Item: NamaCha Green Eco Panda keychain
Description: I was first introduced to this little guy in Tokyo, when a friend of mine mentioned that the Fuji TV station was giving this doll out to the public. The catch was that you would have to purchase a bottle of tea, and the doll would be given to you in a second bottle with the doll trapped inside, unable to be freed. I found this particular doll in a UFO catcher machine a few months later again in Tokyo in the Akihabara district; I caught one for myself and one for a friend who was visiting. In his freed state he's much cuter and happier but I must admit the bottle gimmick, while ironic (not very green to waste a plastic bottle to encase a doll), is a very nice gesture to the ramifications of global mass recycling. Plus his butt is a great screen duster.