Figure Life

That gives me a good idea for whenever I move out, bagging them up like that. As for cleaning, hardly ever. Guess I should get started.

Glad to see you got your alice! I got mine ordered, just waiting for it to arrive. Can't wait! You still gonna get the Haruka oppai pad this week, or you just gonna stick with the oshiri pad? I haven't decided If I want to use glass for my figures yet though. Looking great Danny. Lots of neat SAFS.

hey, nice to find out that I'm not the only one who keeps my toys in resealable plastic bags when not in display. wonder where your Nanoha got the mark from, judging from the colour must have been lulu or spinzaku, ^^ however regardless of that your gundam thinner is in need of a gundam. ^^; a Figma Ryu? first time I've seen a stocky figma, I guess it'll be the gruesome quintet + 1 now? ^^;

Lelouch with the mouse mat just looks plain wrong...

I need clean up mines, but I don't have much.

It's common on my neighbor clean the entire house once a week, so we employ someone to clean the house every week.

In my house we do the cleaning from 15 to 15 days, and the other weekends a woman come to clean the house.

Everyday we remove the dust, so I get about 15 minutes each day to clean T_T.

This way i think have a lot of figures like Danny is a good decision ^-^...

Danny, I'm just staring at you...all those figures!!!
I'm surprised that you don't keep the boxes. I keep them just in case I move or something.
The boxes are useful yet takes up space...
Plastic bags are useful to a point but sometimes if you bag it wrong, you can break the figures...
I didn't know houses in Japan has that many bugs. How many bugs invade your house i wonder...
I want those figures...I see two Tsukasa!!!

You mentioned before that you use a pastry brush to dust your figurines. What type of pastry brush is it? I've seen some with nylon while others with normal err straw-like strands. Which one should I go for? I'm afraid of scratching my figurines.

I pack my figures in plastic bags aswell. The Freeing bunnies look great. And also that idea to get rid of unwanted paint of your figures is great, I used to sand the paint off with sand paper.

I've been checking out the QB/QG figures quite a bit lately, and see they got Nanael coming out in November, but the proportions on it on a bit odd, and her shirt doesn't look as if its on her correctly. A bit too plump her legs too I think. I'll be keeping my eye on that Megahouse line though in the future. I've been checking out Alice on Happysoda and Foo site all day.

I can see Danny is using Logitech Wireless Mouse!! ^3^

I recently had my house 'pestecided'. So I had to draped my entire table (was too lazy to wrap each figure). On a side note, since it gets so dusty in this country, I have to dust my entire room (with detail cleaning of my figures) every weekend. Sucks when I see dust accumulate after a few hours :p

Wow, that Lulu/Penguin combo made me laugh so hard.
And I want that Miku figure now ><

Danny when you say Cast-off enabled on the miku figure at GSC site, does that mean we can see more lovely eyes or is that bottom only? ^^;

ahh I'm jealous of your Taiga Aisaka figure! So cute but can't justify getting ^^;

Oshiri mosue pad, WANT! Thus true it is, we'll ended up grabbing the oshiri more often than the mouse ^^;
LMAO at Lulu sniffing at the bottom ^o^
Can't wait for the new cast members to appear on Danny's Figma Theater. y(^o^)y

hmm...testing out the image ID feature... How do we use it? When I click on it the page moves a bit, but nothing happens or was copied to the clipboard... I just copied the link manually here lol

http://www.dannychoo.com/adp/eng/1576/Figure+Life.html#image22177

Anyway, Miku's tooshie. I like how tightly her cheeks are squeezed together ^^ Butt cleavage~~

I should probably get more of those resealable plastic bags. And that plastic case seems like a good idea too. :) As far as dusting and cleaning my figs, I don't do them much often as most are behind glass. But for those I almost always fiddle around with and recently acquired end up out in the open until I decide to fix up my work space.

Danny, What thinner do you use? I see it's a Gunze sangyo but I know they have various thinners for different kinds of paint.

"The most boring part of your job is getting rid of boxes"...*groans* Of course. There is more figure loot in any given picture up there than I get in a year.

That picture of Mitsuki leaning over Tsukasa on a bed looks oddly natural, and ponytail Haruhi Nendroid = Win.

