Kikaida: Hawaii Tour 2001

Kikaida/Kikaida-01 Hawaii Tour 2001

Newspaper advertisement
(sent to me by Pomai Souza)

Before The Hawaii All-Collectors Show

Kikaida arrives in Honolulu
Kikaida at the Outrigger Reef Hotel
(photo from the Star-Bulletin)
(sent to me by Pomai Souza)

Kikaida-01 arrives in Honolulu
Kikaida-01 at the Outrigger Reef Hotel
(photo from the Star-Bulletin)
(sent to me by Pomai Souza)

They were just up the street from me, I was at the Ohana Reef Towers (Ohana and Outrigger hotels owned by same company and though the sign over the hotel entrance reads "Ohana Reef Towers" on the phone in my room was printed "Outrigger Reef Towers", but Reef Towers and Reef Hotel are two different places.) BTW Ohana is Hawaiian for family.

At The Hawaii All-Collectors Show

NBC
Outside the Blaisdell Center
(sent to me by J.T. aka Sidemachine)

sellers list
Hawaii All-Collectors Show list of sellers

Friday July 20, 2001
Kikaida, Hawaii All-Collectors Show producers
Wayne & Ilene, Hakaida and Kikaida-01
(sent to me by Ilene and Wayne)

photograph
wall to the right of the stage
(sent to me by J.T. aka Sidemachine)

collectables
items on display -- notice Jiro's guitar & motorcycle helmet
(sent to me by J.T. aka Sidemachine)

items on display -- notice Ichiro's trumpet & motorcycle helmet
(sent to me by J.T. aka Sidemachine)

this display was not in the Kikaida area
this display courtesy of Toni Au
(sent to me by J.T. aka Sidemachine)

more Kikaida collectables
(sent to me by J.T. aka Sidemachine)

did you remember that Ban, Daisuke stared in Inazuman?
(sent to me by J.T. aka Sidemachine)

J.T.
And here's J.T. himself with his actual license plate
(sent to me by J.T. aka Sidemachine)

Kikaida/Kikaida-01 autograph ticket
ticket for getting both autographs
I got this on Friday
the holes punched so couldn't use again

Kikaida autograph ticket
if you wanted just one autograph you go one of these,
I got them both because they ran out of double tickets
most fans paid for both ($15 for 1, $25 for both)
I got these on Saturday

Kikaida-01, Ban, Daisuke (Jiro/Kikaida) and Kikaida
By Star-Bulletin photographer Dennis Oda, not printed
(sent to me by J.T. aka Sidemachine)

Ban, Daisuke (Jiro/Kikaida) and yours truly
(sent to me by Pomai Souza)

Friday July 20, 2001
Ikeda, Shunsuke and fan in Kikaida mask

Ikeda, Shunsuke and fan unmasked (my friend Pomai)

Saturday July 21, 2001
HaynKikaida and Ikeda, Shunsuke

Ban, Daisuke signing my trading card

Ban, Daisuke shaking my hand, Friday

Ikeda Shunsuke signing my trading card

Friday July 20, 2001
Ikeda Shunsuke and yours truly, Friday

autographed trading card
the first item I had autographed
by both Ban, Daisuke (Jiro/Kikaida)
and Ikeda, Shunsuke (Ichiro/Kikaida-01)

Saturday July 21, 2001
Ban, Daisuke shaking my hand, Saturday

Ikeda, Shunsuke and yours truly, Saturday

autographed photograph
the 2nd item I had autographed
unsigned photo sold out on Friday (at $5 each)
(scan a lot smaller than actual photo)

photo bought for $10 on Saturday, price doubled
(scan a lot smaller than actual photo)

Ikeda, Shunsuke closeup
(sent to me by Scott Shinsato)

Saturday July 21, 2001
Ikeda, Shunsuke at autograph signing table
doing "hang loose" hand sign

Saturday July 21, 2001
The stage show has begun

Hakaida threatens the people of Hawaii.

01 appears to save Hawaii from Hakaida.

"Brothers" battle

After 27 years Kikaida is back!

"Double Chop!"

Sturday July 21, 2001

Saturday July 21, 2001
(sent to me by Scott Shinsato)

Shake on it

The show ends

photograph
Ban, Daisuke & Ikeda, Shunsuke after show
(sent to me by Scott Shinsato)

Ban, Daisuke, Ikeda, Shunsuke & translator Mark Olson
(sent to me by Scott Shinsato)

Kikaida and Ban, Daisuke
(sent to me by Scott Shinsato)

Saturday July 21, 2001
"Chienji..."

...Three!

photograph
Ban, Daisuke and Hakaida
(sent to me by Scott Shinsato)

The costumes used in this show were not the originals. Sadly, those no longer exist. These costumes were made by a company that provides fans in Japan with the "Kikaida Experience". For a fee you can have Kikaida, Kikaida-01 or Hakaida come to your party (if you live in Japan that is).

Saturday July 21, 2001
Miura Kouki, creator of the costumes
and HaynKikaida (who created his own)
(borrowed from Tokusatsu Planet)

photograph
Two generations of fans
(sent to me by Ilene and Wayne)

The eyes on this fan's sign light up

A couple of fans who dressed for the occasion

Saturday July 21, 2001
HaynKikaida out among the fans

Friday July 20, 2001
Hawaii All-Collectors Show co-producer Ilene and me

Ikeda, Shunsuke and
Hawaii All-Collectors Show co-producer Wayne
(sent to me by Ilene and Wayne)

local fans and 1 formerly local fan - Friday July 20, 2001
Hakaider02, me, HaynKikaida,
Lunafighter & Taiyorider
(borrowed from Tokusatsu Planet)

It was great fun to meet Ban, Daisuke (Jiro/Kikaida) and Ikeda, Shunsuke (Ichiro/Kikaida-01) if even only for a few seconds and without being able to speak to each other. The stage show was short, included no monsters and little fighting between 01 and Hakaida, but for those of us who watched Jinzo Ningen Kikaida and Kikaida-01 on KIKU as children seeing our heroes in action one more time was a dream come true. I hope these photos stir memories in both those who made it to the the Hawaii All-Collector Show and those who were not able to attend.

Friday July 20, 2001
HaynKikaida, me and HaynKikaida's nephew
(sent to me by Ilene and Wayne)

Mahalo to Pomai Souza (aka HaynKikaida) for telling me my childhood hero would be in Hawaii so I could make the trip, for driving me to the show and back to my hotel as well as to my family's old house, for the video tape of the show and letting me borrow some still photos for this page, for the photo of the two of us at Collector Maniacs (below) and generally being a friend, to Ilene and Wayne for producing the Hawaii All-Collectors Show and for mentioning me (indirectly) and my web page in the newpaper interview, to J.T. (aka Sidemachine) for several photos, especially photo of himself (I ran out of film while he was there), to Scott Shinsato for the photos from his friends digital camera and to Toni Au for NOT handing me a bowl of poi when we met :-) Aloha cousins. - Kewalaka (Stuart)

Monday, July 23, 2001
Me (looking like a typical tourist) and Pomai at Collector Maniacs
(not really part of the Kikaida tour but I think its a great picture)

me and 2 lovely ladies - Friday, July 20, 2001
nothing to do with Kikaida, I just like the picture