Mikuru Asahina Fighting Waitress Ver. Figma
Posted by Persocom on Jun 9, 2009 in Figures | 9 comments
After a bit of misfortune Mikuru Asahina Fighting Waitress Ver. Figma by Max Factory is in good condition and ready for her time in the spotlight. I bought her from the usual suspect, Hobby Search for 2,261 Yen. At the time of writing this post though, she’s sold out there, so you may want to look elsewhere if you want to buy her. Mikuru comes from the manga/novel/anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, but I’m sure you already knew that much. Read on for a full review and her photo shoot. Read More
The Break and Repair of Mikuru Asahina
Posted by Persocom on Jun 6, 2009 in Figures, Misc | 28 comments
Today I planned to take pictures and write up a review for my new Mikuru Asahina Battle Waitress Ver. Figma. I got a few pictures into the process and decided to change her pose when suddenly… SNAP. Her left elbow joint snapped. Now I’m not going to say it’s because of the Figma itself, I didn’t realize the angle her arm was at when I started to bend her arm, it’s entirely my fault. Normally I’m very careful with my Figmas, but accidents DO happen. So why am I doing a whole post on this? Because luckily I have many Figmas, and one of them was kind enough to help me fix Mikuru. Read on for the whole heart-wrenching story. Read More
Recent Figma Arrivals
Posted by Riiana Doon on Sep 16, 2008 in Figures | 2 comments
So, I haven’t posted lately, been lacking something to post about… well… we recieved Tsukasa Hiiragi & our Kanu figma’s in the mail recently, and I must say I am quite happy with them.
Scared me at first when upon opening Figma Tsukasa her leg fell off, … but it was easily put back in place. Overall I am really happy with both new figma additions to our family.
Here are just a few pictures…
And.. as you see we also recently recieved Miku Hatsune and Mikuru Asahina figma’s!:D Very much loving all of our latest additions.:D
I must thank my husband Persocom-san for taking all these really cool pictures that I end up posting, he takes the majority of the photos.:D
I guess I should thank Toyslogic.com for FINALLY delivering Mikuru, after waiting since July to get her. I think my favorite store so far that we have ordered from is HobbySearch. They have officially been one of the most fastest, efficient, and decent priced websites we have ordered from. *Special Note about shipping*: With HobbySearch the shipping is never the same price but it is always EMS shipping, and it is not much more expensive than KidNemo… but it’s not as bad as it seems, I don’t mind paying the extra money to recieve my products earlier than most people do.:D
With that, I think I will close this for now…
Mikuru Asahina Figma
Posted by Persocom on Sep 15, 2008 in Figures | 10 comments
Alright, time to travel to a closed space about Mikuru Asahina. As most everyone knows she’s from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. I pre-ordered her from ToysLogic, which is an American shop. It was a couple months ago when I put her up for pre-order I believe. She was scheduled for a much later release date in the states than in Japan. About a month and a half later at least, from ToysLogic. I had pre-ordered her, and then a few days later ordered a Keroro plush for my son from them. Well, they decided after around 3 weeks that they would wait till Mikuru was released to ship out my Keroro plush, and that they’d ship them together, and did I mention that they then charged me without asking first, for both of them together (cheaper on shipping I suppose). Anyways, I ended up getting charged for them both around the beginning of August. She was set for release on August 30th. They got her in stop quite early and notified me that she was ready to ship and billed me. A whole month later, after the release date, they mailed me and said the Keroro plush wasn’t in stock and wouldn’t be for quite some time, if ever (even though it was and still is listed as in-stock). They refunded my money and told me that Mikuru was again ready to ship. Well she just arrived the same day as Miku, this last Saturday. I will never buy from ToysLogic again, I wasn’t the least bit happy with them, in fact I had originally ordered about 5 figma from them but then canceled and moved over to Hobby Search, who although they cost more for shipping I believe it’s well worth it for the speedy delivery and top notch service they’ve shown me so far.
As for the figure herself, she came with 3 faces in total, worried, normal and extremely unhappy, as well as an extra pair of shoes just like the rest of the Haruhi gang, and of course the extra hands as usual. Her hair is really well made and her head moves around more than many because her hair isn’t as long or crazy as many of the figmas. She could happily travel along with me some day soon that’s for sure. Now one thing that I noticed after doing all this is that my particular Mikuru has a loose midsection. It’s not so loose that she falls apart, but if I were to shake her from the top or bottom the other side would wobble back and forth, as if it didn’t fit perfectly. It doesn’t seem to be too big of a problem, yet, but I am a bit concerned about it. After her horrible imprisonment at the hands of her box and her long trip overseas and sitting in a warehouse somewhere in California for weeks, she’s probably just stressed out. I wasn’t really expecting too much from this figma, but I find that her faces make her very fun to mess with. One of these days when I’m bored, I’ll probably do one of those Mikuru no tease things like I see on DannyChoo so often.
Miku & Mikuru Have Landed
Posted by Persocom on Sep 13, 2008 in Figures | 2 comments
Just a quick update to inform that my Miku Hatsune and Mikuru Asahina figmas have arrived and I will be posting up photoshoot/reviews of them both most likely tomorrow. Kinda funny how I ordered Mikuru back in July and even got charged for her in the first week of August, and she’s just now gotten here, thanks ToysLogic (sarcasm intended). I’m shocked she made it here in one piece, poor Mikuru. I want to try something different for the photos this time.
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