Hmmm, nope... can't recall any "anti bug smoke" here... though when you have some problems with nasty bugs and call the guy who does it job-wise they use some machine and smoke to get them killed as well i think. ^^;
But nothing you could buy in a shop i think...

Is it that important to do that in Japan? So many nasty bugs? I have read a lot about the big spiders and giant hornets by now, quiet scary... i don't like insects. ><;

Never seen bug stuff like that here in America... but we never had bug problems in this house so I haven't had to shop for that kind of thing. We just have some roach spray just in case.

I feel bad getting rid of figure boxes sometimes, because some are just so nicely made. XD But I can think of it this way... less room taken up by boxes is room for more figures and other anime/game goodies. I trashed a couple earlier today. XP

As for storing bits and pieces, so far I've got two small plastic bins and one large ziplock bag full of my extra doll and figure stuff. And displaying... I display my stuff on my desks and on some wall shelves. I'd like to get a detolf one day though, and get rid of the wall shelves. I'd leave the figures on my desks alone though, because I like messing with those while I'm drawing or working.

For your poll question, clean figures?!? Such things exist? I guess its cause I never really touch mine and therefore do not need to clean it but I see how you would need to Danny. Always playing with them and bringing them out to dinner where they get all greasy.

I would say every few months, but the last time I cleaned mine was 2 weeks ago. Before that it was nearly 9-10 months. Trying hard to not be lazy. :p

I hope you poke holes in those bags... you're suffocating your figures! ;_;
Better than fumigating them, I suppose...

I've never really had bug problems here, but I've never seen something like that either. I'm pretty sure most people would just call in the exterminators if there is a bug problem. But this anti-bug smoke does seem like a much more cost effective method.

I would clean them regularly....and I also save the boxes of my figure as the picture printed on them is nice ,so I would feel sad to throw them away =.=.

For the time being there isn't much problem with bugs in my region....

ooh can't wait for the next installment of the Figma theater~

I don't see your Freeing Ryoko bunny in a bag. I can only deduce you don't want her, so I'll be happy to take her off your hands to help you conserve office space. It's the least I could do...

Ya right.

Crap, and here I was thinking of NOT buying the Asakura Ryoko nendoroid... now I need to get it for those extra parts! (Good Smile sure knows how to take away my money XD)

From the figurines' boxes all I keep is the clear plastic from the inside. I cut it out a bit and throw the rest. It takes a bit more space (but a lot less than the boxes) than throwing everything in a generic box, but it does preserve the figurine very well.

I keep the boxes so in case of anything I can store them and protect them...Well I keep them in boxes right now as I lack space and have no display cases...

Man, I think I'm becoming way too obsessed if I can identify Miku from just socks and panties.

Wow, soo many figures....again. Really want that Queen's Gate Alice, but the budget is really out this time. I usually clean my figures once a week, although now that's classes have started again, my mum does it for me. Which can be a pain, because last week I came home to find one of Narika's legs missing, so I had to reattach it -_-

gah, wish i had ordered the ryoko nendoroid... alas i'll have to wait given my current preorder list ^^;

hah this reminds me of the flea bomb over at giantbomb here
http://www.giantbomb.com/how-to-build-a-bomb-ep/17-13/

watch a bunch of wackos escape from a flea bomb!

I had to bag some up for transport, I had to bubble wrap chie cos I didnt have her box anymore.... so scared she'd break.... but they all came through a-ok!!

For the time being, figures are on display on my bedside table. This is just a temporary setup, I'm already running out of space T__T
Figures get cleaned once or twice a week, so they're pretty clean.
Figma theatre looks to be different with the yuri sneak peek XD

For my case, my room isn't that big plus just a single glass display cabinet took up so much space.
The only place I could place my figures are in the display cabinet or just on my table(which I hardly have much space for them as well, frankly speaking). lol

One thing I have noticed is that it seems to be really awkward to clean the figure's if you have let the dust settle for too long as in my case lol, now there is so much dust on Airi im scared ill brake her trying to clean her :D

Nice collection of new SAFS. And Alice seems really beautiful.

