One Piece Pop-Up Store 2018
Evening peeps, it's Saturday. I am back for another weekly update. It's a bit earlier but I am afraid my laptop would fail me again tomorrow so I decided to finish up all my social updates tonight! Hahas. Anyway, 2 weeks ago, I headed down to 313 to visit the One Piece pop-up store. Apparently, it's really a small pop-up store and it was only up for 2 weekends. It's really very short in my opinion.
You have to queue up to enter the store and get a 'passcode' from the staffs. Inside the store, you are to walk clockwise like everyone do? I not sure am I the only one whom encounter that though. Hahas. So I took a walk around the store to check out the goods available. There are a lot goods that are exclusive to certain countries like Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea. But personally, I felt that the prices were marked up too much. It's like at least $15.00 for every merchandise. I feel that the organiser should try to absorb some of the costs as One Piece goods in other countries don't cost that much.
The store as a whole
Korea's Exclusive - Chopper Plushie
Luffy Pouch (S$45.00)
Coasters
Taiwan's Exclusive - Marines Warship
Tsum Tsum's kind of plushie (S$15.00)
Is it overhyped? I guess so. The pop-up store has nothing exclusive to Singapore, I believed or I missed it? But certainly, the prices really put fans off. Many frequent Japan travellers like me would rather spend money at Japan. My last One Piece merchandise was a plastic folder at One Piece Tokyo Tower, it cost me ¥460 (approx. S$5.60). After seeing the prices at the pop-up store, I probably would like to check them out again this November. Hahas.
The folder which I bought at Tokyo
In conclusion, it's a good effort by the organisers to put up the store and engage fans on their Facebook page but the downside is that the goods are too expensive to many of us. I believed if the prices were to drop to S$10.00 on average, the store will be much successful. I visited them on the last Saturday of the event and there are still many goods left. I have to the end of this short post, I hope you guys enjoyed reading it and gain some rough insights for future One Piece events.
Story Closed on 28.04.2018.
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