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How long has it been since I acquired the cloak for Saber?  Hmm ever since Airi arrived?  Yeah, I been wanting to do a Saber solo shoot out for that long, but laziness and procrastination delayed it for this long!  Errr, not really, I was busy with other stuff and had the lighting setup packed away and didn’t pull them back out until just recently.  Anyway, I been wanting to do this shoot out with Saber standing in front of the Buckingham Palace and I have finally done it!  I think I managed to pack a few pretty good shots in there, hopefully you would enjoy them as much as I did

The other reason I been wanting to do this shoot, is that I am finally ready to change out Saber’s armor for something a little more feminine, plus the armor set really restricted Saber’s pose-ability so I need finish this before I can move on~ (continue reading…)

It’s been a while since I got a chance to write a new post, I have been very busy tackling a few eroge games lately plus a few other things, planning to write an update post tomorrow but first, I got to bring the news of the Rin Tohsaka Portrait Book that is planned to be released next month.  It’s been months since I have heard about this portrait book but there was no cover art, no detail information on what would be included in this book.  But if the previously released Saber Portrait is any indication of what we should expect from this, most of us Rin fan will be in for a real treat!  I have been keeping taps on Amazon Japan since November last year, and finally we got the cover art when I checked again today!

Perfect, just the way I want it!

Hobby Search has it on pre-order for a while but it has been closed off since, HLJ doesn’t even have this listed yet, AmiAmi doesn’t have it either, I am not sure what other source carries this book other than Amazon Japan at this point.

Here is the information from Amazon Japan

• Publisher: 一迅社 (2010/2/12)
• ISBN-10: 4758011621
• ISBN-13: 978-4758011624
• Release Date: 2010/2/12

And I was able to dig up some sneak preview pictures from browsing some Chinese Forum

And supposedly, there are some pre-order bonus as well, so it might be prudent to pony up the cash to get the pre-order bonus.

Been quiet for the past couple of days, but I finally started to feel better for the past day so I decided to catch this chance to go out with my Dollfie Daughters again.  The main objective this time was to correct a few oversights I had in the last outing so I had to take Asuka and Rin out again, but that would be a tad too dry just to keep taking photos of those two so I decided to take Saber out with me as well.

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Some of you who have been following my blog would know that I have just traveled to Japan recently for a super condensed sight seeing and shopping trip.  I have a set of mission objectives that I wanted to accomplish, and I have managed to finish most of them by Saturday night Japan time.  But how can it be?  There are only 3 real days to work with, I have to be back in the airport before noon on Sunday.  As I reveal the details of my complete walk-through of my super condensed Japan trip, it will become more obvious!

1. See the Odaiba Gundam
2. Watch the Kamen Rider movie
3. Watch the Evangelion 2.0 movie You can (not) advance
4. Shopping in Akihabara
5. Shopping for Dollfie Clothes and appropriate size Rider belts
6. Go to a maid cafe

I am fairly proud to say that I have accomplished every one of the above objectives even though this trip was so short.  For starter, I am going to cover my loots during this trip and I will expand onto some of the finer details of my experience of my super condensed, super fast pace first trip to Japan.  Without further ado, let me get started.  First is the grand scale loots!

Obviously, you can’t really see anything like this, so let me break them down into their categories.

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Alright, so I had a good night of sleep and lunch, it’s time to do a proper inspection on the mega loots I received yesterday.  As part of the July 4th Independence Day long weekend, I had a day off from work yesterday.  I guess it was a coincident that Dollfie Fate and Dollfie Nanoha, one from Volks Japan, another one from Volks USA would ended up arriving on the same day, everything just worked out the way I wanted!  The only problem was that the UPS driver didn’t show up until late in the afternoon so I couldn’t start the the inspection until after dinner.  Hobby Search came through with a package of their own as well, let’s take a look at them.

Obviously, the main attractions this time are DD Feito and DD Nanoha, but we have also got Feena cushion cover Moonlight Cradle version and a few Cospa cushions which has been out of stock at Hobby Search for some time now.

Edit: Added revised group photo, previous one was too cram.

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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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Despite my main computer went down, loots have been arriving non stop for the past week… now that my computer is fixed, it’s finally time to reveal the result of my Dollfie Dream Completion Project.  I borrowed the name “completion project” from Evangelion, straightly in a sense, trying to “rescue” the lovely Dollfie Dream from their original boxes and adopt them as my musumes!

Just who are the mysterious Dollfie Dream?  You about to find out (not like my picture didn’t give them away lol).

