Memories of Thailand: The Sylvanian Hedgehog

April 26th, 2007 by Adamu
Adamu

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:

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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.

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  • 2 Responses to 'Memories of Thailand: The Sylvanian Hedgehog'

    1. Aceface Says:

      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.

    2. Ken Says:

      I approve of the t-shirt. Was a bit worried about that.

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