My YOI Nerd Pilgrimage pt. 9.2
Day 4 continued...again...
PSA: PICTURES OF THE SP/FS AND STAMMI VICINO (BOTH SOLO AND DUET) OUTFITS WERE NOT TAKEN BY ME!
They were posted on Twitter here.
I did not have the balls to try and sneak pictures of things that were explicitly labeled with No Photography signs. I definitely did NOT wanna risk getting caught and kicked out.
All 8 outfits were on spinning platforms, so you could see all the details, front and back. You had Phichit’s SP, Otabek’s FS, both of Yuuri’s outfits, both of Yurio’s outfits, JJ’s SP, and Chris’ SP. The screen behind was sometimes one big screen, sometimes split into several, but always showing different clips from the routines associated with the outfits on display. On the other 3 walls, there were pictures GALORE of screenshots from the show.
You passed through a curtain, and to your left was Victor’s Stammi Vicino outfit...and the bag of nuts ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
There was another TV on the wall, and this one played different flashbacks. When Victor promises to choreograph a routine for Yurio, young Yuuri watching in admiration as it shows him growing up, Victor throwing a flower to young Chris, etc. The wall surrounding the TV had pictures of posters and news clippings of Victor, so essentially Yuuri’s bedroom wall.
You passed through another curtain, and you were at the first picture spot, with the Victor and Yuuri statues, Yuuri’s latest outfit, and the acrylic standee of Victor.
Teeeeechnically, the sign said no touching, and none of us did...we all just...sat. Which I suppose is still touching because our butts touched the bench, but we all just ignored that...
There were also more pictures of stills from the show
Past that was the Stammi Vicino duet outfits (WITH RINGS)!
Pass through one more curtain, and you were at the kiss and cry bench where you could again take pictures with the different plushies. Being the Victor/Victor run, I had no logical choice but to wear the glasses.
And in case it’s hard to see, your options were:
Yuuri’s Onigiri
Yuuri’s Egg Sushi
Yuuri’s Meat on the Bone
Yurio’s Cat
Otabek’s Bear
Phichit’s Hamster and Hamster Hat
Victor’s Watery Eyes (as glasses)
Chris’ Cow/Bull/whatever
A donut
A deep fried shrimp
Do I remember who had the last two in the kiss and cry? Nope. If you recall, please let me know.
And on the wall opposite of where you sat, there were more pictures of stills (to be honest, pretty much every wall had stills unless it was specifically occupied with something else, or was a background, etc etc).
Then as you got ready to leave the museum proper and enter the museum store, you were gifted with this picture, large and taking up the entire wall.
As for the content of the Victor/Victor audio, both Victor’s are really appreciative that you’ve gone 6 times and joke that they can see everything on your mind, ooh and ahh over the outfits, talk about love, bark at each other pretending to be Makkachin, and then tell you that they see a little bit of the other characters in you.
“You must be thinking only about me.” “A part of your mind has already been ‘Yuri-fied’.”
Whenever you become emotional, the Yurio in your mind points the middle finger at you.”
“There’s always a Georgi in anyone’s mind.”
“If your Georgi starts going out of control, create Yakov in your mind. Your Yakov surely will guide you through.”
“And if your Georgi becomes more like Georgi, to the point where you can’t stop him?” “Think about me.” “Think only about me.” “I can make you forget anything.”
The Victor’s close it out by thanking you once again for coming, and telling you they want to make history with you. History Maker starts to play, and both Victor’s together tell you “See You Next Level!”
Normally, once you step out of the museum and into the store, you hand back the audio related items and you are able to pick one postcard of your liking. They had these and then ones of all the characters with their Sanrio counterparts. I chose these because I already have a bunch of Sanrio collab type stuff.
But for the final time, you hand back the audio stuff, pick a postcard, but kept the badge...for the moment. Once there’s room, you are given these massive glasses and step off to the side in this little roped off area. You stand on little paw print stickers on the floor, put on the glasses, and look at the pictures on the wall.
The next two pictures are also from the same Twitter as above.
There are 5 pictures on the wall. When you put on the glasses initially, a little plus sign appears in your vision, and you have to look above the first picture for it to calibrate. The glasses themselves were basically mini-projectors and speakers in one. Once it was calibrated, you looked at the pictures, a clip that the picture was from was played onto the glasses lens.
So:
Episode 1 naked Victor in onsen
Yuuri's breakdown in the parking garage
The ring exchange
Yuuri's quad flip in the GPF FS
Stammi Vicino duet/everyone in Saint Petersburg ending of Episode 12
Then after you've watched all 5, you return the glasses and Victor pass, and get either the Yuri!!! on Museum Masterpieces Collection Book -side Y- (you get side V as an added gift if you spend a lot of money on the other goods in the store), or a couple young Victor posters, including the one of him running in front of the Alexander Column with Makkachin. I chose the book, because I already had V, and it would bother the ever-living-crap out of me if I didn’t get the other half.
The books themselves contain pictures of stuff you aren’t allowed to take pictures of in the museum, and closeup shots of the details of all the the costumes (minus the new Yuuri one).
As you go to leave the store, you come up to a massive poster for Ice Adolescence. And as you turn to walk down the hall back towards the elevators, there’s a small projector playing the first clip they showed of the Ice Adolescence ‘trailor’ at the concert, where music plays and they basically pan up the poster. Next to that are the 3 new pieces of artwork done for the YOIxHowa Sportland Collaboration.
And once I passed all that, once I was walking towards the elevator again, I came across this very sad sight.
No more museum...
o(〒﹏〒)o
From pictures I’ve seen, the only real difference between the museum this year and the museum last year was that this time around they did not have the GPF medals display case. Which is sad, but we also got the new Yuuri statue, so...it’s an acceptable trade-out. Am I bummed I didn’t get to see the medals? Of course! But how they perfectly set up the two statues so that Victor was sitting, admiring Yuuri skate, and Yuuri was smiling back at Victor...well, it made it ok. The only other difference would be the layout...obviously...I mean, different building, different floorplan...
So yeah!
That was the YOI Museum in Roppongi and my last/final walk-through!
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