I realize that I had not done one of these for a very long time. Really, I saw no need – I had like one preorder per month or something, sometimes not even any for a certain month. I am trying to put off buying figures now, they really are no longer quite the passion I once saw them as. But then again, there are figures that still make me burn to want to have them, notably Volks’ KOS-MOS Ver. 4 (above), though that is way over my head in the financial area. There are still others though, and since I want to let Ruri’s post get a day or two up there while I set up the fall preview post, I decided to make this a slight filler post for all. All pictures in this post are thanks to HobbySearch unless otherwise stated.

Finally, we cover the last part of Wonfes in detail with the figure maker that has overtaken Max Factory as the number 1 figure maker in my book, Alter. Alter was, in fact, the first booth to be covered in photographic detail at the event, so I would expect that everyone probably knows all their various releases that were announced at the event by now. Still, considering that they have my biggest share of interest, it is only right that I take a good look at the ones I will invest in.

Despite my previous revelation about this being a big post, I decided to compress it into just 2 manufacturers, Volks and Orchid Seed, leaving the best manufacturer, Alter, for yet another post, despite it being the first booth to be photographed at the event. Here are the figures that had me interested from both the former manufacturers.

I always preferred doing Wonder Festival coverage a little later than the others, and I thought, after the discussion I held with both YuKi-To and Lelouch, that YuKi-To will do it on the day itself (he said he had no time to do on other days), and that Lelouch will (most likely) follow up the next two days. Guess not. So I delayed my coverage until I had information from the usual sources (and better pictures). Unlike their complete coverage I will only prefer touching on figures that I like, and a few others that I am not interested in but felt like commenting upon. Today’s coverage is a little wordplay, covering the figures out from Kotobukiya and Native. The last part, also done by me, will cover Alter, Orchid Seed and Volks.

C.C. is my first waifu…

To start off my figure blogging here at my second home in Panther’s site, I decided to tackle the issue of rarity and how quality and brand both play a part in the figure collecting scene. Now, this might sound very technical and academic in nature, but instead of discussing this topic in a businesslike manner, I would rather offer some examples of figures that have substantially increased in value over the years and provide some little tidbits of information on why they have become proverbial Holy Grails in the figure scene.