47/365- Tonner Harley Quinn

I love Harley Quinn almost as I love the Joker. For as much as I like her, I really don’t have that much Harley Quinn stuff especially considering the mountain of Joker stuff I have been steadily amassing ^^; After a year of being on my wish list I finally took the plunge and bought myself a Tonner Harley Quinn recently from AngelicDreamz. Her pricing during the Christmas sale was too good to pass up on, I didn’t think I would ever see a lower price so I decided now was the time to buy.  She is pretty neat but at the same time, I don’t have a lot of experience with dolls of her size I am used to handling smaller dolls like my pullips or larger dolls like my dollfies so handling her is a bit difficult for me. I’m glad I finally did decide to get her though as she is gorgeous.
47/365

Posted in 365 Photo Project, Comics, Doll, Love that Joker | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

46/365- BJD- Puki- Pongpong

My new little cutie pie Pukipuki Pongpong, Bubbles is my picture of the day. I was just so pleased with how her photos came out I couldn’t resist making one of them picture of the day.
46/365

I’m kind of in a bit of quandary about Fairyland in general at the moment. They are running a special event with event exclusive items which you can see on their website. I was for my wallet’s sake hoping to take a break from buying bjds even though I had fallen in love with one of the new Little Fee releases Leah but the event items are really tempting me. I am especially tempted by the Mini Fee event exclusive items, something about the breakaway head just has me absolutely captivated there is one complication besides the price of the minimum order needed to get the head- I do not own any Mini Fees. I would effectively have to buy a Mini Fee body to be able to use the head, in reality if it came down to it I would probably buy the Miyu Mini Fee and have them share her body for now. The event runs through February 15th so I have a little bit of time to think about what I want to order or if I really want to immediately start doing layaway payments on another doll (or dolls).

Posted in 365 Photo Project, BJD, Doll | Tagged , , , , , | 4 Comments

Arrival- BJD- Pukipuki Pongpong

My Fairyland Pukipuki Pongpong arrived in the mail today. There was a slight complication to her delivery as I was at work when she was delivered and the mailman meaning well left her in my mailbox. My mailbox is basically like what they have at the post office, we as residents have a key to the front to fetch our mail but the postman is the only one with a key to the back where he puts the mail through. The side you put the mail through is larger than the size you get the mail from, Pongpong’s box was small enough to fit through on our mailman’s end I spent about 35 minutes trying to wiggle her out of the mailbox unharmed before finally giving up and destroying the outer shipping carton ^^;

Bubbles
Even though she has only been here a few hours, I think she is my favorite of all my pukis. I just adore her joyful expression, truly she has the face of happiness. I neglected to have a new wig and clothes on hand for her so she borrowed a wig from one of my Jdolls and an outfit from one of my mini dals for her first few photos today.
Bubbles Bubbles Bubbles

Here’s a picture of her with her sisters. I have named her Bubbles, her sisters’ names are Blossom and Buttercup and the three of them are named after the Powerpuff Girls.
Group Shot

Posted in acquistion, BJD, Doll | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

45/365- BJD- Pukipuki- Piki

I had the day off of work today for reasons, I myself have not been able to figure out just yet.  I spent my afternoon studying BJDs this was mainly spurned on by me browsing Resinality which seems to be a much better fit for me then DOA which while it is a great hub of information is a bit too large for my taste ^^;  . Of course today’s picture is going to be of one of my five (soon to be seven) bjds.
45/365

My Pukipuki Piki, Blossom was my second bjd and my first tiny bjd. I had actually ordered my Pukipuki Lily Buttercup beforehand, but I got an offer to trade for Piki while I was waiting for her to arrive from Denver Doll. The little playset she is on is actually a My Little Pony playset I bought because I thought it might work with the Pukis because of it’s size. The tinies are a lot of fun to play with for me, I don’t like to take them out for photoshoots though as I am somewhat afraid I will lose one of them as they are so tiny (approximately the same size as a pinky street figure).  Luckily I still had a lot of my old Kelly clothes hanging around so I was able to use it for them for the pukis. Once Bubbles arrives and I find her a wig I intend to commission little Powerpuff Girl dresses for my three pukis.

Posted in 365 Photo Project, BJD, Doll | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Dolls, dolls and more dolls..

