Get your very own Lance of Longinus…

Replica, that is.

Here’s the headline from Anime News Service:

GAINAX Auctions Lance Of Longinus Replica

“With the release of the new movie GAINAX has continued their promotional campaign with Yahoo by auctioning off an authorized scale replica of the Lance Of Longinus object from the Eva series. The auction runs Friday, August 31, 2007 – September 7th, as of this writing its received 797 bids and the current bid is 350,003,008 Yen.”

“Ironworker Kaoru Watanabe created the flat-iron steel lance which is 2,200mm long, 200mm wide, and weighs 28kg. You can view some images of the lance’s creation and use in the series here.”

Here’s the actual auction page: http://page14.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/s66809229?u=;evastore_auc

Ray’s take: the price is currently at 9,999,999,999 yen, I did the conversion on http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi It comes out to 86,381,894.35 USD! I think I saw someone cursing in frustration saying: “Aw damnit! And I wanted to skewer one of my professors with that!” XD

The only thing I’m not so impressed with was that Japanese muscle chick. XP And I’ll never pay for a piece of metal like that – even if I want it I can just get a local blacksmith to do it for probably 5K…But why would the hell would I???

On second thought, here’s a groanful pick up line one can use at the convention with this baby on hand: “Hey there, Rei Ayanami! I got the lance and you won’t feel unsafe tonight!” Har har har har.

Author: Ray

I'm a hardcore Anime Fan and I'm proud of it. I know so many things and I've acquired so much knowledge you wouldn't believe. But my love is anime. I've been drifting in this world for so long that I don't even know what an anchor means. I've seen so many shows that I've lost count. The only thing I'm sure of myself is that I care for the lowly and disenfranchised. I hate the rich and powerful and I love what I do, or what I can do. I like anime and I don't mind watching different types of shows. I have experience in different types of Japanese animation. I would be called an "expert" in a bizzaro world. One day, I'd like to start a revolution. I love the US, pizza, beer, sashimi, Chinese food, and steak. But I love freshly baked bread more than a well-aged steak. In reality, if I were born Japanese I'd be a real, hardcore Otaku. I love to love and I can hate strongly. I'm passionate in nature and I don't mind shedding tears. I can be reached at rayyhum777 at animediet. My Twitter is rayyhum777 at twitter.

8 thoughts on “Get your very own Lance of Longinus…

  1. juu – what, you rich? Can we be friends? XD
    Come on, you actually would buy one at this price???

  2. well, it’s only 2 million yen now, since the other bids were quite fake. but seriously, j/k.

  3. yeah. Everyone kinda figure that the price was fake. Oh well it still doesn’t worth $20050 😛

  4. Blue Eagles – nah, he didn’t. Thing is, he needed to post a reference back to Anime News Service at http://www.animenewsservice.com/. Because that’s where I got it from. Now I wasn’t very clear with copyrights and Mike told me that I should have copied part of the news headline and not the whole thing. So I wasn’t completely in the right either. But this guy didn’t even bother to refer to Anime News Service at all. He obviously just copy the news and then bypass the referencing process and just copied the Yahoo! Japanese auction site. At least he didn’t steal my comments. But he DID steal from Anime News Service without any references at all.

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