JR Kyushu Has Gone Pika For Pikachu

[Guest ___]

Ken-sempai emailed me this link this morning. I think it is also making the rounds on the yahoo groups as well.

 

http://www.jrkyushu.co.jp/pokemon-rally/train.jsp

 

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[Martijn Meerts]

uhoh.... Hmm.. MicroAce hasn't released an 800 series at all yet.. Maybe soon they will ;)

[Guest ___]

You know it just donned on me. I don't have any Microace trains. I might just have to buy one for the sake of having one.

[disturbman]

You did had one, but you sold it. It was a 783 Series.

[Guest ___]

?? The only train I had that I sold was a KATO. I sold it to Dmitry (roomd)

[disturbman]

Think back. One day I asked you if you had a 783 Series to go on your layout. You answered yes but sold it since you didn't like how it run. But, here it comes, I never heard of any 783 Series being made by Kato, just by MicroAce.

[Guest ___]

Nope, that was a 883 Sonic, it was a Kato and it was sold to Roomd where I subsequently bought a four car add on set of JR Kyushu 415 EMU. When I bought the 883, I was thinking it was the 885.

 

I've ridden in the 783 from Miyazakai Airport to Miyazaki proper, but I never owned a model of it. (If I had one, I'd've kept it)

[disturbman]

Now you know what MicroAce train you should buy. 

[Guest ___]

I got a few other trains ahead of that one on the queue. I want a Kiha 40, and an Aizuliner, Plus there those DMU's up in Hokkaido I like as well.

[to2leo]

So why did JR Kyushu chose Pikachu characters as the mascots?

[Guest ___]

I'm guessign becasue Great Detective Conan wouldn't have as broad appeal, or becasue ANA's right of usage ended.

[to2leo]

I'm guessign becasue Great Detective Conan wouldn't have as broad appeal, or becasue ANA's right of usage ended.

 

I would choose Astroboy since the movie is coming out soon 

[Mudkip Orange]

Shoulda made it the Mudkip line.

[jappomania]

uhoh.... Hmm.. MicroAce hasn't released an 800 series at all yet.. Maybe soon they will ;)

 

 

I hope not!

I think one Kato and 3 Tomix 800 are sufficient, there are only 6 trains in reality

(now I need only photos of all cars to print my picanori decals :-)

 

ciao

Massimo

[cteno4]

as well as jr east!

 

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20090719a7.html

 

Would be great to have dry transfers of the anime characters to put on trains! apparently additions like this have been made by small producers in japan, but never make it off shore...

 

cheers,

 

jeff

[jappomania]

as well as jr east!

 

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20090719a7.html

 

Would be great to have dry transfers of the anime characters to put on trains! apparently additions like this have been made by small producers in japan, but never make it off shore...

 

cheers,

 

jeff

 

 

try this ;-)

 

http://www.jreast.co.jp/pikanori/shinkansen.html

 

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=新幹線　ポケモン&cts=1246828765531&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

(note: use firefox to see, sometimes explorer doesn't work....)

 

dry transfer has never been produced for people, I know only inside Kansai 9 group (for member)

and this amazing guy

http://homepage3.nifty.com/ho-tec/tec/r22.html

 

don't worry, I'm engaged to make myself dry transfer, when the file is complete I can send it to everyone that needs..

 

in the meantime if someone can help me whit more 800 picanori photos....

question for all: nobody of you performs customizations of Shinkansen?

[Bernard]

When Pikachu first came to the USA for television, my friend Brian's job was to re-edit all the animation taking out all the fast flicker scenes that was causing problems for the FCC.

[cteno4]

When Pikachu first came to the USA for television, my friend Brian's job was to re-edit all the animation taking out all the fast flicker scenes that was causing problems for the FCC.

 

Do i remember correctly that one of the Pokemon shows was triggering some epileptic fits in japan due to the fast flicker video? i remember back in the 70s when one of the disco strobe lights radio shack sold that had adjustable flash frequency ended up going into the range that usually set off visual seizures!

 

cheers

 

jeff

[Bernard]

When Pikachu first came to the USA for television, my friend Brian's job was to re-edit all the animation taking out all the fast flicker scenes that was causing problems for the FCC.

