The date I have been waiting for the past month or so has finally been announced.  The White Album Dollfie Dream Super Early Pre-Order period will begin from January 20th to the end of the month!  Those who place their order during the Super Early Pre-Order period will get an extra bonus swimsuit that has been announced before.

The five items that will be available for pre-order are as follow:

• * DD Yuki Morikawa ( + Pre-Order Bonus)
• * DD Rina Ogata ( + Pre-Order Bonus)
• * DD Outfit: Yuki’s Everyday Wear Set (Coat & Jeans Ver.)
• * DD Outfit: Yuki’s Everyday Wear Set (Skirt & Boots Ver.)
• * DD Outfit: Rina’s Everyday Wear Set

There was a sneak peek at Rina’s wig and her bonus swimsuit the other day, for those of you who are interested, check out DD blog’s page.

Well, after waiting for well over a month (painfully), we have finally gotten some update from Volks on the White Album Dollfie Dream!  The Volks Japanese page has been updated, but it will take well over a week before they get to their English site update, so here is a peek at the information they have released so far.

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Two weeks has passed since the beginning of the Adopt a Dollfie Dream Sasara contest.  I have received many great and creative applications which I have posted them in figure.fm for members to vote for their favorite.  After the 48 hours of voting period has ended, in my last snap shot, the voting result is as follow.

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As we are closing in on the deadline for the Adopt a Dollfie Dream Sasara Contest, I am getting ready to post all the applications I have received so far… I have received a total of 5 applications and I will post them in the order they were received.

Let me do a recap on the rules again~

• Hopefully, Danny won’t mind that I am using Figure.fm as the contest location, otherwise I will have to host it in my own site, which could be less fun
• Contestant must already be a member at Figure.fm, and have already introduced himself/herself to the community in one way or another, in an attempt to weed out any potential Dollfie Dream reseller.
• Contest will be consists of two parts
• The first part of the contest involves the contestant submitting an “application” to become Sasara’s new parent, this “application” can be represented in any form, it can be a Sasara fan art, can be a 4koma, composite photo, a poem, an essay, absolutely anything you can think of that can show how much you are going to love your new daughter Sasara.  Your goal here is to impress the “Judges” and show how much affection you have for Sasara, please keep that in mind and keep it in good taste.
• Contestants will have to submit their application to me at wolfheinrich at hotmail dot com no later than the end of the day on December 10th, 2009 CST.
• Now the next part is where both my own opinion and the public opinion will be considered:  I will choose one  favorite application (without telling anyone) and I will also post all of the applications to figure.fm for everyone to look at and vote for their favorite application.
• If the one I chose and the one chosen by the figure.fm community is the same application, then it’s automatic winner, no further contest would be necessary.
• If the one I chose and the one chosen by the community is not the same, the two contestants will advance to the next stage and have to answer a list of quiz questions I have prepared, the subject is of course going to be about Sasara’s storyline as it is presented in the ToHeart 2 PC version of the game (the OVA doesn’t count since I don’t consider that the real storyline), some questions about figure.fm and some about my own blog.  This part of the contest will have to be conducted in real time so whoever answered the all the questions correctly first will be declared as winner.

Ok that’s basically all the rules, the eventual winner will have to pay a “dowry” $650+$50 Express mail shipping/insurance to me at a paypal account I designated within a few days time so I can have Sasara sent out (with tracking number) to the winner in time for Christmas.

And almost 2 weeks later, I have received 5 genuine applications, I really appreciate all the work each participants have put forth.

First Entry is from Schrödinger

You could also view Schrödinger’s application in powerpoint format if you have access to Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 or Powerpoint 2007 viewer application

Second Entry is from Urutoraseven (Eric)

Hi Wolfheinrich
I am Erick from Peru.
I am very happy because my room was selected on the Otacool book.
Now my next goal is to buy a Dollfie dream. I saw your contest and
have to admit not to know much about Sasara.
But she is so adorable that I would like her to be part of my room
forever.
Well this is my entry, hope I can qualify.

Third entry is from Fantom

Dear sir Wolf.

Thank you for let me participating in this competition.

I'm really sorry for my late submission, for the application. It's due
to my personal affairs, and I've failed at arranging works.

My ID on figure.fm
http://www.figure.fm/page/en/post/fantomdelucifer/all/all/all/1.html

I hope that I'm last but not least.

All I can do it's just a messy fan art drawing. Cuz' poetry poems or
something dont seem to be quite right, and I wont be able to create
some of that.

I know Im just nobody to compete against so many proffessional
contestants, in illustrations for example.

I know my drawing looks annoying in some way, but this is all I can do
to express my feeling for Sasara.

In my imagination, YOUR daughter with gorgeous blonde hair and an
angelic baby-face reminds me of the Alice in the wonderland.
(Because she's like a miniature of the real Sasara) And that's the
theme of my picture. I know some part doesnt seem to be alright.

I know I wont be appropriate chosen one for her.

But what I'm expecting is to see how far other contestants will go for
your daughter.

Best wish for your daughter. I hope she will be adopted by the best
parent. I trust in her father's wise judgement.

Im looking forward to seeing the result soon.

Thank you for reading my message.

Fourth entry is from kuraishi

Click on the picture to be redirected to Kuraishi’s flash based application.

