I died and went to model kit heaven - Surugaya plastic model hall in Akihabara
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2024
- 00:00 Intro
00:35 First Rare Find
00:57 EX models
01:44 UC hard graph
01:57 RE100
02:16 Magazines
02:36 Modern HG
02:48 Vintage Wing kits!!!
04:11 HG 1/60 Wing 0
04:47 Really old NG kits
05:45 Non-Gundam Mecha
06:20 Five Star Stories!
07:02 old sazabi and hyaku shiki
07:24 Mini gundam kits?
08:10 Recap
08:55 Outro
Surugaya Akihabara Plastic model Hall
Japan, 〒101-0021 Tokyo, Chiyoda City, Sotokanda, 4 Chome−4−2 共益外神田ビル 2F・3F
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I haven't been to Akihabara in several years. This model-only Surugaya store must be new.
Thanks for the video, I was also there (3) weeks ago and got to buy some vintage Macross model kits! My April birthday trip was to Tokyo and it's an amazing country, I would love to live in Japan. I started traveling overseas when I was a teenager, and have lived outside the US since 2004. I have one of the largest anime collections in the world, mostly Macross/Gundam/Zoids/Evangelion etc. More than 400 boxed kits/magazines and another 200 airbrushed/decaled/weathered plastic/resin kits on display. I have a huge collection of super rare kits from Wonder Festivals as well.
wow 400 kits! very cool! You should make a video!
The nice things is if you charter a flight you can just load the plane up with any kits you want. And you can just drive them home when you land
LOL
During the Gunpla "shortage" in 2023, I visited this shop and managed to pickup a PBandai F90 Mission Pack for under Retail.
Also, unboxing your kits and scotch taping the runners together saves a ton of space. That's how i transport all my kits with me. Last time I fit 3 MGs, 2 RGs, 3 HGs, and an SDCS.
On another floor has massive collections of Gashapon, candy toy, and crane game items including tons of Gundam Gframes, Artifacts, Gachas, etc. All for very reasonable prices. Don't mess with finding the right box or capsule, just buy the whole set!
good idea for packing the kits! impressive haul!
I don't think the Gunpla shortage ever ended
good idea, but this is how you get even more. But box is gone. Buy tons of ziplock bags, and a cheap nipper. Cut off all the parts from the runners but leave a few mm off the runner still attached to the part to cut it quick and careless. (cleanup comes later when building it home). Also leave the Identification (A,B,C etc) of the runner together with the parts it came from. Everything is still organized this way with each runner in one ziplock bag. Now you can easily take home 30kg of pure gunpla parts without any runners and really compact packaging.
You can keep the box art by just breaking down the boxes flat into your luggage.
What a great selection of model kits. Such an intimidating hobby but so fun to look into.
Thank you so much for showing me Gundam Specialist and Surugiya in Akihabara. I finally got the MG The-O from specialist, re1/100 Efreet, Rebawoo, and Hamma Hamma from Surugiya. Keep up the great work!
Glad I could help! Nice pick ups!!
I was in Hiroshima when you filmed this episode, I did re-visit that store since 4.5 years ago and it still never dissapoints.
That Mospeada kit is my Holy Grail!!!!!!
Omg 😂 I would have been in shock and nervously crying that I was holding it in my hand ……but I too have a grey pileoshame to build and paint …..I have 3 HG Mazin Kaiser/ HG UC Unicorn (RedBattlemode)Gundam and a SD Kaiser.
I had bought them hoping to build and paint and display but never had time to.
Now I have time but they are in my storage facility and well the crazy deal is that my Friend had got me into 40K and I have almost completed a Black Templar Combat Patrol and was just recently reminded of my Gundam and Kaisers in storage!
TH-cam wildly recommended ur channel and OMG 😱 😮😂 I could not believe ur love of Gundam and you were holding the Cyclone Armor Model in your hands !!!!!!!!!!! You are so lucky to have been there .
Must be an awesome experience .
Be well
Be safe
I will subscribe and check out your builds!
Thank you for sharing !!!!!!
if you like model kits I have another channel dedicated to just that too! www.youtube.com/@vintagegunpla/videos
@@pixxellie 😬subscribed TY!
Shared your channel in my gunpla Discords. Hoping to send more vintage kit fans your way.
Also, I made a bonus at work and bought the MG The-O a while back. Now I just need a GGG Paptimus to put next to it.
