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Life imitates anime as huge Snorlax beds show up in Japan, become roadblocks in homes【Pics】

Casey Baseel Aug 23, 2016
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Giant Pokémon bed makes it easy to fall asleep, hard to move around.

Last February, merchandiser Bandai started taking preorders for the official Snorlax bed/cushion. The decision to sell the product in Japan seemed like the perfect call, considering that this is both the home country of the Pokémon franchise and also a nation with an unabashed love of its video game icons that have gone on to worldwide fame and success.

So even though the Snorlax bed was priced at 52,000 yen (US$495), a number of Japanese fans were ready to plunk down the cash to sleep atop the sleepiest of Pokémon. However, there’s an itsy bitsy problem.

▼ Actually, make that a great big problem.

長男が約52000円出して買った絶対に起きられないカビゴンクッションが届いた。とりあえずビニールの上から跨って「トトロって言うのね」って遊んでみました。カビゴンですけどね。長男帰宅まで部屋のドアに立てかけてあります。 pic.twitter.com/JtVw7phSwl

— あどちゃん (@adochan0516) August 19, 2016

See, Japanese homes aren’t exactly known for their spacious dimensions. While the Snorlax bed isn’t as long as a normal mattress, it still measures 150 centimeters (59 inches) in length, meaning that some buyers couldn’t even get the delivery box through their front door!

ヤマトのおいちゃん「家に入ると？笑えるほどでかいんやけど」

一味「どうにかします」 pic.twitter.com/U7YUEMYMym

— 一味 (@eustoma_0730) August 19, 2016

無理。 pic.twitter.com/qvDi0VCrm0

— 一味 (@eustoma_0730) August 19, 2016

▼ Good thing it’s not raining, because the only way that Snorlax is getting inside is if he’s getting unpacked outside.

あかん pic.twitter.com/ahDIsLoscO

— 一味 (@eustoma_0730) August 19, 2016

Actually, squeezing Snorlax through the front door is just the first stop of this logistics puzzle. As you’d expect, those small portals lead to small rooms, and whether inside the box or out, the Snorlax bed is large enough to dominate most interior spaces in a Japanese home.

https://twitter.com/yuuki_sano/status/766601531185508352

▼ Hopefully everyone in the family went to the bathroom before the deliveryman rang the doorbell.

カビゴンクッション何キロあるんや。でかすぎて部屋までもってけない pic.twitter.com/hV93kaJn3g

— * ami-ki * 🍮:) (@amiki_pkc) August 19, 2016

https://twitter.com/eustoma_0730/status/766583759613272065

▼ Snorlax is so big he could sleep in a bed of his own.

今日は休みなので雨の中お出かけです。
お留守番よろしくねカビゴン。 pic.twitter.com/nsCMd5eJNY

— さざなみ (@SAZANAMl) August 20, 2016

通販でカビゴンのクッション買ったんやけど
想像以上にでかすぎたww pic.twitter.com/h46kh4cnx2

— あ、さくら (@144tippy124) August 19, 2016

It’s also worth noting that this furniture-class plushie tips the scales at 12 kilograms (26.4 pounds), meaning that lugging it from the door to wherever the buyer wanted to place it in the home was no easy task. The end results, though, were adorable.

https://twitter.com/eustoma_0730/status/766594682944049153

And besides, given the fact that Snorlax makes his first appearance in the Pokémon anime as a literal roadblock, we imagine some of his proud new owners found all of his pathway-clogging bulkiness to be a nice touch of source material authenticity.

Source: Jin, Twitter/@adochan0516