I have the boxes for my very few figures, but I do not have boxes for the 200+ 1/144 tanks I have collected for over 4 years! It will be a trouble when I decide to move as they can easily break T_T

I almost never clean my Gunpla; just pick 'em up and blow on 'em most of the time throughout the year.

And that V-Zone belongs to Miku. Leek-green lining on the socks(or are they part of her shoes?) were the giveaway.

I have the boxes for every figure. Since I dont have many displayed, the lone boxes dont take up much room. I would love to ditch the boxes but I put away the figures in the summer since the tend to melt in the NY heat. I try to keep things as clean as possible by wiping them with a wet bounty. If I threw out my boxes, I'd definitely have baggies to keep the extra pieces organized. Just so I know what soft boobs go to what figure XD

I've got big glass shelves where I put all my figures. The main reason is dust. But since I was always opening them to play with the Figmas, now I keep the Figmas out and try to put them all around the house with nice or stupid poses. ^^

Woah, so many SAF's, figure companies are just throwing new releases to you, looks like you'll need to find more space to display all your figures. Cleaning looks like a hassle as well.

This morning I had cleaned all my figures, used a soft-tip paint brush, and those static-charged towels which attract dust. I clean my figures every month or so.

I would never use those bug bombs, for our house we call a professional to spray insecticide along the edges of every room, the poison still works after a year or two. Kills most insects except flying ones... which are easily taken care of with flyspray.

I just use a can of compressed air to dust as needed. The figures on the bottom shelf acquire more dust on their bases quickly from the rug being so close. Eventually I do want to put them in glass cases because I want pets and don't want the figures chewed or knocked over by a curious cat or an energetic dog.

Urm, danny can you tell me which brand of thinner are you using? I would like to get one of those. I had some paint that i want to remove from my figure. Thanks ^_^

so many figures !! a bit jealous of you. :P
I hardly ever clean my figures. Maybe I should start cleaning them up now.

I hardly ever clean then, though they also don't get very dusty as I display them in a closed cabinet.

Also: I want that girl with chibi tiger so much! T_T

I currently keep my figures outside and the room conveniently doesn't collect any dust or the figures at least doesn't.

Anyway, seeing your SAFS makes me impatience to open my packed loots (waiting till to the end of September while my other batches are on their way, for whatever reasons...)

I want to know about lucky star figmas, why the one in the bag next to Haruhi looks so big? is it a different edition or all lucky star's are like this?

uwaaah.. I dont want to see the homes of the figures to be thrown out! ;_; Please remember to say sorry to them when doing such guilty thingy and now the poor plastic figures are trapped in nasty plastic of plastic bag! *shed shining drop of tears and runs*

It's really amazing on how detailed these figures are. I wish I could get one :|

whoa! Danny throw all the boxes in the trash! i understand the reason, because it occupies much space (my cabinet is almost full...) but the boxes is very nice to do it, and to stock the figures back for some reason.
however, i liked the idea of the bags, where i can get these?
ow, and i prefer to put my figures out of displays cases, take much space and the figure is not well displayed i think.

Hmmm... nice. I clean my figure every week, I try to clean it every sunday along with the cleaning of my room. I do it periodically to have a sched, but sadly I really don't follow any schedule that I made. xD

That Lulu and the butty mouse pad looks like how ANICOMI[http://anicomi.livedoor.biz/] does his mousepad reviews. I want that 1/8 Miku Figure nao!

Anti bug smoke? Never seen it here, though I guess fumigating once a year here and expecting the bugs to stay out would be kinda like putting a flyscreen door on a submarine and wondering why it wasn't waterproof anymore....

Figures get cleaned about once a fortnight, along with dusting and vaccing the room. I use an electro-static wipe rather than a brush.

Dang thats alot of figures. But living in Japan, your collection is bound to grow.

For me, I ship all my figures home and my brother displays them for me. When I get leave, I sort everything and give all my figures a light dusting. Actually, whenever I go home, it feels alot like Christmas cause I get to see all the stuff I've sent home. Some stuff I'll even forgot I bought. (:

Very nice figures and storage btw Danny!:D Gives me some ideas for storage for extra pieces.:D

Yeah, boxes start to get out of hand once you have more than a few figures. I like the bag idea much better.