Omg Ty so much for sharing!!! I’m jealous you got the MG O!!!! The O is definitely one of my top suits of all time. I will get it in my collection eventually!
Thanks for bringing us along on your visit to this store. Love to go there myself, but being unemployed at the moment thats a far away dream. That said i will tag along when you visiit other shops and put their adresses in my Garmin basecamp progam, because one should never stop dreaming. Have fun shopping around and doing the other stuf one should do in Japan.
Thanks for watching! Hopefully you can go one day!
Love the video, love your taste in kits! oh yeah
Thank you for watching!
great vid! love these 🙂 hope you make more
Thank you! I definitely will!
Can't imagine a store full of Gunpla kits and it being 2 floors just seems exciting. Cool stuff, hahaha can't get away from The-O kits can't you. congrats on your channel growing!
It’s true I love the o haha! Thanks for watching
Holy crap how did I missed this!! 😢😢😢
What an awesome store! Thanks for the tour. I hope to get there someday.
Thanks for watching!!! :)
Love these videos! Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much for watching!!!
awesome vid! I love your eye for old kits. It shows me some things I otherwise wouldnt have known about. I would def like to see more of this store whether it be p bandai, newer kits or whatever. I am new to this hobby and going to japan in december and using all this for recs! added a number of the kits you shown here to my wishlist im making already XD
Thanks for watching!!! Happy the video was helpful! ☺
I almost missed it when I was in Japan 3 months ago. But what a wonderful shop, not only for Gunpla but for all plastic model kits.
This shop and the one in Osaka as well.
Thanks for the video !
Oh wow I didn’t know there was an Osaka location!!!
@@pixxellie If you went to Osaka and the Den Den neighborhood, you probably got in Suruga-ya without noticing it.
I know that's what happened to me :D.
It was only near the end of my trip to Japan, while in Tokyo that I started to pay attention to the names of the shop (rather than just walking and buying kits on the go).
@@pixxellie There are Surugayas and other shops "supported by Surugaya" all over Japan, including the flagship store in Shizuoka (the company itself is headquartered there). It's worth hitting up a few of those instead of rubbing shoulders with foreign tourists in Akihabara. Don't forget the Bookoff Super Bazaars and the various Kanteidans.
@@ericng5707 Never heard of Kanteidan, I will have to check that out.
I just found out about you and just in time i see.. i love this stuff. Keep it up please.
Thank you!! I will do my best!
As someone who barely has access to any model kits, id love to see you dive into the more modern kits since i will be in japan in may and id loke to see what i can expect
I will try my best!
Always my favorite stop when I'm in Aki
makes sense to me! I feel the same way lol
watched this while drinking my morning coffee. thanks jammy
Thanks for watching as always!!!!
The tiny model kits are really tiny modek kits, not keychains. They sold em as candy toys some decades ago, they are basically shrinked version of the original Gunpla lineup and you could actually build them. They were randomly boxed in a RX-78-2 sleeve, I found an Acguy.
nice! I think I might want to pick one up then! :)
Those older Gundam Wing kits hold a special place in my heart. Takes me back to when i was a kid praying Toys R Us would have those models and also DBZ figures in stock 😂
I missed this store last month while I was in Akihabara; the corridor there was quite difficult to find. I was trying to find the Armored Core Rayleonard 03-Aaliyah Supplice Decoction; but I managed to find it in one of the other Surugaya's in the area tucked away on a top corner shelf. Felt insanely lucky. The thing is beautiful 8)))
glad you were able to find it!!!
Such an awesome store, glad I got to visit it while I was in Japan.
glad you got to make it to the shop!
Oh this is fun, Suruga-ya has free worldwide shipping basically every weekend, so I have used so much time on their website checking out what they got.
yes I love browsing their website! The store has a few things not on the site though, and it's also nice to be able the check the box condition on person!
Wow I didn't know they did that, gonna have to make use of the online store soon
Awesome video 👍🏻
Thank you so much! :)
I love seeing stores like this because it makes my backlog look almost reasonable in comparison.
That one floor seemed to be somewhere between 6X and 10X my backlog of over 200.
Hahah wow! I guess that puts it all into perspective huh? lol
thank you for taking your time showing us the cool available kits in stock 😍
it was my pleasure!
It's just incredible!
it really is. I love this store!
