The Tokyo Tiki Room: Star Wars Visions Exhibition/Gallery; Roppongi Hills; Disney Choco Eggs; Tokyo

We finally made it to the Star Wars Exhibition/Gallery that I talked about here. I got really lucky on this one. By chance, people who work at Roppongi Hills got free admission to the Star Wars Exhibition/Gallery on the top of the building, the 52nd Floor. This special was only for a period of 4 consecutive days and ended today. We could bring guests too, so I brought my family with me. Usual admission to the gallery is 1800 yen (15 dollars) for adults and slightly less for kids. We saved about 60 bucks with this special. I went on Friday night too with a coworker on my team, being the Star Wars geek that I am.

Unfortunately, no pictures were allowed in the gallery. They strongly enforced this rule and would approach anyone they suspected of taking a picture. I was able to snap a few shots in the area before entering the actual gallery. Here are some shots from the area where we were allowed to take pictures.

Lord Vader himself.

Close up of Darth Vader.


More Vader.

Lots of stormtroopers.

The kids asked me what the Death Star was when they saw this above their heads.

Those pictures were from Friday night. Here are the ones from today. We went up top to the Sky Deck. Make sure to take a picture fighting the life-sized Darth Vader (you can hold a light saber) if you go up to the Sky Deck. We got one, but wifey would kill me if I posted it here. Got this nice shot of Tokyo from the top of my building.


Here's what Mothra destroyed in Godzilla vs. the Thing, the Tokyo Tower.


Important reminder before entering the gallery. Strangely, it was in slightly incorrect English. You would think LFL would have approval rights over signs.

As stated earlier, we couldn't take pictures. If we could, I'd post a million here. In sum, if you are a Star Wars fan, you must visit the Star Wars Visions Exhibition. It's until the end of June. Inside the gallery there was a museum of Star Wars props and costumes including light sabers, blasters, Ewoks, droids and Jawas. They had actual costumes from all six movies. The gallery also had new Star Wars artwork specially created for the exhibition, even a nude Aayla Secura painting which I ashamedly thought was hot. They also had models from various battles in the films, a mini showdown between Darth Maul, Obi-Wan and Qui Gon Jin and a 1/4 scale Jabba the Hutt. There were T.V. screens throughout the gallery showcasing great scenes from the movies. Finally there was a large souvenir shop which we had to wait 20 minutes to get in. After visiting the exhibition, I can't wait to see Episode 7 in December. Even my little one wants to watch all of the movies now.

They added a Baymax stormtrooper helmet to the stormtrooper showcase on the first floor. Here it is:

In other news, we got a few Disney Choco Eggs last night. They are identical to Kinder Eggs. Even the chocolate is the same. This series is the best of all time though. The only sucky figure in this series is Ursula. So that's only like a 1 in 12 chance of being disappointed. Here are some pictures of the eggs below.