Holiday presents
Well… not exactly presents. But having the postman arrive at my door for three consecutive days before Christmas with my OWN purchases, made me quite a happy man. haha.
First day was package from HLJ. Haruhi Keychains and Haruhi Shirt. I don’t really understand why they used a gigantic box. In fact, they put in a few bags of Japan Air. Are shirts really that fragile? Ah wellz, it’s their perrogative.
The next day saw the arrival of Haruhi figurine from e2046. This costs me double my previous figurine purchase, which had cost me double the figurine purchase before that. This does not bode well.
The package was very solid though. Two layers of bubble wrap protected the main box. Inside the box, huge styrofoam pieces protected your figurine. I was a little disappointed with the cardboard box though. I thought it was going to be a solid plastic box from the photos. haha. But still, your figurine will not be damaged at all.
It’s well… Haruhi. The quality really matched up to the character I must say though. You really do NOT want to stop staring at it.
Overall, I didn’t really feel like there’s any big fault. I didn’t even notice any big seams in the hair as some did. Even the skin tone came in gradients. WAH.
BUT.
I finally understood what people meant when they said the figure was fragile. The hair ribbon and bunny ears are self-fixed. And they dropped out with just small movements. FRAGILE. Same with regards to the position for the guitar. Certain parts of the guitar felt very fragile as well, and I’m sure small pressure will break them already.
When I talk about the fragile parts, I’m referring to the tuning knobs at the top of the guitar. Way too fragile.
I know TJ HAN said that why the noise about the guitar when you can get a normal toy replica of similar quality for $10. Well… it’s part of the figurine and every detail counts! And it makes the figurine more complete. You wouldn’t want some shoddy guitar would you, and shoddy it definitely ain’t.
And I must say, nylon on figurine is just totally different. Looks different, feels different. Just adds many many points in my opinion. (never mind that it’s not real nylon) You’ve got to really feel it for yourself to know the difference.
My favourite figurine definitely. (I’m too lazy to link to the actual large sized images, if you wanna look, they are available at my zooomr photo collection)
Oh, and I did mention that the postman came three days right? He came with my spanking new driving licensee. Yay!
December 27th, 2006 at 1:18 am
ooo looks gewd~~
darn … I missed the order and I didnn’t get to buy it
December 27th, 2006 at 1:44 am
You know, I always thought you were younger than me and a kid. But… I guess not. I realised you are a old man lol.
I’m going to head to Paradiz to get myself a few replica guitars.
December 27th, 2006 at 1:48 am
@tj han oh thanks man. did that young impression come before or after you saw me.
I shall go meditate somewhere about growing older in the entries I blog and the comments I leave.
December 27th, 2006 at 9:11 am
Well we can’t have your precious t-shirts ruined when in transit now do we? But yeah, I find it rather odd for HLJ to ship things in large boxes when at times it obviously doesn’t need to.
Awesome that you got the Haruhi figure, I want one, but I’m broke at the moment
February 14th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
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February 14th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
*Sob* I lost my ribbon when i was painting this one. Had to use a real ribbon
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