The bar was set very low, however we nonetheless managed to clear this pointless sport of limbo.
Village Vanguard is a Japanese chain that sells not solely books, however all method of wacky, bizarre, and great life-style and leisure items. Every retailer is usually chock stuffed with stuff from ceiling to flooring, and it makes for an awesome place to get [gag] souvenirs throughout your journey to Japan.
This New 12 months’s, Village Vanguard kindly despatched our editorial workforce its “Blue Fortunate Bag” for 3,850 yen (US$24.50). Our Japanese-language author Ahiruneko was tasked with opening and sharing its contents this 12 months.
▼ The theme of the chain’s fortunate baggage is “Sorry for stealing your first snort of the brand new 12 months!”
Ahiruneko eliminated the contents a bit cautiously as a result of, nicely, you by no means know what you’re going to get in a Village Vanguard fortunate bag. Listed below are this 12 months’s full contents, which we’ll go over one after the other beneath.
This Othello cushion was the most important merchandise by far. The entire cushion was designed to function a sport board.
Whereas the cushion’s dimension was first rate, its deadly flaw was that the Othello sport items, or disks, didn’t follow the floor in any respect. Even the slightest motion toppled the items from the “board.” The builders might have made such a easy tweak, like affixing the items with Velcro or one thing, whereas designing it, however no…
▼ A full sport board
Subsequent up was an enormous ear. Yup, only a big, attachable ear with no different sensible function than for those who have been to star as an additional in a movie that includes non-human characters.
▼ Or maybe, a humorous gag if somebody have been to ask you, “Lend me your ear!”
Persevering with alongside, the shock roulette sport was a bit…stunning. It was a puzzling contraption that doesn’t want batteries, however for those who stick your fingers within the six little cubbies and press the central button, one out of six of them would obtain a tiny shock.
Possibly it could possibly be helpful as a brand new, larger stakes model of rock-paper-scissors to make use of when making choices…?
Ahiruneko caught his finger in a single cubby gap and pressed the button however felt nothing.
He saved making an attempt till he felt one thing. It wasn’t a lot of a shock, although, because it was a was feeling of…air stress? It didn’t not harm and was really slightly bit scary. Nevertheless, take this with a grain of salt as a result of our workforce of writers is thought for enduring some bodily discomfort within the identify of unhinged journalism.
Transferring on, he turned his consideration subsequent to the lengthy glasses straw. It was a consuming straw that shaped the edges of a pair of faux glasses, that means no matter liquid you’re consuming would journey round your eyes earlier than reaching your mouth.
The product in all probability wasn’t supposed for power drinks…however that’s what Ahiruneko determined to to drink throughout his take a look at run.
One finish of the straw snaked from his can all the way in which round his eyes and into his mouth.
He took an enormous sip and felt the liquid begin to swirl round his eyes.
Let’s simply say that the jury’s nonetheless out on whether or not this or that point he used a hard-to-drink-from beer glass was a much less fulfilling expertise.
This explicit fortunate bag appeared to have a theme, as the following merchandise was additionally drinking-related. Ahiruneko was now the very–questionably–proud proprietor of a consuming helmet. Possibly it was due to his age, however he was much less and fewer thrilled about every new merchandise now.
He grabbed the can of Purple Bull from earlier than and caught it within the helmet’s cup holder.
Then he grabbed the opposite finish of the straw and commenced to drink.
For sure…
…the expertise was solidly…
…underwhelming.
Sigh. Possibly he might use the helmet to down two drinks earlier than the following time his physician orders him to take a urine take a look at.
Final however not least, the theme continued with this straightforward consuming sport for a bunch of buddies. You spin the spinner and observe no matter instructions are written the place it lands.
He gave it a whirl himself.
▼ “You are taking one shot.”
▼ “One shot,” below Ahiruneko’s present definition
Ahiruneko feels slightly dangerous saying this since Village Vanguard went out of its solution to ship us a fortunate bag, however on the finish of the day, the contents have been all fully pointless and ineffective junk.
Oh nicely–at the very least he can now maintain an ear out for extra thrilling and sensible fortunate bag reveals across the workplace.
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