Polyvinyl Crush

In a fantastic yet oh so expensive move a number of the figures previewed at Wonder Festival 2010 Summer have already made it to the pre-order circuit.  There are still a few remaining from the show that have no release and that I’m eagerly anticipating more information on but I wouldn’t have guessed we’d see Taka Tony’s Miku so soon.  Not that I’m complaining, mind you.

Hobby - Tony Ver. Read the rest of this entry →

What we have on display today is a little exercise in dualities or, more specifically, the interesting effect when one company produces two figures and my reaction to the second figure is pretty much diametrically opposed to my reaction of the first figure.  It is rare indeed when I for a single post that I both praise and criticize a single company.  Today we have two companies to boot!

hobby ~ Read the rest of this entry →

I don’t know about you all but this week turned out particularly expensive for me.  Two of these I knew I would be buying but the third kind of crept up on me and I found her in my pre-order basket despite initially thinking I would pass on her.  Which one is that?  I’ll give you a hint: she has long hair.  Want another?  She costs ¥6800.  Here are the figures I’m excited about this week.

Humming Hobby~ Read the rest of this entry →

The summer months sure get busy with new figure announcements.  I hope everyone didn’t blow their figure budgets for the year already because if this pace keeps up then we’re in for a year of huge releases.  So, without further ado, here are the new releases I’m excited about this week.

The hobby has already begun~ Read the rest of this entry →

The last couple weeks have been a little weird in that there haven’t seemed like there were many really good figure announcements being made.  I mean yeah each week saw one amazing figure that was worth looking into but there haven’t nearly as many per week as there were in months past.  Makes me wonder if this is the calm before the storm.  Anyway here are the figures I’m excited about this week.

Hobby Hadouken~ Read the rest of this entry →

Looking at the calendar I’d say I’m a little late with this concept but I couldn’t find the time this weekend to do a full review so I decided to this instead.  The rules were simple: 1) The figure had to be released in 2009 (so all those GSC and Alter figures that got pushed back didn’t make the cut) and 2) I actually had to own the figure.  Despite those simple rules this ended up being quite the task since so many fantastic figures were released in 2009.  On top of that I decided to be really controversial and rank these 15 beauties.  Why 15?  Because I honestly couldn’t whittle the list down further than that.

Some of the results were surprising even to me~ Read the rest of this entry →