We had a whole ton of errands to do today including getting the oil changed on our other vehicle, of course there just happens to be a Toys R’ Us across the street from the car shop so while we were waiting for the car to be done we went to check out TRU.
I apparently happened to go into TRU just as they had finished restocking their Monster High display, absolutely everything was in stock and on the shelves. I don’t think I have ever seen a MH display so full before normally all I ever find are the Cleo/Deuce two-packs and the occasional Frankie, I was so overwhelmed. I bought both of the beds, Jackson (the final doll I needed), as well as a second Gloom Beach Frankie (possibly getting rerooted) and Ghoulia (she is my favorite of all of the MH dolls). As soon as I got home I broke the beds out of the package to get a look at them they are kind of a neat gimmick they are themed to match the character and they double as something supposedly useful for you too (Frankie’s bed is also a mirror and Draculaura’s coffin is also a jewelry box). I won’t be using mine for anything except maybe Draculaura’s for potential storage of excess MH accessories.
While still wondering through the store I also picked up another Littlest Pet Shop Blythe (just the single doll this time, not a set) and three new LPS sets (LE Llama, Elephant/Mouse and LE Seagull). I also picked up an Applejack My Little Pony, I don’t actively collect MLP but I remembered having an Applejack as a kid and I love orange so she went in the cart.
I also bought a copy of Mass Effect to get a free Lego Batman tshirt (they were giving the Lego Batman Hero Pack away with any video game purchase). I had been meaning to play Mass Effect for a long while and I had just beat out Darkness earlier in the week and was looking for something else to play so it just seemed like good timing.
Some of my packages actually arrived today yay, I was really starting to get worried that they might have been lost somehow. I do still have a few things floating around in the post right now but at least some things have actually arrived now.
From top to bottom :
Lucky Star x Macross Frontier Figure- Banpresto- Tsukasa cosplay Ranka Lee figure
Vocaloid- Max Factory- EX003 Miku Wonder Festival exclusive figma
Vocaloid- Gift- Miku Plush
Onegai Teacher-Yamato- Mizuho Space Suit statue
I bought a few things yesterday, while I was sleeping actually ^^; I wasn’t feeling well so I decided to go to bed early despite the fact that I had some active bids going on Yahoo Japan auctions that were all ending in the wee hours of the morning. I had bid on five items and was fairly happy that I actually won four out of the five. I had bid on a Street pullip as I had seen a NRFB one going for quite cheap and well Street never seems to get enough love in the pullip community I ended up paying about 6000 yen for her which really isn’t bad especially considering her condition (new and minty fresh). I also won this past Wonder Festival’s Vocaloid Miku nendoroid whom I had been wanting for a while she slightly more than I paid for Street though :/ . I had also bid on the three remaining Lucky Star x Macross Frontier figures that I needed unfortunately I didn’t win all three so I still have an incomplete set. Konata ended very cheaply at around 1800 yen, Miyuki ended at 3200 yen and Kagami the one I wanted the most I actually lost 
. On the bright side, I still have something to hunt for plus I really find myself wanting a Raspberyl nendoroid so I am hoping to find her soon as well.
Posted in 365 Photo Project, anime figure, Anime Swag, Doll, Pullip, purchase
Tagged anime figure, banpresto, figma, jun planning, kagami, konata, lucky star x macross, macross frontier x lucky star, max factory, miyuki, Pullip, street, tsukasa, vocaloid, wonder festival, wonderfest
The Meet
I attended the Winter Animadness Pullip meet today. First let me explain the madness involved with going to this meet, due to my insanely tight schedule this week I had basically packed all the dolls except the bjds this past Monday and then last night something came up and I thought I wouldn’t be able to attend the meet which of course meant I spent all last night unpacking the dolls, then this morning the situation changed and I could attend again so I had to repack everything in about a two hour time frame and I brought approximately 30 dolls with me. I brought a pretty good selection of dolls including pullips, dals, a couple of taeyangs, dollfie dreams, super dollfie, blythes and a little fee while it is primarily a pullip meet, there is always someone curious about the other types of dolls and it is a good chance to see one in person if you are kind on the fence about trying a different type of doll especially with the more expensive dolls as that is a lot of money to spend just to find out you don’t like the doll.
