Hobbit Housing offered in Japan
Hobbit Housing ® is now available in Japan!
The PinkTentacle.com offered this photo of the Aso Farm Land resort village in Kyushu Japan, which uses about 480 styrofoam domes as lodging, recreational facilities and retail space. Although it may look like somebody had too many magic mushhrooms, and modular design is quite rational.
Read more at i-domehouse.com
And for “prior art,” check out the Google Street View of the Hello Kitty House, a novelty store that is just around the corner from my house here in Denenchofu Tokyo.
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August 19th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
SHIT Taro, you live in Denenchofu–the Beverly Hills of Japan– and you still have 3rd World overhead wires and concrete everywhere.
August 21st, 2008 at 7:43 am
It’ll be eons before Tokyo turns into the green paradise of Hobbiton…
In the Meantime, monkeys will get lost in Shibuya:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7572113.stm
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/08/video-monkey-on-the-loose-in-shibuya-station/
Looking for greenery….
And Cicada Cosplayers will try to show their “Green-brown” outfits:
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/08/cicada-shell-cosplay/
while artists make Shibuya green in their own way…
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/08/tokyo-fantasy-images-of-the-apocalypse/
LOL
January 9th, 2012 at 1:11 pm
Today, the Asian Tube TV Online Videos Blog posted this photo of a Hello Kitty house…
Actually, there are both green and pink versions of this craptacular Kitty house available in China…
August 11th, 2012 at 10:17 am
Looks like Oh Hell Kitty House..
August 11th, 2012 at 10:32 am
Actually, that photo was Minnie Mouse’s house in Toontown*, Walt Disney World’s Kingdom, Orlando, Florida, and the photo was taken at a stretched, unrealistic angle. Minnie’s house used to look like this…
*Toontown was torn down last year to make room for the expansion and renewal Fantasyland. Refer to: etckt.com/2011/02/13/toontown-no-more
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But never fear!
Tokyo Disneyland still has Toontown and an even cuter Minnie Mouse house! ;-)