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Over the past year since I have entered the world of Dollfie Dream, I have mistakenly allowed some of my most desired items slipped past my grasp.  I waited for months and months without finding them again, and I was left with pondering why I didn’t try harder when the chance was available.  This past two months of 2010 has been especially meaningful to me, since quite a few of the items I missed out on has reappeared in front of me.  This time I wasn’t going to let them slip pass me again!  A pretty big haul that is, but I am very happy that I have finally gotten them in my hands!  So, let’s take a look at them, shall we?

1. Mashiro Mito alternate wig from the Hakama set
2. Dollfie wig Ivory WG111 from http://www.miruya.com
3. Dollfie wig Deep Grey WG111 from http://www.miruya.com
4. Pia Carrot 3 Floral Mint Waitress set
5. Erika Sendo Plain Dress
6. Erika Sendo limited wig
7. G’s Festival Comic with Erika Sendo full size micro-fiber towel
8. Volks Dollfie Dream Rei French Maid costume
9. Rin Tohsaka Photo Portrait with pre-order bonus

Today is special occasion for Feena because the long sought after Mashiro Mito alternate wig from Dolpa 22 has finally arrived!  Obviously I have to have Feena put it on right the way!  More under the cut~

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A few days ago, blogsphere comrade Tier celebrated his acquisition of the rare and limited edition of pre-painted version of the 1/4 Uesugi Kenshin from Volks A-brand.  I promised him to take a few pictures of my own 1/4 Gathering version for him to compare the finishing quality between the two.  That reminded me, I never quite taken pictures of my 1/4 army, might as well take this chance to snap a few pics eh?

For those of you who are not familiar just who this Uesugi Kenshin is, please take a look at one of my earlier post for the 1/5 Uesugi Kenshin Freeing version.  In 2007, in a survey done by Tech Gian, Kenshin narrowly defeated Saber from Fate Stay Night to become the most popular eroge game heroine of the year.  Enough talking, let’s dig in~

As usual, click on pictures to show full scale image~

I picked up this Kenshin a few years ago, obviously I haven’t gotten in Dollfie Dream then.  I have always treasured this Kenshin as the most elegant painted figure I have ever owned, like a goddess descended from heaven.

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Hello everyone, Fräulein Asuka is back for the 2nd day of the trip report.  In case you haven’t read the Day 1 report and don’t know why I am here, I was assigned the duty of writing this trip report for Papa, you can read the first day report here.

As you can see from the background with the Fate Stay Night microfiber towels, you can probably guess what Day 2 is about, that’s right, on the 2nd Day after his arrival to Japan, Papa went to shopping in the Otaku Heaven: Akihabara.

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Time is ticking away as my planned Japan trip is slated to happen tomorrow, assuming my standby ticket status remain positive.  However, due to some weather problem, my standby ticket status is in a little jeopardy at this point.  I remain cautiously optimistic that I should be in Japan on Wednesday.  Anyway, before my trip, I managed to finish a project that started almost a month ago.  Here I present to you the Dollfie Dream Theater EP02, a continuation of the last episode (for those of you who have not read the last episode, please follow this link Dollfie Dream Theater EP01).  A slight surprise will be waiting for you at the end of the story!

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There have been a whole host of giveaway contests at figure.fm lately, and I have been wanting to do a little story board kind of a thing with my Dollfie Dream for sometime now; so this present a perfect opportunity for me to give my creativity a test drive, without further ado, let’s dig to my first story board post – Dollfie Dream Theater!  Dollfie Dream Theater is something I have wanted to do since I adopted my first dollfie, the giveaway contest just gave it a little motivation to get it kick started!  Obviously, with the Hikari Photo Studio in the background, there are bound to be more interesting stories to come in the future!

Edit: Thank you for Dannychoo.com member GNdynames for pointing out my obvious dialogue error for calling Saber the King of Heros instead of the King of Knights. Image corrected.

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Updating from my “flamethrower” Prescott again… Well I finally decided to ditch the Dell train and be a free man… just went to newegg.com and ordered myself a

Cooler Master RC690

and a Gigabyte Intel P43 ATX motherboard

Hopefully, I will be running at full strength again sometime next week.

