Yujin Kocho Colle Miku Hatsune PVC

Item: Kocho Colle Miku Hatsune PVC
Height: 2cm
Series: Vocaloid
Maker: Yujin
Retail price: 500 yen
Release date: 3 August 2008
Info: Wonder Festival 2008 Summer & Comiket 74 event exclusive.

1/7 Haruhi Suzumiya swimsuit ver. resin kit

Item: 1/7 Haruhi Suzumiya swimsuit ver. resin kit
Height: 22cm
Parts: 17
Series: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Maker: Griffon Enterprises
Retail price: 6,000 yen
Release date: 3 August 2008
Info: Wonder Festival 2008 Summer event exclusive. Limited to 100 pieces.

Medicom Toy 400% Be@rbrick Joker

Item: 400% Be@rbrick Joker
Height: 28cm
Series: The Dark Knight
Maker: Medicom Toy
Retail price: 5,040 yen
Order period: 3 August 2008 at 11am onwards for online order until all stocks are sold out.
Release date: 3 August 2008
Info: Wonder Festival 2008 Summer event exclusive & Medicom online order. Limited to 800 pieces (WF: 300 pieces; Net: 500 pieces)

Medicom 1000% Be@rbrick Johannes Krauser II

Item: 1000% Be@rbrick Johannes Krauser II
Height: 70cm
Series: Detroit Metal City
Maker: Medicom Toy
Retail price: 21,000 yen
Order period: 3 August 2008 at 11am onwards for online order until all stocks are sold out.
Release date: 3 August 2008
Info: Wonder Festival 2008 Summer event exclusive & Medicom online order. Limited to 200 pieces (WF: 100 pieces; Net: 100 pieces)

Medicom Toy 100% Kubrick Alien

Item: 100% Kubrick Alien
Height: 6cm
Series: Alien
Maker: Medicom Toy
Retail price: 1,575 yen
Order period: 3 August 2008 at 11am onwards for online order until all stocks are sold out.
Release date: 3 August 2008
Info: Wonder Festival 2008 Summer event exclusive & Medicom online order. Limited to 1,000 pieces (WF: 500 pieces; Net: 500 pieces)

Medicom RAH Kenshiro 25th anniversary ver.

Item: RAH Kenshiro (Hokuto no Ken 25th anniversary ver.)
Height: 30cm
Series: Hokuto no Ken
Maker: Medicom Toy
Retail price: 18,900 yen
Order period: 3 August 2008 at 11am onwards for online order until all stocks are sold out.
Release date: 3 August 2008
Info: Wonder Festival 2008 Summer event exclusive & Medicom online order. Limited to 600 pieces (WF: 200 pieces; Net: 400 pieces)

Medicom Toy VCD Son Gohan

Item: VCD Son Gohan
Height: TBA
Series: Dragon Ball Z
Maker: Medicom Toy
Retail price: TBA
Order period: TBA
Release date: TBA
Info: Purchase ticket limited item that can only be ordered with the serial numbered ticket that will come with RAH Piccolo.

Medicom Toy Project BM! Setsuna F Seiei

Item: Project BM! Setsuna F Seiei
Height: 12 inch
Series: Mobile Suit Gundam 00
Maker: Medicom Toy
Retail price: 17,640 yen
Order period: 29 July - 3 September 2008
Release date: December 2008
Info: Tamashii Web Shop exclusive.

TH Auctions - July 2008 part 3

Here's my final auction listings for this month. I won't be listing anything up until after next month's WonderFest where there'll be plenty of exclusives up for bids if I manage to get them. Two new items listed up for auction this week along with some relistings. Check 'em out below!

