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hamano

みくみくにしてくれた人 @Miku Expo Berlin +Cheers39 26 From Finland
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  • hamano
    At home safely. Berlin airport security apparently thought Miku makes me suspicious. Had to show the security what a penlight is, itabag emptied and searched and had my baggage and clothes swabbed. The middle aged security woman gave me a funny look when she saw the bright fullgra Magical Mirai shirt I was wearing under a more discreet Miku hoodie.
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    Leon
    Leon
    Oof, that's not very nice. I'm glad you made it alright!!
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    hamano
    hamano
    Just to clarify, I have no problem with security doing their job well, it just felt weird that I was the only person whose baggage underwent an extensive search. I can't avoid the thought it was because of all the Miku stuff in my bag and my Miku clothing.
    Blue Of Mind
    Blue Of Mind
    I went to Berlin in the summer of 2018, and me and my family didn't have those types of problems with security. Still sounded like you had a bit if a nightmare though.
    hamano
    Miku Expo was fun, but please have assigned seating at the next Expo. Someone behind me hit me several times with their penlight, simply because we were so packed there was little space to wave them, same for everyone in the center of the VIP pit.
    hamano
    This year's Miku Expo penlight is disappointingly less bright than Magical Mirai penlight from last year
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    hamano
    hamano
    All the penlights I have (oldest 2017) are from the same manufacturer and they even look exactly the same. The difference in brightness is a bit weird though, it indicates some components inside are different, it could just be a new supplier for one part or something though. Disappointing still as I'm taking the 2020 Expo penlight and the Mirai penlight with me to the concert. It'd been nice to have them equally bright.

    Truthfully I don't like the idea of selling penlights around the year. I prefer them being event specific, makes them a little special and good souvenirs.
    mobius017
    mobius017
    It's probably the construction, I guess, but are the batteries replaceable? If you haven't tried it yet, there might be the hope that you could make it brighter by replacing those--if the ones they put in, which SHOULD be new, were old or discharged abnormally in storage due to temperature or something.
    hamano
    hamano
    I put brand new batteries in both, so it's not that. The reason must lie in the actual construction of the penlight
    hamano
    My Miku Expo penlight and wristband arrived. For some reason the post decided the letterpack is too big to be delivered by the postman (in reality it was within the limits of letter size) so I had to pick it up from the post office myself.
    hamano
    Seems I was able to glue my Magical Mirai pendant together, hopefully it'll hold over time.
    hamano
    S*** my Magical Mirai pendant broke. I've seen some people on twitter whose pendants have broken the same way, and now it happened to me too :(
    hamano
    As great as Comiket is, I'm getting a bit fed up with the fact that my Twitter feed has been 90% Comiket stuff for past few days. One more day and then it will start going back to normal.
    hamano
    Looking at what's going on now, I'm happy that people are finally starting to acknowledge the problems within the western community.
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    Exemplar
    Exemplar
    @hamano Yeah, even the person behind the ebooks account who created the Miku/Minecraft meme hit out about this on twitter.
    Blue Of Mind
    Blue Of Mind
    Oh, it was about Rowling making a transphobic comment. I have no time for transphobes myself (not trans, but I support LGBT+), but I do see how and why some fans might worry about how it affects other peoples' perceptions of Miku if she's just being used as meme bait.
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    RoboCheatsyTM
    RoboCheatsyTM
    I saw someone on Utaforum say that apparently Miku is only trending in the UK because of all this with JK Rowling.
    hamano
    Ordered the Miku Expo goods I decided to buy. In the end I didn't like most of the artwork enough to warrant buying merch of them (and in the case of one artist I'm just not comfortable with buying due to some things). I'll just settle with the penlight and a wristband (I always buy a penlight of events I go to). At least I have more money in store for Magical Mirai.
    hamano
    Finnish post is still a mess after the strike. Out of the 4 packages that left from Japan on the same day, one has arrived, one has been sorted last week but no tracking update since, and two have no updates after leaving Japan. I'm really hoping they all arrive before Christmas
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