AZONE is going to release the Hybrid Active Figure No.017 Asahina Mikuru ( 朝比奈みくる ) 1/3 doll from the anime movie “Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya” ( 涼宮ハルヒの消失 ). Will be released in March April 2011. Around 480mm tall, 52,000 yen.
This Mikuru doll is cute! =D But as usual, this kind of 1/3 doll is expensive! I really want to know how those doll collectors afford this kind of expensive hobby. Do they buy everything doll that they like every month just like how we buy figure, or they only buy one or two once in a while?
Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya TVCM
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- Official The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya homepage
http://www.haruhi.tv/fanclub/index.html - via AZONE
Azone dolls are so cute,
The majority of doll collectors definitely do not shop like figure collectors, they are way too expensive for that. Most collectors I know get roughly around 1 to four a year, tops (not including accessories/clothing/etc) depending on price. Many that I know only have one or two, at all. It also depends a lot of size, smaller azone/bjd dolls are much less expensive (a little more costly than a fancy expensive figure), therefor it is easier to get more of them.
When I was collecting I had three large BJDs at one point, but now I am down to one and back to figure collecting instead.
Oh, ic ic! =D
So for them the doll is just a starter. All the accessories like clothes and shoes are the main course.
GGT, if you total what most figure collectors spend on a monthly basis you’ll see that spending $500 is not that hard 🙂 The figure collectors will get several huge pvc boxes, and shrinking storage space, while the doll collector will get one doll, but the expenditure is probably about the same. I have some friends that don’t understand how one can spend $80 for one pvc figure when you can get a truck load of transformer figures for the same amount. “Same difference” as they say 🙂
And saving up for more dolls! e.e
The doll itself is the main thing, but collectors (if they don’t make their own clothing) can also spend a lot on clothing, accessories, different hair/eyes/bodies, and other small items for them. It’s easy to spend just as much on all that in a period of time as the doll itself.
I really like her, though probably not enough to actually justify her. I went from spending about $500 a month on anime figures to spending that much on dolls like DD instead.
That doll is Mikuru?!
LIES! I don’t believe it!
Mikuru is not supposed to be this cute!
/me ran away