Sylvanian Families is a line of Japanese-made toys featuring doll houses and anthropomorphic animal pals, “a quintessential part of the 1990’s boom in craze (or fad) toys” says Wikipedia. This little guy was greeting shoppers outside a Sylvanian specialty shop at Central World, a Bangkok mall with kind of a nonsense name:
After this photo was taken Mrs. Adamu and I helped ourselves to copious free samples at the mall’s upscale supermarket (hummus and pita anyone?) and watched the movie Sunshine (the new one by 28 Days Later/Trainspotting director Danny Boyle that’s not released in the US yet) for the equivalent of US$12 for two, with popcorn. Hm, I may have the dates mixed up on that (it might have been Deja Vu that I saw instead) but basically that was a good spot for myself and Mrs. Adamu.
http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~madison/worst/sf/crisis.html
The Sunshine reminds me of the screwed up movie by Richard C.Sarafian in 1990
Crisis2050/Solar Crisis by Alan Smithee in U.S(Funded by NHK enterprise)with the all time Japanese cinematic industry record budget of ï¼—billion yen.
I approve of the t-shirt. Was a bit worried about that.