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[Megaplex Prime]

So my brothers in Tokyo, specifically in the Akihabara area. Hes looking for a good brick and mortar store that specializes in carrying Transformers. Hes already visited a few, but he feels hes not seen the REAL good stuff yet.

So... any suggestions?

[CEEFAX]

All the big 'camera' stores have a toy section.
Don Quijote (sic) can be good for a bargain, but stock and prices seem to vary store-to-store.
If you include 2nd hand as well; Mandarake and Jungle in Akihabara, along with the Mandarake in Shibuya and the flagship Mandarake store(s) and a host of unaffiliated shops on Nakano Broadway.

I'm sure there's much more to find, but I quickly start feeling like I'm wasting Japan time after a day or two's toy browsing....

Edited by CEEFAX, 10 July 2018 - 11:49 AM.

[Xellos]

I do remember seeing a few stores have a bunch of the newer stuff in one of the buildings near the train station. It had like 6 or 7 floors, and each floor is either a few small shops or one large shop. Some of the stores were decent, especially the ones that took up the entire floor.

Ah, yeah, and Mandrake had a ton of mostly "used" figures and TFs that seemed to be decently priced. Still kicking myself that I did not get the Cloud Shockwave for 3000 yen I saw there. I just had no space left in my bags.


I spent a lot of time there when I went, but the only place that I saw a lot of them, though nothing too old, was at a different section of Tokyo, at the Toys R Us at the shopping mall AQUA CiTY in the Odaiba section, right near the Statue of Liberty and the full scale Unicorn Gundam statue.

Edited by Xellos, 10 July 2018 - 11:59 AM.

[Sciflyer]

I just visited in February of this year, and I can vouch for the camera stores as mentioned above, as well as the Mandrake locations.