Surabaya Toys, Games, and Comic Fair 2009 loots

Loots, again…

After having fun with my friends in Sunday, and continuing my projects today, i decided to get my blog running again. I did plan to fill this blog with at least 1 post per day, but too bad yesterday, i was too busy playing around and i didn’t get any time to make it. So yeah… Here it is… Continuing last post about STGCF '09, i brought you my loots from that event: Nendoroid Riannon and Nendoroid Nankyoku Sakura.

Nendoroid Riannon and Nendoroid Nankyoku Sakura.

Bought this from Wajuwa with fair price: each for IDR 400k (about USD 37). So they took me total: IDR 800k (about USD 74). Pretty nice buy, i didn’t have to take out too much money because they’re nendoroids. As i said before, there were not much good PVC around, if there were some, i already had them in my collection.

Nendoroid Riannon, my girl likes her.

Riannon isn’t my favorite character from the anime, Tears to Tiara. Bought her because my girl like it. At first i was against it, but after giving a second thought, i bought her. She’s cute anyway!

Riannon in 3 version: cute, action, funny.

Pretty much normal parts for nendoroids: Hat and the accessories, wand, Riannon herself with 3 faces: smile, action, and dizzy face, 2 pairs of arms, 3 pairs of hands, the base, and a magic circle. Talk about base, i guess nendoroid did get improved on this part. My Haruhi base was broken and can’t support Haruhi anymore. Yuki Base can’t even support her normally. But the latest nendoroid got better base.

Riannon is cute!

And here’s Riannon! Pretty cute eh? Yeah, damn cute. Oh BTW, did you notice at the Christmas special post? Riannon and Sakura Nankyoku were already there. Yes… I did these photograph a week before Christmas, but i was just too late to post this, that’s all.

Riannon magic!!

Dunno why, but i never really like to use my nendoroids for their action pose. I always like them in their cute version or funny version. It’s nendoroid we’re talking about, so they have to be cute! I usually use the weirdest face for each nendoroids display.

Riannon is funny!!

Now this is funny! I like this face, and currently displaying her like this. The weirder the face, the easier to make a good story out of it. Nendoroids like Sakura Nankyoku, Shana, Louise, and some other i forgot to mention has a good set of face.

And we move on to the next part: Sakura Nankyoku.

Sakura Nankyoku.

I never knew who’s Sakura Nankyoku or what anime she come from. I just bought her because I’ve seen a lot of Sakura Nankyoku photo. I like her funny faces, ahoge, and her “weird” equipment. That’s why i bought her! She’s funny, and nendoroid supposed to be funny!

Weird equipments, but funny.

She came with 3 faces: smiling face, a (o^o) face, and an angry face, 2 pairs of arms, a base, a pick, and a helmet. The helmet and the pick themselves are already a weird set of nendoroid equipments. To put on her helmet, you have to take off her ahoge, pretty funny. XD

You can make good story with her.

With Sakura Nankyoku’s faces and cuteness, i can make some good story. Sakura’s (o^o) face and her angry face made Christmas special’s story chapter 1 a good one. Other than that, i also have more story below, except i didn’t take my time to make a 4koma out of it.

Shana came and bullying Louise and Riannon.

Sakura saw it!

And she tries to stop Shana from bullying them. XD

My nendoroid army! Fear them!!!

Well yeah, that’s all my loots post. Lately I kept buying nendoroids from toys events around, since no more good PVC around. Then, i tried to gather and count them all, and i got 10 nendoroids at total. Nice? I don’t know… Optic as a figma fanboy got himself 42 figma, me? I’m not a nendoroid fanboy, but it’s fun to collect them, so 10 a nice number for me. XD

So yeah, that’s it for today! I’ll be back for more, so see you at the next post!

Surabaya Toys, Games, and Comic Fair 2009

STGCF ‘09.

Since Christmas Specials is over, it’s time to get back into normal otaku post. This time, i brought you an event coverage. This is Surabaya Toys, Games, and Comic Fair 2009. It was held in BG Junction, the same place i won a photo competition. Total running days of this event is 9 days, starts from December 5th and ended in December 13th.

This kind of events are getting worse.

I’m starting to get the feeling that events like this in Surabaya are starting to lose its popularity. These kind of events are no longer a good place for us otakus to do treasure hunting. In the first event ever, i could stand around watching these place in 3 hours. But now, I left this place less than 1 hour after i was arrived. I heard from Wajuwa’s owner that this event was some kind of backup event (plan B).

Plan B event.

