Otaku Events February 25th, 2008
What is the Wonder Festival? It is actually a figure/toys/anime event that takes place in Japan. Usually there will be figures being sold here, with special editions just for this event.
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The Tokyo Wonder Festival is an annual event to display and sell “garage kits”, which are sculptures that usually replicate anime and game characters, but also often recreate popular mecha/sci-fi characters and creatures. These models are extremely detail oriented, and many of these sculptures appear in very small quantities due to the amateur nature of their reproduction. Unusually skilled artisans are promoted specifically during the “wonder showcase”, in which their works are given special attention and limited quantities of their masterpieces are sold for high prices to avid collectors. Many of the garage kits now sold at the Wonder Festival are oriented around female characters, often displayed in very exposing and often erotic positions. The market for these figures has spread overseas, and they have now become increasingly popular among collectors in many countries outside of Japan. (Source: Wikipedia)
Heisei Democracy has got a good coverage for the event. I regret I can’t make any coverage for it since I have no chance to go to Japan (yet!)
As I do not want to steal the wonderful photos from HD, I think I will just post the links here. So here are the figures that caught my eye:
Cafe Reo:
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Good Smile/Max Factory:
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Photo 5
Kotobukiya:
Photo 6 (Looking forward to this one!!
Movic:
Photo 7
Alter:
Photo 8
Photo 9
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February 25th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
There are so many cool new figures! I think my list only goes to June/July so I hope that a lot of these figures come out in August and later so I can keep my 3 limit (but I’d rather have 2) a month.
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February 28th, 2008 at 10:18 am
I want Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann by Kaiyodo T_T
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February 29th, 2008 at 10:24 am
@Figured: haha.. I also kinda got that limit. Set at 4 per month.. but when nice figures were announced and sales coming up.. hard to keep to that limit already..
@Shin: ohhh the one on the motorbike one? XD