61/365- Another Yahoo Japan Haul

More goodies via Yahoo Japan arrived today.
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Trigger Heart Excelica- Excelica by Alter
Neon Genesis Evangelion- Rei Pullip
To Heart Dollfie Outfit
Gunslinger Girl- Henrietta Pinky Street

After waffling back and forth for quite a while I finally took the plunge and bought Excelica. I had heard of the epic-ness that is the Trigger Heart Excelica figure by Alter but I don’t think I had mentally prepared myself for something quite so grand. Her size is immense, and the amount of accessories she comes with is unreal. I’m glad I finally decided to pick her up as she is just so incredibly awesome, well worth the price I paid.

I decided to get a second Rei pullip to equal things out as I have a second Asuka pullip. Also this means I can have a set permanently on display with my sizable Evangelion display as well as a set on display with all of my other dolls.

The To Heart dollfie outfit was originally intended for Nana but it didn’t fit her so I am going to actually swap Nana and Mimi which I had been pondering for a while. Mimi is going to become Lucy of To Heart 2 and Nana is going to become Utena.

The Gunslinger Girl pinky was a bit of an impulse buy, I already have one and paid pretty dearly for it but I happened to be browsing Yahoo Japan recently for the last few Pinky Street figures I need when I seen Henrietta going for extremely cheap so I decided that it was too good a deal to pass up on it ^^;.

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60/365- Illya Dollfie Dream

Illya is apparently not meant to have a proper shoot until this weekend (and I have the Animadness meet to attend on Saturday :/) as I didn’t get out of work until late again today. I had the best of intentions, I had packed my camera and her in my bag and stowed them in the trunk, planning to stop on the way home for a photo shoot but things never quite turn out the way I plan. There was a change in plans this afternoon unfortunately but I did manage to  take some pictures of her on my back steps when I got home. I was a bit hesitant to go out on my back steps again after my descent down them the last time but this time it was a lot less eventful.
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I am having problems adjusting to handling MDD, she seems to be a lot floppier than my other dollfie dreams. I have still yet to get her to stand up completely on her own yet. I am sure I just need to work with it more but it was kind of frustrating while I was trying to take pictures.
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59/365- DD grail and other new arrivals

My dollfie dream grail arrived unexpectedly in the mail today. I knew something off of my wish list was coming but I didn’t know it was her. I adore Illya and she has been on my wish list pretty much since she was announced. I think I have pretty much all of the figures of her as well as the azone of her (actually my favorite of all my 1:6 anime dolls), something about her character just leaves me utterly captivated. I am rather touched to receive her as a gift, I wasn’t expecting it all. I can’t wait to bust her out for pictures tomorrow (worked late today so no real chance for pictures).I promise to give her a more proper arrival post tomorrow when I have actual pictures of her.
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I did actually get a small package from HLJ as well today, it was mostly Sega Prize figures but they are all pretty darn cute. I got the Seat of Soul Rei and Asuka of Evangelion as well as cosplaying Lucky Star figures of Konota and Kagami. There was a small Klein Klang key chain from Macross Frontier in the package as welll I love Klein.

Edit: In response to the comment I have since deleted I spelled her name Illya in this entry because that is how it is actually spelled on Volks’ site and even on the MDD box, it the popularized shortened version of her name and frankly this is my blog and I will spell her name whatever way I choose to.

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Doll Carnival 2009 Event Pictures

Finally there are official pictures surfacing from last year’s Doll Carnival. Pictures gleefully borrowed from Pullip.net, there are a lot more pictures from the event on their site as well (I just grabbed the ones that interested me ^^; ).
steampunk
Finally better pictures of the steampunk set, I want them all even the damn byul (the mask manages to conceal her less desirable features).I hope they really do come out with these as they would be incredibly epic.
prototypes
Some new prototypes showed up, I am really interested in the White Rabbit taeyang the others are all really nice to but he is the one that really captivates me.
proto
More prototypes nothing really grabs my attention out of this bunch.

Of course they had some pending releases on display
audrey
I love Audrey really I do but do I or anyone else really need three different pullips of her.
shanria
I keep getting more and more intrigued by this pullip, something about her really draws me in. I plan on naming my Vintage when I eventually get her.

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58/365- Adventures in the real world

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..
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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.