I won’t ramble about how much American toys took away Japanese PVC figures place in the event. I’m here to focus on how they did an epic fail on plan A. As i said above, this event is somewhat a backup plan. The first plan was to held an event in PTC, just like Toy Magz Fair 2008. PTC is a good place for event like this, it has a lot of people coming, and PTC is one of the best shopping mall in Surabaya. They already planned to held the event there in September – October, but i heard they failed to negotiate with PTC management and that means they failed to get the place.

BG Junction is another alternative to held this event, it’s cheap, but this place is lame and low on people. It’s a worse alternative, but i guess they think that “this is better than nothing”. While they failed on getting good place, they still managed to get this event running, i guess that’s better than nothing.

Epic fail? maybe.

Back there, i still thought that the PTC event would still be held a week after this event. So i decided to went cautious and proceed carefully with the treasure hunting. After i met Wajuwa’s owner, i asked him about that PTC event. I was shocked after hearing his answer. He said that the event is cancelled and he explained the reason to me. Yes… it’s about the place. They didn’t get it so it was cancelled and this event was their backup plan.

The whole Shuraki for IDR 3.5 millions, around USD 300.

I think these figures on the photo above are the best treasure i could found. Five Shuraki, damn great! The problem is, you have to buy the whole set. The store owner didn’t sell it individually. Price? It’s IDR 3,5millions, maybe around USD 300. If you were there, will you get them all with that price?

Talk about treasure hunting, I remembered the first time i went on an event like this, i was very excited and could came everyday. It’s Surabaya Toys Festival 2007, i already had my SLR but this blog wasn’t here alive, so i didn’t have any coverage for the event. I came 3 days straight but only bought 1 item, i haven’t start seriously collecting stuff back there.

The next event was still from Surabaya Toys Festival, the 2008 version. The real hunting began there. I got 2 figures from that event. And continuing Toy Magz Fair 2008, with 4 figures as the loots. That’s one pretty crazy and i think that event was the event with best Japanese PVC figures around.

There were still more events held soon after STF ‘08, but they were pretty much disappointing events. And starting from that time, i never bought anything but figures from Wajuwa. Other following events were just total BS just like this event.

Wajuwa’s stand, filled with Japanese PVC as always.

Well, no matter what kind of event being held, Wajuwa never let me down. They always come with a lot of figures, a gold mine for us figures hunter. See photo above? There were a lot of nice figures (but i already had all the figures i like). I saw: Kannagi, Fauna, Gift Saber, Akashiya Moka, Haruhi Gekisou, Mikuru Gekisou, Unity Yuno, Alter P3 Mitsuru, Alter P3 Elizabeth, and some other old items. Nice, but i already had all the stuffs i want.

Wajuwa’s nendoroid collection.

At the side of the stand, Wajuwa had 9 nendoroids on display. He asked me which one you already have? And i said Kureha… Soon after that he opened the case and showed me all the nendoroid he had. I was interested in Kagamiku, Miku, Riannon, and Nankyoku Sakura. It was hard picking which one to bought between 4 of them. In the end i bought 2, expect the loot coverage in the next post.

Game club gathering.

This event had the word “Games” in it, so there were some games competition and gathering for Surabaya’s games club: Dugem (Dunia Game –Game’s World-). Tekken 6 was the popular game back there, so they focused mainly on playing Tekken 6 in PS3. There were also people playing unknown Wii games.

Well that’s it for this event coverage. Expect the haul at the next post. See you!!

Surabaya Toy Fest 2009

Surabaya Toy Fest 2009.

And… I’m back for another event coverage. Pretty quick huh? The interval between the last event and this event didn’t even reach 1 month. Lately, this kind of events have became pretty popular in Surabaya, but all of them were pretty much the same, same participants, same programs, same competitions, etc. So whatever it is, let’s get deep into the event… Oh and forgot to mention, this event was held and ran for 2 days straight: 6-7 June 2009.

Wajuwa

I’ll get to PVCs first, which will lead us to Wajuwa. I guess Wajuwa was the only Japanese PVC seller participant in this event. Saber didn’t participate, but i met the owner there. Wajuwa’s items were pretty interesting: Vita, Teana Lanster, Haruhi Alter, Tsukishiro Mina, Rider maid, Gift Saber, Limit Gunz, Emma Ai, figma Kagamine Rin and Ren, figma Kagamiku, figma Ryoko Asakura, Nendoroid Maritan, Miyuki, Kagamiku, Saber Lion, etc. I bought 2 figures from this store, what are those figures? Wait for the next post XD .

Shinra hobby shop.

Shinra sold some nice figures and they were pretty cheap. Elwing, Alter’s Mitsuru, Shuraki Nida, and Shuraki Rize. I heard Miku GSC also sold here too (with very cheap price around USD 55), except i was late and it was sold out.

A shop with nice Gundam collection.