Fifth entry is from NinaValentina

Feel free to visit Nina’s flickr account to see more of her sculpture application

Hi Wolfheinrich,

Here’s my application for Sasara. It’s a small chibi sculpture I made out of paperclay and acrylics. I guess this shows how much I love her because after sculpting her image by hand I’ve really come to appreciate all the hard work Leaf put into her design and all the time Volks must have dedicated to give her the right face, wig, clothes and makeup to make an exceptional Dollfie Dream! Sasara really is a work of art. This is the first time I have made anything like this but I wanted to do something special to prove my love and admiration for Sasara.

If you only need one photo you can pick which one you like best but here’s a few just to show the sculpture at different angels.

If you would like to vote for any of the above contestant, please head over to the topic in figure.fm.

The voting period is set for 48 hours, I will make further announcement on whether we have an outright winner or do we need to move on to the 2nd part of the contest.

A few weeks ago I announced that I will be holding an Adopt a Sasara Contest and I have spent the last couple of weeks trying decide on a contest format that is fair and have the ability to incorporate my own opinion as well as public opinion and finally, to test the contestants’ knowledge about Sasara! I have actually decided on the contest format some time ago but since we are drawing close to December, I think it’s best to get the contest started, the intent is of course to have Sasara arrive at her new home before Christmas.

Anyway, here are the rules:

• Hopefully, Danny won’t mind that I am using Figure.fm as the contest location, otherwise I will have to host it in my own site, which could be less fun
• Contestant must already be a member at Figure.fm, and have already introduced himself/herself to the community in one way or another, in an attempt to weed out any potential Dollfie Dream reseller.
• Contest will be consists of two parts
• The first part of the contest involves the contestant submitting an “application” to become Sasara’s new parent, this “application” can be represented in any form, it can be a Sasara fan art, can be a 4koma, composite photo, a poem, an essay, absolutely anything you can think of that can show how much you are going to love your new daughter Sasara.  Your goal here is to impress the “Judges” and show how much affection you have for Sasara, please keep that in mind and keep it in good taste.
• Contestants will have to submit their application to me at wolfheinrich at hotmail dot com no later than the end of the day on December 10th, 2009 CST.
• Now the next part is where both my own opinion and the public opinion will be considered:  I will choose one  favorite application (without telling anyone) and I will also post all of the applications to figure.fm for everyone to look at and vote for their favorite application.
• If the one I chose and the one chosen by the figure.fm community is the same application, then it’s automatic winner, no further contest would be necessary.
• If the one I chose and the one chosen by the community is not the same, the two contestants will advance to the next stage and have to answer a list of quiz questions I have prepared, the subject is of course going to be about Sasara’s storyline as it is presented in the ToHeart 2 PC version of the game (the OVA doesn’t count since I don’t consider that the real storyline), some questions about figure.fm and some about my own blog.  This part of the contest will have to be conducted in real time so whoever answered the all the questions correctly first will be declared as winner.

Ok that’s basically all the rules, the eventual winner will have to pay a “dowry” $650+$50 Express mail shipping/insurance to me at a paypal account I designated within a few days time so I can have Sasara sent out (with tracking number) to the winner in time for Christmas.

Oh, one more thing.  I know there is no way I can actually enforce this, but let just say I will be very unhappy to see Sasara here being “resell” for profit in anyway.  I am doing this to specifically to avoid seeing Dollfie Dream being used for “profit” making while robbing legitimate collectors in despair.

I have let myself gone a tad lazy for the past couple of days, I have been wanting to write an article about PVC figure aging based on suggestions from blogging comrade blowfish, but alas, I am still procrastinating over it because I have been mostly occupied by the news of Dolpa 22 and the new White Album Dollfie Dream releases~

A bunch of us in the flickr group have started to speculate over what Dollfie Dream might be coming out in the winter doll party, the first clue we had came about a little over a week ago when we found out about the White Album webpage that didn’t have any images on it at the time, however, as more information became available, the White Album Dollfie Dream were not due to come out in this upcoming Dolpa but instead a web order exclusive project similar to that of the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann DD Project.

Initially, I was very hesitant about the story of White Album after reading some online review about it, but my mind began to sway when I was presented with the project image…. these are some really good Dollfie Dream candidates… and at the very minimum, these idol style clothing would fit my Dollfie Dream daughters very well!  After a few more conversation with a few figure.fm members, I decided I have to at learn about Rina and Yuki despite the fact that I may not be very interested in the plot of the story (based on my understanding thus far, the main protagonist is a real prick…. all of the guys were real prick…, why… I want to read about some decent/hotblood guy doing his best, not a real prick getting involved in multiple women!).  Anyway, I have already decided to at least see what kind of girls 森川 由綺 Morikawa Yuki and 緒方 理奈 Ogata Rina are, then so be it.

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I have been wanting to resume my summary for ToHeart2 PC Sasara arc for the past couple of days but I have been under the weather so hardly anything got done.  Anyway, a few days ago I picked up the news from figure.fm that Volks is holding a DD Gathering Event on October 24-25 and introduce 2 Volks Original Characters, Dollfie Dream Moe and Dollfie Dream Natsuki to the ever popular Dollfie Dream Line up.

Most of these images are hijacked from figure.fm

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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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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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It’s been a few days since I submitted my 2nd Dollfie daughter Asuka to the figure.fm x Hobby Link Japan sponsored Miss Dollfie Summer 2009 pageant contest.  I initially submitted my 1st daughter Escalayer’s entry but due to time constraint I didn’t do a very good job on the entry.  Now that the time period has been extended, I sort of feel the need to go back and do another special session with Escalayer because I felt I had put more effort into Asuka’s entry and it isn’t fair to Escalayer.

Timing is tight so I had to fired up Hikari Photo Studio and took us to a more exotic location for a special photo session!

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