{"id":18002,"date":"2023-05-22T16:31:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T23:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=18002"},"modified":"2023-05-22T16:31:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T23:31:08","slug":"the-lucky-cicada-keychain-as-sold-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/the-lucky-cicada-keychain-as-sold-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lucky Cicada Keychain as sold in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve visited this website over the past 27 years, you might be familiar with the saga of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/category\/lucky-cicada-key-chain\/\">lucky cicada key chain<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In this latest chapter, we&#8217;ve obtained a version of the noisy toy as was sold in Japan (images below). Note that it does not include a keychain\/ring, and sadly no longer makes a sound. Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/category\/contributors\/roy-troutman\/\">Roy<\/a> for finding this on eBay. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Keychain-Japan-01.jpg\" alt=\"The Lucky Cicada Keychain as sold in Japan\" width=\"800\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Keychain-Japan-01.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Keychain-Japan-01-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Keychain-Japan-01-768x983.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Keychain-Japan-02.jpg\" alt=\"The Lucky Cicada Keychain as sold in Japan\" width=\"800\" height=\"1039\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Keychain-Japan-02.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Keychain-Japan-02-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Keychain-Japan-02-788x1024.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Keychain-Japan-02-768x997.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/archie-mcphee-advertisement-for-the-lucky-cicada\/\">Archie McPhee advertisement for the Lucky Cicada<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/archive-of-archie-mcpee-cicada-toy-page\/\">Archive of Archie McPhee Cicada Toy Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/more-lucky-cicada-keychain-images\/\">More Lucky Cicada Keychain Images<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/the-lucky-cicada-keychain\/\">The Lucky Cicada Keychain<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/finally-a-working-lucky-cicada-keychain\/\">Finally: a Working Lucky Cicada Keychain<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/return-of-the-cicada-keychain-almost\/\">Return of the Cicada Keychain \u2013 almost<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/the-keychain-saga-continues\/\">The keychain saga continues<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve visited this website over the past 27 years, you might be familiar with the saga of the lucky cicada key chain. In this latest chapter, we&#8217;ve obtained a version of the noisy toy as was sold in Japan (images below). Note that it does not include a keychain\/ring, and sadly no longer makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,687],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-lucky-cicada-key-chain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}