Polyvinyl Crush

Not that it comes as any great shock as Alter has been silent for so long on continuing their Rebuild of Evangelion line, but Kotobukiya officially wins the Great RoE Figure Race to get all three Eva pilots and Misato out on the market.  Not that either figure maker knew they were in the Great RoE Figure Race.  Not that anyone knew there was a Great RoE Figure Race.  I made it up.  Just now.  For this post.  Just goes to show how bummed I am that Alter seems to have forgotten their line.  Anyway here are the figures I’m excited about this illustrious week.

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Wow, there are a lot of lackluster figures being officially put up for order this last week.  Even taking last week - which I took off to post my most recent acquisition set - into consideration didn’t seem to offer up many more that grabbed me.  There was one diamond in the rough though: GSC’s Triumphant Excalibur Saber.  Sure it’s a character we’ve seen a billion of before but you can never have too many Saber’s.  You can, however, have too few Rin’s.

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I had expected my absence from posting during the holidays to yield a larger figure pool to talk about; similar to what happened when I returned from my previous break.  There were a number of announcements but only a few of them I felt were worth talking about.  There are a couple coming down the pipe from Comiket 77, but since there haven’t been official announcements for those I decided to leave them off.   So here are the figures I’m excited about this week.

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Figure makers were out in full force this week with Kotobukiya in particular representing the industry.  Not only did they put out announcements for plethora of pleasing PVCs, but they also officially announced one of the greatest figures in recent memory that I’ve seen from them.  Of course, with Kotobukiya, it’s their game to lose.

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<Gendo>It’s been a while.</Gendo>  Hard to believe it’s been 4 weeks since my last upcoming figures post.  It certainly doesn’t feel like it, but looking back on all the new figures I didn’t cover there were a TON of them and I had a lot of catch-up to do.  To add insult to injury, I’m out of practice and this post ended up taking a lot longer to write than usual and I’m exhausted.  This, in turn, will likely result in more nonsensical ramblings than usual.  Good news  is that all the studying helped increase my vocabulary so at least the ramblings have big words interspersed within.  See if you can spot them!

EDIT: More background info on Miku added.

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As I look back on all that has happened - growing together, me changing you, and you changing me - as I look back on those days I realize how truly stupid I was.  The past is gone forever and we may no longer have a future but I just can’t forget you.  “Why now”, you ask?  Because I’d like to try it again.  I know I don’t have any right to say this because of the pain I caused you but I want to have that future with you and I want to show you that I’m not the same man.  I was the one who was wrong and I’m sorry.  Will you give me another chance, Griffon Enterprises?

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