The Super Mario Yoshi “mejirus hi” (landmark) accessories are still causing absolute mayhem in the gacha world.
ME TOKYO Shinjuku announced they’d be handing out numbered tickets for the Yoshi collection starting at 10 a.m. on August 8. One person could get two tickets max. The big rule? No lining up. They specifically said queuing would bother the neighboring shops, and if people broke that rule the whole sale could get cancelled.
What actually happened was pretty much the opposite.
A bunch of people showed up before 9 a.m. and formed a line anyway. When 10 a.m. rolled around, the store still handed tickets out to those early birds… and then announced the tickets were already gone. The people who actually followed the rules and showed up on time were left standing there like “wait, what?”
Cue the chaos. Crowds spilled out onto the street, people started losing it, sidewalks got blocked, and the whole thing got so loud and messy that police had to show up. Videos from the scene show a solid wall of people packed in front of the bright yellow ME TOKYO entrance, some arguing, others just looking completely done.
This isn’t the first time these little Yoshi keychain charms have caused problems. They’ve been stupidly popular since they dropped earlier this year, with resellers and hardcore collectors creating insane lines all over the country. But the “no line allowed, but we still give tickets to the people who lined up” approach just poured gasoline on the fire.
Classic gacha drama: cute little 300-yen charms somehow managing to turn a Saturday morning into a full-blown street incident.