@@pixxellie I had no idea they made a 1/100 scale PMX-003 The -O kit, insane! I have the 1/144 scale and I think it's big!
Absolutely excellent video Pixx ! Thank you for the tour. Just going to Suru has been a grail of mine for quite a while (let alone all the kits). I was hoping you’d find some old B-Club stuff in there to show off so next time if you’re there that’d be cool to see (if they have any on hand, that is) otherwise keep it up 👍 I look forward to to your next video. Ps, I could watch ten hours of you digging through kits so please make your videos longer, lol 😂
Thank you so much!! Unfortunately they didn’t have any resin or garage kits at this location, it was strictly plastic models as far as I could tell!
Maybe I’ll do a video on a mandrake location next! (I also want to go back to the gundam shop from my last tour vid again and see if stock has changed)
you bet ! Ya that’d be awesome 👍 Can’t wait to see what you’re working on next 😊
Oh wow! How did I miss this place when I went?? I'm jealous
its easy to miss! Thanks for watching :)
already subscribed......im a Gundam collector .....great video up-load....
Thanks for the sub!!!
Many of them are a lot more expensive sense I went there 12 year ago. Still it was a great place for more rare models.
I believe it
Gunpla model kit heaven, I love it, I recently built heavy arms hg and micheals from the witch from mercury
Nice!!! Can’t go wrong with either of those!
@@pixxellie I’m deciding on what’s next honestly
going to Tokyo in the Winter👁️👁️ I have another stop in mind now!! thank ya!
Have fun!
I had that very Wing Gundam Zero when Wing first came out on Toonami.
My parents bought it for me for my birthday from Japan, and it arrived the day before. This was when Online shopping was in it's infancy, so looking back I'm surprised it arrived at all.
nice! you were one lucky kid!
look at those G-unit kits! nostalgic!
right?!
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Thank you so much for subscribing and for the kind words! I definitely want to build a Ma.K kit in the near future so be on the lookout!
Omg, I had that Wing Gundam 0 kit when I was a kid and my Dad put it together for me
nice!
……. You’ve really found GUNPLA VALHALLA. I’ve would have had a heart attack if I found this shop. 😭
lol it’s easy to get overwhelmed!
i was there, exactly where you went. got a few kits. a lot of vintages in a section
nice!!!
4:53 the a-azieru is a cool kit. rare to get one.
hmm, you've convinced me, I have to get it now!
I don’t think I’ve been to this store, but maybe. It’s been 10 years since I went last to Japan, but I’ll defo go here next time. I’ve got a bunch of these older kits, already built them 20 years ago. The Alpha Azieru is a cool kit.
I highly recommend it!!! And yes im very excited to build the alpha azieru!
oh man that store is amazing
right!?
Hey nice video, I just subbed. There's a large population of Gundam fans who are into Metal Builds, can you do a video on any shops you would recommend in Tokyo for metal build, top of my head I can think of Radio Kaikan and Mandarake only.
I did a video on the gundam specialist shop, that store has a crazy selection of metal builds.
th-cam.com/video/CiD6MqfZOYo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rNKe3jVPeuPeznzW
@@pixxellie hey thanks I will watch it😉
I love surugaya for everytime I visit japan and found nothing in retail, and gundam base,
Can't go home empty handed - Surugaya shinjuku I go.
I don't mind the mark up though but other people will.
For example liao ya unit is 6500 yen in mandarake
but 8000 yen in Surugaya. All in all there's tax free so u might get it down to 7200 yen or something vs 5800 yen in mandarake.
So weigh out ur options. Mandarake is more popular than surugaya cus of the price difference but if u don't mind that -
I suggest any gunpla hunters like me who are out of time to just head to surugaya
i love retro gundams
Welcome to the cool club!
I like 90s kits too even though I'm pretty much a straight builder who only does what the instructions tell me to do and I use stickers. 😃
I would definitely grab that 1/1200 White Base and a bunch of First Gundam kits. MAN I can't believe the MG The-O is so hard to get now. I wonder if that will happen to the HG Baund Doc.
If it was a MG baund doc I would say maybe, but since it's just an HG I don't think it will ever get as crazy as the MG O. It might go up a little though when it's out of print.
@@pixxellie I'm watching for that Bolinoak Sammahn preorder with bated breath
Great vid! I'd like to see the automobiles section if you go back.
Thank you! I'll keep that in mind!
More tour videos like this one please
im working on it!
