Coming Soon- Touhou Project Cirno MDD

Volks announced the results of the Dolls Party 27 after event international lottery early this morning, I woke up around 4 AM to a confirmation email from Volks informing me that I had won Cirno. I had entered twice each for Rise of Persona 4 and Cirno from Touhou Project and only one of the four entries was actually successful.
Coming Soon...
Cirno was not available via VolksUSA at all but much to my surprise and delight she was eventually offered via the international lottery. She has the new and hopefully improved MDDIII body. Hopefully she will be here within a few weeks (this is my first time buying from Volks’ international site so I am not entirely sure).
Coming Soon..
In other DD news, I also got shipping notification from VolksUSA yesterday for Lucy she should be here next Tuesday.

Dolly Round Up- BJD and DD edition

…or how Fairyland, Latidoll and Volks conspired to completely empty my wallet. Lots of new and interesting things have popped up on my collective BJD and DD radar in the past month or so; as I am so backed up here rather than devoting a post to each new and interesting thing I have decided to do a collected post.

First some Maria spam, which admittedly doesn’t have a heck of a lot to do with the rest of this post but I have really been enjoying photographing her recently so I felt like sharing some pics was in order.
Maria & Illya
With my other MDD Illya, they are both wearing wa-loli kimonos by KeelyVH.
Maria
and then a solo shot. As soon as I saw this kimono I knew it would be perfect for Maria as it matches her eyes so beautifully, luckily I was able to arrange a trade with KeelyVH for it.

Enough picspam time to move on to to how various companies are in on an evil conspiracy to completely empty my wallet!

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Arrival- Regeneration Fantastic Alice

Way back in January, Groove announced a new series of Pullips called Regeneration which are basically just new versions of sold out popular old pullips. Groove stressed that they were not reproductions of the originals but more refined versions of beloved old releases. The Regeneration dolls are limited to 500 and well frankly, I’ve paid more for the new Regens than I have for some of the original releases… The first four dolls announced were Fantastic Alice, Fanatica, Moon and Anne. I love Alice in Wonderland so of course, I had to have Regeneration Alice.
Regeneration Alice
I bought Regeneration Alice (and Fanatica) from GrooveUSA’s new shop, this was my first time ordering from them. The dolls were packed really well and they sent me a bunch of little extras like mini notepads featuring different pullips and a 2012 pullip sticker calender. One other kind of interesting thing to note about Groove’s new shop is that they have a points system if you get forty stickers you can trade them in for a new pullip which is great in theory until you realize you only get one sticker per a purchase under $100, two if an order is over $100. They are now also available on Pullipstyle (for a bit cheaper).
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Arrival- Mini Dollfie Dream Maria from When the Seagulls Cry

It has been a over a year since the arrival of my last Dollfie Dream (Saber Lily). I will admit that though I have not had any recent arrivals I did preorder Saber EXTRA and Saber Alter II through VolksUSA and more recently I got lucky with their lottery and won  Lucy from ToHeart 2. I had been desperately wanting a new DD  but since I have the three coming in June I was trying to be good…unfortunately for my wallet I happened to be browsing on eBay and spotted this darling at a price I could not resist.
Maria
Maria is from When the Seagulls Cry (Umineko no Naku Koro ni)  which was originally a murder mystery visual novel game, that eventually became a manga before finally getting a twenty six episode anime series.  Continue reading

July 2012 Pullip Releases Announced

It’s been a while since I have actually blogged new Pullip releases as they were announced but I am really excited about July’s releases so here we go…
Merl and Lir
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Anime Boston 2012

I attended Anime Boston this past Saturday, this was either the fifth or sixth year that I attended; can’t quite recall if I attended in 2009 or not. I went with Requiemart again this year and we both helped out at Animadness‘ booth in the afternoon (I was  wearing a Joker/Harley Quinn tshirt).  I did not attend any panels or the bjd meet this year, my main focus was hunting for various things in the dealer’s room and photographing cosplayers on occasion.

I took quite a few cosplay photos this year.. Racing Miku

Lots more cosplayers behind the cut
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Arrival! Grin the Cheshire Cat BJD

As some of you may know, I have a great love of all things Alice in Wonderland and I am especially fond of the Cheshire Cat. I forget exactly how I discovered Grin the Cheshire Cat bjd by MushroomPeddler but I saw him and absolutely loved him,  unfortunately he was not available for sale at the time. I happened to be browsing on etsy for various bjd stuff around Valentine’s Day and…something unexpected managed to leap up out of the search results.
Grin
I pounced on the order button immediately, I went for the custom color option as I personally fail at all things art and requested the iconic pink/purple Cheshire Cat coloring. He arrived yesterday and words can not adequately describe how much I love and adore him. I think he may just be my new favorite bjd!
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