145/365- Pinky Street, Boston

I went to Fenway park yesterday to watch the Red Sox play, I am not generally a huge sports’ fan but I enjoy baseball and normally make it up to Fenway for at least a game a year. Of course there was a rain delay yesterday so the game started late and then ended up getting rained out they ended up losing today 3-1 to Tampa Bay and they are losing tonight’s game hardcore. After some initial crazed thoughts of I can totally bring one of my dollfies with me on the T, I decided to change strategies and go smaller. I brought a handful of Pinky Street with me to Boston..
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Tokyo Kid

I was in the Boston area yesterday for something (I’ll make a post about that later) so I had some time to kill so I figured I would take the T down to the Cambridge area and check out Tokyo Kid store and a couple of smaller comic book shops in the area. I have been to Tokyo Kid a handful of times before, it had been almost a year since I had been in their store proper though.
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Honestly I was kind of disappointed with their selection, I am not sure if Anime Boston cleaned them out and they have not fully recouped yet but I seem to remember them having a lot better of a selection on my previous visits.  There were a few things that caught my eye and kind of tempted me but for how relatively long I have been out of the game,  I honestly expected a lot more temptations to be at the store. Maybe my expectations were too high but at the same time, I didn’t feel the normal almost wonder-lust I get when I leave Animadness or that I felt on my previous trips there.
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One of the display cases on the outside of the store.
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Another outside display.
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Inside of the same case.
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Gundam kits and plushes..
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More figures..
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even more figures..
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Some nice things in this case, I actually really liked the Choun figure ultimately decided against getting her.

I feel like their prices were relatively high, maybe I am too far removed from the anime figure scene but $50 each for Sega Prize figures like He is My Master bed Izumi and Anna figures, seems high especially when the original MSRP for those was only 1500 yen. I consider myself to be pretty realistic about my price expectations, I know the yen conversion rate sucks at the moment but I think $30-$35 would have been a more realistic/reasonable price for them. Other prices? most nendoroids were in the $60 range, there were a few older ones for $45 though. Most of the 1/8 figures were either $100 or $150. They had both of the newer Magical Lyrical Girl Nanoha figures by Alter, I was really considering getting Fate but decided against her she was $200 which is pretty pricey, normally I would have bit the bullet and bought her but because of her size transportation played a decisive role in deciding against her. I knew I wouldn’t being getting back to my car for hours as I would be riding the T, I was going to a Red Sox game and I honestly wasn’t sure if she would even be allowed in the park because of her size. The weather also played a role while it wasn’t raining at the time, the forecast had called for rain and it was pouring by the time I did actually get back to my car. All things considered I am glad I didn’t bite the bullet and buy her because the box would have been ruined by the time I got back to my car ^^;
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I ended up getting only a few small things from the shop. I got the Luka nendoroid I had been wanting for a while ($60!), a petit nendoroid from Death Note (the nurse outfit was too cute) and a couple of issues of Newtype.
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I asked a couple of basic questions to whoever was working there yesterday and they pretty rude in their responses, I’ve had really good experiences there in the past but damn I just got the impression they just didn’t care about my business at all yesterday.I had still been waffling on a few things then but I decided to just go small at that point and just get a few things,  which of course means I ended up buying a bunch of things online once I did get home. Next time I get the urge to shop in an actual anime store I am just going to go back to Animadness, their prices are better there anyway plus the owners are nice (and of course they do sell pullip).

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141-144/365- Lucky Star Mama Chapps, Shrine Maidens and more oh my!

I apologize for my absence as of late, I have been having extreme internet troubles the past week and a half. At first I thought the router might have up and died but it appears my building’s wiring is at fault, I called Comcast and they seemed amazed I was able to get any connectivity whatsoever @_@ Someone is coming to rewire the building next week, so I can have reliable internet access again versus days like yesterday where I had ten minutes in the morning and then absolutely nothing until very late in the evening. Trying to get a hold of me can be kind of tricky at the moment ^^;  I am going to very quickly throw together a post to kind of help me get caught up here while my internet connection is actually working for once.

