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Goodsmile’s Canaan

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Even thought I can afford any figures at the moment, yea I still don’t have a job, I still cruise around the figure sites every now and then. So was on Goodsimles site when I saw this vision of goodness. Canaan is from the anime ‘Canaan’ which is base on the visual novel 428: F?sasareta [...]

FREEing’s Mimi Usa Gym Uniform ver.

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Well the last of the Kodomo no Jikan girls are getting the 1/4 scale treatment from FREEing with the release of Mimi Usa Gym Uniform ver. in November. Like the rest of the girls in the series Mimi Usa’s gym uniform is made from a real cloth material for that added bit of realism. Also [...]

Adventures of Boo and Friends

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Boo found it very strange that someone would just have a spare head just laying around.

Max Factory’s figma Drössel

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You know the more that I see figma Drössel the more I’m liking her. Too bad everywhere I’ve looked the reissue is out of stock, she seems to be a really popular figure. There is a Nendoroid version of Drössel coming out in November. In a weird twist the Nendoroid version costs more then the [...]

Review: Art Storm’s Juliona Trans

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Finally got around to do the figure shoot of Art Storm’s Juliona Trans from Masamune Shirow’s Wild Wet West GalGrease series. I did something a bit different this time as a bit of an experiment. I went with a black background and used the camera flash for most of the lighting. The only other light [...]

More Wildfires

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Well over the weekend most of California had a nice little thunder and lighting storm. Which being Summertime in California set off a whole bunch of wildfires. At one point there was something like 600 lighting started fires. Most of which were just small brush fires and were quickly contained. As of 0800 this morning [...]

Make Faire Bay Area 2008

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Just found out about this and I am going to try to go. On May 3rd and 4th at the San Mateo fair grounds the editors of Make Magazine will be holding their next Make Faire. People from all over the US will come and show off what they make. There will also be bicycle [...]