Bugsted - back to the moon - Blind Box

Today I found these blind boxes for sale (1€ each) and wanted to give them a try.

To be honest I never heard of the before. They seem to be part of an online game or something and were produced by Simba. The reason I picked them up was that they reminded me of vinyl toys like the ones by kidrobot.
Here are the two I got. They stand 4,5 cm tall.

Overall there are 9 characters, each in two poses. So overall 18 different to collect.

Of course they are not as well made and painted as kid robot stuff, but they tsill look very neat, especially for the low price.

Vintage Puppy and Kitty in my Pocket

I used to collect Puppy in my Pocket when I was a child and sadly sold them all off after growing up. After I haven't seen them in ages I found them at a flea market.... twice!

The first ones I picked out from a big box of random dog figures and the big haul I got from one young woman who seemed to have collected them in her childhood, too.

She also got a whole box of Kitty in my Pocket and it was actually the first time I saw them in person.

To be honest.... even though I'm more of a cat person I really prefer the puppies. ;)

July was filled with vistits to the flea market after I neglected it for quite a while. Mostly I've been videogame hunting to build up my collection, but I found a few other things, too.
Now I only need time for posting ;)

Neon Genesis Evangelion Gashapon figures - Evangelion File Neo

Here's the full set of the Evangelion File Neo Vol. 1 figures plus Kensuke from Vol. 2 which were released in 2009 as tie in to the Evangelion 2.0 movie.

 Hikari and Touji. Somehow I really like them...maybe because they are just normal teenagers. They'd bee cute together :)

 Closer look at Touji Suzuhara.

 A nice rendition of Shinji...he looks so lost .

Rei Ayanami in her plugsuit.

And my favourite figure out of the set. Asuka in her school uniform.

One of the few figures of Shinjis school friend Kensuke.

Here you can see the awesome thign about these figures....when you collect all from Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 you can recreate the films poster :D

 Thanks for looking!

Neon Genesis Evangelion Portraits Blind Box Figures

While it's a highly nostalgic series for me I'd never place it among my favourites. It's pseudo-deep, has tons of drama and angsty characters and of course giant robots...I like it, but I never got the hype it got like 10 years ago.
I have to say though that I LOVE its figures. The Gashapon figures are always detailed and nice looking, often with striking poses. Anothr great line of Evangelion figures is the portrait series that comes in blind boxes and are app. double the size of the gashapon ones.

The portraits figures cost about 470Yen in Japan, quite cheap but of good quality with nice paint jobs. The figures are modeled after scenes from the animated series or illustrations based on it.

Today I got two new ones from series 6 of the blind boxes.

 A fell in love with these two figures of Asuka and Rei at first sight. I really enjoy figures that are a little scene in themselves like here with the diorama base and a hint of scenerey.

 Asuka as child here is my favourite :)

 In the series poor Rei spends lots of time in the hospital or recovering from injuries. Saving the world is a tough job...even when you got to pilot a giant robot ;)

 Here is my whole collection atm.

From the first series. Injured Rei in school uniform.

Shinji from the first episode.

 Tough Misato...

and cool Ritsuko.

Asuka in her striped bikini.

Asuka in the infamous red plugsuit.

And Rei in her white plugsuit.

Neon Genesis Evangelion Pinky Street Set - Rei & Asuka

Another cheap find ;)

Street Fighter II - Pinky Street set - Chun-Li & Sakura

I found this set very cheap in a second hand store in Japan. So damn cute =D

 The back of the box in the background.

Front of the box ;) Note the life bar. Sorry I was to lazy to put them back in.

Flea market haul #19

Yeah, another flea market haul =D

I tried to be strong, but I still bought a few things.

 The Neverending Story board game!!! Friends of my family owned this and we played it alot. The game as such is pretty basic, but the board and manual have nice illustrations. It's also written like a fantasy book. It's a blast to play when you are a kid and still have lots of imagination. The same guy also had the Chip & Dale NES game. First I only wanted to pick up the board game, because he asked quite much for the NES game, but then made me a deal and I couldn't resist :P
Then I stumpled upon a TMNT figure from the CG movie. Yay, I always wanted one of the newer figures and only 1€ Yay!
Then I found more TMNT figures! Panda guy and two of those than can transform into Turtles. Both are broken, but they still work well enough as normal figures and I finally have a Raphael =D

Leonardo looks so miserable. Haha!

Pinky Street PK-001A and PK-011A

Just yesterday I got two new Pinky Street figures. I think they are really cute, plus they have a clamshell packaging so you can remove and display them without damaging the packaging. They are small enough that they don't take up that much of space and they seem to be 'out' or something and are quite cheap to get. Yay~

PK-001A is the one with the bunny and the other one on the left is PK-011A. Got them very cheap from ebay.com :)

As a bonus a few pics from one of my other Pinky Street figures. Her name seems to be Hana (PK007).

Thanks for looking!

Slam Dunk - Hanamichi - Piggy bank (knock off)

I bought this years ago at a local flea market. I LOVE the Manga/Anime series Slam Dunk by Takehiko Inoue, so I HAD to have this even though it's just a cheap knock off thing.

It's the main character of the show Hanamichi Sakuragi :D

The paint job is really bad, but it still looks cute.

I don't use it as a coin bank, but he sits besides my TV hiding all the cables and outlets.

Puppy in my Pocket - Fashion

I finally got to check out the new Puppy in my Pocket mini figures by Giochi Preziosi. Got them at a discount store for 1€ each. I grabed seven of them and a few other stuff like those Super Mario Kart Klik Candy dispensers for 1,59€

A few of the dogs look really goofy but overall I really dig them :) There are 24 dogs to collect and I got some of the best ones I think, like the DJ dog, the one with the sewing machine and the one with the laptop. All of them are flocked and the clothes they wear are of a very soft plastic so that you can actually take them of (I think they look much more cute without them).

Today was really nice, not worrying about stuff and browsing through toy sections. I haven't felt that free in ages!

Final Fantasy Dissidia Trading Arts Figures Vol 2 - Firion

In contrast to the other Trading Art figures I posted before the ones for the Dissidia game look quite impressive. I picked up three of them at a Manga-shop who closed down and had everything at 50% off.

Let's start with Firion (or Frion or Frionel) from Final Fantasy II.

Final Fantasy II had a level system different from the other games. You didn't get experience points after every battle, but your skills leveled up based on how much you use them. So you got levels for every single weapon. In Dissidia they hinted at that by giving Firion tons of weapons the poor guy always has to carry with him :P

I love all the details and as a fan of Yoshitaka Amanos deisgns I'm quite pleased. If he had the sword a bit lower he'd have the same pose as shown on the game box art.

Back view with the floaty cape.

 Right side view showing his shield and bow.

And the left side showing his axe. He really looks great from all sides. He is just 5 inches tall which make the details even more impressive.

The Dissidia Trading Art figures Vol 1 were : Zidane, Cloud, Squall, Tidus and the Warrior of Light
Vol 2 include: Cecil, Terra/Tina, Firion, Sephiroth and Butz.

For it is great having such great Amano-style figures. There are tons of Clouds and Squalls and Sepihiroths , but there is a severe lack of pre-Final Fantasy VII character figures.

Thanks for looking :)