BAPE x Sanrio madness

It was saturday, and I was up pretty early. I knew of the BAPE x Sanrio launch at Mandarin Gallery, but was half hearted about going. I decided to take a bus there, and queue up if the queue was not too mad. I arrived at 10am and this was the view that greeted me:

Cute how they decorated the escalators for this launch.

The queue was actually quite ok, but when Nigo, Hello Kitty and Baby Milo made an appearance, the crowd went berserk. Look at how everyone just went out of their position in the queue and thronged forward to take pics.

I held my position in the queue, because I did not want to lose my position, and secondly, they are just people dressed as a cat and monkey :-p hehe!

Later on, they announced that they will only let 10 person into the shop at one time, and it will start only at 11am. We were all in for a long wait. :( However, I took a pic of the photo op wall as the queue advanced:

Yep, Nigo signed on it :D

Finally, at around 12.30pm, I was almost in the shop. By almost, I mean they let in 4 people, and I was the 5th. -_-"


I had to wait another 5 to 10 minutes before they let me in. By that time, even though there is a purchase limit of 2 items per person, they had ran out of size for the t-shirt I wanted. Well I selected the next item that I wanted, and it was another 15 minutes queue at the cashier for payment.


So what did I buy in the end? I bought myself a t-shirt, and I bought the Kitty/Milo handphone strap thing for my friend who could not make it since he needed to work. When I called again on Monday, all the items were sold out, except for two pair of jeans. Wow!