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GOOD SMILE COMPANY Cheerful JAPAN! Nendoroid Megurine Luka Cheerful Ver.
Friday 16:05, Jan 13, 2012
The latest GSC Cheerful JAPAN! item is Nendoroid Luka, plus the pompoms, a tambourine, a pony-tail hair piece for Luka, and a small cheerful hat for Tako Luka, along with the original variations. Get her directly from GSC before January 29!
KOTOBUKIYA Shining Blade Sakuya -Mode: Cerulean- 1/8 PVC Figure
Monday 14:35, Dec 26, 2011
For all Shining Hearts Maxima fans out there, KOTOBUKIYA just found another way to ding your wallet: Sakuya in her ice spirit mode. Well her outfit does not look as good as her regular outfit, but good enough... I wonder if her "fire" mode will also get done down the road?
GOOD SMILE COMPANY Fate/Zero Saber & Saber Motored Cuirassier 1/8 PVC Figure
Wednesday 23:26, Dec 21, 2011
This will be the top pick for best PVC figure of 2012 — Saber on a hot rod, as seen in Fate/Zero!! Price is damn expensive (even more than Saber Lily), but who cares! She is coming out in May 2012.
GOOD SMILE COMPANY Cheerful JAPAN! Campaign Update
Thursday 17:11, Dec 15, 2011
For the current month, in addition to the Fate/stay night Nendoroid Saber and Rin Cheerful set being available, A T-shirt featuring both Saber and Rin in costume is also available, while I am not interested in the Nendoroid set, the T-shirt will be another matter...
Pick them up through GSC here.
GOOD SMILE COMPANY Theatrical Version Fate/stay night UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS Tohsaka Rin -UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS- 1/7 PVC Figure
Monday 16:43, Dec 12, 2011
Well, I did not bought her when the first run was released back in June, and for the next few months I was in regret mode since everyone was selling her at a premium on eBay, and I tried to order one through Yesasia but they could not got me one... until GSC suddenly announced the second run a few months ago, and since I have points to waste with CD Japan, I put them to good use, knocking off about two-thirds of the original cost and shipping. Yep, I have her at a bargain!
On another note, I also got my second KOTOBUKIYA Blanc Neige swimsuit figure from amiami today. At around $50 CAD including shipping, a good deal for her!
Hong Kong Trip
Tuesday 14:45, Dec 06, 2011
As I mentioned in the previous post, I spent two weeks in Hong Kong in November. Originally I never planned to spend much during the trip, having most of the stuff that I really wanted either already ordered or keeping an eye on for sales on certain sites during the trip. Then again, I am still amazed by how easily I got tempted...
- Megami Magazine December 2011 and NyanType September 2011 — never thought I would be buying magazines on the trip, but the bookstore I bought them from was running an promotion (spend $200 HKD and get a 10% coupon), plus the NyanType was on discount...
- Dengeki G's Festival COMIC Vol. 8 — never thought I will find a copy, but the sexy Kenshin figure drove me to buy it. I left the book in Hong Kong after flipping through it once...
- PHANTOM BREAKER Visual Collection — again, never thought I would buy a copy, but I am a sucker for anything done by Suzuhira Hiro, and this time I do overpay for it a little bit...
- FREEing SHUFFLE! Nendoroid Plus Primula's Little Big Adventure!? — see previous post.
- Negima! Vol. 15 limited edition — now that's the highlight of my shopping trip. I never thought I would ever find a brand new, unopened copy ever. It was the only Negima! limited edition volume that I did not own until then (I got volume 14 from Kinokuniya Seatlle back in August), and now I have them all!
FREEing SHUFFLE! Nendoroid Plus Primula's Little Big Adventure!?
Tuesday 14:29, Dec 06, 2011
I spent two weeks in Hong Kong back in late November, and on one of my shopping trips I stumbled upon Primula at a store I used to frequent, and I only need about two minutes of wringling inside my brain before buying her for $428 HKD — a relative bargain sans shipping considering that she is hard to get on eBay (only one seleer is selling her right now for $144 USD, shipping extra). Too bad it is just the regular edition, I want the "embrassed face" version...
