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>In many cases that merch is exclusive, or only available at select other locations like the Nintendo of America headquarters, which has its own shop, and is fairly tough to get into. Fans have been clamoring for more locations for ages (basically since it was opened in 2001, when it was a Pokemon-centric location), and now they're getting their wish: halfway across the world. Nintendo just launched their second site over in Tel Aviv, Israel, at the Dizengoff Center shopping mall.
>Nintendo intends to strike twice in the same year and has plans to open a Tokyo store within a few months, so the grand total of Nintendo stores will be raised to three soon enough. Although they are extremely far away, that's not a bad spread with one on the east coast of the US, one in the Middle East, and another in Japan.
A bit concerning, to be sure. What are the Japanese planning? A Yakuza + Jewish Mafia partnership?