Saturday July 27
Puroland, church of misery
anyway it's time for me to make another pilgrimage to Puroland, with kayoko.
we don't have so much time today. so I'm stressed about fitting everything in, and also I wind up taking so many photos that I really don't have time to actually watch anything!!! but on the other hand I do get photos of almost all the uniforms worn by the staff!!
food service uniforms. . .
kitty Yutaka (summer kimono) actually. . . it's more of a festival dress. i don't know what it's called.
scientific uniforms (note the 'magical wings' on the guy!)
'time warp' uniform, some other damn uniform, front-hall greeting uniform (this one IS a yukata. unless it's a Yutaka.)
we start with some 3-d non-kitty pirate movie that is so fucking amazing. especially since I've never seen 3-d shit before. it rocked my world.
then we see the parade, then this Broadway musical about kitty and Daniel on this desert island where they invite world leaders from africa, russia, brazil, china, and USA to come. the people are wearing these huge fake heads that have ugly caricatures of all the races, it's quite sick. there's still lots of props and costume changes ,but it seems cheesier somehow.
then we see d-st, the hello kitty rap thing.
dj kitty-chan.
then we do the boat ride, which I could ride all day, it's somehow soothing AND over stimulating. then kitty waffles, and then we miss the dance contest, which I am SURE I would have won. then shopping, oddly they only have $100 worth of stuff I want to buy. . . .
Peckle the duck emerges from a giant asteroid for no reason whatsoever
chinese-style acrobats menace the crowd in The Big Parade (which, incidentally, takes place around the Wisdom Tree)
The Little Twin Stars gesture cryptically.
Monki-chi toots at passers-by on The Boat Ride
Kerropi's friends.
Inside Pom-Pom Purin's bakery
Batdtz-Maru plays pachinko like a high-roller
i have no fucking idea.
My Melody has some kind of dirigible.
Tuxedo Sam (center) and the other discontinued sanrio characters stage a final battle against the market forces leading to their cancellation.
a very flamboyant Dear Daniel greets vistors
the enigmatic Marron Cream (squirrel? bunny? weevil?) resides atop an enormous custard.
Hanguydon gets Badtz-Maru wasted
The Strawberry People. I guess i'm not
a REAL sanrio fan because i can't for the life of me recall their names. .
. .