We've been doing a lot of shopping with my wife here in Singapore. I think this must be the national sport of the country since there are countless shopping malls and shops all over the place. Every metro station seems to have a mall the size of the biggest one in Greece. This might not be seem much for,say, North Americans but to me it is quite amazing.
Anyway, it seems that in every mall there is always a little comic book/asian memorabilia/hobby store. They usually pack a lot of anime DVD, manga books, figurines, generic cute stuff, trading card games and Gundam miniatures. The latter category drew my attention. I wasn't quite sure what it was at the beginning. The packaging looks a lot like a historical scale model's but my initial impression was that they were already assembled and pre-painted.
