How a Girl Figures

A new figure was announced, Alter is releasing another figure from the ever so popular Suzumiya Haruhi No Yuutsu. This time it’s Mikuru, I’m not exactly sure If I’ll get her but I will be pre-ordering her. It’s refreshing to see a face on a Mikuru figure that is not either horrendously off compared to her anime counterpart, or the face of the Max Factory Mikuru where she doesn’t seem to be having much fun. I will just say that I honestly would have preferred to have one of her in her seifuku but it is refreshing to see her in anything thing other than the usual Mikuru Beam~ ep 13 outfit she wears. She’ll be released this June for about 5,177 yen, so since I’ve only got Siesta set for a June release I’m not too worried about having too many figures for that month. My usual limit is 3 a month, unless I get some extra moneys for the month then it’s more, but I try and keep my average at 3-a-month.

Also finally HLJ opened pre-orders for Alter’s 1/8 Siesta. I’m not so sure what is going on with HLJ, before they would have the figures out for pre-order so quickly, but lately they have been taking their sweet time putting them out on the future release page. One figure in particular that’s still not on their future release page is Movic’s Teena figure. It’s been announced for a while now, other websites have her up, but HLJ doesn’t. Now I tend to make the majority of my figure purchases with HLJ, but with HLJ taking a little longer with processing orders I’m experimenting with other companies. I’ve got Alter’s 1/8 Louise Bustier Version on pre-order through Kid Nemo, It’s my brother’s Christmas present but since I’m broke I opted to order it with them since they have it listed as not in stock till Feb, 29^th 2008. I have yet to receive a figure from them but I’m eager to see how their service compares to that of HLJ. I had also previously used Entertainment Earth for ordering my Max Factory 1/8 Kotori figure. Shipping was only $6 and she arrived relatively soon, plus I got her on sale! My only complaint is if the figures aren’t on sale they tend to charge a lot more for each figure. But then the cheap shipping does makeup for it.

Luckily Max Factory’s Fauna is still in stock; I want this figure badly but have yet to make an order, being broke sucks… I’m just hoping that I get called for this new job soon so I can start working and get paid. Fauna actually is #1 on my list of “things I need to buy once i get more moneys!” Did I mention being broke sucks? Someone did buy the fake Mai figure I had for sale. So that was a bit of help, but then eBay has decided to be awesome and send me the bill for all my fees, so all the money I made from posters, figures, and what-not is going down the drain. But then this is all the eBay fees for a while now so it’s understandable that they charge me now.

I might still get a shot at owning the Max Factory Tsuruya-san figure. She’s been pushed back to February. Is it me or does MF have a habit of pushing back their Haruhi figures? The same thing happened to Asakura Ryoko when she was up for pre-order they didn’t have in stock until about 3 months later so I was able to snag one. So hopefully for me this same pattern continues and she keeps getting pushes back until I have more money!