On the brighter side of the note, I have just been notified by Volks International that I have won the lottery!  Dollfie Dream Rin Tosaka and her school uniform are finally mine!  They almost make it sounds they they are ready to send her out to me.. perhaps she will arrive before Dollfie Fate that I won in the Volks USA lottery, what an ironic twist of “fate” that is.  Perhaps an update to my Dollfie Dream Completion Project page after I recovered from this motherboard failure.

For the past week or so I have been concentrating my effort to complete the Brighter than dawning blue series of Visual Novels, as a result, the boxes that have been arriving since last week haven’t even been opened!

Since I have just completed the first of the three VNs, I think I should at least unbox these before  I continue on with the PS2 port version of Brighter than dawning blue.

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Alright, the continuous temptation from the most up to date information on Volks line of Dollfie Dream through Dannychoo.com is pushing me dangerously close to actually consider adopting a dollfie or two.  The latest release are two of my favorite characters Rin Tosaka from Fate stay night and Fate T Harlaown from Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS.

I have always said Rin need more love, now it’s my chance to stay true to my own words, she need more love, more love from me!  I have crossed over the line and finally registered at Volks website, when the lottery opens, I am going for her.

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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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Even with the economic downturn, almost everyone are scaling down their spending; including collector like myself.  However, there are  some figures that are so unique that one should assign priority to them over the run of the mill figures.  Let’s take a look at them:

First up, the leader of the pack, Fate Unlimited Code exclusive character Saber Lily 1/7 PVC ~Distant Avalon~ from Good Smile Company.  Do I need to say more?  Saber Lily actually debuted as a bonus figma with the Fate Unlimited Code Playstation 2 collector’s edition.  I knew it in my heart then there will be more figurines made with this costume, and I was right about it.  This version of Saber is arguably the best looking Saber figure between Fate stay night, Fate hollow ataraxia and Fate Unlimited Code.  There is something about this Saber figure that I know it will rank one of the best looking figures in 2009, and will certainly become one of the top five figures in my collection.

Next up is Nanoha Takamachi Swimsuit version also from GSC.  Now, let me be honest here,  I am a much bigger fan of Fate chan than Nanoha chan in the series.  However, knowing the GSC is already working on a paired Fate T. Hawlaown in all her swimsuit glory.  One cannot buy Fate without buying this Nanoha for the obligated symmetrical docking action!

Third place is the School swimsuit mecha nurse girl Nana Megami Magazine Vol.8 from Orchid Seed.  I have never been a huge fan of Orchid Seed figures, but this one caught my attention.  It’s a MS Girl!  MS Girls are hot, especially the ones drawn in 駒都えーじ’s personal website 「Passing Rim」. I secretly wish that every MS Girl drawn by 駒都えーじto be made into PVC figures!  I am sure Ryusei Date himself would be gunning for this one.

Fourth place is from a relatively small production company call Native, and they bring us a simply yet extremely sexy looking Kotone Ousaka, original illustration by the famous artist Tony.  There is apparently a story constructed behind this illustration.  This girl is actually a 22 years old 4th year university student studying to be a teacher!  In this particular illustration, she appears to be enjoying a midnight banana snack in front of her students, or is that a real banana?

Fifth place is Black Rock Shooter also from GSC (they are taking all the spots up ;x, and it’s not over yet!).  Now, I am not yet a big fan of Hatsune Miku or her variation character, the prototype pictures are stunning enough to convince me that this is a buy.  I will be most interested to see if her eyes are truly glowing.

Sixth place, also from GSC is the long awaited Adult Mikuru Asahina.  I am sure many of us have been waiting for a more mature looking Mikuru Asahina, and GSC is ready to deliver with a pose that we are all familiar with.

And finally, the last place, hanging on barely by a thread is from the Bible Black series, Limited release 2000 pieces Saeki Kaori & Takahiro Hiroko figure pair from Miyabiya.  I have never bought anything made by this company before, but I have always wanted to get a decent looking Saeki (I have always had the hot for Saeki), and with the last Saeki Kaori from C-Works Diva ended in utter disappointment, I am really looking forward to this one.

This conclude my immediate buy-list, at least for now.