In this picture all of the dolls on the lowest shelf and all of the ones sitting/standing on the ground with the exception of Big Pullip (who belongs to requiemart) are mine. There were about twenty collectors at the meet today and well over a 100 dolls there. The official picture of the day is one of most of the dolls lined up on the dvd shelves, there were other dolls at the meet but this was taken pretty early on before everyone arrived and a few dolls like my Jouet and Requiemart‘s Joel were off getting their pictures taken when I took this picture.
The meet there was still a bit chaotic, but it was better planned than last time and there was a bit more room this time too.
There was eventually a swap, I managed to swap for a Mini Pullip Berry and sell a few items. Speaking of selling a few items, my money situation was kind of hilarious today I have a separate bank account for my fun money and I won’t let myself spend any of my other money on fun stuff. I had pretty steadily been splurging this month and I had literally just splurged on a Volks Yo-SD in the last few days and just paid her off and had just enough leftover to pay off a custom doll I had on layaway. When I heard I wasn’t going to be able to go to the meet it was like okay because I don’t really have funds to buy another doll right now anyway and I know I would want one if I went. Then I was told I could go again, I was basically on a mission to find funding. I dug around in my different hoody pockets, purses etc and managed to scrape together $60 further scraping once I got in the car got me up to around $75 made enough from sales to get me up to $86 and due to their sales special with 10% off I was just able to buy the doll I wanted (I did have to borrow a quarter from a friend >_< ). Never let it be said I give up easily.
Of course that brings up the question of what I did buy as I did not buy a pullip, a dal or even a taeyang. I actually bought a Hestia, Hestia was a line of dolls put out by Jun Planning that was later discontinued they were seemingly replaced by J-doll. Hestia’s entire thing was that two dolls were released concurrently and the dolls were a set of twins Rib(b)on and Isora. Both dolls would have a similiar theme but the dolls themselves would kind of be opposites of each for example one month the releases were priestess outfits one appeared to be holy priestess dressed in white while the other appeared to be a priestess of the dark arts and was dressed all in black. I bought the first release of Rib(b)on, I didn’t take any pictures of her yet but I will tomorrow. I also got two nude hestias from requiemart as she bought them to harvest their clothes from.
And the photo ops
My Jouet, Gelato is a bit of a brat apparently and would not stop harassing her brother Joel. Joel is a requiemart custom taeyang made to resemble the dal Jouet, she also made a pullip Jouet named Joyette whom I own. Joyette was supposed to come to the meet today unfortunately while she was packed up on Monday, in all the rush today of trying to get all the other dolls together I was unable to locate her in time to bring her along.
I couldn’t resist taking a picture of my Paja, Raja and Requiemart’s custom Paja dal Pajelle. I do hope she eventually decides to rehome her..
There was actually a byul at this meet :O It was my first time seeing one in person, I have to say they are still not really for me. I did decide to take a picture of Tigerlily with my Happy Birthday Pullip 2 Kaya though.
Catcraig also brought along her along Little Fee Ante so we decided to snap a picture of the two of them together, mine is the one with the acid green fur wig.
While I do like seeing everyone’s dolls at meets some of the mystique is kind of hampered by my having all the dolls for the most part ^^; Of course, I was super excited to see zombuki Cheshire’s new look (or as she is now known unzombuki) but more on that later..
Posted in 365 Photo Project, BJD, Blythe, Dal, Doll, Dollfie Dream, event, Pullip, purchase, Taeyang/ Namu
Tagged anastacia, angel pullip, angelique, angry, another alice, ante, aya, black canary, bleach, Blythe, brandy, byul, Celsiy, cheshire, chill, china china, chinachina, cinnamoroll, clementine, cornice, custom, custom dal, custom pullip, custom taeyang, Dal, dc comics, doll meet, Dollfie Dream, dolly diversity, drta, edge, elise, ellis, fairyland, fiona, fourrure, froggy, greggia, hangry, happy birthday pullip 2, hash, haute ny, hestia, hollis heartspark, hollow, horizon, illya, jolie, kaya, kindle, kirsche, kitka, lala, leproto, little berry, little fee, little pullip, maguna, marie, melize, mercu, mini dollfie dream, mir, monomono, my little candy, namu, nana, naomi, neo noir, nero, paja, pajelle, papin, pixie styx, polliwog, Pullip, pullip meet, punkaholic people, raelyn, richt, rin, rosiel, sakura, sapphire, super dollfie, super dollfie 13, taeyang, tantus, tezca, tigerlily, tinker bell, tinkerbell, unzombuki, vallhalla, veritas, vivien, whiskey sour, wolf, zombuki, zuora
I was out and about most of the day, eventually I made my way to the mall unfortunately there were clearance sales and I was weak ^^; FYE and Hot Topic were my main two distractions this trip. Clickety-click the pictures for notes..
