Polyvinyl Crush

I hate running a blog sometimes.  I updated a couple of plugins before sitting down to write this post and the site got all screwy.  I uninstalled said plugins to revert back to an older version only to be told that the plugin was “not compatible” with the version of WordPress I was using.  Funny, no problems five minutes prior.  Anyway I then spent several hours reading and going though the process to back up the site so I could upgrade WordPress (to the new and shinny 2.9 series) to hopefully fix the problem.  Which, of course, it didn’t.  As it turns out the two plugins in question decided to change their default settings.  That was the problem; no upgrade was needed.  I’m sure if I were better at this I would’ve troubleshot the problem before spending the time to upgrade.   Here are the figures I’m excited about this week.

A frustrating hobby sometimes~ Read the rest of this entry →

When I first started covering “upcoming” figures and noticed all the exclusives coming down the pipe I absolutely hated it.  I thought they were a cheap, gimmicky way to artificially create interest for a figure and get an extra 20-30 bucks out of it at the same time.  Slowly, begrudgingly I began appreciating exclusives for their increased quality and more imaginative compositions, and even found myself ordering a couple despite my initial resolve.  Fast forward to today where nearly everything on my want list is an exclusive.  My name is Rico-sama, and I’m an exclus-aholic.

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Leave it to Alter to cut through another week of dry PVC pre-orders with a couple of fantastic figures.  Granted we’ve seen them before, but they’re still a welcome breath of fresh air from the rather stagnant  string of announcements I’ve seen.  Too bad I can’t same the same for Clayz’s offering, but at least it fits in with today’s secret ingredient.

symmetrical hobby Read the rest of this entry →

Understatement of the year: figures are becoming more expensive.  Obviously, some of that is to be expected with the global economic downturn, but I’d also argue that it’s because the  production quality of  figures have generally increased.  Using those points I could always reason out that increased cost, but no amount of reasoning can justify a figure that’s nearly $300 – especially one that’s not all that good.

Daiki Kougyou loves pricing themselves out of the hobby Read the rest of this entry →