The Boy Who Lost His Eyechip
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Poor PullipStyle dent box sale Koichi lost his eyechip inside his head. Which presents an opportunity to take a look at how these eyechips were created.

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A view of his missing eyechip right out of the box, before I opened up his head.

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The image looks like a matte, grainy photograph.

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On some kind of thin, photo type of paper.

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"Wah! What did you do to me? Wait, I can see out of both eyes again!"

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"You're not going to do anything else to me, are you?"
I'm a little disappointed they glued his wig down so low on his forehead. I may get him a new one.
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#2
I'm glad you saved him! <3 He looks good as new! That's interesting how these eyechips seem to have been created. Much different than most stock eyes.

He's adorable. <3

I think the most dissapointing thing about Koichi seems to be his wig. I plan to get him eventually and definitely rewig him.
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#3
Wow, that's really interesting about the eyechips! Kinda makes me tempted to try and make something similar. Your photos make me like him more than I did in his promos!
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It's amazing to me how crappy the paper looks without the eyechip cover, and how pretty it looks with it.
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(05-19-2016, 11:35 AM)Cornflower Blue Wrote: Poor PullipStyle dent box sale Koichi lost his eyechip inside his head.
LOL Made me think of the Calvin & Hobbes cartoon about loose eyeballs...
Glad you were able to fix him.
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I might give this a try. I am very curious how it would look if I paint it myself smile Alura's eyes must look like this underneath
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#7
Is there any pattern on the plastic part of the eyechip at all? Its surprising how good and different they look put all together.
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(05-20-2016, 12:28 AM)Offgenemi Wrote: I might give this a try. I am very curious how it would look if I paint it myself smile Alura's eyes must look like this underneath

I'd advise painting a piece of paper and then using Elmer's glue or hot glue or something to attach it to the front cabochon; it's too easy to mess up when painting directly on the eyechips (been there, done that. >__<; )
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(05-20-2016, 05:52 AM)fishy Wrote:
(05-20-2016, 12:28 AM)Offgenemi Wrote: I might give this a try. I am very curious how it would look if I paint it myself smile Alura's eyes must look like this underneath

I'd advise painting a piece of paper and then using Elmer's glue or hot glue or something to attach it to the front cabochon; it's too easy to mess up when painting directly on the eyechips (been there, done that. >__<; )

Thank you fishy smile i probably would have done that smile)) I'll try with a piece of paper it will be easy to fix the mistake
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Seems like it was a simple fix! Interesting how the little piece of plastic would improve the grainy, pixelated image so much!
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sooooooo beautiful! smile thanks for saving this gorgeous boy! smile
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#12
Thanks all! The clear chip on top is similar to the clear ones in the MIOs, except without the lines in the iris part. The back is not flat, like a cabochon or CoolCat flat chips, they're curved and concave on the back side and there is a noticeable ring around the pupil. I neglected to take a decent photo of them, but I cropped a couple of images of them out of the ones I did take:
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I think the lines visible on the chip on the right are from the glue.
(05-19-2016, 02:27 PM)Marilyn Wrote: It's amazing to me how crappy the paper looks without the eyechip cover, and how pretty it looks with it.
My thoughts exactly. I was shocked to see what the paper backing looked like in person.
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#13
Oh he is such a cutie! yay Good thing you got him fixed!

And ooh, the details on the chips and paper are very interesting, I didn't think it was like that on the stock chip, I haven't seen the newer ones taken apart. I still cant believe how it looked so bad without the cover, and so pretty with. Rb_bigO
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