How a Girl Figures

So i was going to make a post about all the figures i bought over this past year. But i realized that before this year i only had about 4 figures so i can’t really make a post describing what i feel about 60 figures. So i’ll do one on each Major Figure production company! First in alphabetical order, Alter!

Figures I purchased:

1/8 Amy, Jo, Meg, Sei

I bought these figures for my boyfriend since he loves Bakuretsu Tenshi. I got him all the Alter figures for him as a present but later on he decided that he prefers Gundam models over figures so i ended up keeping them instead! They were purely impulse buys really, they were pretty,I had the money so they went home with me. The only one out of the set that was hard to find was Sei, not thati coulnd’t find her but everyone i found had problems with the paint. On her stomach was a part that seemed like it wasn’t painted on at all and I wasn’t about to spend lots of money on a defective product. Finally we get to one store and it had the same defect, we asked the owner if it were possible to get a discount on the figure since it was defective and he gave us 15% off, but once we got home and opened her up we realized that she wasn’t defective but the way she was packaged made her look that way! So i got Sei for cheaper than the others!

1/6 Saber

She again was an impulse buy. Now what do i mean by impulse buy? I mean that I saw her in a store/convention and didn’t have months to think about whether I wanted her or not. The advantages to Online pre-orders of being able to think on whether I really want her or not are thrown out the window. It’s either I get her or I don’t, really an impulse buy for me depends on only one thing. Money, whether I have it or not, if i do I’m usually taking a figure home with me, if not then I don’t. Now i can’t say I’m not happy with this particular Saber but i will say she has caused me so many problems… She is a classic leaner. She leans, A LOT. I don’t think I’ve ever had a figure that I’ve had to fix more often than this saber. It’s not that she’s standing on one foot, but more off that she’s too top heavy for her base. On top of the fact that she is a 1/6 Scale figure so she’s going to be big, her base is poorly designed.

1/8 Takamachi Nanoha

I think I honestly have to say this is my favorite Alter figure that I’ve got this whole year! She’s well made, has a pretty good base so I’m not worried about her leaning. I think all in all she was a great buy. She really was an impulse buy as well, I had just lost my job and wanted to do something fun. Whats more fun that going to an anime store and spending the last of your money on figures? We just walked in and there she was! I just picked her up paid for her a left, I didn’t even give it a second thought. I bought her and I hadn’t even watched A’s yet! thats how much of an impulse she was. But I don’t regret it at all! I love this figure and now that I have her I’m also getting the Alter 1/8 Fate so I’m super excited to have them both in my collection!

Regrets:

1/8 Louise

I never knew what i didn’t order this, maybe it was since I had just started getting into figures and really didn’t know which kinds were the best. Maybe it was that fact that I’m crazy, I have no idea. But I did and still do want this figure. Right now money is tight so i can’t get her, but if I see this figure for a reasonable price next year at AX there is no doubt that I’ll have her in my possession.1/8 Hagumi Hanamoto

I had her pre-ordered for the longest time but then dropped it. I guess as usual I didn’t have the money to purchase her. I do hope I can find her again in a store one day but right now it doesn’t look likely. I will say I did however love Honey and Clover a lot, maybe I didn’t buy her cause I was waiting for a better figure of her to be released but that never happened.

Overall thoughts:

I did like Alter’s turn out this year. They had released a lot of amazing figures this year but I guess for some reason they didn’t all end up in my possession. I can say the one figure I was sad to not get was the 1/8 Fate but since she’s being re-released this may i was able to snag a pre-order so no worries on her part!