Stack of Gundam here, including Sword Impulse, Launcher and Sword Strike Gundam, Godkeron, etc. I also saw some figma Miku and figma Shana. Not really interesting, but this store has the most Gundam kits stacked.

Surabaya Hobby Shop with cool RCs.

A store with cool collection of radio controls, complete from the ground, there’s a nice modified Nissan 350Z, air with helicopters and planes, and water with fast boats. It’s Surabaya Hobby Shop, pretty cool, but they also had that scary price tags.

Time Walk.

There was also Time Walk, a board game selling store, with free demo. I never heard about the games they sold, but they look interesting. Ever heard about Carcasonne? They also had that game sold back there.

Dream High Studio.

Dream High Studio, they got some pretty nice handmade artworks. I thought they also had BJD or Dollfie Dream, because as i remembered the last year, there was a pretty similar participant with BJD and advertising it. After seeing BJD booming in Danny Choo, i too want to take a look of a real BJD myself.

ISCC.

ISCC (Indonesia Soul Calibur Comunity), also participate in this event and held 3 games competitions. At the first day, they held Street Fighter 4 tournament, the second day, they held Soul Calibur 4 and Mario Cart NDS tournament. I didn’t participate this time.

And another nice show from the committee, they had a nice opening dance, here are some photo of it:

One of the girl on the stage.

The main dancer (queen).

And the main boy dancer.

I failed bringing cosplay photos in the last event, but this time, i got some number of cosplayer photos. I did most of them candidly, so here we go:

Anya cosplayer, without her real hair, nice costume though.

Arale and the poo from Dr. Slump, they won the best cosplay award.

Archer, ugly.

Someone from Sengoku Basara (the Masamune Date wannabe).

Da Qiao, or is she Xiao Qiao?

Darth Maul, pretty scary.

Someone fat with radiator on his sword.

A girl with short kimono and the other with Cardcaptor Sakura’s school uniform.

Sailor Moon, classic.

Stormtrooper, with light saber surrounding him.

Stormtrooper with friends.

Those warriors from Japan and China in group.

A sort of cute girl with cool cosplay, except i don’t know the character.

Yue Ying cosplayer.

Well, that’s all the event coverage. Event like this has became more and more monotone, with the same programs and all. The number of participant that sells Japanese PVC figures has dropped significantly, resulting drop of my interest in this event. But oh well, sometimes this kind of event brings me a chance to find some hidden treasure. XD

Loots? Expect them at the next post. So see you!

Supermall Surabaya Toy and Hobby Fair 2009

Supermall Surabaya Toy & Hobby Fair 2009 

I’m back for another event coverage: Supermall Surabaya Toy & Hobby Fair 2009, to make it short I’ll just call it SSTHF. FYI, this event was also ran by the same committee as the previous event, Surabaya Toy Expo. This event is pretty big, and has the widest area of event compared to the previous events, too bad there were too many unused space around, and the number of participant isn’t that high either.

Oh, in this chance I’ll try to give a new style of event coverage post. First, I’ll skip and won’t put American toys photos or even rant about it, that way you won’t hear my spam about American toys, which is not in our concern. Next, I’ll group the photos into certain categories and will give some comments around it.

First, I’ll just go directly into PVCs group:

Old Figures.

I don’t know why, but the number of PVCs in this events was dropped greatly, compared to the previous Surabaya Toy Expo and Toy Magz Fair. If you look at the photo above, you’ll only see 3 special Japanese PVC figures: Mizuho bikini, another Mizuho, and Kasumi DOA. All of them are pretty much old PVCs. Oh and BTW, i think this store is the store who sold me Elwing bikini version (MaxFact).

 

Hobby Station’s stand.

Moving on to Hobby Station stand, you’ll see figma Kyon, and some old PVCs: Teletha Testarossa, Ryoumou, Dreamtech Tamaki Kousaka, and some other old PVCs. I don’t know what’s the reason, but in their actual store, they had some great PVCs like GSC Miku, Alter Signum and Hayate, Haruhi Gothic, and some nice PVCs. Maybe they want to prevent buyers getting those great items in discounted price.

 

Saber, my favorite figure store.

And this is Saber, my favorite store. I’ve been checking Saber every 2-3 weeks, so these items were considered old to me. I’ve seen all of them in their actual store. Anyway, Saber got some cool collections, but i forgot to photograph all of them, so let me just mention those unphotographed collection: Complete Shuraki vol 1-5, GSC Miku, Max Ryuna Bikini, Alter Saber Maid and Saber Alter version (dark), Kotobukiya Rin, etc. Price? They got a great deal, especially at the last day, there were so many discount around.

 

Toys ‘n Toys.

Toys ‘n Toys got some very old collections and also very cheap figures. But yeah, most of them were to old to recognize and i didn’t get very interested to get even one of them. Anyway, you still can find Rin and Sakura in their bikinis.

 

Wajuwa, view #1: figures!

And this is Wajuwa, with a lot of special figures lying around and waiting for some otakus to buy them. If you followed some of my coverages, you’ll notice that Vita has been there for almost 1 year (Toy Magz Fair, Surabaya Toy Expo, and Surabaya Anime and Toys Fair) and nobody bought her.

They also had some nice collections here: Teana Lanster (new here), Limit Gun, Kotobukiya Mao, Ryuna, and Blanc Neige. Alter’s Yuki bikini, etc.

 

Wajuwa view #2: nendoroids!

Wajuwa also had some nice set of nendoroids and figmas. You can see here: Nendoroid Tsukasa, Yoko, Saber Lion, Melissa Seraphy, Maritan, Pastel Ink, and Miyuki. And also figma Asakura Ryoko, Kagamine Ren, Shana, Saber, and Fate.

 

Wajuwa view #3: more figures! 

And still more from Wajuwa: GSC Unity May, Alter Haruhi, ALter Mina, Alter P3F Mitsuru and Elizabeth (i forgot, CMIIW), Haruhi and Mikuru live a live edition, and whatever… Eventhough they have nice collections, i held still and resisted myself from buying anything, just for economical reason, tried to be more careful in buying figures.

 

Next, we’ll move on to Gundam:

Extionz, the only store that got a Sword Impulse MG.

Extionz got some nice stack of Gunpla. You can see MG kits of Sinanju, Shin Musha Gundam new version, Nu Gundam, and a Sword Impulse Gundam. I think this is the only store that already have Sword Impulse Gundam. That kits got a pretty nice artwork on the box cover.

 

Rack of nice Gunpla kits.

A rack of Gunpla kits. I guess Sinanju is pretty popular nowadays. It’s pretty hard to see but in this rack there were nice kits like: Crossbone ver KA, Infinite Justice, Hyaku Shiki, Sword and Launcher Strike, Crossbone Gundam, and Destiny Gundam. Oh, i also spotted Godkeron here.

 

New and special Gunpla kits around.

Also another interesting Gunpla kits here like: new version of Shin Musha Gundam and Unicorn Gundam Ver Ka with Titanium Finish. I don’t really know about the Unicorn, but about the new Shin Musha, i heard from my bro, the new Musha got a better red armor and also even shinier gold edge.

 

There was a Gundam F91 kit back there.

And here’s another interesting stack of Gunpla. Most of them were pretty much old stocks, like: Strike Noir, Destiny, Zeta Gundam ver 2.0, Unicorn Ver Ka, and Super Gundam. The only thing interesting here is this Gundam F91, large model (1/60 scale). I’ve seen Gundam F91 in Gundam Musou 2, but never really see a real Gundam F91 kit. Anyway, I’ve been searching for Keropla kits around, but i couldn’t find any.

And we’ll move on the last category, miscellaneous :

Some nice car models.

Some nice car models here. Lately, I’ve became a fans of Lancer Evolution X and been searching for a nice model of it, but never found one. It seems Nissan GTR R35 is even more popular than Lancer Evo X, found one of the model here.

 

Random art class.

Another random art class, they really got some pretty nice drawings. But yeah… not really interesting for me. I prefer “drawing” using my camera and lights, not using pencil or some other drawing tools.

 

Komikaze, a cool book selling store.

Komikaze got a pretty interesting stand. They sold some nice rare PS2 games, rare comic and mangas (and even yaoi doujinshi!), rare magazine, and nice arts. Oh, and you can also see that Komikaze’s owner had a BJD (dolfie), but i never bother to ask where they bought / got it.

 

2 random stands selling random stuffs.

And the last are just 2 random stands, one selling weird “doll” things, and the other selling T-shirt with anime or games picture on it.

 

I guess that’s all about the participant and stuff they sold, the rest are just small number of photos i took using my new lens, Canon EF100mm Macro. Enjoy!

Uhh… dunno what’s in the middle, but i think the weapon is GN ARMS (Gundam 00).

 

Kungfu Panda, haha… hey, it can move and even punch!

 

Happy Feet penguin, it can’t dance, but it’s fluffy.

 

Wall-E, i watched the movie, and it’s funny. XD

Yeah… that’s all for this coverage, and i got bad news here: NO LOOT! XD . Yeah, the number of “hidden treasure” dropped, so no more loot for now. I think I’ll wait for new hauls, and the next event: Surabaya Toy Festival 2009 (6-7 June 2009).

Expect more hauls and some photoshoots. So… see you at the next post!