No anti bug smoke here... I guess the government thinks it is dangerous or something...
And LOL @ double nice boat!

I keep my bigger figures in a glass cabinet, but my nendoroids and some small things are on my night stand, which is getting quite crowded with 5 nendoroids ^^; (Haruhi,Mikuru,Yuki,Miku & Pastel Ink)

I keep my nendoroid bits in the original box, and take them out when I need them. Just did a photoshoot of them yesterday and had all 5 boxes laying on the floor and heads, arms and legs spread around ;p. I took them with my new camera, Canon EOS 450D. Will be posting about that on my blog during this week.

I think that V-zone and oshiri is Hatsune Miku, looking at the color of her socks.

I have my figures in shelves around my room, so every week, more or less, I clean all figures for a shelve, and have an order to do this, so all my figures are more or less clean...

I also do the same with figures I can`t display, I keep them on bags, and put on boxes, waiting to be displaed again.

Unfortunately, it's been awhile since I cleaned my shelves of my figures or should I say a very long time. -_-; (*sigh*) what's pretty funny is that I keep some of my figures in my boxes like my 1/6 scale figure of Spike from Cowboy Bebop (lol, I guess you can say that's keeping figures clean) As far as I can see from my shelves, my figures needs some updates.

I think the only GSC Figure I have at home is Kaname from Full Metal Panic where she is holding a bazooka of sorts, but it's definitely my favorite female character ^__^.

Gosh! I've never smoked a house... what kind of buzz do you get?

I keep most of my figures in my Detolf but its pretty cramped in there thats why some are standing on my desk.I hardly clean them ususally just when im doing a photoshooting ^^;;;

Those Bugbombs look quite dangerous

I've got to get a couple of those bags. I have a few collectors books that have just been sitting on my shelf for the past few years. I mean, they're out of direct sunlight, and I don't open them. But my mother smokes, so that can't be good for them.

And we have bug bombs here in the states. You push down a button and it fills the house with a fog that kills the bugs. You have to leave for 4-6 hours. And don't leave any food or pets out in the house. The food will go bad, and the pets will die.

Would you mind sharing a link as to where i can buy the standard mousepad (not the butt mouse pad) in the earlier shots? It looks awful comfortable without being as shameful as the oppai mousepads.

i never clean my figure, i keep them in a display box that is air seal, so there is really no point of dusting them when there is no dust to clean...XD

My first figure is on its way. I plan to clean it at least once a week. I hate it when stuff gets dusty. >_<

wah.. i could never throw away the boxes... too much put into them to throw away...

Danny. You get so many freakin figures!!
its not fairrr >.< haha

Never ever throw away my boxes, they are apart of the figure itself!

Also didn't realize that the PVC Miku figure was a cast off as well! Now I can't wait

*waits at his door step for pre-order!*

i even keep the delivery boxes.

luckily, I have not seen those pesky pests in my room or my house, so I am ok, I think... However, dust is an issue I have...

Those add water and run smokers look a lot safer then the aerosol bug bombs we got here in the state. One guy blew his house of the foundation by useing too many bug bombs and forgetting to kill the pilot light on the furnace.

Every figure looks good except for Ryu, he's hideous! I only have two figures to boot and they are still in the boxes, unopened. I would open them up if I get more figures but at the moment, they are too lonely so they will stay warm in their boxes ^^;

I WANT NENDOROID AND BUNNY ASAKURA RYOKO

How do you post so many pictures?

The MAD is awesome, never thought that i could like a Kylie Minogue song, Miki and the Artwork are teh Win. Then I watched the original video, which was quite "not so good"...

There is really no need for me to clean my gunpla.. Since there are inside my glass cabinet
http://www.dannychoo.com/detail/mac/eng/image/3526/wildflug%27s+room.html

But, I do occasionally air them out. My Meer Figure is still in her box, and probably I'll keep my figma Nanoha in her box too (Darn, what's with my aunt? She's taking way too long to send Nanoha to me)

Anyways, I guess almost everybody here knows that the V-zone belongs to the Vocaloid Hatsune Miku

So tempted to get Asakura and Mitsuki... *wipes away drool*

I only clean my figures when I take them out of the box for a photoshoot or to look over. That's just to wipe away fingerprints and any dust/residue then it's back into the box.

