This could be interesting, will it appeal to fans of both genders as in reaching male fans?
“Bart, Homer, Marge and the gang are about to get even cuter.
Today I’m happy to break some big news for fans of Hello Kitty and The Simpsons: Next year, the two popular franchises will merge for a special line of products.”
Japan’s Sanrio Co. has licensed her image to a Taiwanese beverage company to produce a range of fruit-flavored beers for the Chinese and Taiwanese markets. The best way I can describe it is the “beer’ a form of hard malt beverage rather that beer in my opinion. If one thinks they are going to get hammered, the beer is only going to have a AV. of 2.3%. One again there an offhand quip how Sanrio is marketing alcohol underage persons, but totally ignorant that Sanrio intends to market to Young Adult Women since the mid 1980’s and now men.
For those who were not aware, I did a panel called the world of Sanrio and Hello Kitty at Kumoricon, Portland / Vancouver premiere Anime Convention over the labor day weekend. I had 54 in attendance; that is I was running against the popular Masquerade and Cosply contest. That was 27 time better than the attendance at Furlandia. Feed back has been very positive.
Recently I been noticing a rash of miss measured hello Kitty plush on eBay. Often the seller over estimated the height of the item, for example recently bought an 18 inch hello kitty plush listed as a 25 inch plush. The problem is the measure was not the actual height from bottom to head.
The actual height of any Sanrio plush can be accurately measured if the following guidelines are followed: if the plush is in a sitting position with legs out in front, measure the plush in the sitting position; likewise if the plush is in a stand position legs is underneath the body then measure for the standing position. Second measure the plash from ground (bottom across the nose to top of the head. Please see the picture below. I came up of the measurements by measuring my Sanrio plushes in my collection listed on Sanrio’s web retail site.
It is very important to proved an accurate measurement o protect one reputation, avoid returns and chargeback and fraud charges especially when Sanrio sell a both an 18in and 24in of the same plush . For the buyer the buyer needs to beware before purchasing on EBay or used online. Ask for the sitting position measurements before buying.
Correct way to Measure a Hello Kitty Plush Click for larger version