FYE was my first stop. I bought all of the Gatekeepers TV series and OVA, they had a bundle made up of all of it marked for $30 I can’t even remember the last time I bought an American anime dvd off the shelf so that was kind of interesting that, that show of all things would tempt me. I also got the 30th Anniversary Hello Kitty plush set that I had been wanting for a while but had been unable to justify the cost of (^^;) $10 seemed pretty reasonable for it though, I plan on leaving it NRFB and sticking it up on top of my dollfie case with my NRFB Hello Kitty pullip. I also bought a small Hello Kitty bunny plush for the zilla as she seemed rather rapt with it. I bought two lunch boxes one Hello Kitty, one Nightmare Before Christmas I like to use the metal lunchboxes to sort the tons of small items I own they were marked down to like $3.50 each. I picked up yet another Joker hat, it was extremely cheap and I liked that it wasn’t a Dark Knight Joker hat it is very rare to find a Joker hat that is not Dark Knight. I also picked up some action figures, another Soundwave figure because I am almost as addicted to Transformers as I am to LPS (I should run a comparative count of my collections of them) and two Wathcmen figures Ozymandias and Silk Spectre 1 they were all less than $5 each. I kind of regret not picking up the Comedian as well, I might have to go back for him tomorrow. All in all I spent slightly around $60 at FYE which really wasn’t that bad considering how much stuff I managed to really get.
I hit Hot Topic as well , they were having a take an additional 50% off of clearance sale. I bought a pair of Invader Zim Gir shoes, I have like five pairs already in various designs but I love Gir and I love shoes so I had to get these as well (plus green is my favorite color). I ended up buying five t-shirts two Transformers (one dino-bots, the other is kind of generic comic based), a Green Day shirt (even though I got injured at their concert they are still my favorite band), a Joker Shirt and a Harley Quinn shirt. I already had the Harley Quinn shirt, I knew that when I spotted it on the shelf but it is one of my favorite shirts so I figured while it was still available and cheap that I should buy a back-up.
I also stopped by Target, their toys were marked down quite a bit. I bought a giant singing/dancing Dora for zilla as she loves Dora and while I could not justify the normal $60 price tag I had still really wanted to get it for her, at $12 some I couldn’t resist even if the box had seen better days. I also the MLP (whose box was utterly destroyed) and the Domo plush there for very cheap. I think I paid like $18 total for everything there.
I only bought two things that weren’t on clearance today, one of them didn’t even make into the picture. I had stopped at Walmart earlier in the day and I found the meerkat limited edition Littlest Pet Shop, I had been looking for this one for a while so I snatched it up. The other thing was Batman: The Widening Grin Issue #4 (omg I love the coverart) which has me on a mad hunt for issues #1-#3, I neglected to include it in the picture as I was rereading it when I decided that I needed to take the picture.
Posted in 365 Photo Project, acquistion, Comics, Love that Joker, Off-topic, Other, purchase
Tagged batman, Comics, gatekeepers, gir, harley quinn, hello kitty, invader zim, joker, Littlest Pet Shop, transformers, watchmen
I have a rather unusual assortment of dolls in the mail on their way to me right now.
I received a couple of gift cards for Denver Doll for Christmas and decided to use them towards liberating my third and final puki who was on layaway. I had decided a while ago, that my eventual goal was to own three pukis and that I would base them off of the Power Puff girls. Puki Lily is my Buttercup as she has a pouty little face, Puki Piki is my Blossom as she just seemed to suit her best and as soon as I seen Pongpong I knew she would make the perfect Bubbles with her happy expression. I got her as a basic as I was not feeling the clown get up, I still need to buy her a wig but while I found the perfect one the site I wish to order from has an order minimum and the wig is a $1 shy of the minimum order mark So I have to wait until i can think of something else to order with it and I can’t really think of anyone else who needs a wig at the moment ^^; Maybe I will just get some SD shoes.
