Thailand Toy Trip – Bangkok – MBK – 18 Feb 2017 – 11
The last time I visited Thailand was in 2001. Since then the change is phenomenal and I was so pleasantly surprised to see many toys shops selling newly released toys, collectibles and plastic kits in so many shops all over Bangkok and Pattaya. Among them the places I will go back and stay longer is Mega Plaza in Bangkok near Wat Pho and Suriya Land (kinda emporium style vintage collectibles and museum of all odds and sods – I love the place!!) in Pattaya. There are tons of Sideshow style bootleg statues and other knock offs produced locally including many 1/1 scale ones sold real cheap and of course the real McCoy items such as Hot Toys figures with high (for local living expenses) price tags (one figure cost starts from equivalent or more of one month's salary for lower income earners) are being sold everywhere. I am sure I will go back there and this time I will stay longer! Shopkeepers were all kind – except the arrogant and impolite owner of Toys Overzone at 5th floor in Mega Plaza who was not only rude but also bullshitted the price almost double for this foreign traveller who happens to know very well on going prices in toys and collectibles – and let me take photos all the way through and no one said anything about it. My shopping experience was overall nothing short of great and I would say far pleasant then that of Hong Kong. Of course in Hong Kong I would not expected to be treated kindly in the first place. I will definitely go back there again! I have taken hundreds of toy photos and it was hard to choose a handful only...
Thailand Toy Trip – Bangkok – MBK – 18 Feb 2017 – 11
The last time I visited Thailand was in 2001. Since then the change is phenomenal and I was so pleasantly surprised to see many toys shops selling newly released toys, collectibles and plastic kits in so many shops all over Bangkok and Pattaya. Among them the places I will go back and stay longer is Mega Plaza in Bangkok near Wat Pho and Suriya Land (kinda emporium style vintage collectibles and museum of all odds and sods – I love the place!!) in Pattaya. There are tons of Sideshow style bootleg statues and other knock offs produced locally including many 1/1 scale ones sold real cheap and of course the real McCoy items such as Hot Toys figures with high (for local living expenses) price tags (one figure cost starts from equivalent or more of one month's salary for lower income earners) are being sold everywhere. I am sure I will go back there and this time I will stay longer! Shopkeepers were all kind – except the arrogant and impolite owner of Toys Overzone at 5th floor in Mega Plaza who was not only rude but also bullshitted the price almost double for this foreign traveller who happens to know very well on going prices in toys and collectibles – and let me take photos all the way through and no one said anything about it. My shopping experience was overall nothing short of great and I would say far pleasant then that of Hong Kong. Of course in Hong Kong I would not expected to be treated kindly in the first place. I will definitely go back there again! I have taken hundreds of toy photos and it was hard to choose a handful only...