@@pixxellie yay!
Fabulous
thank you!
I went there 2 times, going check then grab something and OH GOD I HAVE 5 MINUTES LEFT AHHH
lucky i found both of zee and guard type on the last day
yeah time really flies in this store lol!
Would love to see the Military kits as well some time!
I’ll try my best!!
The minikits were like 1:200. I remember it was sold as a box set so I guess the old owner didn't like GM. You should get your hand on an old catalog with all the old kits and MG up too 100th.
I was into gunpla before it was popular so it's weird to see price went up for certain kits. I usually just get the ones on sale from HLJ.
Hlj sales are always great!
I bought a small zoids kit there last month. Thankfully I opened it because it was empty inside.
I went back the next day for a refund and the store clerks eyes nearly popped out of his head when he saw it was empty
Omg scary!!! I always shake the box lol
as the nhk would say: a veritable gundam wonderland!
lol!
ive been ordering a ton off of surugaya's free shipping weekends to the states, but they've been pushing up the prices gradually every month as the yen keeps taking a beating... i wonder how much cheaper kits are in person. really cool to see all the old kits in the store though, would definitely love to grab a few for projects considering how cheap they are!
oh yeah that surugaya free shipping is crazy good!
This was the last gunpla stop i made (alongside jungle Akihabara) before i left Japan last month😢. Ended up with 20 more kits that are currently sailing to get to me. To anyone else if you're in aki hit up this store, jungle Akihabara, and the 7th floor store. You won't regret it even to just see some good kits
I'll definitely check out jungle!
Let me know if you have any tips for sending kits back to the states!
Been there before. Their prices are off the charts sometimes.. Especially if you live and work in Japan.
yeah I'm definitely getting by on the strength of the dollar right now!
@@pixxellie *crys in yen*
Apparently I need to go to Japan sometime, the RE/100 Shokew is one of my dream kits but they’re so expensive to buy online in North America 😭
That’s a cool kit! Good luck finding one!
I swear everyone went to Japan so far this year :D
My EYEEEEEESSS 😍😍😍
blinded by model kits! lol
Have you built any of the newer stuff or do you just focus on the vintage? The new witch from mercury HG line is really impressive!
I painted up an lfrith when they first came out! You can see the finished product on my instagram if you’re curious (link in the video description). It was the first HG I ever painted actually and it was an amazing build! The engineering was crazy. I didn’t have to putty anything!
My partner got one of those tiny kits last trip! It is an actual model kit, a 1/288 scale z'gok. The proportions are modeled after the old 1/144 original kit, but half size on two little runners. I hope you can get that Wing Zero 1/60 before you head back!
oh super cool! I had no idea! I will definitely pick one up and do a video if I can find one for a good price.
Nice
Thank you!!! :)
Hi just subscribed!! MILITARY KITS PLEASE!!!
Thanks for the sub!
Candy store. I'd still be standing there.
It was hard to leave!
I kinda want the Danboard 😆
So cute and so cheap too
Right?! He was SO CUTE
I really wish I was able to find a mg turn x over there 😭 I had the most luck at the akihabara yellow submarine and mandarake for an mg turn A for 60 usd and a white glint for 40 tho
Oh I actually haven’t been to yellow submarine yet. The Akihabara mandrake smelled really bad, like 1000 of the worlds oldest shoes when I went, so I had to leave lol
@@pixxellie wow I think I didn't notice that smell bc I was wearing a mask, but sorry you did. If you can you should check out the surugaya in shinjuku as well, it had a surprisingly stacked section for kits where I found 2 gm spartans and the hg moonlight butterfly effects. Was only able to get 1 spartan however
How bad is your backlog? I have like over 350 of all grades sitting in a room now, it looks more impressive than many brick and mortar gunpla stores in the US (since half of them are p-b) one can walk into lol.
I think the original FA-78-1 MG is possibly even rarer than the The-O if you don't count the p-b blue variant that was sold a couple years ago. I spotted a couple The-O along with a couple Deep Strikers (another hard to find kit as of now) last year in Japan around this time but never once ran into a FA-78-1 MG.
All it takes is Bandai reprinting them and the price will come back down. Personally I would like to get the FAZZ the most at this point and The-O would be the second on that list.