Somewhat interestingly, Pongpong is locked in a race to see who will get here first with another bjd. It will be an epic battle between US priority mail and international EMS to see which one actually arrives first as they both shipped on the same day. I don’t actually know much about the incoming doll, as she is a gift and she is supposed to be a surprise. I do know she is made by Volks, she is not a dollfie dream, she is not Yo-SD sized and in the buyer’s words “she is not flat-chested like that other one you have” so I am thinking she could be a Super Dollfie 13 as they actually have a bit of a bust as opposed to my Super Dollfie’s non-bust. I was not anticipating another larger bjd so soon, I have not completed of my other two projects: Utena and Mahoro but I have a feeling I know which doll I am getting as I had asked if it was Nono and the response was no her name was spelled differently which leads me to believe I may very well have a SD13 Nana on the way so I decided to take a chance and order her an outfit set from To Heart 2. If it is indeed Nana like I suspect then she will make a nice Lucy, if ends up being some wild card doll then well To Heart has a large cast, I am sure whichever doll would resemble one of the characters and if not one of my DD girls can cosplay or Utena can at least have something to wear other than Ryomou’s leftovers until I get her clothes done.
Angelic Dreamz had their post Christmas sale again this year, last year I was fortunate to visit their physical store during the sale as mentioned in this blog post. I somewhat surprisingly passed on the pullips on sale this year and instead focused my sights on a Tonner Harley Quinn instead who I have had my eye on since I seen her in the store last year. They were offering a deal I could not pass up on her so I pounced on her ^^; The store is actually somewhat close to where I live so I suspect Harley Quinn will be here rather quickly. I am really excited about her as not only is she a Harley Quinn doll but she is one of my first dolls of this size (about 16 inches), the only other one I have that is approximately the same size is a Desperate Housewives Eddie doll who I bought on mega-clearance at TJMaxx (she was marked down to $15) during one of my toy raids.
Harley Quinn was not my only recent DC Doll purchase as I purchased a Black Canary Barbie over the weekend. Black Canary finally went on clearance on Toys R Us.com, I had been wanting her since she was announced but because my intention was to harvest her clothes for one of my pullips I didn’t really want to pay the full $45 MSRP for her. She was finally put on clearance so after some waffling on the subject I decided to buy her as well Azreal has been kept waiting long enough for her clothes.
Posted in BJD, Comics, Doll, purchase
Tagged barbie, BJD, black canary, dinah shore, Doll, fairyland, harleen quinzel, harley quin, pongpong, powerpuff girls, puki, robert tonner, super dollfie, tonner doll, volks
I am very excited today as Chantilly, this year’s Doll Carnival limited is officially on her way. For those of you who don’t know, for the past three years Jun Planning/Groove Inc. has held a Doll Carnival during the fall/winter exhibiting new prototypes as well as custom dolls. So far there has also been a limited edition pullip or dal associated with the event every year, all three dolls have been limited to 300. The first doll carnival in 2007′s limited was Jouet, last year’s (2008) limited was Isolde a H.Naoto collaboration and this year’s limited was Chantilly, the Angelic Pretty collaboration. I find it kind of interesting that so far all three of them have been blond and all three of them have been linked to at least one other doll Jouet and Jolie are supposed to be a matched pair, Isolde and Adsitlia are effectively repaints of one another and Chantilly has an almost identical stock just in a different color as the Angelic Pretty Byul Cocotte (my French isn’t as good as it used to be but isn’t Cocette slang for whore?).
I was somewhat fortunate this year, as I did not have to jump through quite so many hoops as I have in past years and I didn’t have to pay quite as much as I have in past years either. I paid an astounding $800 for Jouet from VOTD as they were the only people selling her at the time (even on Yahoo Japan) at least they tossed in a free Jolie though ^^; I actually ended up buying two of last year’s limited Isolde, I have since sold one to a friend of mine but I paid almost $600 for the NRFB one and $350 for the OOB one that I kept (she was missing her purse though :/ ). Somehow Pullipstyle managed to get a few in stock, they have never have had the previous doll carnival limiteds thankfully unlike VOTD they do not I gauge their customers in price. I had discovered that they had Chantilly in stock for a reasonable price ($350) literally while looking over someone’s shoulder as they purchased my Aya and Sakura (who I still need to do write ups for ^^;) for me for Christmas. I panicked as I was kind of already down to the quick in my bank account (I refuse to let myself drop below a certain point) so I felt a bit cheeky and emailed pullipstyle. I have bought a lot of dolls from pullipstyle over the years, probably around 80 or so (I’ll do the actual math out later) so I decided to be a bit brazen and ask if the owner could do a hold for me until my paycheck came in this week. Much to my delighted surprise, the owner agreed to hold her until my paycheck came. Somehow Chantilly was paid off last night, miraculously before my paycheck even came in all I have to say is yay for late Christmas presents.
