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4 hours ago, Blake Sabbath said:

Harley Davidson x GN'R:

It would appear that Harley dealerships can order up their own custom tees too so I wonder how that's gonna roll out considering this Maxfield pop up thing is touted as 1 day only?

Should point out too that it would appear this IG belongs to some sort of bootlegger but that they are indeed official  catalog scans!

The photos are taken from Facebook page of Harley-Davidson Metropolitan Bangkok (HDMB) which is one of the Harley-Davidson dealership in Bangkok, Thailand.  The HDMB posted on the FB page about this release yesterday and they claimed that these are the official merchandises.  The HDMB is offering a pre-order for these GnrxHarley merchandise until August 7th.  Not sure whether these are the same products as the one at the Maxsfield pop up shop.

For the IG, this is an example of a seller who offers a pre-order for the merchandise and charge with marked up price.  So people who don't know about the release can order from them and they will make profit out of that.  This type of IG (including FB page or website) is so common in Thailand.  Sometimes they offer original or fake or both types of stuff, it depends.

1 minute ago, uzi your illusion said:

No I have one. I bought the first one to hit eBay months ago. Since then though I've seen tons of them listed and almost all have the hand written number blacked out in the picture. Seems like more of those available then any other litho.

I see. If I remember correctly, the godzila lithograph was produced for 500 copies.  There were a lot of Godzila lithographs on Yahoo Auction Japan right after the Japan tour as well but I rarely saw one on the same website these days.

3 minutes ago, uzi your illusion said:

No the litho 

To make sure whether it is fake or not, why don't you request seller to send you actual detailed photos of the litho to you before bidding or buying.

37 minutes ago, uzi your illusion said:

Does anyone have any thoughts on the Tokyo Godzilla print maybe being fake? So many have appeared on eBay and it's usually the same picture posted. 

You mean the shirt or lithograph?  For the shirt, if the price is very low, it should be fake.

From my experience, the GNR shirts for Not in This Lifetime tour have various tags.  For North America tour, I found only GNR logo print with no Gildan tag on the original shirt.  For Australia and Thailand tours, only Gildan tag and no GNR print.  For Japan tour, most of them have GNR logo print with "Made in Japan" print on it as well.  But some of Japan tour shirts have gildan tag with no GNR print and Made in Japan on it.  However, only because of the shirt has gildan tag, it does not mean it will always be original or fake.  I found that some Thai sellers sell fake GNR Not in this Lifetime shirts (Australia and Thailand tours) by using authentic gildan shirt.  The same guy also sell some of the GNR japan tour shirt with fake GNR print and fake "Made in Japan" stamp on it as well.  However, the screen itself look so obvious that it is fake.  So no matter how good the fake is, the screen may look alike the original one but the color and the proportion of the screen still look off and you can easily tell that it is fake especially when you already have the original one.

Also, for people who are hunting for GNR Thailand tour shirt (Demon and Elephant) on Yahoo Auction Japan, please be careful.  I saw a seller (username is garyroses777) posted the fake Thailand tour shirts on the yahoo auction in the following links.  So if you are currently bidding on these items, they are fake.

https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/x487319438

https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/x487715764

So if you are hunting for GNR shirt on Ebay or Yahoo Auction or wherever, try to get as many clear photos of the shirt itself from the seller and you may post the photo or link here.  I will try help you check it if I can.  Or if the price is too low and the seller has bad rating or is from south east asia or Hong Kong or China, it has a big chance that it might be fake.

2 hours ago, amaninjapan said:

They didn't pass over the elephant skeleton design. The skeleton 'alternate' was meant to be the glow-in-the-dark portion of the same lithograph. The shitty print company they commissioned to do the Singapore, Bangkok and Dubai (I imagine, if it even exists) 'lithographs' couldn't do glow-in-the-dark so they just printed it as is. As anyone with the Bangkok and Singapore lithographs can testify to, the print quality is substandard, the paper quality is substandard, they're smaller than 18x24 and they're very lightly and crudely stamp-numbered rather than hand-numbered. A really poor production all around.

Not sure if the shirt is glow-in-the-dark but I suspect it isn't. But either Slash or Axl wore the elephant design t-shirt on stage during the Bangkok concert, which seemed to be a big hit with the crowd anyway.

As for the Sara Ray San Diego prints - I have the normal print and the foil print. I don't know about the orange and purple prints but I can assure you that the foil print looks much better quality than the regular print. The regular print is quite grainy whereas the foil print (whether it's silkscreen or not) does not have the same grain to it and is super clear. If you had told me one was a lithograph and the other was a silkscreen, I would have thought it was the other way around.