In fact, I ever rarely display them outside of the box which I keep in mint condition as well. Poor Tsuzuri, Churam, Kagami, Sumomo, Kasumi.... Maybe I'll take the ladies out for some fresh air this weekend.

Yeah, you gotta clean'em very so often so that they don't too covered with dust.

My, this site gets quite pervy sometimes, doesn't it? I don't take my figures out of the boxes to cleaning is a breeze. I actually bought most of them as an investment. Since they are already worth at least twice their original value after only a year or so, they will probably probably provide quite a nestegg in twenty years or so, especially MIB. Currently I'm shopping around for classy display cabinets with glass doors, but finding little below $1000 for an eight foot wide six foot tall cabinet.

just use a hair blow dryer set on cool air to dust the figures...thatz what i do...fast and easy!

I love how everyone's abusing Lelouch. The more I see these photos, the more I want to get him for myself too just to do the same!

I totally envy you for putting in the time to actually clean your babies. I'm rather too lazy and would just leave them to collect dust and perhaps use a dust cloth and lazily clean up the obvious dust layers every so often.

PS - Love the MAD video.

Sealable bags to store figure parts? Now why I didn't think of that.
Thanks Danny. It's always the simplest ideas which are hard to figure out. T_T
ZOMG, so much figure.
*still kicking myself for not preordering miku* >_<

my figures gets dusty way too quickly and i'm too lazy to clean them. at most just use a brush to dust it off the ones on my computer. do not have time for the ones in the detolf and on the shelf sadly. >.<

Me, i keep the boxes, just in case i need to "retire" older figures in favor of new ones. My room is small.

I usually clean my figurines once a week, particularly the small ones.
For some reason, the smaller ones like the Mecha Musume and Figma collect more dust than my larger ones 0__o ~

great collect lol, lulu seem to be happy

wow nice collection...and thanks to remind me to clean my figurines xD

Hehe I always keep mine in my boxes for safekeeping.

It's also for my paranoia since I collect figmas and the parts are so small. So to make sure I have all the parts I put them all in the box.

I wish I had more space for them though >_<

Hey Danny, at the end of each Penguin Musume Heart episode it says Good Smile Company, can you tell me anything about that?

OH!... That Nendoroid Haruhi with short hair is so beutiful (and that Lulu mouse pad is so tasty huhuhu)

wow!! I envy you..huhuhu..so many figurines you got there..

So many beautiful figure it makes me wanna cry my heart out to the extreme.

those bunny girl haruhi's are sure huge....
well
i guess they are worth their money in pvc Xp

It is a good technique for a move too. I will keep freezing bags

One thing that ALWAYS comes to my mind when acquiring a new figure is "Should I leave it in the box or take it out?" Sure I can handle cleaning them weekly and all but for some odd reason sometimes I like having them in the boxes.

I don't throw boxes as much as possible. It kinda lowers your figures value.

Neat photos. Hayase Mitsuk is a great figure!

I don't like to show figures on open shelves, a display case is better for lighting and dust-proof storage (and aesthetics!). That mouse pad is seriously funny, are those on sale at Hobby Search and similar good retailers?

i clean mine every once in a while with a non static cloth

Hi there...have been going through danny's collection and all i can say is amazing...i would like to have a collection like that...although i am far from it....i love the nendoroids....they look soooo cute!!! Love the figmas as well....i want to order it online but am scared if i will get in more pieces then they should normally come in :P.

Can anyone tell me if they have had any problems in receiving a long distance package...its the only thing that's stopping me(apart from my pockets being a little empty now :)) from getting these figmas and nendoroids.....

WTF did i just looking picture where's one of figure putting his face on the mouse pad...??

I meant lulu's ass!!???

Mine are on a open shelf, but I hardly ever clean them. I'm too scared of breaking them or dropping them. "^^

Does the bug smoke actually work? I had big problems with bugs my second summer in Japan (saw cockroaches crawling on the wall every night), and was told that if you don't do something in the spring it's already too late.

Man, I love this lifestyle.