Treasure Festa
The garage kit show Treasure Festa took place last weekend at Makuhari and most of the coverage is out.
My fave figure of the event is this 1/6 scale kit of Haruka Morishima from the game Amagami - more pics of her in this post at Akibahobby.
Find a ton of coverage at the following sites where I plucked these photos from.
http://akibahobby.net/2009/02/trefes0222pro_macrossf.html
http://akibahobby.net/2009/02/trefes0222pro_griffon.html
http://akibahobby.net/ (check links from top page)
http://beyyang128.no-blog.jp/dairy/2009/02/in_2097.html
http://beyyang128.no-blog.jp/dairy/ (more links from top page)
http://pelmera.s297.xrea.com/kako/event/tf2009pro/tf2009pro_02.html
http://n-exceed.net/2009/02/23-event.html (click on any of the 4 banners)
And they also had...
Via FooBarBaz.
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What the hell happened to that Horo?!
Fate looks awesome!
流浪人
Agreed on both points... ^^
Student, ...someday...zzz
GAH!
They butchered Horo!!! >.<
Lazyass human
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Yeah, they're like totally polar opposites lol! Horo's face looks melted orz
Delivery Driver | Semi-student
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Looks like Horo was handcrafted.
It's the mouth that looks most odd, but I think it's because of the size of the picture. I noticed she's licking her lips, but at first glance it looks like it's a horribly disfigured mouth.
Student
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Agreed to the core...
University Student
Had a good chuckle from looking at Horo lol
It is like the one pic of her riding the whale...or dolphin?
Student, Performer
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>.< Sad for horo...
College student, Mech programmer and striving photographer.
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mmmMMMmmm...more Airi figures! ^^
SNSD Lover
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Epic. Except the last one.
Student
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hahahaha excellent RaitoSaito, EPIC! ^^
:D
Student
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yeah love that Fate. I already picked her up off Yahoo! Auctions Japan...now to get the Nanoha Counter part...T's System also did a Nanoha and Fate set for MGLN The Movie 1st too.
Trying to become a blogger.
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I like em all, many sexy ladies! Horo one is odd but cute.
software manager
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each time i see that fate, the first thing that comes to mind are those ultra-leaning figures ^^;;; wonder why the sculptor went for such an extreme angle...
Student
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More gym uniform Kyou hell yeah!
Although that last one . . . that apple is so inaccurate.
大学生
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That Fate is a garage kit?! I think I remember seeing a pic somewhere before...
student
the last last one was...FTL!
Injured
In the pictures that you have listed the 'clannad girl in gym costume' I would want to get. Fit perfectly next to Tokimeki Memorial Only Love Kasuga gym costume figurine I have. In the links the Kannagi Nagi 'predictor 1/8th' looks great, espically after watching the videos of the guy carving her out of wood.
From the Beyyang128 link look at the size the sword the Magical Strikers is holding ROFL thats awesome (TX2 Hobbycraft). The other figurines they have of that series look great too.
Delivery Driver | Semi-student
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That first one looks really cute. Not familiar with "Amagami" but I want to be now after seeing that.
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最後のはかわいくない。。
???Confused???
Most of these are only decent...though a few that are exceptional...
projectionist, artist
I liked a lot of the figures that were covered. My fave was probably the nude Horo with all the apples.
I always feel bad when I see figures that don't look so good at these kit events, because I know someone worked really hard on them.
Hikikomori
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That Fate figure looks awesome. Want!
Student, Otaku
Argh~! Still no Maria Shidou figure!
Student
Those are all awesome, except for the last one *holds stomach in pain*
student
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Fate looks teh best outa them all.
Otaku
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Fate is the best the only detail I don't like the way they made their big eyes
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Student
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Thanks Danny.
Supreme Commander of NERV Co.
loving the B-Ball and had happened to Horo...-_-
November Echo Echo Tango
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What's up with the last pic? o__o
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OMG! What did they done to our lovely Horo........
Saw a few nice figure~~~~
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That figures with jeans... WANT! It looks so good! Sorry can't remeber her name atm, but from To Heart 2. I wants that Sheryl, Fate and Kyou figure too! They look so pretty! Horo not so pretty...
Creative Director
They all tickle my fancy...LOL but my wallet is not laughing.
Ninja / Engineer / Sensei / 魔法少女 (What!?! I can't be, I'm a guy...)
