38/365- My other new electronic toy.. and getting organized

I got a replacement for my HP Mini 1000 on Sunday, it’s an Acer Aspire One. The HP Mini unfortunately did not survive a zilla attack and Target was running a special on the Acer Aspire so it seemed like an elegant solution. It was kind of funny, the clerk apologized as it was supposed to come with a free case but all they had left was a very bright purple which indirectly prompted the laptop to of course be named The Joker.

This picture was taken in the living room, which is now somewhat known as the Batcave basically because it has all sorts of gadgets in it (computers, tv with no less than twenty two things hooked up to it, etc).  I’ve got various Batman toys surrounding the new netbook as well as a Joker figure and the mug Requiemart gave me for Christmas.
38/365.... the other new electronic toy
Please excuse the mess in the background, we made an Ikea run over the weekend and my living room is still kind of waiting room for to be assembled furniture. Ikea is approximately a three hour round trip from my apartment so when we go we like to make the most of it so I got two new Detolf, a new office chair, a very green lamp, a new tv unit as well as a glass tabletop (they were out of the damn legs I wanted for it). Unfortunately we went to assemble one of the Detolf today only to realize it was in fact broken so we have to take it back also my black desk chair is white but I am just going to try and deal with that.

I’m really attempting to focus on being better organized this year. This started with a massive effort in the apartment, we got a lot done but there is still a lot of stuff we are working on like the doll room which is a bit chaotic at the moment. I am also putting effort into organizing this website but it is admittedly on somewhat of the backburner as we work on the apartment itself. I did some work on the site itself last night using the new netbook. I compiled a list of all the taeyang releases which I had been meaning to do for and updated all the related lists (pullip, dal, byul). I also updated all the owned dolls lists last night with the exception of pullip as I still have a few pullips I have not really photographed at all ^^; I am hoping to add a new pullip to the pullip index every day but I am not sure how realistic a goal that really is.  Once everything is better organized in the apartment I am going to start focusing again on doing a photo inventory of my collection. The anime figures are being neglected here lately, I still have not photographed a lot of them with my DSLR yet. Frankly the quality of my older photographs bother me to the point where I don’t want to use them.

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37/365 Ipad…and Yoko (omega)

The iPad finally officially made it home, we’ve had it for two months or so but it had not made it home from work until just recently. The iPad was actually won from a raffle at work. A bit part of why it wasn’t brought home earlier is that the otter box case for it just recently arrived and well electronics don’t seem to last that well against the zilla, but the otter box has been officially tested and is zilla safe. The iPad is officially the toy for today (I can play games on it so therefore it is a toy 😛 albeit a grown up toy). 37/365- Ipad (and Yoko-omega)
Yoko (omega) is using the iPad to check the tracking on something, could it be another dollfie dream is inbound? If so, which one could it be? It couldn’t be another Yoko as we already have the two: alpha and omega. Omega means last so that would kind of imply that she would be the last Yoko in our collection.
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The theoretical inbound dollfie dream may be getting even more company real soon, although if that happens I will be going on a dolly diet for a bit too make up for my over indulgences lately ^^;

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36/365- Monster High Gloom Beach

I have been featuring quite a few American toys recently, it’s not really intentional I have just been out and about a bit more than usual lately and have been picking up a variety of new toys ^^; I hit my local Toys R Us a few days ago, they had just filled up their Monster High display so I took this opportunity to get it all caught up with collecting the line.
36/365 Monster High Gloom Beach Set
Jackson, the normal looking fellow was the one that eluded me for a while. I had found GB Frankie, Cleo and Draculaura in Target and I decided to order GB Clawdeen when I ordered a second SDCC Frankie through Justiceshop (I had a coupon). I had originally ordered the entire line through amazon but after countless delays I kind of gave up on them, unfortunately I neglected to cancel my preorder and they only let me cancel part of it so I may have another GB Draculaura, Frankie and Clawdeen on the way :/ I don’t really mind a second Draculaura as I can put her in pajamas in her bed on display but I already have two GB Frankies. I’m sure, I’ll figure out something to do with them.
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35/365 Pinky Street

Back before I was interested in Pullips, I really enjoyed collecting Pinky Street. Pinky Street are small and for the most part pretty inexpensive except for the limiteds/rares. I had an almost complete collection I believe I was missing six (mostly repaints) before they released a whole slew of new ones last year. I’ve been debating doing an order on HLJ and getting the bulk of the newer releases from them. The Kobato Pinky Street is out of stock at HLJ but I found it on a US website.
35/365 Pinky Street
As much as I want to get more of them and complete my collection, I am kind of torn. I still love my Pinky Street collection but I don’t really have a place for it right now, they are all boxed up maybe if I can find a spot to display them while I am rearranging the apartment (which I am still working on) I will indulge myself and get caught up.