I got the tracking number for her via Fed Ex this morning, no expected delivery date as of yet (I will update this post when I get one though) although I was quite pleased to see an indirect signature is required, Fed Ex are crafty ninjas who don’t like to ring my doorbell and just leave packages on my front porch or worse yet show no sign they were ever here until I check the tracking number and see failed delivery attempt after I think the 3rd one they send it back, so I have had to drive up to their sorting facility over an hour away on more than one occasion to fetch a package because of it. I go back to work starting tomorrow and I was quite frightened poor Chantilly would catch her death of cold if she was left out on the porch all day (unlikely but it is below freezing outside the plastic could become brittle) or be kidnapped (more likely, stuff disappears around here all the time very rare for it to my stuff though as I tend to make sure the handymen who work on my building are regularly given cookies and such, so they tend to keep an eye out for my packages and bring them to the rental office. I am also the only resident to get my car dug out by the handymen after a snowstorm) but now at least I know she will be waiting for me in the rental office when I get home after work on some later day.
I already have a name picked out for Chantilly. I have a great affinity for Quentin Tarantino films even the ones he himself did not direct, but even the ones he just writes like True Romance (although I hate the way they butchered the soundtrack, I would have much preferred it the way it was originally written versus the one we ended up with). I had it in the back of my mind for a while that I would like to name a pullip (or dal), after the character Alabama but I never seemed to fit any of them but I think Chantilly will be the perfect match for the name. The song “Chantilly Lace” by the Big Bopper plays during one of the scenes (the phone booth/ sex scene that shortly follows) of True Romance, so I am taking it as a sign that Chantilly’s name should be Alabama. I have also decided my 2010 naming scheme for the dal will be places, 2008′s theme was food and 2009′s theme was alcohol so I decided to change things up a bit this time.
In other dolly news, I also have a NRFB Paja on the way from Yahoo Japan won in the very early hours of Christmas morning.
Posted in Dal, Doll, Pullip, purchase
Tagged angelic pretty, chantilly, Dal, doll carnival, h.naoto, isolde, jouet, limited edition, Pullip
I find that I tend to buy things in waves, one month I might be focused on my anime figures the next my doll collection. Last month I was very dolly-centric and I had a lot of new additions to my doll collection 13 pullip/dals/taeyangs, 2 blythes and a bjd to be exact. This month it seems is devoted to anime figures as I kind of started buying anime figures again ^^;
I took advantage of HLJ‘s Black Friday sale and bought the 1/4 Fate T. Harlaown Swimsuit Figure from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha by Good Smile Company-Link as well as 1/7 Sakura Swimsuit Figure from Fate Stay/ Night by Griffon Enterprises Link . HLJ shipped the package via Fed EX :/ which I was not exactly happy with they are scheduled to be ditched unceremoniously on my porch on or around the 10th. I ended up doing another order on HLJ last night for a bunch of cute lesser figures including the Lucky Star OVA EX Figures: Konata and Kagami Figures by Sega Prize- Link / Link, Neon Genesis Evangelion- Seat of Soul- Asuka and Rei figures by Sega Prize Link /Link and a key chain figure of Klan Klang from Macross Frontier by Bandai- Link.
I also managed to liberate some of my stuff from Toyslogic, they were my main preordering site but unfortunately I had a change in circumstances plus I kind of lost interest in anime figures in general temporarily so I ended up canceling a lot of my orders with them ^^; . I am currently expecting the following items from them Shining Wind- Kureha Nendoroid by Good Smile Company – Link, Vocaloid- 1/8 Kagamine Rin Figure – Link, Vocaloid- 1/8 Kagamine Len Figure- Link, Kannagi- Zange-chan Nendoroid by Good Smile Company – Link, Prism Ark- Priecia Nendoroid by Good Smile Company- Link, Ikki Tousen- Sonsaku Figma by Max Factory Link and a set of Gurren Lagann sheet set (Yoko and Nia).