 

Do i remember correctly that one of the Pokemon shows was triggering some epileptic fits in japan due to the fast flicker video? i remember back in the 70s when one of the disco strobe lights radio shack sold that had adjustable flash frequency ended up going into the range that usually set off visual seizures!

 

cheers

 

jeff

 

That was it! Brian had to take the whole 1st season that came from Japan and re-edit all the quick flashing points for FCC safety requirements.

[cteno4]

I sent an email to jun at plaza japan last night asking if he has ever seen dry transfer pokemons for the trains in japan for sale. just got a reply back from him that he has never seen that! no joy. if its out there its probably something that has very limited, in japan, distribution...doug had once got some sort of dry transfer artwork for one train that was done by a very small company in japan and picked it up when he was over there.

 

guess could try to make some custom decals! there is enough pokemon art out there to draw from!

 

cheers,

 

jeff

[Guest ___]

What about trying to get the dry rubs for models of the ANA planes that were carrying the Pokemon livery?

[cteno4]

try this ;-)

 

http://www.jreast.co.jp/pikanori/shinkansen.html

 

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=新幹線　ポケモン&cts=1246828765531&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

(note: use firefox to see, sometimes explorer doesn't work....)

 

dry transfer has never been produced for people, I know only inside Kansai 9 group (for member)

and this amazing guy

http://homepage3.nifty.com/ho-tec/tec/r22.html

 

don't worry, I'm engaged to make myself dry transfer, when the file is complete I can send it to everyone that needs..

 

in the meantime if someone can help me whit more 800 picanori photos....

question for all: nobody of you performs customizations of Shinkansen?

 

 

Massimo

 

Sorry missed this post! Great JR east page, perfect reference to roll your own! are you set up to create dry transfers? i looked into it and it seemed like a rather complex process to do you own. there is this paper i was thinking of giving a whirl..

 

http://www.rubondecals.com/rubon-paper.html

 

looks simple and may be worth spending $25 to give it a whirl, may be useful for lots of things.

 

getting something made for you can be really expensive for a sheet or two. also they may balk at producing commercial art w/o a release, even for personal use. licensing costs for something small like this for a specialty company to produce may be prohibitive.

 

would love to see any files you come up with to see if this would work. would almost be worth getting a second train to make a pikachu version!

 

thanks!

 

jeff

[jappomania]

Hi Jeff!

thank's for link of rubondecals, I try this vendor

Yes I work to produce decals for me (for a complete decal sheet for other we speak next ;-X)

like for all things the first is docs, docs and more docs, much hard is to find good and biggest photo, after you need only a good and free raster graphic software like inkscape and a good dry printer like ALPS or OKI5000 or whit the new laser transfer sheet is better one Tektronics printer

(and a lot of time and patience)

Maybe you don't know the situation of N scale in Italy, here you don't find to much models ready to run like for USA, Germany or Japanese modelers, so if you want something you build it (kitbashing or from scratch in brass, Styrene, epoxy resin, paperworks etc....)

p.s I've another project about sketchup 3d model but we speak in the future ;-)

 

ciao

Massimo

[jappomania]

What about trying to get the dry rubs for models of the ANA planes that were carrying the Pokemon livery?

 

What kind?

 

http://www.ana.co.jp/eng/flights/pokemonjet/design.html

 

in 1:200 scale is a little bit much expensive, see below (official ANA store)

 

http://www.ana.co.jp/eng/flights/pokemonjet/novelties.html

 

better image...

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~sp4m-inb/english/pikachu.eng.html

 

ciao

Massimo

[cteno4]

Massimo,

 

not sure about the new dry transfer paper, certainly looks easy, print onto the transfer paper, stick the adhesive sheet on top of it, then cut off the adhesive sheet around the artwork and then pull the adhesive sheet off the artwork and rub on.

 

i think im going to jump in and get some to try it out, if it works could really be great, but i wont hold my breath for $25! the dry transfer kits i have looked at are like $75 and then really require a $75 laminator to do it well, and after all that its a pretty involved process...

 

cheers

 

jeff