Ah yes, it comes with a CD-ROM too, plus Primula's favourite three neko dolls.
KOTOBUKIYA 4-Leaves CLANNAD Sakagami Tomoyo -Uniform Ver.- 1/6 PVC Figure
Tuesday 14:17, Dec 06, 2011
Just got her yesterday, and thanks to the box size I have to get it shipped by EMS instead of SAL. Well, Tomoyo is worth it though, as she looks great in that school uniform...
Griffon Figutto! Shining Wind Seena Kanon
Tuesday 14:13, Dec 06, 2011
I bought one from amaimi when they put her on sale a few weeks ago, and this Figutto! series is certainly well-made, much better than figma in quality and larger in size (so more expensive as a result). Now if Griffon will release Kureha and/or Xecty down the road...
1 Million+ Hits for Otaku HQ
Thursday 22:48, Oct 27, 2011
It actually passed the 1 million hit mark a few months ago, and had been passing the 1 milion hit mark for the last few months. None the less, for a niche site that is significant and a big milestone. I launched the site back in May 2007 and took me 4 years to this, with no budget for SEO and simply overloading the site with pictures and less than stellar content. It is a proof that the site actually serves figure lovers worldwide.
Good thing I did not sell the domain when someone asked for it 2 years ago...
GOOD SMILE COMPANY actsta Takamachi Nanoha
Wednesday 21:19, Oct 19, 2011
With Nanoha-chan arriving earlier today, my collection of the whole actsta lineup is now complete! Not only that, I got three out of four (Teana, Fate-chan and Nanoha-chan) at a bargain! (Subaru was close, but I ended up paying $80 USD for her through eBay). I sure hope GSC will keep this line going!
I Hate WordPress Migration
Wednesday 21:29, Oct 12, 2011
I spent more than three hours today helping a client to migrate one of his client's WordPress site to another one I helped setup, and now I know why I really hate WordPress:
- You cannot migrate the whole database from one site to another without trashing the existing setup for the new site.
- Exporting pages and posts through the import/export tool in the admin area is silly and tedious when your resulting XML feed ends up bigger than 2MB — the import form cannot handle that.
- Every time you export the data out to a feed all the authors' data get exported again and again — you have to reset all author's data every single time because of that.
- You cannot just dump all posts and pages from your existing site to the new site through SQL.
- Best of all, you can easily destroy your painfully-built WordPress menus on the new site if you just replace the data from the old site.
KOTOBUKIYA Shining Hearts Urayukihime -Swimsuit Ver.- 1/7 PVC Figure
Monday 14:29, Sep 26, 2011
Another lovely swimsuit figure from KOTOBUKIYA, and yet you know you have seen her before... yep, she is based on the same model used to make Shining Wind Blanc Neige Swimsuit Ver. 1/7 PVC Figure, so convenient eh? Oh well, I will buy one for sure...
You can compare Urayukihime and Blanc Neige below and see for yourself. Hint: hair is done differently for both.
GOOD SMILE COMPANY Fate/unlimited codes Saber Lily ~Distant Avalon~ 1/7 PVC Figure Second Production Run
Thursday 22:34, Sep 15, 2011
That's right, Saber Lily from GSC is back! Not going to let people overcharging me again, I just ordered one! Now I can have two of them!
Double PVC Shipment Just Arrvied
Wednesday 15:50, Sep 14, 2011
Just got the MegaHouse Excellent Model CORE Queen's Blade Rebellion Captain Liliana plus GOOD SMILE COMPANY Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The MOVIE 1st actsta Fate Testarossa from the mail. Both are nice figures, and I pay cheaply for them. Liliana was on unexpected pre-order discount from CD Japan, and I chipped in with some store points to get a really good deal on her. As for Fate-chan, it is still on sale on AmiAmi as of right now, if you know where to look.
