Mikatan's blog

"The hood part fits around all the expressions – you just need to push each expression into the hood first. She comes with a separate fringe part designed to be used with the hood as well!!"

eue how about now

..Although it's a seperate part I still suspect that other fringe parts from other nendoroids may not fit though.

Have I mentioned I hate lottery figures with burning passion

Trying to get this for a decent price later is going to be nothing short of a nightmare

They are all repaints as;kldjfajdsflkdf GSC is milking Miku far too hard.

Okay fine the nendoroid isn't a repaint, it's basically a Miku head on another body. At least give her an awesome faceplate to justify the ridiculous prices later..and if I understand correctly there will only be 200 pieces in total?

This looks more promising though:

Cheerful Luka, Saber and Rin have been shipped!

..it seems that my Saber/Rin has tracking but the package hasn't actually been shipped yet - I'm not complaining, anything to avoid kastams

Well, you are not wrong - but I believe you assumed that all of us us EMS all the time? ;D If you use EMS all the time + ship unwisely, then yes, getting local is probably easier, for around the same price.
However if you use SAL all the time, you cut your shipping costs by around a third so it's still ultimately worth it in the long run.

A quick example for regular release items (I shipped 3 of them at once):
Wagnaria playset + EMS shipping on amiami = 2830 > RM113.20
Wagnaria playset + SAL shipping on amiami = 2526 > RM 101.04
Wagnaria playset on XL-shop = Rm120

**I'm just using *4 for the MYR>JPY exchange rate, since it's not very steady and again it depends on your bank/paypal/etc

Of course there are a lot of other factors in this, whether you get them on sale, how you ship them etc. Obviously if you ship them one by one with EMS you're going to rack up some impressive EMS costs lol.
Also in regards to kastams: they are in fact, completely avoidable as long as you know what you are doing.

***Oh and for exclusive items, I've always felt it's easier to go via international direct rather than going through local stores, because you cut out the proxy fees.
**** Ahhh and for "local excludes shipping" bit, you are assuming that all of us actually have access to the physical shop lol. If you don't..well, poslaju costs money too

TL;DR Local / International shops have pros and cons, just go for whichever you feel is best.

This post has been edited by Nichol90: May 30 2012, 02:11 AM

Ahhh when I said exclusive items, I was actually thinking of Goodsmile online shop hahahaha, forgot about the hobby japan stuff (and things like bandai exclusives lol)

I'm not really sure about those. From experience the stuff I got from GSC directly has always been cheaper..I don't have much experience in the other kinds of exclusives, sorry hahahaa

..cough yes same here. I am remarkably paranoid about shipping things, so I'd like them to arrive as fast as possible thank you.


..although EMS-ing everything is seriously starting to add up..I've been contemplating moving everything to SAL but I haven't been able to do it yet lol


Yup. Although there are cases where the figure is fragile and amiami themselves refuse to ship internationally.

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Added on May 30, 2012, 7:29 pmNot cintiq ar?

This post has been edited by Nichol90: May 30 2012, 07:29 PM

^ I think it was Animation ver. BRS. Her twintails seem to break off easily during shipping, so after a while, amiami refused to ship them internationally.

For coldcasts they do warn you in advance that they are likely to break lol.

^^^ Buy all, aim for this:

^^^^^ ;u; Mine has been on "handover to airline" for 2 days now

Thank you, but I get similar messages from poslaju and the site you gave

Ahhh I'll just wait patiently.

For me, yush, not taking a risk like I did with Saber motor

@rurushu MFC doesnt' allow hotlinking lol, but I guess you're posting that Shanghai knight miku? If it is, I'm still waiting for a colored version, it seemed to have dropped off the face of the earth after that wonfes

^^^ ahahaha I don't actually see any image, only the MFC logo. I guessed what it was from your comments.

Normal store: BiJ because they allow undervalue-ing of packages, so I don't have to worry about customs.

someone did a pretty good calculation on MFC about the cheapest place to buy:
P.S You can ignore the 4700 JPY for shipping, that's to US. For Asia the estimate is 3500 JPY EMS.

HS 50% shipping discounts and GSC shop:


and HS/Amiami/HLJ comparison

It is only an estimate. BiJ says it will be roughly 2.5 KG, but we will not know until it's actual release.

It all depends on how GSC decides to package it..if she's nicely boxed like LiW Miku, the shipping should be around that..but if she's nice and compact like alter's 1/6 Aegis, it shouldn't be cost that much..

And suddenly this became the Godoka 1/8 tered

...I didn't know mikatan was so adorable nggghhhhh help

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Added on June 12, 2012, 7:16 pmIt is written 1/8 scale on the box..

This post has been edited by Nichol90: Jun 12 2012, 07:16 PM