Wow. So many eyes. Like that figure of Kyou. It really brings out her eyes. ^^;
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oh I'm seriously interested in that fate and nanoha, but fate looks like it'll be a crazy leaning figure... but horo looks... well, limited edition
Student
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Fate won't be as prone to leaning since it's a gk it's cast in resin and resin has a higher melting point than PVC does. It's a harder plastic so it's less prone to gradual bending from gravity too. So as long as she's not next to a vent or in direct sunlight it shouldn't lean
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oh that's nice to know, but I guess that means it'll cost more.
Student / CNA
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Kyou!!! More Clannad figs! MUST HAVE Kyou!
College Freshmen
Klan and Sheryl are nice although Sheryl's hair color is a little off. A lot of other nice figures there too.
anime/cosplay events organizer
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love the Fate figure...she looked so awesome!
Student
What did they to to Horo's face....
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oh OH!
tama-nee....
fate's hair is awesome
horo looks retarded ><"
College Student
I think if we would look closer, we can see that Horo's tongue is actually sticking out by the side of her mouth.
Although judging by the distance the picture was taken, at first glance it looks like a disfigured mouth.
Still, best way to be sure is if we had a larger picture. ^^
Dirty Gentleman
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Hmm, I see I see... an apple a day keeps the ecchi thoughts away.
Otaku, US Army, Student (Political Science)
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Yup, Fate and Kyou tickled my fancy for sure. ^^;
Customer Service
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Would like to have that one with yellow hair holding 2 swords ^_^
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My favourite by a mile was clips' GK of Range Murata's Chord Liner:
http://akibahobby-c2.sakura.ne.jp/image/20090222/t052.html
Vispo's stuff was also lovely as always :)
Nekophilia
Seven apples on za witches tree~ xD
1 thing I noticed.. Those 2D mahou effects (fate above)can never be molded into 3D precisely... Maybe precisely is not the word but they just look weird to me.. Which is why I buy figures that are posing(fighting pose included) or "not in combat".
Student, Uncle & hopfully a good husband..
Something is wrong with horo..other than that...the others look great.....especially fate...
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want that sheryl figure!!
IT
kyou!! i love it.
Future Idol
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OMG... Horo.... @_____@''' >o<;;
Mechanical Engineering student
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I wanna get that Nanael figure! Yum~ XD
ばり★すた
Good gravy, after digging through those sites, I just gotta have that Yotsuba with the brolly, and the statue of Yuno + Miyako + that green... thing ( ≧∇≦) Too cool! Alas, I haven't the foggiest where to look for garage kits, so I shall settle for staring longingly at the photos...
Hobby fan
You know?... maybe I was expecting too much of this Treasure Festa because there were nice surprises for my taste but not as many as I was waiting for.
Between all the figures that I liked there were only two figures that possibly I might manage to buy if they go out in PVC version in the future.
One is the beautiful figure of seated Kanu from Koihime Musou playing her kind of harp and the other is Volk's Asarie Mamiya from a hentai series that is seated on a couch in a picture above. Both of them very beautiful and sexy as well.
But, as I wrote, nothing very spectacular this time.
Greetings.
Service desk support
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hmm, that Sheryl looks off...
Otherwise, not really grabbing my attention, though some of the Ranka ones would make little kids cry!!!
Need to look through the other coverages and see if there are any little gems in there...
Worker
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I was quite impressed with a lot of the resin kits- I'll have to think about picking up a couple when I have the chance.
There is a couple of nice ones. Probably nothing I would get if I was able to though.
Photographer Wanna-be
If you think about it realistically, you could never actually snuggle up to a chick with big angel wings on her back, especially if there were sensitive. I know two or three of you have steady women here, so you know that depending on the day of the month, you can't even touch certain things. So now imagine bigass wings on her back.
I'm trying to think how it would be a plus, dinnertime, no, good sex, no, swimming, no. Watching TV under a blanket together, no.
On the upside, if it mattered, a tail and cat like ears, no probs for all of that. Just say'n.
.NET/Web Developer
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I like this one the best: http://img-haruhi.dannychoo.com/blogimg/tresurefesta2009024.jpg. actually that's the only one that I liked. heheh!
Student
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The Sheryl figure reminds me...
When the f@#k will a Ranka figure come out?!
Student, Performer
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I want that Kyou~~
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Haruka and Fate looks amazing!
Horo looks like crap T_T
Pre-U Student
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Must get that Fate figure... xD