Sweet Dreams

Hey, it's been a while since I've done one of these, mainly because I just haven't bought a whole lot lately, but here are my newest purchases!



First off, a SuperS poster I bought for obvious reasons. (*cough*Helios)

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Look what I got!



*screams*

Officially, my most favorite piece of merchandise ever! Got him for a pretty good price, too. I mentioned when he was first announced that the retail price was about $200, which I actually was okay with spending on him. (Kinda.) Most of the ones listed on eBay were from Japanese sellers who were asking a lot more, though, so I was really happy to find an American seller who was only asking $180, with free shipping to boot! Not only that, but I also had a 20% off coupon, so I got him for only $144. Woohoo! Worth every cent! (BTW, the same seller has another one for sale if anybody's interested, although the coupon is now expired. $180 isn't a bad price, though.)

Some other recent purchases:



Sailor Pluto Figuarts Zero figure - Absolutely gorgeous! This pic really doesn't do her justice.



Cute Pegasus plush keychain!



A Girls Memories Sailor Saturn to complete my collection of the Outers! I have both the Moons as well, but though I would love to get the Inners, I'm a bit reluctant to pay the prices they're going for nowadays. I had to pay close to $40 for this Saturn as it is. Should have collected them when they first came out! Oh, well, I'm pretty happy to have the Outers at least.



Tamashii Buddies Sailor Saturn, also completing my Outers collection!



Queen Beryl Funko Pop! - Since this is a Toys R Us exclusive, I figured it was best to buy it as soon as possible due to the store closing.



And, finally, a Yuri Katsuki Q Posket figurine! I also splurged on the limited edition "Yuri on Ice" Blu-Ray/DVD set!

It's been a while since I've talked about new Sailor Moon merchandise I've bought, so here's what I've added to my collection since November.



This is probably my favorite new buy: a Proplica Moon Chalice! I've been wanting and wanting and WANTING something from the Proplica line, but everything is just so incredibly expensive, so when I found this baby on eBay for around $50, I had to get it. Regular price is more like $100, so a very good deal. Unfortunately, it needs a special type of battery to light up. I didn't really see much of a point in buying one just to light it up once or twice, so I just found a YouTube video that shows what it does. Good enough!

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Long time, no see! I just haven't had much to talk about lately.

Anyway, here are some of my recent buys on eBay:



These two are obviously my favorite purchases! I may not be able to afford a vintage Stallion Reve, but this anniversary reproduction Pegasus Message Tablet is a pretty good substitute. It opens along the center and you can take the inside out to hide small items (jewelry, pills, paper clips, etc.) underneath. And of course the Twinkle Dolly Helios charm is just super adorable.

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Some of this stuff I bought with the eBay gift cards I got for Christmas; others I bought before Christmas but didn't get the chance to squee about.



First off, a supercute wedding plush set from Korea! Got a great deal on them. Just a couple of weeks before I bought this set, another set sold for about $75. I ended up only paying $25!

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Don't give me plot bunnies, Yuri On Ice! I'm so rusty. It's been months since I did any writing, and I'm supposed to be mostly retired from writing fanfiction. I don't need any story ideas!

But...but... As great as the show is -- and it is FANTASTIC -- I want more Mila and Sala! I know the focus is on mens' skating, so of course they aren't going to be given the same amount of screentime as the guys, yet wouldn't it be neat to focus on some of the ladies for a change? And I could even create OCs based on some of my favorite real-life skaters! I even already have NAMES for them, like Avery Weber (expy of Ashley Wagner -- I know Mila is already somewhat based on her. but whatever, the similarities are mostly superficial), Sarah "Sadie" Silver (expy of Gracie Gold), Ekaterina Mironova (expy of Evgenia Medvedeva), and Megumi Hanabusa (a composite of Mao Asada and Wakaba Higuchi, the latter who happens to be one of Evgenia's best friends). I wonder if anybody else has had a similar idea yet, or if all the fanfiction out there is Victuuri fluff. I should check that out.

In other news, I'm super-excited by a recent purchase on eBay I made: a Sailor Pluto Pullip doll! I've really been wanting one, but I wasn't about to spend $180 on one. Luckily, though, I managed to find one for only a $100, so I snapped it up even though I really wasn't looking to spend so much money right before Christmas. Means that I have less money to spend on Right Stuf's annual holiday sale, but, eh, it was too good a deal to pass up.

Speaking of the Right Stuf sale, I've already picked up a My Love Story! boxset and one of the Tiger & Bunny movies. I have my fingers crossed that the Space Brothers sets will be offered again so I can finish the rest of my collection, but in the meantime, I trying to decide between Shirobako, Toradora, and Black Butler: Books of Circus/Murder... I don't think I can afford all of them, unfortunately. *sigh* Right Stuf, why must you always do this to me?

- Just spent a somewhat ridiculous amount of money on two pieces of Pegasus merchandise (one especially rare) yesterday on eBay. I'm going to wait until they come in to tell you what they are, though. I plan to write a big post about my latest purchases. Some of them are really cool!

