After nearly 2 months time and traveling over 13,500 km, my WF2010 Summer kits have finally arrived. Granted, my anticipation has waned considerably since the last week of July, the height of post-convention frenzy; nevertheless, I'm still happy my kits made it safe and sound (after the shipment was detained by Canada Customs for a week for "review"). It was a long week with zero updates.
At the time of my 7/27/2010 post, I mentioned that I was gunning for 5 kits on Y!JA (which I wouldn't reveal until later). Well that number has fluctuated much since then so I've totally lost track of what they were. I apologize to anyone who was actually waiting for the big revelation.
Here's what I actually got:
Mirei-san by Otsuyama Houjun for Kotobukiya
Scale: 1/7
MSRP: 12,000 yen
Winning Bid: 12,000 yen
This was a very surprising find as the GK version must date back to 2007 at least. She had a buy-it-now option so I instantly picked her up.
Ayanami Rei by Koneko Koubou
Scale: 1/6
MSRP: 5,000 yen
Winning Bid: 17,000 yen
Definitely the highlight of this show for me. I have spent many hours on Y!JA since his Asuka first appeared at WF2010 Winter, and I didn't feel like doing the same for his Rei. I'm still reeling from this one though.
Asuka Langley by Koneko Koubou
Scale: 1/6
MSRP: 5,000 yen
Winning Bid: 21,000 yen
She only appeared twice this time around, so I put everything into the first auction. I definitely
stretched my funds thin with this one.
The problem with lesser known sculptors is that their stuff will almost never appear on Y!JA since popular kits are more likely to fetch a premium for resellers. Guess I should consider myself lucky she showed up at all.
Revy by Fujiura Toui for RC Berg Ltd
Scale: 1/6
MSRP: 11,500 yen
Winning Bid: 10,000 yen
When Joseph of Tokyo Hunter first offered his services for ordering this Hobby Japan Magazine exclusive, I fancied the notion but ended up not following through on it. For reasons that are no longer clear to me, I became fixated with this kit nearly 8 months later and came back to Joseph for help. He was able to find locate one, but the marked up price by the store plus Joseph's commission killed the deal for me.
So now as I look back I'm very glad to have waited another 7 months.
Rider by Ikeda Ryouichi (R.S.B) for Orchid Seed
Scale: 1/7
MSRP: 10,000 yen
Winning Bid: 10,000 yen
Rider was not high on my list initially. I liked her enough but I had already allocated funds for a few others such as Koneko Koubou's Eva girls, Melting Neuron's Mina Tepes and Shokubutsu Shoujo En's Miku.
It was Masa of GKJapan.com that gave me the final push to hunt her down (after seeing his post in the Wonder Festival 2010 Summer thread). And as luck would have it she was available for order through Orchid Seed's website.
The lesson that I've learned over the years when it comes to buying GK's is that a moment's hesitation usually results in many months of regret, which is why I still invest in the "buy it now, regret it later" mantra.
Yoko by Buster Seven
Scale: 1/6
MSRP: 10,000 yen
Winning Bid: 10,000 yen
Been eyeballing her since Treasure Festival in Ariake 3. I emailed the sculptor in early July but sadly PayPal wasn't a payment option. Luckily, the sculptor was very accommodating and told me that he'd put the kit up again for mail order after the upcoming Wonder Festival.
And he did.
Ryomou Shimei by Toushirou (Cobra-Kai) for Daiki Kougyou
Scale: 1/4
MSRP: 45,000 yen
Winning Bid: 22,000 yen
And what a steal. Insufficient funds during WF2009 Summer and WF2010 Winter prevented me from participating in any bidding wars, but again this turned out to be pretty great. Pretty great save for the last half of year of fruitless searching.
Group shot:
Save for the Eva girls, I got a sweet deal out of this convention. But strictly speaking there's only 2 WF2010 Summer exclusives.
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2 comments:
hmm, looks like you spent a similar amount to me this summer, except that I only got 4 kits, and only 1 was from wonderfestival, although all 4 were available at the event!
Very surprised by the Mirei-san though. I always thought that it was one figure which went straight to PVC...
Yeah I'm pretty stoked about the find. It's not often I run into a kit and not have to think about whether I should buy or not.
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