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I decided to take my Mama Chapps outside for some photos, seeing how the sun was actually shining and we finally have some good weather.
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The official picture of the day is of my my first Mama Chapp, Tsukasa. I am desperately wanting Kagami at the moment but I am trying to be patient and space out the Mama Chapp purchases a bit more although I am not sure about waiting a year like I did between Tsukasa and Konata’s purchase.
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I regret not getting the matching Winter School uniform Konata but to be honest I am just extraordinarily happy to have a Konata Mama Chapp.
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They are so cute together ❤

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I’m still fixated on Lucky Star it seems.. I decided to open up my petit shrine maiden nendoroids for the first time and to photograph them with my Wave Kagami/Tsukasa figures for picture 142. Lucky Star is just so cute, I can’t resist the urge to photograph all the figures from it, it seems ^^;
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One of my personal favorite nendoroids, the Vocaloid Miku cosplay by Kagami of Lucky Star. At first I wasn’t really sure how I felt about the anime characters cosplaying as other anime characters in figure form originally but they have ended up making up some really cute combinations like Kagami/Miku here.
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I noticed these small flowers in front of my building and of course, I rapid-fire went through all my figures trying to figure out whose coloring it would best compliment the flowers. The winner turned out to be by an Ilfa figure from To Heart 2 by Kotobukiya. I am still eagerly awaiting my other Ilfa figures and kind of hoping she hasn’t become lost in the mail as it has been a while since I ordered her ^^; SAL seems to be taking a lot longer these days :/
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More oh My!
Without the evils known only as the internet to distract me, I found myself in somewhat of a shutterbug mood and decided to take lots of pictures over the past few days (and to start playing Oblivion again because well I haven’t maxed out a dark elf yet this year).
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These Vocaloid plushes are actually pretty interesting, I bought them because they were adorable. I was kind of waiting until they were all here to really play with them and I started handling one of the Mikus only to realize they have some form of internal skeleton system that allows them to hold poses, Miku even has pose-able hair. These are so worth the price now, I want to buy the others now and a duplicate of one I don’t like to dissect because I am curious what that skeleton looks like underneath.
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I am making somewhat of an effort to photograph all my nendoroids at some point, partially because I am working towards getting better photos of everything and partially because I am kind of falling back in love with nendoroids >_< I have a fair number of them, I am not trying to collect them all or anything but there are some I regret not getting and will probably end up picking up some time in the near future.
Couple of other figures I took down to the flowers, they weren’t the best matches but I liked the contrast they made.
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Things should be normal next week I promise X_X

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140/365- Volks Dollfie Collection

I finally had the time to do something that I had been wanting to do for months now, especially since Illya’s and Feena’s arrival I have been dying to take a new Dollfie Dream group photo. After some thought and deliberation, I decided to include my Volks Super Dollfie Suiseiseki and Hina Ichigo in the photo as well but not my other bjds. I am hoping to do a combined dollfie dream/ bjd group photo next month after the two bjds I have on layaway arrive.
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Top Row (left to right)- Kanu, Ryomou, Feena & Estel
Bottom Row (left to right)- Yoko (omega), Suzumiya, Suiseiseki, Hinaichigo, Illya, Rin & Yoko (alpha)

Since I had the dollfies out and about anyway I decided to get some additional photos of them.
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I think this photo is probably my favorite of all the ones I took today, Feena somehow looks very dynamic in this one.
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Kanu and Ryomou haven’t been outside in forever so I took a few pictures of them together.
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I heard Fate/Stay Night Sakura is going to be released soon, I am going to do my best to try and get her which unfortunately means I am probably going to need to acquire at least a Saber if not both releases at some point in the future.
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Glad I finally got some pictures of the two of them together.
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Suzumiya is kind of my odd doll out now, she is the only doll without a counterpart (technically Nia should be Yoko’s counterpart but Yoko x 2 works too).
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139/365- Illya Mini Dollfie Dream & Azone Pure Neemo

Skipping ahead a few days again, in an effort to get caught up quicker ^^;. Yesterday’s picture of the day was of my Illya dolls, the MDD by Volks and the Pure Neemo by Azone. I had meaning to take a picture of the two of them together for a while now, but somehow never got around to it until yesterday.
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I’ve had the Azone Pure Neemo of Illya since she was released a couple of years ago, I didn’t get the MDD to much later. I love both dolls although neither are really problem-free, Illya the MDD doesn’t like to stand on her own while the posing possibilities with the Illya Pure Neemo are somewhat limited without buying additional bodies.
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136/365- Nendoroid Fun

I was sort of inspired by the fun I had with Raspberyl earlier in the week and decided to take out some of my nendoroids for photographs yesterday.
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From left to right: Saber Lion, Hetare Saber, Hetare Dark Saber Wonder Fest Exclusive, Saber Lily, Armor Saber Wonder Fest Exclusive and Izumi Konata cosplay Saber Wonder Fest Exclusive
I had been wanting to take a group picture of all my nendoroids based on Saber for a while now so that was one of my objectives. I love Saber but they really seem to be coming out with yet another nendoroid based on her, do we really need seven based on her?
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Pure Saber shot.
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The differences in armor in these three different versions of Saber kind of intrigue me.
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I liked the idea of this picture because of their expressions.
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These two didn’t seem to care they were from different series they just wanted to fight each other.
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Arrival Lum figma

