davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2025

[davidd]

13 October - A Doll A Day 2025:

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Recent eBay find: Pinky:st "King of Fighers" Athena and Mai 10th Anniversary set

I do not recall seeing this particular Pinky Street figure variant before! I'm happy to have found this for a very reasonable price.

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14 October - A Doll A Day 2025:

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Emily returns!

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I found a boxed example of the Ashton-Drake Emily the Strange doll on eBay recently, complete with the mail-away Mystery plush cat figure.

Yes, the price was hideously eggspensive, particularly compared to what I sold my Emily the Strange dolls for five years ago. Who knew the price would escalate to such absurd levels? While, I'll repeat, hideously ekkspensive for a poorly articulated plastic doll, the price was "reasonable" or even "pretty good" relative to current asking prices for this figure. Examples complete with the mail-away plush cat figure are particularly difficult to find.

I was foolish to have sold the Emily dolls I had collected. I wish I had not done that. Oh well, now I have one again.

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15 October - A Doll A Day 2025:

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Kurisu Redux

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Max Factory FIGMA No. 098 Makise Kurisu Action Figure

I once had this figure, a decade or more ago. I snapped all of four photos of it, and a couple of years later I sold it.

Now I've bought it back. Probably not the exact same one. Rather, I've repurchased a Figma action figure like the one I used to have via eBay.

Why? So I could post a picture to the Figma-Nendoroid World photo group on Flickr.

The Figma-Nendoroid World group is a nearly dormant Flickr photo group that one of my Flickr contacts still posts to on occasion. That one contact is pretty much the only person posting to the group these days.

Izzat crazy with a kapital "K" or what, re-buying a toy I sold off ten years ago just so's I can post pix to a Flickr group that nobody looks at?

I'll help ya with the answer: yeah, it's totes kray-kray. Or maybe imbecilic.

I don't even like Figma figures (altho' admittedly this one looks pretty cool). They fall apart way too easily, just as badly as the über-fragile Revoltech figures. That's why I sold the one I had.

Now I have another one. Another one of the same one.

My old pix of this fig were all taken using a Lensbaby camera lens. I used to have a Lensbaby lens. I sold it ages ago. And guess what? I ended up buying another Lensbaby lens. That was a couple or three years ago, and I haven't used it since it arrived. I should find that Lensbaby lens (I think it's out in the storage shed) and use it to take photos of my new-old Figma Makise Kurisu figure. In the meantime, I've used a janky phone camera filter to quasi-emulate the Lensbaby look (i.e. kinda blurry around the edges).