Star Wars Lightsabers, Now In A Gashapon Vending Machine Near You!

I bought a bunch of lightsabers today, over at Play-Asia. Not life-sized ones but those that are part of the Star Wars Lightsaber 3 Keyring Gashapon collection. Even official Star Wars merchandize have joined in the gashapon craze.


Produced by gashapon masters Yujin, this collection consists of lightsabers of Anakin Skywalker, Qui-Gon Jinn, Mace Windu, Darth Sidious and Count Dooku, all in keychain-size measuring 130mm each. You can expect at least a light display from each of the lightsabers as batteries are included.

Short of looking for a gashapon vending machine, the Star Wars Lightsaber 3 Keyring Gashapon collection is available at Play-Asia. Click here for purchase details.

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass Figure Collection Gashapon

For all you Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass fans, here's a chance for you to own some more game related merchandise with the release of Yujin's The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass Figure Collection Gashapon.


Featuring characters from the game, this set of 5 is available at USD 2.99 each with free shipping at Play-Asia (click for details). Pretty cheap considering it's gashapon.

I ordered a total quantity of 5; ordering the total amount of figurines in a collection usually gets me the full set without duplicates. For the rest of my gashapon collection, click on the button you see on the picture you see on the right (it's also on the left side of my blog, in the navigation pane)

Tips on Purchasing Gashapon Online and the Nintendo Wii Keychains Collection

It's been a while since I've covered Gashapon (capsule toys) or even Candy Toys with the Super Mario Bros. Chocolate Egg collection being the most recent purchase.

No matter, Yujin has recently released a set of Nintendo Wii Keychains collection, featuring either the console, or the Wii-mote, each attached to a miniaturized game box featuring the following games:

• Excite Truck
• Fire Emblem
• Paper Mario
• Wii Sports
• Wario
• Zelda

These are now available on Play-Asia. Many have asked that since Play-Asia ships gashapons based on random selection (meaning you don't always get what you want from a particular collection), how do I obtain full sets?

The secret is to order the maximum number of gashapons within a certain collection. Since there are six items inside the Nintendo Wii Collection Keychain collection, place the quantity ordered as 6, and you should be able to get an entire set, with no randoms.

This works for me every time, only failing once, but that particular collection had many items, so it was possible that some where sold out.

Combine this technique with free shipping from Play-Asia and I basically save alot of money, compared to buying from Ebay!

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Figurines Collection (Pictures)

I received my package today containing the complete set of Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Figure Collection Gashapon from Play-Asia. Yujin has always made excellent gashapon sets (I like the Animal Crossing collection), but enough talk, the time for pictures is now (click for larger views):






The collection is still available for sale on Play-Asia. Click here for further details.