Orders and Pre-Orders

While there’s still a huge gap still until I need to purchase stuff for the anime club, I can’t help but start to budget a little seeing as…well, I foresee many things going to the gutters and expenses will sky rocket, mostly personal expenses. And so it happens, taking a look at personal spendings is unavoidable.

And in case anyone is wondering, it is indeed exam time, updates will be pretty much non-existant. This is one case where I’m absolutely sick of studying and the exam is in several hours anyway (actually I’ve not been stressed in the last few days, but whatever and for those who don’t know, the time when I’m most bored is the few hours between when I wake up and when I have to go write the exam).

I haven’t checked my figure collection in a while since I really haven’t been getting much things until recently. Well, here’s the list, and here’s the watered down version of a comparison between now and when I just first got it.

So it’s been about 8 months. I’ve acquired 11 new things since then (well, there’s one I’ve yet to pick up and two more currently in the mail). Most of them have been figmas and nendoroids actually, since scaled figures do take up too much space and it’s a pain to move then around.  Here’s what I’ve acquired this year (that is, have shipped to my dorm).

With the summer arriving and a job lined up for me pretty much the instant I break, I am thinking of getting more master grade gundam kits (and one of the Macross Frontier kits) to play with in the summer. However, as said earlier, some club expenses are coming out of my own wallet (I might get reimbursed depending on how many members we get), and on top of that, there are pre-orders that I can’t exactly cancel since…I pre-ordered them because I want them. Currently on the list are:

1. Figma Saber Alter
2. Figma Rider
3. Nendoroid Snow Miku
4. Alter’s Saber Alter Maid
5. GSC Racing Miku (I can’t remember why I bothered, seriously)
6. Nendoroid Megurine Luka
7. GSC Saber Maid (Trixoptics have been holding her for me for almost a year now)
8. Alter’s Saber Lily (In mail)
9. Nendoroid Fate Testarossa Movie ver. (In mail)
10. GSC Saber, the Excalibur one.

As well as the Fate/Stay Night puchi-nendo set, which about half of it will go to the club as prizes. I’m not even going to bother doing calculating how much I’d be spending, it’ll give me a heart attack right now.

As well as certain other figures of interest, currently I can only think of two (maybe three, can’t remember the third one currently).

Sort of a no brainer, GSC is on a roll, although truth be told I do kind of wish I have a wider variety of figures other than of Sabers. Comparatively, I really do love the face, not something I’d like to see on anyone of course (I’m a total wuss), but it looks determined as opposed to totally nightmarish like the one Solid Theater’s have.

Tosaka was also featured but quite frankly I’m not really digging what I’m seeing on her. I’ll have to see the finished product first.

Feito Tesutarossa. As far as the prototype goes she looks much more natural than Nanoha. It’s rather unfortunate that for some odd reason Nanoha is discontinued. Oh well, I still want this figure.

These are on the maybe list, I didn’t make a one yet because it seems like I owe the world favours and club expenses always seem to be higher than what I initially thought (actually that’s not true since I’m known for seeing unexpected trouble and I have zero accounting experience). Of course, the other thing, I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, is that all recent HLJ sales have been lacklustre. I mean, I remember a lot of good deals that I’ve gotten from HLJ Sales (65% off Gift Saber, 30% off Alter’s Louise and 30% off GSC Rider maid), and most recently I’ve missed the 45% off certain Macross Frontier Valkyries since I’m kind of broke currently.

Anyway…I can’t quite tell how much sense this whole post made (or if any at all for that manner). And for those who still don’t know I am the new president (or I may very well be, depending on whether not I get pissed off enough to resign, and any incoming/present execs reading this, I’m about THIS close to just saying screw it and walk off due to various reasons that I won’t bother discussing with the public), I do need recommendations for anime. There’ll be a post coming up later with more criteria on what I’m looking for (expect it in about two weeks), so yeah…that’s about it, signing off now.

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