{"id":16651,"date":"2013-12-15T18:26:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T02:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/?p=16651"},"modified":"2014-12-16T12:28:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T20:28:49","slug":"ytour201407","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/ytour201407\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamatour 2014, December 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/dec14\/ytour20140701.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Yamato<\/em> book display at Mandarake, Osaka<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/dec14\/ytour20140702.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Left: Vintage die cast toys.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Right: 1\/250 <em>Yukikaze<\/em> garage kit by Wave (the earliest)<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/dec14\/ytour20140703.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Operation M&#8221; UNCF model kit box set<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/dec14\/ytour20140704.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Looks like these Osaka citizens are lined up for a live stage play. It&#8217;s actually a grocery store.<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/dec14\/ytour20140705.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Left: all the bling you could want if you could afford a car in Japan.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Right: Actual architecture.<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/dec14\/ytour20140706.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Left: Cosmo gas station &#8211; where <em>Yamato<\/em> fuels up.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Right: Mascot for Osaka Castle<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/dec14\/ytour20140707.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Left: the actual Osaka castle.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Right: miniature army inside Osaka castle.<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/dec14\/ytour20140708.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/dec14\/ytour20140709.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/dec14\/ytour20140710.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/dec14\/ytour20140711.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Left: Interesting iconography (the bodies use the kanji character &#8220;\u5927&#8221;, the &#8220;O&#8221; in &#8220;Osaka&#8221;).<br \/>\nRight: Super sentai on the prowl at Osaka castle.<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/dec14\/ytour20140712.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Arale and Gatchan (from <em>Dr. Slump<\/em>) endorse a &#8220;Hustler&#8221; mini-van (nothing to do with the magazine), Shin-Osaka station.<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/dec14\/ytour20140713.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s haul (left to right): the other two Cosmo Fleet SP carriers, <em>Saraba Yamato<\/em> doujinshi, Leiji Matsumoto fan magazine, 1994 <em>New Type<\/em> with a vintage <em>Yamato<\/em> article in it.<br \/>\n <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/dec14\/ytour20140714.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Future Boy Conan<\/em> deluxe book and CD set. The CD was missing, so it cost less than $30.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/939'>Return to the travelogue<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/ytour201408'>Continue to the next photo journal: December 8<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16651"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16674,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16651\/revisions\/16674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}