davidd's A Doll A Day 2019

[davidd]

Is she helping or just supervising?

She is actually helping! She is working as my "size model" to help me keep things in scale. Rather than, y'know, measure and sketch out a diagram, I simply ask Pinky Evil to step in for a quick "eyeball estimate."

it's weird... the sort of unpredictable chemical reactions seen in so many enthusiast/collector market toys
employing unusual/exotic polymer compositions. scares the daylights out of me.

personally, i suspect that the Chinese production sources are largely to fault for this;
they do seem to have a long standing habit of getting things
like plastic chemistry and Zinc die-casting wrong on an all-too regular basis,
probably all for the eress sake of saving a few cents whenever and wherever they can...

I know, right? Even die-cast metal toys and accessories corrode and crumble! It's always a shock to open a storage tub and find metal objects have disintegrated!

The never-ending quest for short-term profits certainly impacts the "collectibles" market. Funny how objects from a hundred years ago often survive just fine, but "High Quality" (meaning: ex-pensive) items purchased within the past few years often dissolve and melt and crumble and deteriorate.

---

8 March – Pinky Street Greatest Tag Boxxx Round .01 Tejho Tenge Aya

Aya represents the beginning of my Pinky Street infatuation. She was not the first Pinky figure I acquired, but she was the first one I wanted. One of my Flickr friends posted photos of this figure way back in 2004-2005, and it was those photos that inspired my interest in toy and doll photography. This was the figure I wanted to photograph.

At the time, the Tenjho Tenge Aya figure was already sold out, and aftermarket prices on eBay were quite eensive ($40 to $50 USD), so I began my Pinky Street collection / obsession with current issue figures (which cost a more affordable $11 -$12 USD with shipping). Eventually I shelled out the dough to get an Aya figure.

Currently I have several of this figure. Now that Pinky Street production has been discontinued and interest has waned, this particular figure is often available at quite affordable prices ($10 - $15) on the secondary market, even mint-in-box.

If I have a "favorite" Pinky Street figure, this is probably the one.

Oh, and... more snow today! YAY!!! 

Also... they're not really visible in the photo of Aya, but there were several ("several" in this case meaning "a bunch of") antelope under the trees in the background: