Saber and Fate fans are going to be once again happy to hear of some more great news from Good Smile Company. On top of the amazing Excalibur Saber figure announcement, there is also this wonderful Petit Nendoroid set that was announced back before the weekend...
As the picture shows, there's a couple versions of the figures included in the set and supposedly a secret figure as well. I'm so keeping a set myself ^^.
Of course, you can find them for pre-order in my store (or you can email your reservation). There's 12 in the set and they go for $90 altogether so not bad at all. Expected to come stateside in August; could always be sooner or later ^^;;
Got a wonderful early Christmas present in my email a few days back. My store was given the rights to sell the official Good Smile Company/Max Factory Toho (Touhou) Project figures! That's correct, I'll be stocking the very rare Figma Reimu Hakurei and Nendoroid Marisa Kirisame figures! Much like the recent Saber Lily Good Smile Company figure, these figures will be so hard to get that even in Japan there will be slim pickings. Just one glance over at eBay and you'll notice that their pre-orders are going for $80 and over. I'm not a thief like them so I'm keeping the price based on my costs ^^.
As a side note, those pre-sales and practically all anime figure pre-orders on eBay are actually against eBay rules since the figures must be able to be shipped out 30 days after purchase...so go ahead and report those guys if you want. Many of the pre-order figures on there are either fakes and/or won't come out for another 3-4 months -_- In other words, expect these to be highly bootlegged so choose your seller wisely. My wholesaler directly in Japan, mile-stone.jp were the ones who helped me out with this and of course once they come in (which should be either January or ~February of 2010) I will gladly show images of the boxes with the appropriate stickers that show their authenticity.
K-ON! and especially Mio fans (like myself) will be happy with this bit of news. Up for pre-order is the Good Smile Company Akiyama Mio Nendoroid figure. The official Japan release date will be some time in November, so for us anime fans here in the US, chances are December is when we'll have her officially released in our neck of the woods. If any of you have been keeping track on dannychoo.com, you knew this figure has been in the works. Hopefully we can see the other girls from K-ON! soon as well ^_^
(I made sure to put her in my store. Click here to go to the pre-order page or email my store's account to be put on a waiting list. She'll be at $39.99USD plus $5 shipping for local, US buyers. If you are overseas, shipping will be rougly $15-$20 or maybe cheaper.)
I had a bunch of items not yet listed in my store for pre-order, so I went and got the store up to date. I also got the clearance today to set up pre-orders for the very cute and lovely Saber Lily Nendoroid figure. Saber is the background to my dual PC set-up at home still so I'll probably snag one for myself to add to my collection ^^. With my listings mainly up to date, I'll be sure to post the newest figures first now. Every single day there are new and amazing anime figures that get on the pre-order list and if I'm to be up there with the other anime stores...I gotta keep up ^^;;
Check out some more pics below. I also added these pictures and the pictures for my other recent figures additions to the anime figures part of the anime gallery.
Hijacked this great bit of figure news from Danny Choo's post as well as the Mikatan Blog yesterday. Big news if you are into articulated figures or, like me, love the detail and effort in Good Smile company anime figures. The upcoming actsSta line, actSta being short for "action, actor, active statue" is in a sense, larger Figma figures. These figures will be at around 1/8th scale and fully articulated and as you see from the photos, in par with the quality you'd expect from GSC. These will most likely be a part of my store and my personal collection as well.
Not sure yet of the release date for these but the latest figures on the production line (as of this post) don't come out till late November 09, so most likely a December/January 2009/2010 release in Japan..which means late Feb or March in the US -_- Don't hold me to that, but with my 3 years experience as a anime figure dealer...it's probably in that ballpark.
Today I got a big shipment of new anime figures from the new Kingdom Hearts Cloud and Sephiroth; not to mention a bunch of Haruhi Suzumiya Extravaganza figures, just to name a few. I also got about 12 Nendoroid figures. Just wanted to use this post to show them off before they are taken away from any of my customers or before I add a few to my own personal collection ^^;; I definitely could use some di:stages for these guys.
Anyone got a favorite Nendoroid?
A wonderful site
Itoshiki Nendoroid
Going to be giving most of them a new home soon. I might keep one or two but...gotta run the biz here ^^'