It’s now official!  The Hello Kitty Resort which I have mentioned before will open on July 11th just in time for school aged Hello Kitty fans around the world to spend their summer holidays in.

To celebrate the grand openning, Rakuten Taiwan is working with Uniresort to give away one night of free accommodation at the Hello Kitty Resort on 7/11 (yeah, 7-11 is one of the sponsors for this contest too) to three lucky winners.  To get into the contest, all one has to do is to sign up for a new Taiwan account on Rakuten, unfortunately though, you must have a Taiwan ID to get a Taiwan account.

But those of us who ain’t Taiwanese can still buy a night’s stay on Uniresort’s page under Rakuten.  With starting rates of NT$19,800 for a family of up to 6 people, and two themes (English Charm or French Country) to choose from, many of the dates have already been booked. 

If you want to be one of the firsts to stay at this world’s first Hello Kitty Resort, be sure to check out the official site at Rakuten!    : )

As for me … I am not sure when I will be in Asia again! : (

Good that I didn’t place a bid on eBay to get the Hello Kitty x tokidoki hoodie since I found it at regular price on trendystars.com, but I saw today that Sanrio.com is carrying a lot of the clothing items from the series too, so whoever still interesting in getting their hands on some of these can try there!

Too bad the cute Boston bag isn’t listed as one of the items available for sale though … which I thought was a pretty cute bag to carry around town. 

Just waiting for that someday when they come up with a Hello Kitty LV neverfull lookalike - that will be so cute to use as a diaper bag!!!

There has been a Disney cruise for the longest time but there has yet been any Hello Kitty themed cruise, which makes me wonder when will Sanrio put Kitty on the sea?

And lately there are some related news - rumors is that Royal Wing, a popular cruise ship company based in Yokohama of Japan, is showing interest in partnering with Sanrio to bring Hello Kitty and friends into a cruiseship - essentially putting a Sanrio Puroland inside a boat.

There is no words on if the two parties have agreed on the deal and if there has been any definite plan for the Hello Kitty cruise, let’s all wait and see!  Maybe I can ride in a Hello Kitty tour bus AND a Hello Kitty cruise on my next trip to Japan! 

News source (in Japanese):
http://www.kanaloco.jp/localnews/entry/entryxiiimay0805672/

atmos, a famous sneaker store in Japan has released a new Hello Kitty Happy/Lucky bag containing five pieces of atmos x Hello Kitty clothings and accesosires last week on May 26th.

In recongition of this special release, atmos have asked famous actress Akkina to show up at the flagship store on June 1st to hand out a few of these Happy Bags to some lucky fans.  You can see the event here on youtube, or on this special page on atmos’ official website.

I personally am not a big fan of the atmos collection because Kitty’s facial features got replaced with the words ATMOS which looked funny to me.   However, I did have one atmos x Hello Kitty bag which my brother gave to me (it was a free gift from some Japanese magazine he read) and I use it to carry Ethan’s lunches and dinners when we have to go out to eat - practical I must say, black bags don’t get dirty easily!

If you want to get your hands on this Lucky Bag or other atmos x Hello Kitty items, you don’t have to travel to Japan for a change - as they actually ship to International addresses AND the website is available in English!!!  Check this link out =^.^=

I am not a big soccer fan but having been to Barcelona before I remember liking their FC logo in bright and cheerful red/blue/yellow shade, so I was very happy to come across a series of Hello Kitty x FC Barcelona plushes while surfing on the web:

All of them wear FC Barcelona uniforms and are limited release at 500 pcs.  They were all sold out per the official website, but since I am not looking to expand my plush collection, it’s good to just take a look at them in pictures and be cheered by them.

Eh … I so want to go back to Barcelona again one day!

Are you a big fan of Hello Kitty?

I would never say I have the biggest collection, because I know there are a lot of people with a massive Hello Kitty collection - so massive sometime it came scary to me!

I am going to post them up in this new category “Super Fans of Hello Kitty” as I find some of their collection pictures, and for a teaser, take a look at this one:

Did you have an impresive Hello Kitty to show off too?  If so, send it to me and I can feature your collection right here on my blog!  My email addy is hellomimi (at) hellokitty (dot) com : )