Polyvinyl Crush

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.

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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.

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