Polyvinyl Crush

So as you may have noticed there was no post on Monday.  You also may have noticed that I went very long without responding to any of your comments from the Wonder Festival 2010 Summer post.  Both of those are because I spent all of this last weekend at Otakon 2010.  It probably won’t make up for not having done a proper review but here is my haul from the convention anyway.

I love anime!~ Read the rest of this entry →

Wonder Festival 2010 Summer occurred this last weekend and I’m sure by now you’ve all seen all the coverage from other fans who actually live in Japan and/or have the resources to travel to the event.  I have neither so I have to steal borrow from those that do so I can share my thoughts.  The most impressive thing about this Wonfes?  There didn’t look to be a single swimsuit figure in the bunch.

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Let’s get right down to it today, shall we?  Today we’re taking a look at UpLark’s 1/8th scale Mio Akiyama ‘School Festival Ver.’ PVC from K-On!.

Don’t say hobby~ Read the rest of this entry →

Either this week was pretty void of quality PVC figure announcements or I wasn’t paying attention to all the right channels (which is also a rather strong possibility).  It seemed like a great week to be a GK fan but for those of us without the crazy skills needed to actually produce one ourselves we were left with few options.  Which is fine, because I’d be broke if I spent money on figures every week.

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An interesting thing happened this week: two Fate figures went up for preorder.  While it’s not totally unheard of for two of the same character to be announced the same week it is a little weird that they both were of the same design and from the same source.  It makes for a real interesting comparison and on a number of levels.  I have my favorite and I’m sure you have yours.  Here are the figures I’m excited about this week.

new parallel hobby~ Read the rest of this entry →

My first review on the new machine!  Even though I remembered to save all the files from the old system I forgot to save the program files so I was busy digging out all sorts of disks.  Then when I found and reinstalled Photoshop I remembered that I had further forgotten so save any of the Adobe logs, so all my actions and settings were gone.  It was easy enough to remake that though: back before I discovered the Actions feature in Photoshop I shopped each picture manually.  Now that process is like forever etched into my memory.  Today we’re talking a loot at Orchid Seed’s 1/7th scale Elf PVC figure from Lineage II.

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