Fukubukuro of 2011
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 2, 2011 05:05 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Comparison, Image Gallery, Marketing, New Years, Otaku, PVC, Shopping
Otaku buyers share the contents of their “fukubukuro” purchases of 2011, both lucky and unlucky.
Fukubukuro, “lucky bags,” are a traditional Japanese New Year retail custom consisting of a sealed bag or box sold at a set price with unknown contents.
The value of the goods in the bag may be substantially more or less than the price of the bag, although on average reputable retailers tend to be quite generous.
However, one of the primary functions of the bags is disposing of unsold stock, which can lead to some distinctly undesirable contents even when the price of the goods exceeds the cost of the bag.
All kinds of goods can be found in them, games and figures being no exception…
Figures and goods:
¥2011:
¥8000 “Nendoroido-fukuro”:
¥2000:
¥2011:
¥8000 “Nendoroido-fukuro” & ¥5000 “Nendoroido-fukuro+”:
¥2011:
¥10000:
¥8000 “Kotobukiya”:
¥5000:
¥2011:
¥2000:
¥5000 “Figma-fukuro”:
¥??? “Kotobukiya”:
¥10000 “Kotobukiya”:
¥10000 “Kotobukiya”:
¥1000:
¥5250 “Transformers”:
Games and similar:
¥18000:
¥29800:
¥14800:
¥15000:
¥2000:
¥2500:
¥2500:
¥2500:
¥2500:
¥2500:
¥10000:
Sharper retailers have in the past created considerable outrage amongst buyers by packing all their bags with junk of the most useless kind, and even amongst kinder retailers there are supposed to be both “hits” and “misses” – as ever, caveat emptor.
The worst of the worst (thankfully most probably a Photoshop creation as no shop so cruel could hope to remain in business for long):
Monmusu BD “Bigger With Every Release!”
MLP Futanari: “Bronies Weirder Than Ever…”
Blade & Soul Launch Unexpectedly Voluptuous
Nisemonogatari Pachinko Machine Unveiled
Lax Lady Venera Figure
Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut Ceaselessly Naughty
“Abusive” Breast-Groping Fundraiser Molested by Petition
Hanayo Koizumi’s Birthday Highly Revered
Toyota Prius CM Goes Full KanColle Mode
Usamimi Anette-san Micro-Bikini Figure
A Full Course Dream 3some “An Otaku Wet-Dream”
Dimension W “Both Cute & Grotesque!”
Monster Monpiece Naked Trailer Shamelessly Shameless
Digimon Adventure Tri PV Full of Promise
Tekken Moves Performed in Real Life
Energetic Lucky Chloe Figure
Otoko No Ko Harem – Will You Admit To Wanting This?
Dagashi Kashi Irresistibly Sweet
Oshiete Gyaruko-chan Pantsu-A-Plenty
Nitroplus Blasterz English Trailer Quite Rousing
Momo Velia Deviluke Cosplay Bursting With Bridal Beauty
Skimpy Sonico Cosplay Barely Contained
Kumiko & Reina Cosplay Hardly Blows At All
Skimpy Elf Bikini Cosplay by Saku Supremely Sexy
Gothic Lolita Hatsune Miku Cosplay Busts Out
Delectable Dizzy Cosplay by Lechat
Dark Elf Cosplay by Non Very Dark Indeed
Titillating Tamako Cosplay Perfectly Pink
Goddess of 2ch: “Full of Lust & Urges (& Also Videos)!”
Raunchy Reisen Inaba Cosplay by Tsuyato
I want to buy some too!
nee, u are not getting anything!
Woah! A PS3 for 29800, in Yank dollars it is like 367.22! THAT'S AMAZ-- Oh wait is not that cheap.
It is not even a PS3; that's the external video recorder add-on.
¥8000 Yen or roughly $100 US for nine Nendodroids?
Do want.
actually, no. that's the torne pack(ps3+torne). although, really, you can find those at a second hand store at roughly the same price(book-off had one at 22.000円)
well, you did notice that there were other items in that package i hope?
hay, is there a dvr thing for north america?
theyre so inexpensive~~
I wish we had something like this in our country. :V
http://img2.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/cache/86674__438x_2011-fukubukuro-011.jpg
I'd love it if I had this lucky bag.
Everything that didn't sellout pre-sale....
Clearance sale disguised as a New Year's custom, eh?
pillowcase FTW?
@Anon12:06,what TCG is that?
In Singapore, there are some candy shops that have this kind of thing. The packs are mostly priced at around 2-5 bucks and the contents are usually little toys or sweets, and maybe some rare trading cards.
i wish they did this kind of crap in america, just make sure the value in the bag exceeds what the cheapest reputable online dealers sell it for, and there you go, get rid of stock for 20$ before you are forced to charge 5-10$ to get rid of the shit.
This reminds me of an auction for some reason but is so different from one as you can't see what you are getting & there is a set price...
I would never tempt that there as I don't think I would be able to afford it for some reason...
hmm no dildos, vibrators, or fleshlights?
its things like this that make me wish to visit there to do some shopping :3
If I bought that last mystery box of shit, I'd pack it all up and slam it into the dude who sold it to me~ I'd only feel dirty that I even touch that shit while they haul me off to the clinker!
i feel sorry for the guy who bought FF14 XD
I'd scream freakin' loud if mine has FFXIV
Number 9
¥5000:
That is awesome 3 love plus nendo, plus azunyan.
He's a lucky bastard (unless he had them already)
And yeah i would have rathered receive the nanohas, than FFXIV for ¥5000.
