Posted by Leah Bayer on January 20, 2012 |
1 Comment
This week was a good week for figures, with tons of variety. Lots of game-based toys, scaled figures, action figures, figures based on US franchises, bikini babes, silly NSFW figures, and more! Usually we only get a few different kinds, but it seems like everyone was putting out their odder and more unique figures this week.
It’s most likely because of prep for Wonder Festival, which is in a few weeks. Painting and prepping the prototypes takes a lot of work and manpower, so a lot of the “left over” figures are what are going up–smaller figures that weren’t even announced! It ends up giving us some nice, diverse picks though, so I am not going to complain!
Continue Reading...
![<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-29892 slb_group[29891] slb slb_internal" href="http://www.plastikitty.com/home/griffon-shows-off-their-exclusives-for-touhou-kouroumu-8/attachment/griffonevent8header"></a></p> <p>Griffon, Touhou Project, and event exclusives: it’s a match made in heaven, or at least Griffon seems to think so! They always have a ton of recolors no matter what the event, and this time its Touhou Kouroumu 8, a doujin event that will take place on October 7th. Most of these are not new: we saw them at <a href="http://www.plastikitty.com/home/griffon-unveils-their-aka-no-hiroba-8-exclusives" target="_blank">Aka no Hiroba 8</a> and <a href="http://www.plastikitty.com/home/griffons-summer-wonder-festival-2012-exclusives" target="_blank">Wonder Festival</a>. However, we do have two new colorways: one of their <a href="http://www.plastikitty.com/home/griffon-shows-off-some-new-touhou-project-figures" target="_blank">version 2 Komachi Onozuka</a>, and a red version of their Gungir Remilia Scarlett. We’ve also got Marisa, Reimu, Suika, Yuyuko, and many many more. If you’re hitting up the event you’ll have a ton of options! If not, expect these to pop up on the after-market quite soon (and for not much of a price bump!).</p> <p>[via <a href="http://www.griffon.co.jp/figure_toys/event/event.html" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.griffon.co.jp']);" target="_blank">Griffon</a>]</p>](http://www.plastikitty.com/wp-content/uploads/GriffonEvent8Header.jpg "Griffon Shows Off Their Exclusives For Touhou Kouroumu 8")
![<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-21613 slb_group[21611] slb slb_internal" href="http://www.plastikitty.com/home/griffons-got-a-whole-bunch-of-new-touhou-recolors/attachment/newgriffonrecolorsaprilheader"></a></p> <p>Griffon absolutely loves recolors, especially when it comes to their Touhou girls–each sculpt is guaranteed to get one or two, usually for events. They’ve just announced a ton more for the upcoming Treasure Festa. From left to right we have a new color of the <a href="http://www.plastikitty.com/home/official-shots-of-griffons-newest-patchouli-knowledge" target="_blank">Curiosities of Lotus Asia Patchouli</a> (though the colors look the same to me!), a blue <a href="http://www.plastikitty.com/home/pvc-pre-order-roundup-115119" target="_blank">Medicine Melancholy</a>, a pink <a href="http://www.plastikitty.com/home/griffons-lovely-18-hina-kagiyama" target="_blank">Hina Kagiyama</a>, a dark version of their <a href="http://www.plastikitty.com/home/griffons-new-18-youmu-konpaku" target="_blank">new Youmou</a>, that wacky <a href="http://www.plastikitty.com/home/griffons-newest-flandre-gets-a-repaint" target="_blank">Christmas Flandre</a>, and a few we’ve <a href="http://www.plastikitty.com/home/griffons-lovely-wonfest-recolors-of-cirno-remilia" target="_blank">seen before</a> at <a href="http://www.plastikitty.com/home/griffon-shows-off-more-wonder-festival-recolors" target="_blank">Wonder Festival</a>. The stars, though, are the new versions of <a href="http://www.plastikitty.com/home/griffon-adds-a-new-reimu-to-their-touhou-lineup" target="_blank">Remiu</a> and <a href="http://www.plastikitty.com/home/griffons-adorble-new-marisa-kirisame" target="_blank">Marisa</a> who are getting some surprisingly pretty recolors–Reimu in blue and Marisa in purple. Of course these are event-limited, but it’s not at all hard to find them if you hunt around on Mandarake or Yahoo Japan! They will also have some garage kits of their sculpts, including the <a href="http://www.plastikitty.com/home/griffons-new-yuyuko-saigyouji-gets-painted" target="_blank">new Yuyuko</a>–hopefully this means she will be ready to order very soon!</p> <p>[via <a href="http://sep.2chan.net/dat/46/src/1335371616207.jpg" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://sep.2chan.net']);" target="_blank" rel="lightbox[21611]">2chan</a>]</p>](http://www.plastikitty.com/wp-content/uploads/NewGriffonRecolorsAprilHeader.jpg "Griffon’s Got A Whole Bunch Of New Touhou Recolors")
![<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-15797 slb_group[15574] slb slb_internal" href="http://www.plastikitty.com/home/pvc-pre-order-roundup-115119/attachment/roundup115header"></a></p> <p>This week was a good week for figures, with tons of variety. Lots of game-based toys, scaled figures, action figures, figures based on US franchises, bikini babes, silly NSFW figures, and more! Usually we only get a few different kinds, but it seems like everyone was putting out their odder and more unique figures this week.</p> <p>It’s most likely because of prep for Wonder Festival, which is in a few weeks. Painting and prepping the prototypes takes a lot of work and manpower, so a lot of the “left over” figures are what are going up–smaller figures that weren’t even announced! It ends up giving us some nice, diverse picks though, so I am not going to complain!</p>](http://www.plastikitty.com/wp-content/uploads/Roundup115Header.jpg "PVC Pre-Order Roundup: 1/15~1/19")
![<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-14042 slb_group[14038] slb slb_internal" href="http://www.plastikitty.com/home/treasure-festa-6-griffons-touhou-lineup/attachment/griffontreasurefestaheader"></a></p> <p>Back in September, Griffon <a href="http://www.plastikitty.com/home/griffon-adds-a-new-batch-of-touhou-girls-to-their-lineup" target="_blank">teased a whole bunch of brand-new Touhou Project figures</a>. Some of then have already gone up for order, but quite a few we haven’t seen sculpted! This weekend at Treasure Festa we did get to see almost all of them, though some are just pictures on a board. We have Medicine Melancholy sculpted, while Hima Kagiyama, Nazrin, and the POP Reimu are painted. We also have 2 new announcements–a new 1/8 scale Youmu and a “Curiosities of Lotus Asia” Patchoili Knowledge! We’ve had both <a href="http://www.plastikitty.com/home/griffons-elegant-new-18-remilia-scarlet" target="_blank">Remilia</a> and <a href="http://www.plastikitty.com/home/griffons-surprise-announcement-of-a-new-flandre-scarlet" target="_blank">Flandre</a> in this “Curiosities of Lotus Asia” line so far, so I wonder how many more will be added?</p> <p>This means that the only announcement not sculpted is Mystia Lorelei. Griffon has been moving pretty quickly through these girls! It’s great to see that they are still working on this line after all this time, and I feel like it’s going to be going strong for many more years.</p> <p>[via <a href="http://www.moeyo.com/2011/12/tf-ariake6.html" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.moeyo.com']);" target="_blank">moeyo</a>]</p>](http://www.plastikitty.com/wp-content/uploads/GriffonTreasureFestaHeader.jpg "Treasure Festa 6: Griffon’s Touhou Lineup")
