hey! im gonna be going on a trip around europe in a few weeks and i was wondering if anyone can recomend some shops for me. so far we are going to

- Amsterdam
- Paris
- Madrid
- Ibiza
- Barcelona
- Milan
- Venice
- Rome
- Athens

we mayt stop at a few other places for a day or 2 but i was wondering if anyone living out there can recomend anything. are there any Super7 esque stores out that way? thanks alot!

- Amsterdam

the banana bar. pay to go upstairs.

dude, you're hardcore.

If I was going on this trip, one of the last things i'd be thinking about is buying Japanese toys.

if you stop in florence, two of the best meals i've ever had were at trattoria zaza.

oh as my funds stand i wont be buying much other than food, i just would love to check places out, see how stores are layed out and such!

I don't know much about toy stores in the EU but I believe ArtToyz is in Paris, as is Collette.

those are the only places that i can think of off-hand from your list of places...

in amsterdam & barcelona you will find similar art/skate/comic stores...definitely roam the back streets of the rambla in barcelona for great graffiti viewing..

as for the other places,,,good luck...DEFINITELY nothing of the sort in venice,,i can assure you that..

how long are you going for??? i hope atleast a month with that many stops!!...

Hi,

if you will visit Berlin too. I'll would be glad you'll come to our shop in Berlin.
J-Store Berlin, Kantstrasse 125 Berlin Charlottenburg. Mo-Fr 12-20.00
We are selling Manga and Kitty stuff but also Kaijus and Eastern Vinyl.

hey!
thanks everyone! i will be there for 6 weeks and unfortunatly no we probably wont be making it to berlin. i know alot of the placs we will be going are very tourist based and dont expect them to have anything of this nature, but i sure there shuld be atleast one stop in paris that i could find a cool shop or 2!
i am also a HUGE fan of Space Invader and i can't wait to hunt down his stuff in paris!!

Have a nice trip, Paris is great, my wife ruined me on our last trip to Paris so be careful there If you stay in Paris at weekend enjoy the fleamarkets.

six weeks??!! holy snikeys. Now that's a proper vacation! awesome!

look for space invader stuff all around amsterdam & barcelona too...

there are also some great things by london police & ms van in all three cities...

yes,,six weeks is more like it...

i remeber at some poing coming across a jarge jpg or pdf of the invadr map for paris but i cant for the lof of me find it again! has anyone seen what im talking of? i cant remeber if it was a link from his site or what but i remeber being able to download a map

Yeah, despite their extraordinary beauty, Venice and Florence are "museum cities," whereas while the same could be said of Rome, Rome is alive ... very dynamic and cosmopolitan. It's been some years since my last visit but I do remember seeing a hardcore Industrial music shop there, so ... maybe by now there are some cool toy stores as well. As I recall, a lot of the cool toys I saw last time I was in Europe were in boutiques or gift shops that weren't toy stores per se. For example in the old part of Munich near the Neuratshaus there are touristy shops that have some cool traditional German wooden dolls and marionettes.

Please report back when you return! I'll be in Paris around Labor Day and am totally psyched!

i will for sure! im thinking of bringing a small toy that i dont mind getting a bit banged up in my bag to tell the story of my journy through photos. im thinking my tankizaddo should do the trick!