As mentioned in my earlier post my Lum figma came yesterday, I got a little overindulgent with taking pictures of her yesterday so she kind of needs her own post. Lum is from the classic anime Urusei Yatsura which predates even my anime watching days by quite a few years. Luckily I had a friend obsessed with all things Rumiko Takahashi that was rather insistent that I watch the series which to my surprise I actually really enjoyed it.
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Poor misguided Lum.
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Poor hot sauce drinking misguided Lum.
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I am glad figma has branched out and started doing some of the more classic anime characters, a lot of the other newer ones I haven’t even heard of the shows before.
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Honestly I think this might just be my first Lum figure. I sure have had a lot more fun with her already than I have my other figmas.

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136/365- More new arrivals

A couple of packages arrived yesterday, they were fairly small but they had an interesting variety of stuff in them. My Lum figma arrived via ems from Hobbysearch, everything else came from HLJ. As more time goes on I am more appreciative of the classic animes especially when I can not stand a lot of the newer stuff so I really felt I needed to get Lum. I got three of the four Shugo Chara Yamato pinky street-like figures as they were finally on clearance. I loved Shugo Chara unfortunately there was not much merchandise for it.  HLJ also had the mini dal on clearance, this one was always one of my favorites that I had somehow never picked up before so of course I pounced on her. I have been becoming more interested again in kits lately and the Patlabor kit was a steal. The Vocaloid plush was the last one I really wanted, I already have regular Miku, Rin and Len I don’t care as much about the periphery cast.
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135/365- Disgaea 3- Raspberyl Nendoroid

After months of lusting over her, I managed to get the Raspberyl nendoroid from Toyslogic. Raspberyl has been my most wanted anime figure of like this year, she is just so maddeningly cute I just had to have her. I love the Disgaea games in general, Etna is my all time favorite character from the series but Raspberyl is a very close second. In a perfect world they would make an Etna nendoroid too, but here in the real world I will be happy with my Raspberyl in all her demonic cuteness. Normally I don’t really play with my nendoroids that much, but as you can see I could not resist playing with this little cutie pie. Even though she hasn’t been here long, I think she just may be my new favorite.
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I had a really hard time finding her up for sale anywhere. She seemed to be sold out everywhere I looked, even my local shop was not able to fulfill their preorders for her so I am not sure if there were just a lot less of her produced than other nendoroids or if maybe she as a nendoroid was just a lot more popular than they had anticipated. I guess the reason why doesn’t really matter anymore as I did manage to get her thanks to Toyslogic. I do believe I got their very last one,  through some stroke of luck they had one last one floating about in their warehouse.

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134/365- Desk photo

It’s been a while since my last desk photo, I decided it was time for a new one. My desk was looking particularly unpleasant this morning so I figured it was time to clean off my desk and prove there was actually still a desk under all the receipts and various desk debris that I managed to accumulate.
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Much to my surprise there was still a desk beneath all the debris. I have a variety of figures/dolls on my desk currently. If you click on the above image there are notes explaining what the various items are.
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I got the shelving on my desk originally for pullips but it was a little smaller than what I was hoping for and since I couldn’t use it for the pullips I kind of lacked a space for it, it eventually ended up on my desk. I try to utilize acquired stuff as much as possible, the odder the item the more likely I am to find a use for it.. I am the type to buy store fixtures out of closing stores to use for displays. I covered up the sides with various promotional pullip stuff including some zombuki magnets that I won and an official postcard featuring Savon as a type 1. I also have my Art Storm/Lilics Chobits figures close by as after looking for the Wonder Festival limited version for so long I am not about to let her out of my sight.
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My beloved Harley Quinn custom pullip and probably my most sentimental figure Mahoro from Mahoromatic by Kotobukiya share a shelf. They don’t really have anything to do with each other they just happen to both be favorites of mine.
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Little Nelliel and Unzombuki Cheshire have struck up a most unusual friendship. Generally speaking only my favorite figures get to hang out on my desk and some of them change out pretty frequently while others stay on my desk for quite some time.
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My Illya MDD, my Lucky Star clock and my Naru from Love Hina figure all sit off to the right of my desk. I just realized I forgot to change my calender to April *facepalm*

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