GigaBrain Giga Gokin Final Dancouga Showdown set - World Characters Convention event exclusive - Limited to 50 sets - starting bid at US$220

































Good Smile Company Wagamama Capriccio 1/8 Melissa Seraphy PVC - starting bid at US$80

































Bandai Saint Myth Cloth Crystal Saint - Figure Ou magazine mail order exclusive Japan version with gold Toei sticker - startind bid at US$70

Kaiyodo Revoltech EVA-01 SDCC edition - SDCC 2006 event exclusive - starting bid at US$50

Kaiyodo Trigun Vash the Stampede clear ver. - Japan event exclusive limited to 777 pieces - starting bid at US$50

Konami Beatmania II DX 1/8 Candy Rabbit Iroha Umegiri PVC - Konami Style online store exclusive - starting bid at US$70

Kotobukiya Alien vs Predator AVP 1/6 Warrior Alien PVC - starting bid at US$35

Max Factory Love Hina 1/8 Naru Narusegawa PVC - starting bid at US$90

Max Factory Onegai Teacher 1/7 Mizuho Kazami PVC - starting bid at US$70

Takara Tomy Transformers New Year Special Tapestry 1985-1995 - limited edition e-Hobby exclusive - starting bid at US$35

Happy bidding!

Tokyo Hunter eBay auctions list

World Characters Convention 2008 coverage

This year's World Characters Convention Gate Of The Next (what a mouthful!) was held at Tokyo Big Sight on 20 & 21 July 2008. The show's first two-day event was packed with special guest appearances that include Minoru Kawasaki (director of "Girara no Gyakushuu"), Akira Kushida, Kohji Moritsugu, Hiroshi Fujioka (Takeshi Hongo a.k.a. Kamen Rider #1), and a few others, as well as panels and special live stage shows of Godman vs Greenman, Girara vs Take Majin, Akira Kushida live singing, and a Hiroshi Fujioka special stage event (held on the second day) that I regrettably missed out on. I attended the first day event on Sunday and met up with my good buddy Adrian and new comrade Shawn. It's mainly a flea market event where the show floor was mostly taken up by small vendors and individuals selling their toys and import goods that are priced from might-as-well-give-it-away cheap to eye-poppingly expensive. Of course there are the regular industry companies there as well including Bandai, Fewture Models, Takara Tomy, Medicom Toy, and a single table for GigaBrain where they sold their WCC event-exclusive Giga Gokin Final Dancouga Showdown set and some sofubi monsters.

















Everything at 50% off!

















Import Transformers Animated toys and a whole bunch of other goodies at discounted prices.


































Painted sample of Bandai's VF-25F on display. Looking good! I got the DX Gokin version preordered!


































Project BM! Setsuna F. Seiei will only be available for preorder through Tamashii Web Store from 29 July to 3 September 2008 with a retail price of 17,640 yen and coming out in December 2008.


































RAH DX Kamen Rider Black RX revealed! Meh ... I much prefer Kamen Rider Black than the sequel.
















Project BM! Negataros is a purchase ticket limited that can be ordered with the serial numbered ticket that will come with Project BM! Kamen Rider Nega Den-O.

















GigaBrain's WCC event exclusive Giga Gokin Final Dancouga Showdown set that pairs Final Dancouga with Nise (Fake) Dancouga and also comes packed with a special Jyusenki Tai emblem pin.
















No idea who she is or which series she's from but I do know that this is sculpted by Cerberus Project and I absolutely must have this piece! Coming soon from Fewture Models as a PVC release!


































Massive B-Club limited RX-78 Gundam Ver. KA at a whopping 180,000 yen! O_O

















Absolute love the two viking skulls on the sides. According to maker Tiger Jet Michiko of Vinyl Junkies, she's taking order requests for the figures but have yet to price them. She estimated it will cost her 50,000 yen each to make! I don't want to imagine how much the markup price will be after hearing that! But I so want that bling viking skull!


































Girara hath no mercy on little kids. *crushes head*

















Take Majin (face of Beat Takeshi and voiced by the actor in the "Girara no Gyakushuu" movie) held an absolutely gorgeous young lady captive in his rubber suit arms. She's from the movie but I know not of her name. Does anyone know?


































Ultra Seven was there to greet fans at the show in his human-sized form. I much prefer this classic suit design over the steroid-overdose Ultraseven X.

















And sitting nearby Ultra Seven was Kohji Moritsugu a.k.a. Dan Moroboshi, signing stuff for the fans. Too bad I didn't have any Ultra Seven stuff for him to sign. I'll get his signature on something next time.

Check out more photos in my flickr gallery below!

World Characters Convention 2008 gallery