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34/365- Toys R’ Us Spree!

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.
34/365 Toy Spree!
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.

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33/365 POP! Heroes

I had someone swing by my local comic book store with a shopping list earlier today. My main objective was to find more of the POP! Heroes DC Universe line (and to add Kick-Ass 2 to my pull box). When we had gone in just last week to get my pull box they had tons of them in stock but they had sold quite a few between now and then. I had been hoping to get Batman, a second Joker (the zilla had stole my first one)  Batgirl and Wonder Woman. They had tons of the Joker left and a single Wonder Woman so I got those, while checking out a Batman was eventually produced from behind the counter for me.
33/365- Batman Vs Joker Vinyl Edition
I realized they were almost the perfect size to fit in my Imaginext Joker Fun House so I ended up utilizing it for my picture of the day.
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32/365 Blythe Loves LPS

Since we were expecting another big snowstorm here, we ran to the store to get some much needed supplies of course a couple of other things happened to fall into the cart. I had been hearing about the Blythe and Littlest Pet Shop collaboration since before it even hit stores and I was interested in them, since I like both Blythe and Littlest Pet Shop these seemed like kind of a no-brainer to me.  I had been seeing them in the store and loved them but somehow had never managed to pick any up, I finally caved and got three sets all at once including the very apt Winter Weather Cute set. 32/365- Blythe Loves LPS
I don’t have any actual petite blythes to compare them to sadly, so I can’t comment on quality but I think these are pretty comparable to the original little pullips. I like them quite a bit and I think Hasbro has made some really nice sets, I especially like the two travel sets England and France (coincidently the other two sets I picked up). The newest series sells the mini blythe doll and the corresponding pet separately, I am not as big a fan of them as it works out to be a lot more expensive for example the Winter Weather Cute set was $12.99 if I got one of the new series the Blythe alone would be $10.99 and if I wanted the corresponding pet it would be an additional $6.99.
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365 Project- January Review

I have officially made it a month into this year’s 365 toy project. I have been trying to focus on featuring a variety of different toys and not just my dolls. I think I have been somewhat successful with this, I have even featured somethings I didn’t even know I owned (Puffy Ami Yumi figures, Gundam 00 Gashapon)  as well as some stuff I had never really photographed before (Tokidoki).
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1. 1/365- Pop! Heroes- The Joker, 2. 2/365 Junko Mizuno Toys, 3. 3/365- Estel, 4. 4/365- Peteena & Poodle, 5. 5/365- Tokidoki bag thief!, 6. 6/365 LP Donkey and Pullip Calender, 7. 7/365 Excellen Browning Dollfie Dream, 8. 8/365 – Volks Lorina (Unalice), 9. 9/365- Pinky St and LPS snow day!, 10. 10/365- Hestia Ribon and Isora, 11. 11/365 Snowy Miku, 12. 12/365- Gina (ADG Blythe), 13. 13/365- Illya MDD, 14. 14/365- Cardcaptor Sakura- Sakura and Tomoyo dolls, 15. 15/365 Daiki Kougyou Kanu Figure, 16. 16/365- LPS Frogs, 17. 17/365- Vocaloid Miku Figure, 18. 18/365 Comics shelf, 19. 19/365, 20. 20/365, 21. 21/365, 22. 22/365 Riddler, 23. 23/365- SDCC Frankie, 24. 24/365 Marmalade Maeve, 25. 25/365 Desk Photo, 26. 26/365 Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi & Hello Kitty Ninja Training, 27. 27/365 Blu Cinnamoroll Dal, 28. 28/365 Joker Kiddy Toys, 29. 29/365 Miracle (Byul Paulia), 30. 30/365 Gundam 00 Gashapon, 31. 31/365 Happy Birthday Ante!

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31/365- LTF Ante- Marie

Yesterday was the two year anniversary of my Littlefee Ante, Marie’s arrival. Marie was my first bjd, she was supposed to be my first bjd but she turned out to be the first of many as I now own more than 20 bjds and have more on the way. I remember how anxious I was when I first ordered her not sure how I would take to playing with a bjd but needless to say we got on just fine.
31/365 Happy Birthday Ante!
As much as I love Ante’s original look I have taken to dressing her more casually these days and putting an alternate wig on her (I ❤ orange and green).
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30/365 Gundam OO Gashapon

Yesterday’s picture of the day was of some Gundam 00 gashapon. They were made by Bandai and are part of their High Grade  Core Mobile Suit Gundam collection, I happened to come across these while rearranging the apartment so I decided to feature them. I believe I acquired these as a part of a much larger Gundam lot I bought last year but I am not positive ^^;
30/365 Gundam 00 Gashapon
From left to right we have Gundam Dynames, Gundam Virtue, Gundam Exia and Gundam Kyrios who were the main protagonists’ mobile suits from the first season of Gundam 00.

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