I am also still waiting on a Nurse Witch Komugi figure by Wave and a mystery figure for Christmas (I have been given a few clues- it is extremely limited and pink but that is all I have to go on at the moment).
Even though I seem to be centering my attention squarely on anime figures this month I am actually awaiting a few more dolls as well. I am awaiting shipping notification on Comic-con exclusive pullip Lala- Link and I just bought taeyang Richt- for myself last night.
Posted in anime figure, Anime Swag, BJD, Blythe, Dal, Doll, Pullip, purchase, Taeyang/ Namu
Tagged 1/4 scale, anime figure, asuka, banpresto, comic-con exclusive, cosplay, evangelion, fate t. Harlaown, figma, good smile company, griffon enterprises, groove inc, hlj, hobbylinkjapan, ikki tousen, kagaimi, kagamine len, kagamine rin, kannagi, klan klang, klein klang, konata, kureha, le300, len, lucky star, lucky star ova, macroess frontier, magical girl lyrical nanoha, mahou shoujo lyrical nanoha, max factory, melancholy of suzumiya, nendoroid, neon genesis evengalion, precia, prism ark, Pullip, rei, rin, sakura, sega prize, shining wind, sonsaku, taeyang, vocaloid, zange-chan
The Valley of the Dolls is awesome. Although I don’t order from them as often as pullipstyle, I have never had a problem with or any complaints about them. The service there is phenomenal if you ever have the cause to email/call them, Scot (the owner) is very nice and will work with you. He is really good at tracking down older/rare dolls. They have a sales section on their site that normally has some pretty decent deals but they also have these awesome OOB (Out of Box) sales where they sell old display models/returned dolls at rock bottom prices. These sales are kind of irregular and will just be posted at random points during on their somewhat quiet forum and normally all the dolls get snatched up pretty quickly. Some of the dolls are just opened/out of box others might have been used for harvest parts (missing arms etc) but all that is clearly noted (no pictures though) and the worse condition the better the price and well my attitude is I can always find spare bodies or obitsus, hell I even have a few parts only bodies hanging around. I’ve bought from these sales in the past (a Cornice head, Tweety and J-doll Church St probably a couple of others too) without complaint but one hasn’t been posted in a while so I was kind of checking the forum at random intervals. I hadn’t logged in a few days, then I decided to log-in last night and seen all the insane deals I missed out on ($55 Street T_T), I tried in vain to get a second Magical Pink-chan for myself but Scot said that while she was sold out he was going to list more dolls soon. When I checked my email this morning I noticed he had already posted up the new dolls. After a rapid flurry of emails I secured four new dolls (two taeyangs/one pullip/one dal) for myself all for $164.50 shipped.
Tantus Another King
Another Clock Rabbit Another Alice
The four dolls I ended up with ranged from $35 to $45 in price. All are OOB and come with most or all of their stock, Another Alice is the only damaged one. One of her arms is missing and the other one has a broken wrist. There are no body matches for the Another series -yet- but I decided to take a chance on Requiemart’s amazing paint matching skills and since she has a Another Queen with a broken wrist I know it is on her list of things to do so my second Another Alice will eventually have a whole body until then when I photograph her I will have to borrow arms from Another Queen ^^; . I emailed Requiem and alerted her to the sale and she got a couple of the dolls she had been after as well and I discussed Another Alice with her then and she said the paint match is on her to do list. Of the four I originally asked for, I got two immediately (Another Clock Rabbit and Tantus) then about five minutes later I got a second email saying one of the other dolls (Another King) I asked about had become available and then I decided to take chance on a second Another Alice. Tantus and Another King had been on my wishlist for a while, I had been considering duplicates of Another Alice and Another Clock Rabbit as well so I was really glad I was able to get the dolls I did. I was shocked I was able to get such low prices on the Another set as it was, they are limited to 500 and for a while ACR was selling for a quite bit on the secondary market before VOTD restocked her.
