SLWTF – A Second Life travelogue by Garth Goode

There are few things that make me happier in Second Life than discovering a Japanese area I haven’t been to before. Lately, though, what I’ve found was surprisingly bland… at least until I landed on JPL Kanagawa it’s surrounding reason. Here is all the exuberant wackiness we’ve come to know and love.

I could do loads of blog posts on the individual attractions I found. Instead, though, I invite you to head on over and explore for yourself and see what I mean. Wear a translator so you can understand what the objects are saying to you. Slow down, let things rez and poke around.

I’ll treat you to some highlights to get you started. Take this nattily attired fellow. He’s in front of a building filled with some sort of mechanical contraption. What’s it for? What’s he for? What does it do? I have no clue! Who cares? It’s cool!

Next door is this building guarded by two giant guitar wielding women. There are poseballs in front of them that make you do… something… but I couldn’t find the HUD that is required. I imagine it is some kind of guitar duel, but I could be wrong. If you figure it out, let me know.

Keep your eyes open — a lot of these statues (and the region is full of them) have subtle animations, like eye blinks.

I *think* this is a model of a giant robot dragon with a house on it’s back, but I could be wrong. Maybe it’s a robot dragon with a bad case of robot back acne.

On of the region is devoted to Mount Fuji (I think). At the top you’ll find a giant snowball that you can ride to the bottom.

I have no explanation for this. It’s on top of a tiny store. Well, the store isn’t tiny, they sell… o, you now what I mean. Why is it that many of the tiny stores I see have a GINORMOUS model of one of their tines out front? Maybe they’re overcompensating?Or maybe they’re the tinies with thyroid conditions.

This crappy giant guy on top of a mall is really giant and crappy. He got my attention, though, which was probably the idea.

Builds like this make up for a whole lot of crappy giant guys, though.

Damned right, I bought one of these. They have an elephant version too, but the trunk is, uh, flaccid.

Keep your eyes open and you too will find fun and cheap stuff, like this tiny panda avatar.

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