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For the past few days I have been busy putting up the new loots I have acquired from Anime Central Convention (and to take a well earned break from all that Yoake  Mae Yori Ruriiro na story summaries), but at the same time, I have been planning my next major move.  Some of you are probably aware that I have recently adopted Dollfie Dream Dynamite Escalayer and I have been extremely pleased with her as my first musume.

My next major project, has been given the code name DDCP, also known as  Dollfie Dream Completion Project has already been set in motion for a few days now, an unprecedented level of funding has already been approved as part of this project.

And to quote one of the most heart felt statements I have seen recently from browsing through Dollfie Dream related blog sites:

I give up.  I saw pics of Rin Tosaka, Fate Testarossa, Nanoha Takamachi, Nagisa Furikawa, and Yoko/Nia Dollfie Dreams on Dannychoo.  I just give up.  I love Dollfie Dreams.  They give you so much more then static figures and statues can.  The detail and realism.  They are so lifelike.  And most importantly, they are 100% more moe then anime figures. -Punynari,Moé Passion

I can’t help it but to agree with Punynari, Dollfie Dream takes the Anime Figure collecting to the next level.  I used to not like dolls, like those made by Azone but the Volks Dollfie Dream line is different, I believe they are made to target Otaku like myself, with extremely well made and high quality doll-figure (where the word Dollfie comes from).  It is not to far outstretch to call them the ultimate figurine (to date) of your favorite 2D girls/Bishoujo.  In a recent Dannychoo.com post of the Realistic Yoko Figure from Max Factory, I see a lot of people commented about how the realistic Yoko doesn’t look Yoko anymore and anime heroines should retain their anime look, etc.  This is where Dollfie Dream really shine, they provide a solution to the life like anime figure that most Otaku like myself would prefer Dollfie Yoko.

I am sold, I am under the Dollfie Dream Fever right now, I am finding myself not getting as excited about PVC figurines as I have been in the past.  May 15th will be the one of the biggest day in recent months as Volks USA will announce the lottery result of the Doll Party 21 limited items.  I have submitted my entry for both Fate T Harlaown from Nanoha StrikerS and Rin Tohsaka from Fate Stay Night.  Let see if I get lucky this time and won’t have to go to aftermarket auction site to get my Dollfie Dream fix

Comrade Hangmen has found an absolutely beautiful Saber Lily mod for 3D Custom Girl, more pictures available on his site.

Went out drinking in a local Rock Bottom Brewer with a colleague until 11:00pm, got home and found this pile of loots coming from HLJ, Hobby Search and BeNippon!

Pile of boxes

The loots inside the boxes!

Now the Alteisen Riese, Auβenseiter, and Dygenguar are pretty much self explanatory so let’s not waste time on them until I finish building them.  Lets move on the the books.

Replicant, G's Magazine March, G's Festival Vol. 15, the Saber Portrait and sneaking in the middle like a mouse is the Rin/Archer optical mini mouse

I am not a regular reader of Replicant, but with a Saber Lily on the cover can only lead to one result: Click to buy.

Saber Lily Fold out, nice!

Back side of the Saber Lily fold out

Next up are the G’ses, they never disappointed me and this time is no exception.

There have been enough coverage of the Honey Moon Box that I don’t think I need to do it again here.  Now, the G’s Magazine comes with a little pencil board of the gorgeous looking Feena on front side, Cynthia Marguerite a Moonlight Cradle excluive character on the back, very nice looking indeed.  And with the G’s Comic Vol. 5 received late last month.  I say I got all the bases covered for all the Feena merchandise this time around!

Then there is the Saber portrait, quite a few pictures have been circulating in the Internet cloud, a very special book if you consider yourself a Saber Fan.

And last, but not least… is the Rin/Archer mini usb mouse!

Besides my well publicized interest in Saber, I am also very fond of Rin the devil.  Unlimited Blade Work is still my favorite arc of the Fate/stay night visual novel.  Too bad that there aren’t as many merchandise on Rin as there are in Saber >.>

A few more things that are on their way here, there is Queen’s Blade Alice from Megahouse, all thanks to comrade twu from Theinfernoproject that I decided to check an ebay seller with tons of inventory.  The trick is to get Alice delivered to me without any damage >.>, we will see about that one.  Comrade Optic over in http://thedisjointedzone.com kindly informed us over in DC that there is a Megami Super Deluxe floating around with the best illustrations from vol. 1 to vol. 100, just what the doctor’s ordered! I tried to snatch a copy at HLJ immediately but now it’s showing to be on backorder >.> 1/7 Teana Lanster PVC from Alter is also on her way.