A New Hobby

It all started with me window shopping through ebay for anime figure looking at Nendoroids. I just like the look of them being so cute and adorable. Then I found a Nendoroid of my favourite character, Rin from the anime Fate/Stay Night. It cost about RM30 including shipping from Japan. I was like, "What the heck, just get it!".

As I being to do a little research on the figures, I found out there are different ranges of figures. Rin was a Nendoroid Petite which is the cheapest among the figures range and a subset of a Nendoroid. Nendoroid on the other hand are bigger, comes with accessories and interchangeable parts and faces. It is more pose-able then its mini counter part. Little did I know I will fall for this hobby. So it begins, my desire to have more. I then try to find if I could get these figures from Malaysia instead of buying them overseas. So I searched for a Saber Nendoroid also from the same anime. Managed to find one in Lowyat forum for a very good price.

This is an old released an was long sold out and discontinued.  

There was a Facebook page that sells these figures and they have a weekly 'Like, Share and Win' contest. Had been taking part in it for few weeks but never won. One day they posted this:

It is Asuna from the anime Sword Art Online. Another of my favourite anime character. This is a scale figure and it is the most expensive in the figure range. One figure cost at least RM300. I literally prayed for to win this. A week later:

BOOM!

I was ecstatic when I see this! I won with the probability of 1/400. God answered my prayers! Sadly, this pages hasn't been posting a new contest for quite some time.

After I received my salary for my part time job during the sem break, I went for another figure hunt. I was aiming to get an Asuna Nendoroid or a Figma. I ended up deciding to buy a Figma. Getting this also wasn't easy. I did not placed a pre-order for it and most of the sites that sell it for an reasonable price are all sold out. The remaining sites that sell it are all way too expensive. Apparently Asuna figures are very high demand.  After some deep and thorough searching, I finally found a site that sells it for a reasonable price. There is a lesson learnt from this: Pre-order a figure I really want.

The Figma range is similar to Nendoroid. It has accessories, interchangeable body parts (mostly the face and wrist). The difference is, it has movable body joints and the body size is more proportional.

This pretty up sums up my current collection. This hobby isn't cheap and I currently do not have enough budget to buy a figue often. Nendoroid Petite is 500 Yen (around RM17 but cost more than RM30 after shipping) but Nendoroid Petite figures aren't many, Nendoroid and Figma cost more than RM100 and as mentioned scale figure is at least RM300 with really nice one costing around RM400 and above. I shall grow my collection more when I start working. At the mean time, I shall control myself to not buy anymore unless there is a nice, cool or pretty Nendoroid or Figma of Erza from Fairy Tail that is within my budget XD.

---Update---

I failed to control myself. These are what I collected as of 2014 (Asuna scale figure isn't in this picture).