🪶Cosplay/edit: me 📷Photo: @ stonefox_photography

[rari0516]

inhuman 👥

drew them as the most edible looking gummies while they question each others existences

[youweremyversaillesatnight]

new fantasy high crochet! finished it up while watching tonight’s episode :)

figayda phoenix feather earring keychain

(boggy the froggy crochet keychain)

[pastelpeachii]

yippee !

[heretherebedork]

One of the four keychains that finally arrived from Thailand. I love them all so much. My first official merch. Finally fully put my money where my fandom is.

[alister312]

Recently, some official South Park merch was released in claw machines across Japan! Since one of the designated machine locations was relatively near where I live, I made a weekend trip of it and thought it would be fun to share a bit of it with y’all 🥰 This will mostly focus on the info about the plushies but also touch a bit on the place I went to to get them. Read on if you’re interested!

Thanks to a tip from my good pal @allymumu, I learned about two different South Park claw machine merch drops happening in March. First were these plastic cases:

As well as these plushie keychains:

None of the machines carrying the plastic cases were anywhere near me, however one machine with the plushie keychains was! So I decided to head over to AruAru City (a 6 floor mall devoted entirely to anime/manga/games that houses the Kitakyushu Manga Museum) in Kokura to try my hand at winning these guys.

Once there, the claw machine was actually incredibly difficult to locate. I searched around for a while along with my friend who joined me on this trip. Eventually, we had to ask an employee where the machine was.

As you can see, it definitely needed to be pointed out!

Claw machines in Japan aren’t usually stuffed with prizes so when we got to it, there were only 3 of the 4 plushies available to win at a time, with employees restocking whenever the machine ran out.

This was actually perfectly fine for me because I hadn’t been planning on trying to win Towelie. Sorry to all the Towelie stans out there but I don’t care that much for him 😅 Crane games are just as much about luck as they are skill so I didn’t want to waste any more money than necessary. Plus, the claw machine was small and close to the ground, so it was kind of uncomfortable crouching down and playing at it for an extended period of time.

Surprisingly, getting Kenny and Stan was relatively easy! Probably 5-6 tries each.

Which, at ¥100 (~$0.66 USD) a try, is a reasonable amount to spend.

Butters, however… well, he lived up to his name and kept slipping out of the claw every time I got a grip on him. I’d prefer not to specify exactly how much I spent trying to get him but let’s just say it was a lot 😭 My friend was able to win him for herself though so I do have a picture of all the boys!

They’re very soft and well made, perfectly palm sized 🥰 The elastic feels a little short sometimes if you plan on looping the entire plush through it to attach it to something (I did this with my belt loop to carry them around with me) but with some squishing they get through just fine.

Since going on a trip just to win some plushies seems a bit crazy, my friend and I visited some other cool places in Kokura the next day! Of course, the plushies came with us. ケニーちゃんはかわいいプリンセスだから, I of course brought him to Kokura Castle.

Then basically right down the street is the TOTO Museum, a museum dedicated to the company TOTO. However, since TOTO specializes in toilets, this place is more colloquially known as the Toilet Museum. Considering Stan’s last season trauma surrounding Japanese toilets, I thought it would help give him closure or something to learn their history.

All in all, a very fun and rewarding trip! I really hope there’s more claw machine merch drops relatively soon. If there are and I can go, I promise to share the info with y’all just like this! Hope you enjoyed 💕

[plushieanimals]

mew & eevee eco bag keychain plush ✨

[dellnet]

wanted to go home so bad at work today that i put kinito in my waiter apron and forced him to suffer as well

[vurelly]

oh right i can talk about these now

lOOK WHAT I GOT MADE

[ambrosethedarling]

Ohohoh what’s this?? 👀

[unboxing keychains vid on tiktok!]