THE iDOLM@STER > THE iDOLM@STER ONE FOR ALL
Seeking assistance - Trying to figure out the specific requirements.
Setsuna:
Ah. I'm not that swayed by star power myself, but I've had dinner with Takakashi (never get her name right) in 2009 so my perspective is skewered. It makes for a fun story in its own right though. (THAT was a lot of accidents rolled up together to take me along for the ride.)
Does sound like fun, although I wonder how much you could get if you tried to scalp the ticket. I could imagine the asking price to be in the hundred of thousands of yen. It might explain why a lot of people were reluctant to help with the request, because they were probably very focused on trying to get the tickets.
... Although doing the math, if you tripled the amount (Namely you dropped 150000 yen into green tea) assuming a 0.1% odds rate, you're only a 12% chance of scoring a win. Or basically if you bought 108*20 of them... or just over 2180 bottles.
Yeah, that might be JUST a bit overkill, cause I suspect that might be pushing the best before dates on the tea, assuming you went through 3 a day. :P
The sad part is I suspect Kirin figured out the math as quickly as I did, and figured there'd be people who are crazy enough to try, which means they're going to be making sales fast.
... I'm ALMOST tempted to ask if I can ship the bottles back for gimmick reasons, but I'm terrible with keeping empty bottles around. I'd just lose it on a train, or accidentally throw it out or something. That and surprisingly, I'm idol agnostic, and I like them as a group than having a favourite.
It's nice they did put in the effort to do all the branding though. You should take pictures.
If anyone ELSE wants to pay a shipping cost for an empty bottle, you're free to ship them off as some sort of quirky collector's item, I guess. Feel free to offer any you don't want to keep to people on the forum or something. I'm sure someone'd appreciate the cute stuff.
--- Quote from: DJStarstryker on May 29, 2014, 12:23:43 pm ---Ah, but it gets better! The concert prize is super-exclusive and you can't simply buy tickets to this particular show. It's being held at Shimokitazawa Garden, which is a small SMALL venue that I've actually been to before to see Kanon Wakeshima. The 450 winners will be the entirety of the audience, and Garden is going to be jammed like a rush hour train with that many people in it. But the benefit is that you'll get to see the seiyuu up-close and personal, and look them in the eyes during the show. Normally iM@S shows are only held at 8,000+ person arenas (Makuhari, Saitama, etc), so this will be a very different experience for the super fans who win.
My family opened two of the teas to have with dinner. Amusingly, there's a hidden manga drawing of the bottle's character on the inside of the label for each one.
Takane says: "After you eat ramen, follow it up with some Namacha. Huhu!"
(Kirin Namacha is the kind of tea the girls are on)
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DJStarstryker:
Ah. If trying for a concert, one could change it up a bit. There is a range of products you can buy at Lawson that count for the iM@S codes, so one wouldn't have to buy exclusively green teas to earn the points. The tea is iM@S-branded so it's interesting on its own, but there are other snacks and waters that are just regular items that also earn you points towards garapon spins. The ones that count are clearly marked on their shelf price label so there's no mistake. I assume they're all brands that Kirin owns. The Namacha is still the best deal I saw on spins per yen spent, so that's why I suggest the green tea for a small experiment.
I was going to keep the empty bottles if you didn't want them, maybe fill them with colored sand like my Emily the Strange Jones Soda bottles or something. Not sure.
I considered taking the labels off - this is actually very easy to do on all Japanese drink bottles by design, for recycling purposes. (no glue; the label goes in 'plastic' while the bottle goes in 'PET'). Unfortunately, the design geniuses put the standard little tear strip for the label right over the right half of the idol girls! You'd need to use a utility knife to cut the label off in a different place in order to keep the picture intact.
Setsuna:
Well, if we were going by cheapest amount, you mention it was as cheap as it would get, and spreading it out would make it easier to consume... but it'd push it into the 'Wait, are we paying for a car?' category.
I was mostly having fun with the math (and it should show that yes, I'm very voluntarily opting into this, that and I'm an absolute sucker for probability. Most dealers at casinos get suspicious due to the fact I can calculate odds on the fly.) and it makes a decent mind game really.
For most part, I'd say you keep the bottles.
It'd probably cost you about twice again to ship it to Australia, then I'd have to explain to Australian customs what I was doing. They'd laugh eventually, but due to some of the work I do, they're actually obliged to inspect all my packages incoming, due to the fact sometimes I move restricted material (for government work) and I'm not sure if I'm in the mood to do the paperwork for a bunch of bottles before they'd release them.
I'd like some pictures, although what's most likely going to happen is we're going to fail, and I'm going to double down on the points (namely forward you the 12 that you paid for, then another 12 going forward) and ask you to cut and take pictures of the second set with a camera phone or something.
I want to know how the first 12 go down before anything though, before I commit to dropping twice that.
I just hope you don't get sick of the tea.
I figure that if nothing else, the pictures should be fun to share around and you get to keep a complete set. Spread the im@s love around the world, and stuff.
--- Quote from: DJStarstryker on May 29, 2014, 01:15:13 pm ---Ah. If trying for a concert, one could change it up a bit. There is a range of products you can buy at Lawson that count for the iM@S codes, so one wouldn't have to buy exclusively green teas to earn the points. The tea is iM@S-branded so it's interesting on its own, but there are other snacks and waters that are just regular items that also earn you points towards garapon spins. The ones that count are clearly marked on their shelf price label so there's no mistake. I assume they're all brands that Kirin owns. The Namacha is still the best deal I saw on spins per yen spent, so that's why I suggest the green tea for a small experiment.
I was going to keep the empty bottles if you didn't want them, maybe fill them with colored sand like my Emily the Strange Jones Soda bottles or something. Not sure.
I considered taking the labels off - this is actually very easy to do on all Japanese drink bottles by design, for recycling purposes. (no glue; the label goes in 'plastic' while the bottle goes in 'PET'). Unfortunately, the design geniuses put the standard little tear strip for the label right over the right half of the idol girls! You'd need to use a utility knife to cut the label off in a different place in order to keep the picture intact.
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Magica:
Sorry for the late reply, got a little sidetracked. :p
Anyway, I bought a bottle of Green tea with the Futami twins on it, redeemed the point and tried for the DLC code... And got it on the first try! So, do I PM the code to you?
Setsuna:
--- Quote from: Magica on May 30, 2014, 02:36:28 pm ---Sorry for the late reply, got a little sidetracked. :p
Anyway, I bought a bottle of Green tea with the Futami twins on it, redeemed the point and tried for the DLC code... And got it on the first try! So, do I PM the code to you?
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Wow. Someone got lucky. And here I was thinking that we'd be here for another week at this.
Yes, I would appreciate it if you could.
We now have a completely DIFFERENT problem... It cost you about 129 yen for the drink right? (Unless I misremember the cost of the drink)
Um, do you still want me to reimburse the cost? The problem is the transfer cost is going to be probably about the cost of the actual drink, if not more.
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