From the Taiwanese travel blogger's entry, I found out that Taipei has a 100th year before birth of Doraemon fair. It got me excited and I told Mr Love I die die also want to go to this fair. Haha. They will be showcasing the different 小叮当's 法宝(Treasures).
And so, I planned a 3hrs trip here before going to Yeliu National park. Luckily for me, this fair is from 29/12/12- 17/4/13. Hehe.
And so we got up later abit today since the fair opens from 10am. I mistakenly tot this fair is held at Sun Yat Sen memorial hall and took the train there. But when I asked the 伯伯 at the Memorial hall, he told me it is held somewhere else. Faints. He did however pointed us to the general direction the venue and I asked randomly while walking.
Finally, we were directed to Songshan Cultural and creative park (松山文创圆区） by a kind watson's staff. It is located beside Taipei's CID building.Scary. Hehe
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| The Map |
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When I googled the location from SYS memorial hall Mrt, it shows a straigh line walking to the park but the actual distance is shows in red. Thank god for the cool weather again today, and Mr Love is quite cooperative with walking with me. I wouldnt want to miss this fair.
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| 松山文创圆区 |
Song Shan Cultural and creative park is actually a refurbished warehouse. The buildings itself look pretty old to me and had seen better days. There are a few exhibition halls here which are empty, a handicraft workshop and cafe near the entrance.
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| Directions to the fair |
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| Apartments |
We navigate thru the long corridors and came to another building which the Doraemon fair is held. Its pretty early and ticketing booth had just opened. Brought the tickets and went in quickly.
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| Along the corridor |
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| Finally reached |
Tickets were priced at NTD 220 bucks each and I brought a booklet that of the fair at NTD 100. There are chops available inside the exhibition for you to collect. Later, I realised many locals brought their own note book to collect the chops. Stupid me!
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| Tickets and a booklet |
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| 100 years before birth |
Doraemon is actually a future cat from year 2112 and thus it makes 2012 the 100th year before its birth. Funnie huh? I watched the cartoon from young and it seems to me like its the 100th birth year of this cat. Hurhur.
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| It is actually Yellow in colour initially |
The 1st part of the exhibition gives abit of background of this cat. It is actually manufactured to be yellow in colour. 1 day, a rat bits parts of its ear away and the engineer decide that they cannot be saved. And so, Doraemon's ear got amputated. Its so sad that he cried till the yellow painting dropped off and the based colour (blue) and was reveal. This is why we saw the blue Doraemon. This is a brief summary I read there. Hehe not exactly noe the history before this as I usually am more interested in the little stories of how he used this treasure to get Daxiong out or into trouble each time in the cartoon series.
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| 100 Doraemons with his different treasures |
2nd part of the exhibition showcased the 100 Doraemons with its more famous equipments. I spent nearly an hr here, capturing all the Doraemons and the descriptions. Hubs was bored by all these. Hehe.
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| The original Doraemon |
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| I didnt noe 大雄 and 静香 got married!! |
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| 100 |
3rd of the exhibition showcase the houses of the characters and its here where the 4 different chops are up for collection. Mr Love decided to help me after I messed up the 1st chop. Bleah
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| Mr Love, helping me to chop my booklet |
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| 大雄 and his granny |
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| Coming out to 大雄's room |
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| 喂喂？ |
We goofed around abit here and walked to the last part of the exhibition- gift shop. Of cuz, things here will be priced higher which is not attractive to us. I keep bugging Mr Love to buy me the Doraemon soft toy at NTD 880 and he simply ignored me. Comparing me to the little kids around, he told me to be good and move on.Damn. I did brought a cup and a fridge magnet here though, out of my own monies. Stingy old man stands like 500m away from the cashier.
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| Wishing cards |
We decided to walk out and find lunch before going to our next destination. Mr Love was distracted by these ducks by the pond side that we stood there to observe them for a while before moving off.
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| Ducks! |
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