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I would seriously pay good money to see someone hit Midnight Dreamer with a cream pie.

It's seriously a good thing I am not a mod cause I would so banninate her for being a moron and obnoxious.

Hotel reservations have hit some new snags and I'm trying to figure out how in the heck I use my supposed JR discount cause I think my life will be complete if I can stay in a hotel with a 8 million dollar spa wing.

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Yes and then the LA store could ship them to their new owners. It can't be sales tax issues since I can walk into a Volks store in Japan and buy what I like and just pay sales tax and I am obviously not living in Japan.

It's odd because they ship so much to the VolksUSA store now to be distributed.

I've had a few friends loan me their addies so I could order FCS, but not everyone has that and I think particularly if you go all the way to Japan you should get that option.

I'm hoping to suggest it at some point. ^^;

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Sato would still be a super special experience, just one people who actually traveled all the way there from the US could truly experience. I mean they're the ones who don't like the idea of services, and in not allowing people to even place their own orders they're sort of forcing potential customers to use one.

Though I honestly believe Sato would be special regardless of whether there were any Sato only exclusive merchandise.

I think it's more than just the economy. Foreign fans aren't quite the same as Japanese fans and I think some of their business practices might be off putting.

If I lived in LA I might consider it but I admit the only way I am going out to LA right now is next time BPAL is doing something cause MUST GE PROTOTYPES!!! ♥

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I adore Prototypes or at least the concept of them. I admit I got into BPAL a bit late and would love some more rares just so I could trade them for rares I know I love. I adore Sugar Slathered Apples. I can't wait to see what the resurrected this year is.

I could uhhh see some future in-laws >>; And go to the LA store finally. Will Calls would be fun too, but to make it worthwhile there has to be something hard to get involved.

Though on the other hand they've taken all 3 of the "exclusive" NY Dolpa dolls and re-released them at Japanese events. The only dolls they kept special for LA were Ruby, Garnet and Pearl who only seem so popular with US fans and honestly probably wouldn't sell well in Japan.

But also it's not an apt comparison the web lotteries vs physical events. This is more like telling Japanese people who flew all the way to LA to go to a Dolpa there that they can attend but not purchase anything.

I am not really sure how much the Japanese would care if they let US people order in person.