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Seems like I have been making Dollfie Dream related posts a lot recently, so let’s break it up with something else~ What we have here is the 1/4 Fate T. Harlaown Swimsuit version that just arrived at the door today, I have been longing for this figure to pair her up with the previously released 1/4 Nanoha.  I wasted little time to take her out of the box and set her up for a photo shoot.

From the story stand point I personally prefer Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A’s but I have to say I am more attracted to the mature Fate in the StrikerS series~ It’s ok to say that right? Haha

For additional pictures and review, please visit blogging comrade Meronpan’s review and James’s review in Exelica Meteor

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It’s about time for another edition of Dollfie Dream Theater!  Last time we covered the villain-ish secret association known as Dai MS, but if you have no idea what I am talking about, you can trace back on the prior chapters of Dollfie Dream Theater here!  This chapter focus on the girls that went to shopping instead…. and they got their first taste of evil plan laid out by Dai MS!

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Several of my pre-order I placed over the past couple of months have finally arrived, among those are the Volks Model of Entertainment (M.O.E) 1/7 Fate T. Harlaown , Kotobukiya French Maid Asuka, E2046 Gathering Saber Lily Prepainted, and last but certainly not least is my newly acquired Nikon D5000 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm lens!

So far I am very happy with the D5000, it’s got the picture clarity that I have been longing for and while it is more complicated than my previous Sony Cybershot DSC-F707, I am starting to get the hang of it!  Since I am more or less a beginner, please pardon me if I come with a less than perfect focus shot!

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I don’t know how many of you have noticed but for the past 24 hours or so, this website has virtually gone down due to the web hosting side problem.  The DNS server seemed to be in working condition but anything that had to do with the wordpress database has gone down to a crawl and would time out more often than not.  I was trying to be a good sport about it and tried to let the web hosting service to fix it by themselves.  However, the situation had not improved when I woke up in the morning so I had to put in a support ticket, they responded within 5 hours or so and it seems like the situation had improved a lot since then.  At least I haven’t gotten a time out (just yet)!

Anyway, not sure how many of you were expecting this to happen but I have finally made the jump and bought the Nikon D5000 and the 18-105mm lense from B&H online store.

I was assured that the package will be delivered this coming Thursday, so if the weather is nice outside, I would be taking “some” of my Dollfie Daughters out for a spin again!

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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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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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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.

Still in the middle of planning my come back strategy on adopting Rin Tosaka Dollfie Dream, whether I should go straight to Yahoo Japan Auction (a few Rin Tosaka DD has already popped up on Yahoo Japan Auction but they all come at a ridiculous price, some even ask for as much as 90000yen for a 50000yen Dollfie Rin, no thanks, I am not in that much of a hurry!), or try to take a shot at the After event items, still undecided.  In the mean time, two of boxes have arrived for inspection for the month of May, this is the 3nd round of loots arrival for the month so far.  Let’s take a look at what we have here:

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The day I have been waiting for since the beginning of the month has come and gone, I have been checking my email at work every half an hour but the result didn’t come until I was back at home.

I was so excited when I saw the email came through, but when I clicked on it… some of the items I put on the ticket were missing… namely the Rin Tohsaka DD and her school uniform set.  I can’t say I am very happy with the result but it’s not exactly the end of the world.  On one hand, it’s the first stumbling block I have encountered since I rolled out the Dollfie Dream Completion Project; but on the other hand, it will spare me from spending an extra $636 immediately.  I might eventually want to pick Rin up aftermarket and that usually mean I have to pay an extra 10-15% premium, so the fact that I couldn’t pick Rin up at the lottery event will mean that I have to spend more money in the long run.  The only saving grace for me is to relieve me of my guilt of spending too much money at one time >.>;  Enough talk about Dollfie Dream for now, let me move on to loots inspection.

A few boxes have arrived for inspection today.

And the content, half of the loots this time are purchased after reading reviews of the items from my live blogroll.

Before I go any further, I would like to take a moment to give my thanks to one of my comrades Optic from the Dis-jointedzone.  See that Nanoha Visual Collection in the upper right corner?  This must be like the second or third time that I went straight to order the magazine after reading Optic’s review, it really pays to go check his site once in a while to see if there is any good magazine out there   Thanks Optic!

Then in the middle pile we have G’s Magazine May edition, and I only really bought it as a tag along with the Nanoha Visual Collection, plus this issue comes with a bonus Estel Freesia bonus figure, yeah I know they are trading figure, but I need to have an Estel Freesia representative in my collection.  That little DS game tugged away at the bottom is the Super Robot War OG Saga: Endless Frontier.  I am a pretty big SRW fan and Endless Frontier has Kos-Mos Type IV from Xenosaga III as cross over, so I just have to buy it to show some support to Atlus so they would keep translating SRW games to the western auidence.

All the way to the left we have Raqel Gothic (original by Vispo) painted by E2046 Gathering.  Raqel is another immediate buy after I read her review at Exelica Meteor.  I am sure Jame’s photographic skill only help shows her beauty, but Gothic girl with a great axe is quite appealing by itself.  By the time I went to E2046 to look for her, version 3 was already sold out and the only one they have stock was version 1 and by the time they processed my order after the holiday weekend, they were down to 1 in stock.  A few days ago, in a rare occassion I have to say, E2046 has announced that will be making more Raqel Gothic version 2 due to increasing customer demand.  Now it’s probably the last chance you can grab a Raqel Gothic.

Edited: Tweaked some camera setting and the completed Raqel looks like this now:

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