Published by Swiss James on 19 Nov 2008 at 12:43 pm
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before
There’s a great new shop opened up near Dingle’s house- it’s called Meat Puppets and it sells all kinds of utterly useless tat.
The woman who owns the place speaks good english, which will be very useful when she’s back working in Starbucks after the business fails.
Here’s what I wrote about it for Shanghaiist:
Gadgets! Gadgets! Gadgets for all!
If there’s one business model that’s sure to ride the current economic storm, it’s a shop which sells nothing but useless gadgets.
Recently opened “Meat Puppets” on Shaanxi Lu (near JianGuo Lu) is a shop that sells gadgets such as “High School Musical” themed magic 8-balls, old-fashioned telephone receivers on a curly cord (to plug into your cell phone, obviously) and one of two awesome infra-red powered air guitars!.
Take that Credit Crunch!
Takara Tomy Air Guitar Pro – 275RMB
Takara Tomy Air Guitar Pro Acoustic (pictured) – 475RMB.
One thing I didn’t mention in that post is that I bought the guitar in the picture, and then tried to make a video of myself playing the thing.
I hear strong rumours that there is a clip of Professor Dingle playing “Walk This Way” on his, whilst wearing superman pyjamas. Let’s wait and see if it turns up eh?
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Errrrrrrrrrrrrr I’ll get round to uploading it eventually.
Anyway, it wasn’t Walk this Way and I wasn’t wearing my Superman Pyjamas (it was my new furry pyjamas and mr Grumpy slippers)
How dorky is it that I saw the air guitar and immediately wanted one?
looking forward to see the Superman Pajamas…!
Is it batteries operated?
If it wasn’t “Walk This Way” what was it?
Now you’ve shown your beard to the public, without requiring donations. Just like freaks shows at the circus, you have to limit access to get people to pay.
Taiko- that was a week or so ago. It’s even more impressive now and I have some great pics.
I notice you haven’t paid up either.
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Awesome. I love these sort of ‘usless stuff’ shops… I’m not sure what that says about my shopping habits, though…
wow -I got a Finnish flag?! That’s so strange. I’m Swedish and I’m in China but on your blog I’m Finnish. Isn’t this world fab?! (well I guess it has something to do with the proxy server I’m using).
wow, that you actually bought it…
ponders
speaking of a mobile phone with an old telephoen receiver, I nearly made a fortune by inventing the mobile phone that was an old style ring dial 70’s affair. I was bang on target to make my first million by christmas until the patent office asked for detailed schematics of the electronic workings.
tasch looks good, nearly as good as Liams. When youve remove it you could keep the trimmmings and darn yourself a syrup.
i can’t get over the still-living turtle.
Isnt it on Jiangning lu? not Shanxi…….. Near Kanding
So where am I then?
Oh look I am in the US of Obama land. Yippee kay-yay mother …..
James just to let you know I’m back from the states. Let’s catch up for beers tomorrow night.
woai: how could you be in the states and not even phone bone?!
Sorry Angie it was a very brief visit, I was only there for 3 minutes. We can phone bone from anywhere anyway that’s the beauty of it :-p
Never mind the air guitar, it seems our indefatigable blogger is into a bit of air blogging. Copying and pasting from Shanghaiist is what we’ve come to, is it?