- Hulu Ends Free Streaming as Yahoo Launches Own Service With Anime - Well, this sucks. I didn't watch a whole lot of anime on Hulu, but I did watch some, and the Yahoo View service doesn't seem to have much so far. At the very least, it doesn't look like they have Pandora Hearts, which I was in the middle of watching on Hulu. *sigh* Crunchyroll does have it, but only the first six episodes are available to free members. May have to end up signing up for a free trial at either Hulu or Crunchyroll in order to at least finish it.

- Watching the Olympics is really making me want to watch Free! again. Actually, I think there's either a movie or an OAV I never watched... I should see if I can find that somewhere.

Another fantastic episode of Crystal this week, with the debut of a new version of the OP song, a brand new ED song, and new transformations for Uranus and Neptune! I'm still not totally in love with the OP, but I gotta say the new singer is a lot better than the person who sang it before. Now I kinda like it. The new ED is sung by Chibi-Usa and is SUPER CUTE, although I can't help but feel that it seems really out of place when this season is so dark. The Haruka/Michiru duet worked better as an ending. As for the new transformations, they basically kept the same exact choreography as from the original anime, which is kinda disappointing, but they look really gorgeous otherwise. Moving on to the episode itself, the second half was actually really quite exciting. I think that was about the best battle of the series so far!( Spoilers for the very end of the episode and next week's episode )

In other news, I did something a little -- okay, a lot -- nuts yesterday. There was a listing on eBay for this very rare Crystal Carillon plush that can transform into Pegasus when you turn it inside out, which I've been wanting ever since I first came across a picture of it on one of my favorite Sailor Moon collectibles sites. The seller was asking $299 for it, but was also accepting Best Offers. Well, about five or six hours before the listing was set to end, I decided to throw caution to the wind and send in an offer of $100, never expecting it to be accepted but figuring it wouldn't hurt to at least try. The listing ended without me hearing anything back about my offer, so I assumed that was it. However, a few hours later, I got a message from the seller asking if I would be willing to go up to $130. I didn't really want to pay that much to be honest, but there was no telling when or if I would ever get another opportunity like that again. I mean, it was still new in the box and the only one I've ever seen offered up for sale. Based on its apparent rarity, plus knowing what other Pegasus items tend to go for (A LOT), I wouldn't be surprised if it was really worth $200-plus, so how could I possibly pass up the chance to buy it for that price? (Plus, I was still disappointed about losing out on that other Pegasus plush I mentioned a few entries back which ended up selling for $172.) So...I did! It's pretty much the most expensive single item I've ever bought for myself, but I'm calling it my reward for finally finishing Melting Ice. (Speaking of which, the last chapter has been posted at FF.net, AO3, and oyster_shell.) Definitely no more buying stuff on eBay for a while, though. My wallet can't take it!

I promised to post pictures of some of my newest purchases a couple of weeks back, but with my hand beat up, I didn't feel like doing it. So, I'm making up for it now!

First up, a package that just came in today: Christmas Petit Charas! I've been wanting these ever since they were first announced, but I wasn't sure about spending so much money on something so seasonal. Finally just decided to bite the bullet and get them. It's not like they're so Christmas-y that they can't be enjoyed all year round, right? Well, that's what I'm telling myself anyway...



Next we have a six inch Sailor Pluto Adventure Doll to go with the 11.5 inch one I bought a while back. Spent a little more than I ideally would have wanted to pay for such a small doll ($42), but the one with the black fuku is much harder to find than the silver fuku, so I think it's a fair price.



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In other exciting news, Sailor Moon Drops (a Candy Crush type app) is finally available in English on Android and iOS! I've twice tried to play the game in Japanese, but experienced bad luck both times. First time, I installed it on with the Android emulator I have on my laptop, but something happened to make the game stop working. The second time, I installed it on the cheap-o tablet I got for Christmas, which recently died on me. (Grr.) Now I have a much better tablet, so fingers crossed that nothing else bad will happen. If you'd like to friend me, my ID is ww4e43540.

Y'all might be tired of me showing off my collection, but I can't help it! And I actually got some non-Sailor Moon items for a change.

First off, a rather timely purchase with the announcement that CLAMP is planning a new Card Captor Sakura short story -- two absolutely ADORABLE Sakura figures. The slightly larger one on the left is a Girls Memories figure I bought from the Crunchyroll store, while the smaller one was another one of those annoying Petit Chara blind boxes that I found at Books-a-Million, but this time I didn't mind since of the six figures in the series, five of them were Sakura and all of them were just the cutest, so I was pretty much guaranteed to get one that I wanted. (And I wouldn't have minded the Tomoyo figure either.)



Next up is a purchase I'm REALLY excited about, since there's not a whole lot of Kaleido Star merchandise out there, and even less available from American sellers on eBay, so she was a very lucky find. *squeals* Granted, it's kind of a strange pose (I think it's supposed to be a pose from her famous Golden Phoenix act), and the base is rather scratched up, and I'm not sure why they decided to color the top of the costume blue when the one she wore in the actual show was red...but it's LAYLA FREAKIN' HAMILTON!



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I have a couple more things coming in soon, but I'll wait to gush about them when they get here!