Posts in "Figures"

Saber wants you to look at something. Well shes pointing to her mobile so I guess it means that shes fond of the prezzie that she received from Gina when she visited Anime Expo this year. Mmmmmm. Nice mobile.

The Desk Diary was another series that I was supposed to write regularly which covers the changing work environment together with any other bits and bobs that are going on in life. The last one I wrote was in September when it was still hot - its blo...

While filming the new year special of Culture Japan at the Good Smile Company offices, I get to play about with the decoration master of Strength who you saw a bit of in the anime Black Rock Shooter.

Figure.fm is an online community made up of comrades from all over the world who share photos of their figures, dolls, Gundams, fanart and loot. Many of these items are based on characters from games and anime so it makes sense that non-figure items...

The figure and hobby online store AmiAmi is giving away goodies to Culture Japan viewers! All you have to do is signup and leave a message below telling us which episode you watched and what you liked or disliked about it. We will choose winners at r...

Looks like my girls are certainly going to gain weight. After Food Strap 1 follows Food Strap 2 - the limited editions started today and I went along and forced my producer to super-size his meal too ^^; Today walked away with a muffin and hash potat...

K-ON! girl Tsumugi Kotobuki escapes from the Hobby Search offices and for some reason ends up at my place.

Released by the Max Factory/Good Smile Company folks is this rather spiffing King Kazma figma from Summer Wars. Loved the anime and love the figma rendition of this character. He comes with a bunch of hand parts, 2 facial expressions, a nobori flag a...

Looks like my job now involves me manufacturing dolls ^^; More about the whole process soon including the sculpting, molds, slush molding, painting, joints and all the other steps needed to create the little ones. BTW, is there an anime or game chara...

Was invited along with a load of other game industry folks to a press conference held by a company called ImageEpoch. They've made a few game titles in the past and today they announced that they will be releasing a ton of titles under their JRPG bra...

Announced at today's JRPG game press conference - a new game title called "Puchitto Rock Shooter." All the details they gave is that it will be an online browser based RPG released by Nico Nico and that it will be free to play. Due out Spring 2011. T...

A load of doll comrades gathered at the Shows Doll booth over the two day AFAX event. Was great to meet all the doll owners in person - a list of them below. Lemme know if there are urls that I should be including. Gordon - http://gordonator.com Aray...

Our mascot character Mirai Suenaga has been figmatized for a while but now she finally gets cloned a few thousand times over - pre-orders for the figma Mirai will start end of this month. Mirai-chan will be packaged with a crying face, handkerchief a...

The latest edition of Volks News featured the gorgeous Saber Lily. Yours if... 1. You attend Dollpa 24 2. You are willing to part with 99,750 yen. 3. God is on your side. Saber Lily Dollfie want?Want 0%Do no want 0%Vote recorded. Thanks!Your vote ha...

Hmmmm. I wonder what Saber is doing this evening while relaxing upstairs in the lounge. Danny: Hey Saber, what you up to?

Not only do Good Smile Company make great figures...

Photo review of Kotobukiya's latest 1/6 scale figure of Asuka Langley. Should be out any day now and retails for 7,140 yen. Great sculpt, yummy curves and rich coloring. Pre-order yours at one of the following trusted online retailers:- http://www.1...

Weekly Ascii - the post popular computing/technology and trend weekly magazine in Japan which also covers anime, games, figures and gadgets too. For some reason I now have a regular column in Weekly Ascii starting next month and I would love to have...

Saber's been a busy girl - been filming all day in Nikko with more tomorrow. There was even a scene where she goes to an Onsen (hot spring bath)^^;

Most of my time of late has been taken up by research on plastic manufacturing and also looking into how 3D is replacing traditional sculpting by hand. Learning loads and meeting many folks in the industry at the same time. Next week we start filmin...

Looks like its time for another giveaway - this time its going to be the recently released Xecty (girl with the brown hair) by Kotobukiya. Shes a big heavy girl too and retails for 9,240 yen. But you can have her for 0 yen ^o^

Adventures of Saber in Hong Kong last March with more to come this October. Some more photos of Saber in posts tagged "Hongkong." Saber has been getting around quite a bit this year. After Hong Kong it was Malaysia in May and then Los Angeles in July...

The recently released Amaha Miu Dollfie appeared on the doorstep the other day - thanks to Dollfie World for sending her over! They sent her out on a Monday from Hong Kong and she arrived a couple of days later on Thursday - speedy service @.@ Dollfi...

Just saw the post by Yui over at Figure.fm about the new 50cm bodies by Volks entitled Dollfie Dream Sister (DDS). Looks like they've come out with a completely revamped body - dying to get my hands on one ^^;