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.
pongpong

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

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.
black canary

Posted in BJD, Comics, Doll, purchase | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Preorder Time- Aizu Asuka

I have cut down significantly on my number of  figure preorders recently, I have been strategically planning each one and really focusing on trying to keep my numbers down but there was no way I could resist preordering this Asuka. I should post my pathetic list of preorders especially compared to my old ones it is rather pathetic ^^; Asuka has always been my favorite Evangelion character. When I seen this figure pop up on My Figure Collection (formally Tsuki-board) I knew I just had to have it, I have been keeping my eyes open for preorders to open ever since.

asuka
Series- Rebuild of Evangelion
Character- Souryuu Asuka Langley
Release- 4/10
Manufacturer- Aizu Project

I preordered her from Hobby Search this morning as I happened to be on their site checking to see if they still had something in stock when I seen her. I preordered her immediately, as I simply had to have her ^^; I literally have tons of Asuka figures easily over one hundred different figures of her including two 1/4 scale figures, so I probably didn’t need another Asuka figure but I do not yet have a statue of her in her school uniform so that is my justification for this purchase.

Posted in anime figure, preorder | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

44/365- Hot Toys Joker <3

Anyone that has read this blog for a while probably knows I am a bit fixated on the Joker, I absolutely loved him as a kid in the comics and on the animated tv series but I had stopped reading comics pretty much entirely until I was dragged along to see Dark Knight and it reignited the old Joker love in me. I have been hooked on the Joker ever since, I can’t enough of reading all the comics, playing Arkham Asylum/ Lego Batman, watching Dark Knight and the old animated tv series. I finally got around to deboxing my Deluxe Hot Toys Joker, that I got for Christmas today. He is fantastic, the sculpt the detailing I just couldn’t have asked for more. This figure also debuted Hot Toy’s new PERS system “Parallel Eyeball Rolling System” which basically means he has a tiny eye mechanism and that the direction his eyes looks in can be manipulated.

The packaging on him was superb, he and all his accessories were arranged in various layers in the box. The amount of accessories included with him was insane, there were even to scale safety pins intended for the grenade rig in his jacket.  I was so impressed with the new PERS system that I actually harvested my original Hot Toy’s Joker body so I could display him in both his police disguise as well as his deluxe version. I am kind of torn as to whether I should buy a blank Hot Toys body and permanently have all four different versions on display or if I should do as I originally intended and put aside the spare Joker outfit for an eventual custom namu/taeyang Joker.
44/365

Posted in 365 Photo Project, Comics, Love that Joker | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

43/365- Feena Fam Earthlight

Although the picture was taken yesterday, this post is a day late as I was somewhere without an internet connection again last night. I didn’t even have the forethought to grab my actual camera yesterday so instead I had my cell phone and my friend’s camera to work with and frankly my cell phone’s camera quality is almost the same.
43/365
The first picture was taken with my cell phone, and was just a place holder but the better picture didn’t actually turn out to be all that much better in the long run :/ I still can’t forget I had the forethought to grab figures but not my camera as I was rushing out the door yesterday.
43/365
I had a lot of trouble finding today’s figure, she is Feena Fam Earthlight by Alterier Sai. I originally ordered her from Toylet.net but they sent me the wrong figure, and said that they did not have her in stock anymore T_T. I think I actually ended up getting her off of Tisinc99even though I don’t particularly like them they were the only ones to still have in stock.

Posted in 365 Photo Project, anime figure | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

42/365- Pleinair-San

Today’s picture of the day is coming in under the wire ^^; uploaded at two minutes to midnight to be exact due to apathy on my part.
42/365
I always loved Pleinair-San’s character design, the actual background image for this one was actually my computer background for the better part of a year which is rather unprecedented as these days I have a hard time keeping the same background for more than a day or so. I was quite ecstatic when three different figure releases and a repaint of one of them (wonder fest exclusive) of her were released in 2008, I ended up picking up all but the Wonder Fest release ^^;. Today’s picture is of the Enterbrain Pleinair figure, I have to admit it is probably my favorite of the larger sized Pleinair figures released so far.

Posted in 365 Photo Project, anime figure | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

41/365- Chantilly Dal

I hate to be so repetitive as I just did a post about her earlier today,  but Chantilly is just so darn cute how could I resist? I titled the picture my pure heart for you, maybe it should have my sweet heart for you instead as she is offering a re-ment that is a heart shaped strawberry shortcake. Chantilly is the first doll to get me really excited in a while, the December releases were nice but they don’t really compare to her. I never even really got the ambition to photograph the December dolls, at least not yet ^^;

41/365- My pure heart for you

Posted in 365 Photo Project, Dal, Doll | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment