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In a Lucky Star mood tonight

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Returned home today to find a rather large package from Hobby Search waiting for me.  It was packed full of delicious bishoujos :D

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Three new Lucky Star girls and a Kyou challenger appears!  Since I’m quite cheap and shipping EMS is quite expensive, I try to package as many items into a single order as possible.  Hobby Search is great for this as they will hold your items up to a month and then ship them all together.  Results in a slight delay for some items that are released early in the month but saves a lot of money on shipping ^^

I’m looking forward to playing with my new toys over the long Labor Day weekend :-D

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On a unrelated note, I have been keeping myself busy with a few new games (new to me, at least).  Picked up LittleBigPlanet (PS3), God of War 2 (PS2), and borrowed Persona 4 (PS2) from a friend.  Too many games, too little time xD  The PS2 games play quite nicely on my PS3 thanks to the backwards compatible hardware in the 60GB model.

And lastly, I’m almost done with final part of my Italy trip coverage.  Should have done that a while ago ^^;

New outfits for FREEing 1/4 Lucky Star set

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Hey, look at this ^^  At the ongoing Chara Hobby 2009 event, FREEing displayed new, alternative outfits for their 1/4 scale Lucky Star figures.  Konata was released last month and Kagami will be out in a few days.  By default, all the figures come with gym uniforms but it looks like we’ll have the option to pick up cheerleader, miko, and winter serafuku outfits as well!

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So awesome!  It now makes perfect sense why they designed the figures to be (mostly safe) cast-offable ^^  Buy the figure once and you’ll have the ability to dress it in multiple sets of clothing :)  It seems the cheerleader outfit will be the first one released.  Now we just need some details on pricing and release dates.

Will probably be more interesting goodies shown at Chara Hobby later ^^

Source: Akiba Hobby, Moeya

Lucky Star Treasures Set of Soujirou

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My latest acquisition in the quest for Lucky Star world domination ^^.  Here we have Wave’s non-scale Konata and Kanata, Treasures of Soujirou Set.  Soujirou, for those who aren’t aware, is Konata’s otaku galge/H game/anime loving dad.  The Treasures of Soujirou set is both Konata and Kanata together (normally sold separately) and some bonus accessories. Continue reading →

Wave’s Taiga Preording + Some Chiaki

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Wave’s 1/8 scale Aisaka Taiga figure is now open for reservation!

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This is the figure I’ve been watching for some time now, starting with the unpainted prototype shown at Wonder Festival.  I have to say Taiga looks quite cute from these images but I’m weary of the swappable faces it features.  All the figures with swappable faces that I’ve seen tend to have more noticeable seams on their heads.

Still, I like the figure.  The laughing face, smiling face, and sad faces all look good though I personally prefer to keep my Taigas happy ^^.  Quite likely I will be getting her.  She is available for reservation at Hobby Search for 7,125 yen and will be released in December.

But wait, there’s more!  Order now and you’ll receive a free Minami Chiaki Nendoroid!

chiaki nendoroidOK, maybe not but Chiaki is also now available for reservation at Hobby Search.  I’m really glad to see the Minami-ke Nendoroids starting ^^.  Can’t wait for Kana xD

Atelier Sai’s Kagami now shipping

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For the Lucky Star fans out there, a new Kagami figure is available starting today.  It is Atelier Sai’s non-scale Hiiragi Kagami, the first of a set by them.  At 160mm, it’s somewhere around 1/8 scale, maybe a bit smaller.  I don’t have any Atelier Sai figures so I can’t say how the quality will be but the at 4,560 yen I’m willing to take a gamble on them.  I’ll be the guinea pig and get her ^^

She can be ordered at Hobby Search.  Tsukasa will supposedly be also shipping later this month ^^.

1/8 Saber by Gift

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I was planning on doing a review of my newly acquired FREEing 1/4 Konata, but as it turns out, she had some major paint flaws.  I may need to get a replacement as I don’t think I can repair the problems myself :(  In the meantime, I went back to some photos I took in May of Gift’s 1/8 scale Saber from Fate/Stay Night.  These photos have been sitting around too long anyway ^^;

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