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The_Emperor said:

It looked like a sight ripped straight out of Japan heh...

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Oh God I miss those days...there was also another store in market village they used to have legit Japanese (engine gear) beyblades as well as I recall seeing they had original beetleborg figures.

The_Emperor said:

Wow, you must really hate those stores... :laugh:
I hate to say it, but I think those stores are as good as finding toku toys locally get. :disappoin

BTW, not sure but I think possibly got FantasyBox to start carrying toku toys in the first place. I remember the first time I ever step foot in the store, they were like a 99% anime store with only the odd toku gashapon figure.

But Toys2 has had toku stuff for quite a while already. When I first step foot into their store in 2005, they already had some Kamen Rider stuff. I picked up my first ever Kamen Rider item there -- Souchaku Henshin Kamen Rider Psyga. :buttrock: ...and from there, it all started.



Yeah, I remember the beautiful sight of the HUGE stacks of DX mechas... *sigh*



It looked like a sight ripped straight out of Japan heh...

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Too bad Fantasy Box is now as small as a box :laugh:
Toys2 has lowered it's Rider stuff IMO. I see more anime and Gundam stuff...

Lol, I remember that stack. Soo sad that it's gone :disappoin

*Sigh* it sucks that the only Toku-related thing Ones has now is a ridiculously over priced SIC Garo. :sweat: That thing's like, there all the time..they can never get rid of it.

Just shows you how much Canadians love Garo :laugh:

There use to be a place that sold HK TOku DVDs in P-Mall...Tokyo Anime. That place closed though....in it's place is another phone store. :sweat:

Does P-mall need all those phone stores? Seriously...

lol IKR? I remember that DVD store. I believe that there was adult stuff at the back :laugh:

Much like what The_Emperor said, P-Mall is overrated and filled with phone stores.
Before it was pirate dvd stores...Now cell phones? What's wrong with this world?!?

Yeah... P-Mall = Phone Mall now :redface2:

The pirated DVD stores that once solely relied on the sales of English movies are going out of business b/c they keep get raided by cops and even when they come back, people won't go to them as much anymore since DVDs at legit places are getting cheaper nowadays.

The only DVDs I still look at are J-Dramas (I have to say they have some pretty nice packaging for bootlegs)... and it's only if I like a certain drama so much I want to own it on DVD as well, which is rare. :sweat: Only happened twice with "Bloody Monday" (and it's sequel), which I **** you not is an AWESOME drama. :buttrock:

I'd get the official DVDs, but the complete series is like 20,000 yen each. >_<
I'd much rather spend that money on lots of figures instead. :sweat:

Dark Kabuto said:

There use to be a place that sold HK TOku DVDs in P-Mall...Tokyo Anime. That place closed though....in it's place is another phone store. :sweat:

Does P-mall need all those phone stores? Seriously...

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*sigh* I will definitely miss that place. It was one of the store people there that got me into Kamen Rider when he introduced Faiz to me. Even though I don't buy much DVDs now, I still miss their boxed sets. I loved some of the packaging they had. :disappoin

Ok looks like no one is representing Vancouver so here i am.
We've got 2-3 places that do sell Sentai toys although they don't get them in all the time. Sentai toys are very niche.

The_Emperor said:

The pirated DVD stores that once solely relied on the sales of English movies are going out of business b/c they keep get raided by cops and even when they come back, people won't go to them as much anymore since DVDs at legit places are getting cheaper nowadays.

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I was at P-Mall when some DVD stores got raided :laugh:
Filmed on my phone in fear since cops were like going savage.

Yobuster said:

Ok looks like no one is representing Vancouver so here i am.
We've got 2-3 places that do sell Sentai toys although they don't get them in all the time. Sentai toys are very niche.

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Are those stores any good? Are they mainly anime stores with the limited amount of sentai and rider toys?

For **** sakes I need to go Downtown for some Toku shopping.