WTF 5 Figmas for 50USD even with a BRS
Retailers in the States really need to pick something like this up.
I like that ¥1000 one, it's like your own mini-army of Nanoha and Fate clones. Although it would really suck to get that bundle if you didn't like Nanoha.
Nendoroids at 8000 yens are not really good fukubukuro.
You can easily find LovePlus nendoroid at 1500 yens, BRS at 2500 and the others in 1500-2500 yens price range
^exactly.
PROTIP: Most Nendoroids cost HALF what they retail for at Play-Asia, Hobby Search, etc a month after release. It's only gullible foreigners who'll still pay that much. Why do you think they ony carry such limited stock - because they don't want to be stuck with them at that price.
8000 for 5 nendoroids is good no matter what
well that's definitely a random assortment of junk.
You know some of the stuff in those bags were pretty good. The Wii is one, the ps3 was it? OH and then the figurines were 8000yen-20000yen or more were prize winners. The rest were probably meh. But I saw some nice figurines in there.
What with all those CD-R ? If this isn't a proof that Japanese download illegal files such has wertern countries, I'm a monk.
they have CD-audio rentals over there. and due to legal loophole, rent-n-burn is common. since rental profit also goes to JASRAC's coffer, they don't make a fuss about it. unlike RIAA.
pic 10 so fucking lucky :D
selveria FTW :)
i wish more countries would do these, it will really encourage people to buy these deals ^^
Oh my goooodd gimme those figurines DX
The bottom is the worst? What? It looks pretty alright, if you ignore Final Fantasy XIV...
I wish this practice would catch on in every country.
Cheap 99 cent stores here do stuff similar to this but who really wants a hand full of candy and a toy made in Taiwan?
An Austrian computer store does that around Christmas for 21-25€ afair, where you will get random components(HDDs, USB sticks, head sets - just to name a few) with at least the equal or more value delivered.
They called it "SOMETHING" (or "ETWAS" in German).
Unfortunately in 2009 there were lot's of anti-virus programs sent out, with some customers trying to return them by using Distance Selling Act law - a lot of hilarity and assholery(one of the staff members called a customer a racist slur in their retail outlet) ensued as the "SOMETHING" wasn't intended to be returnable but had to under the law.
Christmas 2010 was better I heard, with no anti-virus given out and lots of mouses, headsets, external HDDs (320+500GB), stereo speaker sets, USB-hubs and so on given out.
This time no online shopping was possible to avoid the law, so you had to go into their stores and chose a parcel which came in random sizes (but didn't give away what's inside - you could get a parcel shaped like a keyboard and find an USB stick in it).
In addition to handling it better, they also gave away an 11% discount coupon for the next purchase and there were some very lucky individuals who got a netbook, notebook, LCD monitor or beamer out of the parcels.
My bad, it was 2008 not 2009 where shit hit the fan.
Oh, and people were getting so greedy in 2008 since 2007 worked so well, one customer thought it was a good idea to order a "SOMETHING" with the address of his recently deceased neighbour (because the offer was limited to one purchase per customer).
The widow was pretty pissed and asked the shop if they had no decency at all.
As if making fake accounts as "family members" wasn't bad enough.
http://img1.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-ix/2011-fukubukuro-028.jpg
sweet
http://img3.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-ix/2011-fukubukuro-022.jpg
Sweet
http://img3.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-ix/2011-fukubukuro-019.jpg
Win
http://img4.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-ix/2011-fukubukuro-029.jpg
Gaijin Bag
F#ck! I want those Transformers and Figmas ones~
That many Squeenix games at once... suicide rates are on the rise.
holy shit some of these surprise bags have really good items.
the ¥10000 one with black rock shooter animation figure, selvaria figure and nami figure at full price should be at least double what was paid.
http://img2.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-ix/2011-fukubukuro-008.jpg
Anyway, isn't this one supposed to be tagged as Revoltech instead of Kotobukiya?
Some good figurine selections in there.
Would love the Nendoroid fukuro "___"
where do you buy those ¥2011 fukubukuro?
Oh wow. I like. I would totally go for one of those figure sets. Even if you get doubles or someone you don't like, there's always a use for figures isn't there?
i envy those who got 5000 yen and especially the 10000 yen in the figurine section...
should i spend my new years in Japan?
(teary eyes...)
What's up with Sankaku and FF14? I know it's not perfect, and they sure as hell have fucked up, but you don't report any of the changes or improvements they have been making. What the hell guys?
I think the reason as to why no one says anything about the changes being made to the game is because pretty much no one here has played the game in its current state because they are too stubborn to do so and just take part in the bandwagon that is "I hate FFXIV". They can't say anything about the changes about the game because they simply don't know about it. All people here seem to know is stuff fed to them by Artefact, which is all the negative stuff.
Because of this no one will even bother to check up to see if the game is become more playable since they already have the idea that the game is not worth their time and the only time they'll say something about it is when they joke about the game because it got slammed in another article on this site.
Why this guy seems to intent to continuously put up articles which say SE is a failure and the game is shit, I have no idea. We get the idea already, you don't like the game and many many people also don't like this game, why is it so necessary to constantly state this as if you're attempting to brainwash everyone? Forgive me if this seems ridiculous but it's as if Artefact has some personal grudge against Square Enix. From the amount of articles posted of this particular nature, it's not so difficult to draw such a conclusion really. I mean, it's just one game and to constantly rat on about it like Artefact has done is just silly.
I know I'll get downvoted or even banned for saying such things here but I just thought I'd let you know, Anonymous, as to why this is happening.