Hoooo-Leeee CRAP!

So, the newly announce Azone Pure Neemo Yuzuha sold out in what must've been mere seconds. I even managed to catch her as soon as she was put up on AmiAmi and in the brief time it took me to complete my purchase, she sold out (EDIT- meaning she sold out before I could complete my order and I didn't get one). This was even faster than the short period of time "Rocker Girl" Yuzuha was available.

 I hope some of you PN fans got one because it now seems like a question of how fast you can type, or how many light-nanoseconds away you are from the retailer's server. I like Pure Neemo dolls but stuff like this is more than a little frustrating.

Yuzuha- Proving that physical objects CAN move faster than light!

It's almost that time!

Only one more week to go, unless Baby Girl decides to show up early.

If I go in to silent mode in the next week or so, it's because "Dad Duty" is taking up what little spare time I have. I'm about as ready as I can be, Mom is definitely ready and Big Brother is still a bit uncertain as to what this whole "baby business" means.

Dear Leader... from the archives.

Here's someone we haven't seen in quite a while; Chancellor Alrich Stahl, Dear Leader of the Caelian Democratic Republic. Digging through old photos again, I ran across this image that I'd never posted of the beloved Chancellor.

I don't remember owning this uniform but obviously I do, in fact, own it. I like how the hat is just a bit too big and gives him that Russian officer/ third world dictator look (a style of hat Russian soldiers derisively call a pinochetka).

I'm not really sure where Alrich fits in to things nowadays. Is he a harmless kook with delusions of grandeur or is he really the de facto dictator of some wretched totalitarian "People's Republic"? And if he's just a kook, then who is that similarly attired woman that's always by his side and who are those AK74-wielding, vaguely East German looking soldiers accompanying him on the shelf behind me?

I can quit anytime I wa... Uh, never mind!

So, while checking out Heather's Friday Azone update over at The Majokko Shop, I mention that I really like the just announced Maki from Love Live! but I'm going to give her a pass. Heather "kindly" mentions HobbyLink Japan's Black Friday Weekend sale (which includes pre-orders). I resist until this morning and then give in to temptation. Oh, and I also pre-ordered the upcoming Figma Miho Nishizumi from Girls und Panzer just to add insult to injury!

Thanks Heather! This is like holding an AA meeting in a bar!

BTW, a Pure Neemo version of Miho would be soooo freakin' cool! Heck, how about the whole Anglerfish team? And maybe Dragon Models could do a Panzer IV in 1/6 scale too, just for gits and shiggles! I guess the "H" version they used at the end of the series would be my choice.

Maki from "Love Live!"

Miho Nishizumi from "Girls und Panzer".

Team Anglerfish Panzer IV H

From the history files....

Digging back through my old photos, I decided to post a few that haven't been seen in a while.
Today's subject is Meg, an Obitsu 27 cm doll. For those who care about technical stuff, she's a pre-finished W-01 head and a "fleshtone" SB-2 (large bust) body, although I think the first photo shows her with an SB-3 (medium bust) body.

Meg wasn't my first Obitsu girl but she was the first I bought from The Junky Spot after an extended hiatus from the hobby. She was my main protagonist for a few years before I decided I'd "done it to death" and went on to find another character. IF I decide to resurrect a doll POV blog however, Meg would be a likely candidate to be the primary character. Meanwhile, enjoy some photo-spam from "back in the day".

Photo 1: Uniform from Dragon's "Winona" (boots, pants, shirt, t-shirt); BBI body armor (LAPD Officer Somers); 21st Century Toys SWAT cap.

Photo 2: Barbie hat and scarf; Get Real Girl hoodie and shoulder bag; Dragon t-shirt (I think); Azone jeans; Obitsu "Chuck T" style cream colored high tops.

Photo 3: Get Real Girl pullover hoodie; Dragon t-shirt and shoulder bag; BBI glasses; Parabox skirt; Obitsu Chuck Ts (again).

Photo 4: Dragon female pants, brown t-shirt, boots and load bearing vest, rifle and male-sized field cap; OJI jacket; BBI goggles, trouser belt and sidearm; 21st Century holster.

Photo 5: Azone top and shorts, Barbie white sandals.

Photo 6: Azone top, skirt and leggings; Dragon shoulder bag and t-shirt (same as photo 3); Obitsu black engineer boots.

The Dragon t-shirt mentioned is a white, boatneck-style piece from Dragon's Winona. The brown t-shirt in photo 4 is a military style that came with various Dragon second generation female modern US figures. The shoulder bag in photos 3 and 6 came from Dragon's first Danger Girl figure and has a variety of small items like a (now out of date) cell phone and a Glock 9mm pistol. Maybe she needs a tiny concealed carry permit, too?

A travel-adventure doll... because I'm crazy!

If you've checked my meager list of Blogs I Read, you'll notice slmka's LSO. This is an example of what I call the Travel-Adventure Doll blog, where the author takes a doll and camera around on their various journeys and records things from the doll's perspective. A variation is where the doll is the supposed author of the blog as well as the star.

I've tried this type of blogging a few times over the years and in a few different formats (Blogger, Live Journal, Facebook, Twitter) but I've never been able to make it work. Even back in the days before I became a father, it was difficult for me to generate enough photos and constantly write in the voice of a fictional character. Honestly, I'm a boring person, I live in Podunk and I never go anywhere interesting. When my in-laws lived a few hours away, my wife and I would travel to visit them a few times a year but again, that never generated much in the way travel content. I even tried to blog about it from a doll's eye POV and it was mind-numbing.

Now, we travel a lot less, we already have a toddler and a new baby is joining the family shortly. I still live in Podunk and do even less of the nothing I used to do. So why not do yet another doll travel-adventure blog? Because, I have so much time and do so much interesting stuff.

Yeah, like the title says, I'm crazy.

But I keep looking at this collection of dolls and action figures and begin thinking "Hey, a doll travel-adventure blog...." Possibly resurrect an existing character or even start over with a new character. And haul around a doll and camera... and a tripod, oh and two small kids. Then write about it all from the doll's POV.

Yep, I have lost my mind!

Neemos of Geektopia pt. 2

Next up in the Geektopian Pure Neemo crew is Lycee. This particular little lady is the Lycee Progression figure that was released back in 2011. I have always really like this girl but I didn't buy her back when she was released due to other financial priorities. I had been searching around for her this past year or so and thanks to a great lead from my pal Iwa Hoshi over at Team Of Dolls, I managed to find one for a pretty decent price. I like Lycee's kind of retro military-vaguely dieselpunk look which is less obvious here since she isn't wearing her garrison cap. I'm hoping to switch out her body for the improved Pure Neemo M like Maya, the girl in my previous post, has.

Sorry again for the mediocre photos. It's been cold and cloudy here, which is actually not bad for outdoor pics. However, just about the time I got a break to go outside, it started raining. Blah....