I agree with your comments on the Bangkok lithographs.  The designs are very nice but poor quality.  For the Bangkok shirt, the elephant design is glow in the dark.  It looks like a regular shirt but the skeleton elephant is hidden underneath the elephant design so you can see the skeleton elephant pops up in the dark.

Nope.  They never play in Thailand before. 

Cool merchandises!

8 minutes ago, amaninjapan said:

I can understand people liking t-shirts. I have two problems with it though. First is that t-shirts wear out. I would be crushed if my favorite shirt was limited edition and eventually faded/ripped/stained. I have many shirts that I used to love and now they just look faded and crap... and now they're more wear-when-sleeping t-shirts, which I think is sad.

 

Second problem is that I am a big guy - I'm 6'4", 215lbs and 99% of my clothes and shoes I get from the US via the internet because I simply don't fit into Japanese sizes. Sometimes I might fit into an XXL at Uniqlo but usually only outerwear like a jacket rather than a shirt. I've never seen any major shoe brand retailer in Japan sell shoes in my size (US 13) - most Nike/Adidas/etc stores in Japan only go up to about an 11

I understand you especially for the sizing which most Asians are not as big as people from other region (US or Europe).  For the issue of wear out, I also had some t shirts in the past (90s) which I really like and now it's worn out or gone and sometimes I miss them.  So these days when I see t shirt that I really like, I try to buy couple of them.  But as you know, Cause Nothing Last Forever Even Cold November Rain.  So when the time comes, everything, including us, gonna be worn out or gone anyway.

15 minutes ago, amaninjapan said:

Depending on how much you want to spend, there are many Godzilla shirts on Yahoo Auctions. Of course they're not cheap but they're not SUPER expensive either.

Thank you for your info.  The problem is I never use Yahoo Auctions at all and from my little research, I may a need more time to get used to its system.  Maybe I will try getting reliable proxy to help me on this.

2 hours ago, amaninjapan said:

I think the shirts are more... cool? One of the weird facts that I've learned about Japanese culture compared to the western culture I originally grew up with (Europe and the US), is that Japanese people rarely entertain at home. In the US and the like, it's pretty common to invite people to your home for a beer or a meal, or if you're close friends maybe come over to watch a game or a movie or something. But this is not common at all in Japan. Even my wife (who is Japanese) almost never invites friends to our home. 99% of time, it's more like "let's meet at this cafe or this restaurant, they say the food is really good". Because of this, I think a lithograph hanging up on your wall at home would probably go unappreciated by everyone other than you. But a shirt? You could wear that to the next party or the next concert or whatever as a badge of honor as if to say "I went to this concert!"

As an Asian (but not Japanese), I am more into t shirts than Lithograph as well because I like the arts on the shirts and don't want to put anything on my wall or on the table.  But that just me and people are interested in different things which is a good thing.  Also, from what you explained, that's quite alike my family too.  We always hang out outside and rarely invite friends (except relatives) to have a party at our home.  Maybe because we are lazy to clean things up after party. Ha Ha Ha

I would like to thank estrangedtwat and amaninjapan for information.  My friend went there and got t shirt for me (Not the Godzilla one, of course T T). He told me that even with the long line but the system was good so the line quite moved faster than his expectation. 

2 minutes ago, amaninjapan said:

they are selling until it runs out.

 

the lines are huuuuuuuuuge so if you want a good chance of getting merch then i recommend your friend go early rather than during or after the concert.

Thank you for your suggestion.  I will try telling him to do so. 

2 minutes ago, estrangedtwat said:

Merch booth opens at 1.  I imagine there will be a line forming....probably already!!

The lithographs will be the most difficult items to obtain.

Can we buy during the show?  Since my friend will not watch the concert anyway because he has no ticket.

1 minute ago, amaninjapan said:

absolutely cash only. it's just a tent with merch and the staff don't even have cash registers. they quite literally are stuffing money into plastic bags.

 

yes it includes tax.

Oh thank you for your quick reply.  So they are selling the stuffs until the end of the concert?  I plan to ask my friend to go there and buy some t shirts for me but not sure what should be a good time to be there.

I have question for people who went to the concert in Japan and already purchased official merchandise at the concert.  Can we buy merchandise by credit card or must be cash only?  And the price for t -shirt is JPY4,000 with tax?  Thank you.