Wasn’t I just saying I was slowing down in buying pullips/dals/taeyangs in the last entry…
Posted in Dal, Doll, Pullip, purchase, Taeyang/ Namu
Tagged another alice, another clock rabbit, another king, Dal, Pullip, taeyang, tantus, votd
I have been kind of busy/ill (coughing up blood, you know tends to excuse one from being very active online), so I haven’t had a chance to share some of my more recent purchases. I was a bit overzealous so I will definitely not going to buying anything else until my next paycheck. I tend to buy things when I am stressed, being sick and taking care of an ill child all by myself tends to stress me out so I went the old retail therapy route.Some of these have actually already arrived but the new wonderful and sexy, Canon Rebel XS won’t be here until at least tomorrow (depending on whether or not I make it to the office tomorrow in time to pick it up) so pictures will be forthcoming.
I bought another J doll, I have one already (Church St) but I failed to ever really click with her. I had been looking at some photos of J dolls and I happened to find a really good deal on Punkaa St, I also happened to have some balance left over on my paypal from my doll accessories sale so I figured I would give J doll a second chance. She arrived a few days ago, and I am glad I did actually take the chance and buy her because I love her to death. I decided to name her Azul (Spanish for blue).
I also surprisingly bought another taeyang, I am somewhat in shock that I now own 10 boys (9 taeyangs/1 namu). A friend was selling him, I still had money in my paypal account and I thought he would make an excellant counterpart for my latest Papin, Lorelei. I tend to pair dolls up according to their relative eye/wig color, my last two couples have had reversed wig/eye colors as well it seems as scientific a method as any (I’ve also noticed the last two boys both got paired up with Papins). After a full week of being here without a name, yesterday it was decided by popular vote on twitter that his name is Dietrich.
Peter Pan was the last of the dolls to arrive, she was also the last pullip I needed to go back to owning a complete collection of pullips anyway (still working on the dolls). All the owner photos I have seen of her have been astounding, I feel somewhat guilty that mine has not even made into the apartment proper and has been hanging out still in the shipping crate at the bottom of the stairs ^^; . I am kind of waiting to debox her until I have the new camera in hand, so I can do her justice. I think I am just going to call her Pan, I can’t bring myself to call her Peter.
After someone pointed out the cult of Tinker Bell and the fact that Fantastic Alice sold out so quickly back in the day, I thought it prudent to fast-track getting her. Plus she looks absolutely adorable in the photos I have seen of her so far.
And Robin Version Ciel, this was the final nail in the coffin. I had already decided that I was in dolly diet mode, then I decided to check VOTD’s site and noticed Robin Ver. Ciel was on sale. Only one more dal to go on the list now.
Other Stuff-
- Byul- Tigerlily’s Stock (I do not care for Byul but have a have a Nahh-ato custom that I think would make a smashing Tigerlily)
- I also put a down payment on a Puki via Denver Doll. I probably wouldn’t have got her right now if I knew I would be getting a Volks Super Dollfie but I had always wanted three pukis. My plan has always been to name them after the Power Puff girls. I already have Blossom (Puki- Piki) and Buttercup (Puki- Lily) and I figured who better than Pongpong to be the hyper cheerful Bubbles.
Posted in BJD, Dal, Doll, Pullip, purchase, Taeyang/ Namu
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I am once again flumoxed by the arrival of two dollfie dreams on the same day despite the fact that they shipped on different days, by different sellers and in this case different countries. Rin came from Volks USA via UPS a little earlier than I antipated her, I had won the preorder lottery for her through Volks’ site. My mystery dollfie, Estel came from one of my agents in Japan.
I know some of you are wondering why I chose Estel out of all of the released dollfies the truth is I really loved her face up and thought she might make a good match for Ryomou (there are no male DDs and I am sure as hell not buying a male bjd as most of them come anatomically correct and resin dick= do not want). She has a really lady-like aura around her and I was unable to find many owner photos of her so that kind of motivated me even more. Oddly when I first started looking at Dollfies I always knew I would somehow end up getting her.
I plan to start deboxing both girls once I get back from the post office (I am shipping my half of a blythe trade off today). I was supposed to ship on Friday but all the post offices closed at noon >_<
My second Charlotte dal arrived today as well, I am currently trying to sell her stock on dolly market as I have no use for it (if anyone is that interested in it reading this shoot me an email at atashi.saikano@gmail.com ). Charlotte is more than likely going to become my Mad Hatter dal as the Drta I was going to use is getting customized into a dal Froggy. That reminds me I should email the girl who I commissioned for the Mad Hatter outfit and see what is going on with that.
