November 3, 2006, 5:21 pm : Ultraman Dagger = Bad Customs Career Move…

So, the next time you are in China grooving on the cool Ultraman toys that you can get for like, a dollar, thinking that Halloween is just around the corner and you need that something else, that little thing that will really make your costume, make sure you don’t do what I did.

When packing on my final morning in Shanghai, I repacked all of my cool Ultraman toys, masks, toy guns and, er, Space Daggerâ„¢. At the last minute, I took the Space Daggerâ„¢ out of my luggage and threw it away, much to the surprise of Anthony Yang from our China interactive office. I guess that I forgot that I bought TWO masks with free Space Daggerâ„¢ and one was tucked away in the bottom of my luggage. I hop on the plane and arrive in USA ten hours later….

I run my luggage through the X-Ray and am pulled aside into the little cubicle to open my bag and explain the SPACE DAGGERâ„¢, which must have looked gnarly cool on the X-Ray. While the customs dude went to get his boss, I quickly knocked off these snaps. After much bowing and scraping to the Customs Gestapo, I left my Space Daggerâ„¢ behind, but retained the masks, keeping my secret identity in check to fight this battle another day….