Demetrius Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 As some of you may know, I run an organization called the High Speed Rail America Club that aims to bring shinkansen tech to the US. Our group has started selling shirts as well to raise money; this design I created to raise awareness of the original bullet train (and also look badass to wear). Feel free to share with others as well and ask any questions about the shirt or the group: http://teespring.com/bullet-train 1 Link to comment
bikkuri bahn Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Nice effort. Though it's sad that here, fifty years (2 generations!) after the opening of the Tokaido Shinkansen, people in America still need to be persuaded about the benefits of high speed rail. Exceptionalism, indeed. Link to comment
E231-500 Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 I would love to buy one but I believe Australian shirt sizing is completely different to USA. Id hate to get one and it be way too big or too small. Link to comment
Demetrius Posted April 16, 2015 Author Share Posted April 16, 2015 Thank you! Took a lot of time tracing, overlaying and coloring that! Working hard to bring shinkansen here, especially Texas, I'm sure you guys heard about it. If by any chance E231, it doesn't fit, you can always exchange. Always safer getting a size up. Link to comment
E231-500 Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 If by any chance E231, it doesn't fit, you can always exchange. Always safer getting a size up. No worries. With some help from the wife i measured myself up and hopefully the shirt will fit my ample train driver belly :) One Ordered. hopefully one more person orders to get the run through. Link to comment
JR 500系 Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 That's amazing! I've always tried to find a Shinkansen T-shirt, but they often only belong to the kids.... Wouldn't you happen to be a 500 series? :) Link to comment
beakaboy Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Any idea on the postage to New Zealand? Very keen to order one, but I know the postage can be expensive from the States Link to comment
E231-500 Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Don't know if it helps beaksaboy but I'm in Perth in Western Australia and the shirt and postage set me back AU$32.50 Link to comment
Sascha Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 (edited) This Shirt is awesome. Have been looking for Shinkansen shirt.Just ordered one. It will probably arriving when I'm in Tokyo. Would have been great to wear it there. I think the reason why we don't have a good rail system are the Airlines and the money thats involved. A good train system would cripple the air industries in th US, so they and I guess greedy politicians oppose plans for a strong rail system.They say it wouldn't be economic, because people wouldn't use it, what is complete nonsense. I work in a Hotel, and we have people that use trains all the time, and they all said that they rather take the train than an airplane, but sometimes don't have a choice due to the ridiculous amount of time it takes to get from on city to the next.For example going from New Orleans Louisiana to lets say Dallas Texas takes about 7 hours by car. If you take the Amtrak it will take 19 hours to get there because you have to go to Chicago first and than all the way back to Dallas, even though they have a connecting line that gos from New Orleans to Dallas.Makes no sense to me. Edited April 25, 2015 by Sascha Link to comment
E231-500 Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Just got an email that my shirt is on its way! So excited. 1 Link to comment
Sascha Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 Mine is going to be there tomorrow. Perfect for my trip to Tokyo Monday. I'm also very excited. Link to comment
beakaboy Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 thanks E231-500. Bit late getting organised. I have reserved a shirt, but they need 9 more to do a reprint. will see what happens. Link to comment
E231-500 Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 Of all things, tracking my shirt via USPS website, and it has gone from Chicago to Australia via ........ Tokyo Narita! Link to comment
cteno4 Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Hmm something is funny, i reserved yesterday and it said 10 needed to restart, so after me 9 more. Maybe it just does not give a countdown... Jeff Link to comment
E231-500 Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 mine arrived yesterday. Agreat shirt and worth the money for anyone thinking about putting in for the second batch. Link to comment
Demetrius Posted May 22, 2015 Author Share Posted May 22, 2015 Hey everyone! I want to thank you all for the support! Just finished my finals from university and just had to come check out how everyone was doing of here. I just put it up again today for those of you who missed out the last time. I'll be on here more often now since the spring term is over :-D Link to comment
tossedman Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 It's a hit! Ordered one for my son and it arrived last week. Had to order more for the growing boy so he has one size up for later. Link to comment
cteno4 Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 the shirt went back up for another round an i got one. jeff Link to comment
Demetrius Posted May 23, 2015 Author Share Posted May 23, 2015 Thanks everyone! I've ordered the shirt in the first round of selling myself, always catches eyes and starts a conversation. Best of all, it looks and feels fantastic, even in South Florida heat! Link to comment
cteno4 Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 Demetrius, That's great to hear as many times the low volume printed tee shirts can be uncomfortable! Thanks for doing the shirt, hope it helps your org. Our club shirts and my Japanese train shirt I made up for some members of the club (it's a grid of profiles of a couple dozen Japanese trains on the front and a big club logo on th back) gets a lot of comments and is great to start conversations on HSR. Jeff Link to comment
Demetrius Posted May 26, 2015 Author Share Posted May 26, 2015 Demetrius, That's great to hear as many times the low volume printed tee shirts can be uncomfortable! Thanks for doing the shirt, hope it helps your org. Our club shirts and my Japanese train shirt I made up for some members of the club (it's a grid of profiles of a couple dozen Japanese trains on the front and a big club logo on th back) gets a lot of comments and is great to start conversations on HSR. Jeff Thank you! I'd be interested to see what that shirt looks like. The conversation starter is always a plus, some of our members jokes that we look like walking billboard trains. Link to comment
marknewton Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 I've ordered two, one for me and one for my son. Soon we'll have the biggest collection of Shinkansen t-shirts in Sydney... :D Cheers, Mark. Link to comment
cteno4 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Demetrius, here is the shirt i did up for a few of the jrm members. its not our official club t-shirt, just a fun one with trains on the front and a big club logo on the back to get attention. vista print works well to get a few now and then when they have a sale for under $15. not super heavy shirts but decent and they have held up well to multiple washings very well. i pulled the train images from a book and why i did not make it a public offering. cheers jeff 1 Link to comment
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