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1:4 Kos-Mos Version 4 Pre-painted (Cast-off-able)

Filed Under: Featured, Otaku Home screen, Other Figures, Photo Shoot & Review
Dec.31, 2009

Well, it’s still December 31st here where I live and I would like to wrap up this year by doing a photo shoot for the “just arrived” 1/4 Pre-painted Kos-Mos version 4 (Happy New Year to the folks in Eastern Hemisphere though!).  I have always been a fan of Kos-Mos and the Xenosaga series, version 4 in particular is my favorite.  Over the years, there had been rarely any good Kos-Mos figure, the Happinet version was fairly close but the expression seemed a bit too blank, the Alter 1/7 version was ok but the face sculpt really didn’t deliver for me, but I think my favorite version up to this point is the Alter 1/6 Kos-Mos Swimsuit version.  The facial expression was still a little bit off for my taste but that was the closest we got so far.  It will probably take this brand new 1/4 Kos-Mos to dethrone the best sculpted Kos-Mos crown from Alter.   This 1/4 Kos-Mos will stand up to 18 inches from the resting surface to the tip of the Gatling gun, so be prepared to free up some space!  As usual with Gathering Pre-Painted resin, paint job is done very nicely, the sculpt is clean and well defined.  It’s pretty easy to put her together.  As good as it looks though, this version I have ordered is not without flaws (which we will discuss later), but from the overall appearances and attention to details, this is still the best looking Kos-Mos figure I have to-date.  So, without further ado, let’s get started~

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More pictures under the link~

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June preorder addition subtraction and huge addition

Filed Under: Dollfie Dream, Otaku Home screen, Other Figures
Jun.29, 2009

As we are closing in to the end of June, I would like to spend a little time to reflect on all the pre-order activities that has been going on in the past month.  As some of you are already aware of my recent interest in Dollfie Dream, I have been cutting back drastically on pre-order figures and various expenses, however, I have managed to balance out my pre-order list with some cancellation of my original pre-order.  Let’s take a look at the addition list first!

The first one that got added to my pre-order list was no one than Saber Lily from E2046 Gathering series, I am quite a sucker when it comes to Saber Lily so when I found out she was ready to be preordered, I wasted little time to put her in my shopping cart!  Saber Lily T’s System version is slated to arrive in late August.

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Pre-order list creep April 7th, 2009

Filed Under: Other Figures
Apr.07, 2009

My list of pre-ordered figures is creeping up on me again, visiting various blog sites and keeping myself update on release info is not helping me at all, yup, not helping.  First one is the Volks online store exclusive Fate T. Harlaown.  I have been waiting for release info on this figure and a few days ago I found out it is going to be exclusive to Volks online store when I was updating my profile on Tsuki-board.  I scambled to dig up my personal shopping service that I haven’t used in a few years to get this.  I was going to order the whole set of Hayate, Nanoha and Fate, but alas Hayate and Nanoha are already sold out even though the deadline for Hayate is April 15th.

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Figurine promotion and relegation battle

Filed Under: Otaku Home screen
Apr.05, 2009

I have talked about how I value my figurine collection and they must be protected from dust and dirt with my weather sealing film.  However, due to lack of display area in the past, I have never been able to protect every figurine I wanted to. With the new display area online and the 10 or so figures that are due to arrive later this year, I have decided to introduce a new system that can promote/demote my figurine collection from my dust protection system.  With me being an English Premier League fan, I thought of the promotion and relegation battle that takes place every year!  Poorly performing figures would be relegated out of my dust protection system (into the championship), newly release and high quality figurine can be promoted into the dust protection system (promote to premier league)!

With this being the first season, massive amount of figures have been promoted and relegated.  Let’s take a look at them, we will start with the relegated figures.

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March loot wrap up March 27th

Filed Under: Otaku Home screen
Mar.27, 2009

The final shipment of the March Madness has finally arrived, I expect April to be much quieter, may be 1 or 2 shipment at most.  2 Boxes arrived at home awaiting inspection.  The first box comes from ebay seller tktradeltd.

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Shihodo Narika Cho Henshin version Alter 1/8

Filed Under: Otaku Home screen, Other Figures
Mar.23, 2009

For the past few days I have been replaying Beat Blade Haruka (or Choko Sennin Haruka) for Subaru’s background story to go with her photos shoot.  During the process I think I realized I have always had a soft spot for tsundere (think Asuka Langley Soryu from Evangelion).  I never really knew why I bought so many of her figures, I always though it was the long hair, but there must be more to it.  Then I realized it has got to be the tsundere effect (I only learned about this term recently).  And a few days ago, Alter open this figure for reservation.

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I guess playing through Beat Blade Haruka again has two meanings now, Narika and Subaru.  One thing I can say for sure, Narika is definitely a pink+twintails+tsundere (that’s like a trifecta of win), I am going to cover her background along with Subaru.  And if tsundere turns you on, this is the figure for you.  Reservation is open at Hobby Search and probably your favorite online store.

I have fairly good confidence that Alter can deliver, judging how their version of Haruka easily looks 10X better than the Kotobukiya version.  My only question is why do they skip the normal henshin and go straight to cho henshin?  And the bigger question is, where is my Haruka cho henshin???
I am adding her to my must buy list for 2009, see the rest of them here.

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Megami Super Deluxe+1 and 1/7 Teana Lanster Alter arrived

Filed Under: Otaku Home screen
Mar.20, 2009

Friday the 20th, another box waiting for my inspection after I got home from work.

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Turns out it’s the 1st copy of Megami Super Deluxe and the Teana Lanster from Alter.  Teana really wasn’t on my buy list originally, but while I was placing my order for the 1st copy of Megami Super Deluxe, I thought about adding her to my collection (and to make the shipment from HLJ more worthwhile).

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Out of the entire casting in Mahou Shoujo Lyrical StrikerS, my firm favorite has always been Fate, Nanoha 2nd and I don’t even have a fixed pose figurine of Nanoha yet, but would soon change because of the 1/4 Nanoha bikini version from Good Smile company.  I guess after visiting Superrat’s review on this version of Teana sort of swayed my decision a bit.  Teana is good looking (twintails is a turn on factor), Alter has consistently produced good quality figures and third, Teana is fairly likeable based on her performance in StrikerS.

And the 1st copy of Megami Super Deluxe

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I will be looking to sell the extra copy of Megami Super Deluxe once the market depleted of the publication, hopefully to recoup the extra shipping cost.

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