Saturday, February 8, 2014

CUTE!! Oh my god these are so....CUTE!!

 I got some little itty bitty Famicoms in the mail yesterday!

Look how small that is!  It fits in the palm of my hand like it was nothing.  So cute!!

And look the Super Mario Bros cart isn`t just a molded part of the Famicom, it actually comes out and is so tiny:
This is part of the Nintendo History collection, a series of Gachapon (capsules) that are sold in vending machines.  There were six Famicom themed ones released and I got the whole series off of Yahoo Auctions a few days ago, still in their original capsules:

Each comes with a little explanatory booklet:
There is also an AV Famicom one:
 The details are awesome, the controllers actually plug into and out of it like on a real one, and the cart slot flaps open and close so you can put a copy of SMB3 which came with it in:

The FDS is pretty cool too, it hooks up to the Famicom just like a real one:

My favorite part about them is probably that they are almost perfect sized Famicoms for vintage Star Wars action figures

Too bad they don`t have a little TV to play it on.

I also got a Wild Gunman set (which comes with three teeny weeny carts - Wild Gunman, Duck Hunt and Hogan`s Alley), a Family Basic and a Square Button Famicom.  I might put pics of them up in a future post.

I really like these things, I have to find some imaginative way of displaying them....

14 comments:

  1. Nice one Sean :-)
    I've seen quite a few of them on eBay. Didn't realise they where so small!

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  2. These are great! I would probably keep them in my work bag so that every time I got angry with my idiotic colleagues I could just get one out and smile :)

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  3. These are nice and i'm so jealous of you that you got one!
    ^_^

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  4. I'm jealous too. I want these. So awesome....

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  5. Simon - actually thats not a bad idea!

    Anonymous and Logan - I love inducing jealousy with these finds.

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    1. Yeah, you're pretty good at it. (I don't blame you either. When people are jealous, it means you have something awesome.)

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  6. I happened across a mini Twin Famicom in this series too, and a mini ROB. Love 'em!!

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    1. A mini ROB/FCR...dude, pics please! (Hey, what happened to Phil anyhow? Off hiding something maybe. My ROB unit's secretly been wearing sunglasses the whole time, I found out.)

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  7. A mini ROB would be awesome!!! Phil needs a little brother :)

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    1. Yup, Phil really needs one! ^_^

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  8. My girlfriend got me the full set of these for my birthday this October! I know the love! It's really satisfying how the little carts snap into the Famicoms as if they were real.

    I want the Super Famicom set too... I believe I saw one online, but they may not be in production right now. I certainly didn't see them in machines in Japan last summer.

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  9. By the way if anyone finds a little 80s retro TV miniature.... it would be perfect to display with these! I'm sure one must exist in Japan....

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  10. Good call about the mini 80s TV. There has got to be some doll house furniture or something that these would fit awesomely with!!

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