Also that Alpha-Azieru you showed at 4:50 is from 88 or 89 that I used to own as a kid. The coolest part of it is that it comes with a 1:550 Nu gundam in the same color as the rest of the kit. It looks silly and stiff by today's standard but it is a piece of history for sure, and it is possibly the smallest scale of Nu gundam Bandai has ever released(smaller than artifact if they ever released a Nu). If I were you I would grab that at 5000 yen since it is also pricey on ebay and not too many copies can be found.
There is a updated version of Alpha Azieru right around the end of 90s or maybe even early 2000 which was a lot more detailed and slightly bigger in scale. It also came with small scale Nu and Sazabi but they are not 1:550 small and they are also in fixed dynamic poses which I suppose is kinda cool.
my backlog is pretty small, maybe about 10-15 kits, but I don't like having a big backlog! It stresses me out!
If you're still there, any chance they have a Super Custom Zaku F-2000?
Just curious :)
I am going to Tokyo in May. I am interested in Ma.K series, is the shop have any Ma.K model?
yep! they have it!
Does this store have online sales?
Heaven on earth!
right!?
@pixxellie I agree with what you said. I stopped frequenting Mandarake because the real treasures are in the thrift stores.
@@DicePunk some of the less popular mandarake are still good though!!
@@pixxellie actually yes. Good point.
Any Star Blazers/Yamato stuff there?
yep!!
nice shop ? how many time have u been able to go there
just a couple times but I plan on going more!
I just saw the Figurise Standard Sword Art Online so is there a Kamen Rider or Dragon Ball Z in there?
I'm not that knowledgable about figurise but im pretty sure they had a bunch of those!
wut, Bandai actually made an Alpha Azieru kit? 😱
They actually made two!
Was there any maschinen Krieger?
I think I saw a few!
👍🥰
Thanks for watching!!! :)
I’m both sad and relieved that I didn’t see this before and/or during my Tokyo visit. I wish I got to go to this location but I know I would’ve spent an unnecessary amount of money lol
lol it’s hard to contain oneself in a place like that
Any Patlabor models?
yep!
Dang so many cool kits!!! You gotta look for Machinenkrieger kits!
I want to build one soon!
Do they sell Macross stuff??
yes!
Good luck with that LED Mirage. Those Wave 1/100 kits have infamously terrible parts fit. The seam lines are more like seam crevasses.
I will do my best! lol
@@pixxellie you might be better off to keep that Wave kit unopend as a collectible, and instead get a Volks IMS LED Mirage, it is also an injection kit and usually cost around 13,000ish yen, although apparently those ones also have their own problems, but at least they are from this century 🤣
@@bobojerry1798 they are meant to be opened!
Why don't they build models for things that actually existed, you know, for real!
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These places dont even e ist in america anymore unfortunatly. With a few exceptions.
hi, I plan to visit Akihabara next week, is there any other shop that you recommend ? I am into Super Robots and Kamen Rider.
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pretty much all the model shops have those, including this one. I just didnt focus on them in this vid.
@@pixxellie thanks so much, I am excited to toys hunt, looking forward for ur next video
The in-store prices are a little cheaper than online, but they don't ship if you buy it there. Recently, they've been doing free interntional shipping campaigns on their website. I'd gladly pay 1000-2000 yen more for the kits if the shipping is free.
those free shipping deals are the best!
I have built countless models in the past and semi-professionally painted them. Even sent them in to be doing some touch-ups by professionals. It was all a colossal waste of time and money. The items over time degrade, the stickers come off, dust will ultimately penetrate everything, and unless you spend a lot of money in not only dust-free display stands but also a lot of your own time for maintaining them, they will start break apart around after 10-15 years time.
It’s about the journey, not the destination!
I hate it when Americans started to find out about this.
What's the point in it, its just tons of useless plastic junk.
If you think art is useless, ok. After you finish putting them together the idea is to enjoy them as decorations. It's not a hobby for everyone.
@@bcluett1697 Art is not printed from cheap plastic in quantity of millions of copies. These things cost nothing to produce yet it is sold for good money and serve absolutely no purpose except collecting dust.
I think of my model kits as an empty canvas! ☺️🎨👩🎨
@@pixxellie Cool, just dont forget to take it all from your rented place.
I didn't find any Gundam G models, are they selling those as well? or maybe i missed it?
they have a ton of g gundam models!
Ah the zoids ! ,. I gues you arnt a fan
I was actually really into the zoids show when I was a kid and wanted to play the rpg games, but I have not delved into the model kits