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57/365- Aloha Paja

Yesterday’s picture of the day, I am running a bit behind the picture was actually taken yesterday though just haven’t gotten around to blogging it. I was cleaning out my closet recently when I found two disposable cameras, that I had kind of assumed had become lost over time ^^; The cameras had pictures on them from when I went to Hawaii back in July of 2007, getting them developed turned out to be somewhat problematic as here in the age of digital photography not many people still use film so not many stores still actually develop film. I finally found a walmart that developed film on-site so I got them developed and got a cd of all the pictures as well. My photography at the time was almost entirely scenery so I decided to use one of my beach pictures as a backdrop for yesterday’s picture of the day Aloha Paja. I was originally going to take a picture of Raja instead of Paja but Paja just filled out the swimsuit better ^^

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56/365- Suzumiya PS2 Exclusive Figma

Today’s picture of the day is my newly arrived exclusive Suzumiya figma from the Suzumiya Haruhi no Tomadoi game. It was the last figma of Suzumiya that I didn’t own, plus I had always been pretty fond of her but somehow I could never justify the cost before luckily she is a belated present from Santa. I am very excited about her as she is actually my favorite Suzumiya figma, I must remember to take a picture of all four of them together (eventually). I like figmas but somehow feel as though I am not fully utilizing them, I don’t really get the same amount of fun posing them as I do with pullips or dolls. Although I actually own a fair number of them, I rarely photograph them and don’t really play with them all that much I still have a few that haven’t even been deboxed ^^;  I do love having them around in case I do decide that I am in the mood to play with them a bit more hopefully I will get the urge to get a bit more playful with them in the future.
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55/365- Pullip Paja Triplets

If anyone had told me years ago when I first started collecting pullips that I would have  three Pajas I wouldn’t have believed them. Now that I have actually done it I decided that today’s picture would be of my Paja triplets: Paja, Kairi and Raja. She still isn’t quite as plentiful as my Papins, yet anyway..
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Paja is the one standing and she is my first Paja, she decided to keep her stock name. My original plan was to name my first Paja- Abigail but when the first one I bought turned out to be scam I decided to retire the name and started temporarily calling her by her stock name until I thought of something better but it ended up sticking. She has enhanced  Kairi is my second Paja and she actually a custom, I didn’t even realize that she was a Paja until Requiemart pointed out that she still had stock Paja eyebrows. Kairi was purchased shortly after the passing of pet rabbit named Kairi so I decided to name her after my rabbit to memorialize her. Raja is my newest Paja who just arrived yesterday, I wanted to give her a cutesy matching name to go with my original Paja.

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54/365- Latest Yahoo Japan haul (Suzumiya & Pullips)

This is technically the last of my Christmas stuff (although one of the things is not even mine ^^; ) seeing how it was purchased for me in the pre-dawn hours of Christmas morning off of Yahoo Japan.
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– (top) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya- PS2 game with LE figma and preorder bonus
– (left) Nahh-ato Pullip
– (right) Paja Pullip

I had wanted the Melancholy of Suzumiya game and figma for quite a long time, so I am glad to finally have it especially since it was the last of the four different Haruhi Suzumiya figmas that I lacked. Of course I am woefully behind on collecting Suzumiya figures proper and don’t really have the space for anymore anyway ^^;

Pullip Nahh-ato is the one thing that came today that  is not really mine, she is going to travel the globe and visit exotic locales. She is going to send me photos of her journeys around the world and I think there will be some pretty epic photo opportunities where she is going.

And finally Paja. Paja generally speaking is probably the pullip which caused me the most angst; the first one I bought was a scam and I never got my money back and the second while it did actually arrive came modified. Once I realized it was modified I decided to restore her to being stock only to regret it and send off with Requiemart to get restored to all of her non-stock glory. This one, while she wasn’t NRFB as advertised was still minty fresh and un-modified with all of her stock and goodies attached so despite that little setback she is proved to be my first angst free Paja.

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53/365- Poison Ivy

I skipped work today, stayed home and read comics ^^; One of the things I read through today were my Harley & Ivy comics. Joker and Harley Quinn are my favorite DC villains but I am rather fond of Poison Ivy as well. I absolutely loved her in the No Man’s Land and Hush arcs as well as Gotham City Sirens but she never quite inspired the level of devotion I feel towards Joker and Harley Quinn.  Unfortunately some of the comics revolving around her tend to think her sex appeal will kind of carry her instead of really focusing on her as a character, granted sex appeal is part of her character but some of the writers seem to get a bit lazy when they write her as that is all they focus on besides the plants of course ^^;.

I decided that today’s picture of the day would be of my Poison Ivy Ame-comi figure. Ironically I found my Harley Quinn Ame-comi figure that had gone missing pretty soon after the two of them arrived soon after taking this picture.  The background picture is actually the cover of Joker’s Asylum: Poison Ivy I loved the art in that issue but the issue seemed kind of disjointed when compared to the others especially when I really loved Penguin’s and Scarecrow’s stories. I can say that it was at least it was the prettiest issue in Joker’s Asylum.
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