Resinya! – 1/6 Galett Fey Sowauge PVC

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Resinya! 1/6 Galett Fey Sowauge PVC

  • Character: Galett Fey Sowauge
  • Series: Shina Dark
  • Scale: 1/6
  • Height: 210 mm
  • Material: PVC
  • Company: Resinya!
  • Price: 8,858 yen
  • Date: Nov. 2009
  • Link 1: Official Site
  • Link 2: Hobby Search

Here’s another interesting figure from a series that’s unknown to me.  It’s nice to see a good action shot and what looks to be a fantasy theme.  The large scale is always a plus.  I don’t have much experience with Resinya! works, but what I see here will probably be enough to make me bite on this particular figure.  I’ll be interested to see if they try to preserve the look of the base shown in the preview with the final PVC version.

Alter – 1/8 Yagyu Jubei PVC

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alter_yagyu_jubei

  • Character: Yagyu Jubei
  • Series: Hyakka Ryoran
  • Scale: 1/8
  • Height: 220 mm
  • Material: PVC
  • Company: Alter
  • Price: 7,800 yen
  • Date: Aug. 2009
  • Link 1: Official Site
  • Link 2: Hobby Search

Here’s an amazing looking figure from Alter for a character and series that I know absolutely nothing about.  Not too much to say other than it’s Alter, so I expect the final product will look pretty close to the preview seen here.  This is another advertised 1/8 that’s fairly large at 220mm.  I’m liking the trend toward larger figures that we’re seeing of late.

WP.com bug: Albeo theme + Categories widget

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I ran into this bug when trying to customize my Albeo sidebar.  I wanted all the original sidebar elements provided by the Albeo theme, so I started with the following widgets in my sidebar:

  • Albeo Search
  • Albeo Top/Latest/Tags
  • Categories
    • Option “Show post counts” selected
    • Option “Show hierarchy” selected
  • Archives

This would seem like it should be the widgetized equivalent of the default Albeo sidebar.  The problem with this setup is that the “Categories” content doesn’t render correctly with this widget setup.

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Good Smile Company – 1/8 Black Rock Shooter PVC

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1/8 Black Rock Shooter PVC (promo image)

  • Character: Black Rock Shooter (Hatsune Miku)
  • Series: Vocaloid
  • Scale: 1/8
  • Height: 290 mm (including base)
  • Material: PVC
  • Company: Good Smile Company
  • Price: 9,800 yen
  • Date: Aug. 2009
  • Link 1: Official Site
  • Link 2: Hobby Search

This upcoming Black Rock Shooter figure from GSC looks awesome.  Despite officially being a 1/8 scale figure, it’s rather large at ~290mm, which is a good thing in my book.  Normally, this would be an instant get for me, but my 2009 budget is already shot.  I’m hoping to pick it up some time early in 2010, instead.

Introductions

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Hi, my name is Adam and I love anime figures.  I bought my first figure (Yamato’s 1/8 Motoko Aoyama from Love Hina) back in 2005 and I’ve been slowly expanding my collection ever since.  With figure collecting becoming an increasingly important hobby to me, I decided to start this blog to help me track figure releases that I’m interested in and hopefully share some insights like where to buy and how to save money when shopping for figures.

Hello world!

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This blog is dedicated to the acquisition and admiration of anime figures and related merchandise.  If pretty pieces of plastic aren’t your thing, then this blog isn’t for you!