hopeful_monster
Thousand Master
What is then most you've spent on an anime DVD, model, costume or item? Until now it was just about £50 for a model or boxset, but as Chaos has alluded to in other posts recently bought something from the London Expo that kinda put that to shame. ADV's promotional banner for Rahxephon.
A little history about the deal. It all started about 3 year ago, back when ADV was still a viable (if troubled) company. Was discussing with Hugh (from ADV) of both the merits Rahxephon and the fact that there was so little Rahxephon merchandise. Since I had been collecting the all the merchandise I could find on ebay and other sources then made some comment about the last piece I needed would be the large poster behind him. He thought about it for a second and said, "make me an offer". I did, he made a counter offer, and we came to a kind of agreement. The problem was he needed it to promote the up coming Rahxephon boxset, but I could pick it up after the next expo. Problem was after that the scroll got caught in the mechanism so it took another three expo’s to get fixed, after which ADV went under and Hugh wasn’t quite sure if he could sell it. Then Hugh was leaving ADV which meant I would have to re negociate with the guy from Lace (his name is Howard and is very nice).
And finally on the weekend of the October expo managed to come to terms with Howard (and got a few DVD boxsets) for the price of a PS3 and a game or two. At the same time managed to get it signed by Masahiko Minami and Masahiro Ando. And you should have seen their faces when I unrolled it. Gob smacked to say the least. But got them to sign the poster and Masahiro Ando even drew a little picture of Ayato on it for me
But what have you spend more that you posibly should have on, or waht have you track to the ends of the earth to find?
A little history about the deal. It all started about 3 year ago, back when ADV was still a viable (if troubled) company. Was discussing with Hugh (from ADV) of both the merits Rahxephon and the fact that there was so little Rahxephon merchandise. Since I had been collecting the all the merchandise I could find on ebay and other sources then made some comment about the last piece I needed would be the large poster behind him. He thought about it for a second and said, "make me an offer". I did, he made a counter offer, and we came to a kind of agreement. The problem was he needed it to promote the up coming Rahxephon boxset, but I could pick it up after the next expo. Problem was after that the scroll got caught in the mechanism so it took another three expo’s to get fixed, after which ADV went under and Hugh wasn’t quite sure if he could sell it. Then Hugh was leaving ADV which meant I would have to re negociate with the guy from Lace (his name is Howard and is very nice).
And finally on the weekend of the October expo managed to come to terms with Howard (and got a few DVD boxsets) for the price of a PS3 and a game or two. At the same time managed to get it signed by Masahiko Minami and Masahiro Ando. And you should have seen their faces when I unrolled it. Gob smacked to say the least. But got them to sign the poster and Masahiro Ando even drew a little picture of Ayato on it for me
But what have you spend more that you posibly should have on, or waht have you track to the ends of the earth to find?