Nendoroid; Toy or Bundle of Joy?

Hello everyone, this is Omni, this is episode 2 of the podcast Collecting Opinions.

I am joined today with the guests or what would they not guest because you might be

on other episodes.

Elio and Matcha.

You might recognize them from Twitch, twitch.tv slash starrybunnyboy for Elio and then twitch.tv

slash matchaartist for matcha.

Go ahead and feel free to introduce yourselves.

Alright, hi, my name is Elio Lepi, I am a bunny boy from outer space.

And I like playing horror games, horror and JRPGs.

Yeah, nice to meet you.

Call me Matcha, call me Matcha.

My name is Miami Matcha but you can just call me Matcha.

I am a green tea chinchilla orb and also I am a full time content creator on Twitch and

a full time artist.

I like to play a variety of games including but not limited to Genshin, Holocure, Tetris,

Pokemon and so much more and I just like to mostly vibe out and totally not be a gremlin

the whole time but hello.

Well thank you, thank you.

I hope everyone is excited.

Our second episode is Lenderoid, toy or bundle of joy.

Because I thought that was a fun title.

But we are, the second episode of collecting is talking about our collection of the good

smile, the wonderful good smile toy product that's been going on for 20 years, I think.

A little under 20, not 20 years I think, I think just under, I think, I know it's longer

than 10.

Because I've been, yeah, it's at least been like, I want to say at least 13.

Yeah because I know I collected in 2000, yeah I was going to say I collected in like 2008.

But we'll get into that portion, we'll get into that portion in just a sec.

Because for those that don't know what a Lenderoid is, we are going to do a little segment which

I probably shouldn't have done in the first episode but I am just learning how to do podcasts.

I have a baby when it comes to podcasts but not to Lenderoids.

For those that are watching on YouTube, the video podcast, these are just four that I

have and then I have those ones in the back that are Miku and then I have these two unopened

ones and then those things in the back are also cases of Lenderoids that I own.

Which is a lot.

So we're going to explain what exactly, oh you can also like see the ones that I like,

I shoved back there because I didn't want to put them away after I was taking photos.

That's the poor, that's the new Black Rock Shooter and that is Sayaka, Ev, and Anna.

They're just chilling in the back there, you know, they're sleeping, they're sleeping.

So a Lenderoid is a super deformed, whereas some folks would call the scale that they

are that Good Smile Company developed in 2006, I think that's what you said Elio, 2006, was

that the official?

Yeah.

2006, and they were first, first, so the first Lenderoid, I do know that fact, the first

Lenderoid actually was like a Melty Blood character, I forgot her name, it's-

Is it the cat one?

Yeah, it was-

Yeah, Nekowark.

Yeah, it was so ridiculous, that one didn't really have a lot to it because it was their

first one and they didn't know what they were doing exactly or what they wanted to do with

it, but it originally started out as little chibi figures to represent anime or games,

Japanese particularly, specifically like Japanese games and anime, and they did that for a few

of them and then they actually with Saber in 2009, 2009, they had poseable Lenderoids

which all the Marvel ones are, but the ones I have here are Captain America or Steve Rogers

and Bucky Barnes, they started making poseable ones for particular action characters like

Saber from Fate Stay Night and then eventually they got, they blew up somehow, I don't remember

what happened but it was like 2000, what, 2000, I would, I'm gonna say 2013 is when

it like got crazy.

Feel free to, feel free to disagree or whatever if you want to tell me that that's-

Yeah, no, I just like, most of what I noticed was like original Lenderoids is that a lot

of them have like at the very start like 2008, a lot of them had like not quite like the

same facial expressions, like I remember Light Yagami's Lenderoid looked very different

from like the Vocaloid Lenderoids and stuff like that.

Oh yeah, I feel like though the Vocaloid, I feel like that's unfair to say that because

the Vocaloid, Vocaloid Lenderoids always for whatever reason except for, except for, except

for, you know the one, you know the meme one, the one that's basically a Lenderoid

of the-

Mikudayo.

Mikudayo, yeah.

Yeah.

I feel like outside of that one, they always were like, they were like just ridiculously

way better than whatever was happening that year and I'm like what the hell.

So I feel like that is a little unfair to the Vocaloid, not unfair but that's unfair

to the other-

Just in general, I think like, and then I think like, I wanna say like when they started

doing like the Haruhi and Muffy Star ones, they kinda like got a bit more grounded in

how they wanted like the Lenderoids to look, I think.

That would have been what, 2010?

I think around 2010.

2009?

So yeah, okay, okay, a little bit earlier.

Yeah, around there, around there, it's a little earlier.

Yeah, I would definitely say then that would probably be, now that I think about it, that

was probably like the first big jump and it was with like animes and stuff and it got

more anime.

I would say though 2013 then in that case, in that timeline, 2013 is when they were broadening

scope of licenses such as Marvel and other things.

I think there's a Hamtaro one now.

Oh yeah.

But I will speed this along so we can get to the meat and potatoes of, or the accessories

of Lenderoid.

And then as they were exploding to about 2020, I don't own any of the other accoutrements

of the new version of the Lenderoid so I am going to defer this for after I say it because

I don't know.

But they then branched out and they made Lenderoids sitting, I don't know what they're called

but now it's literally just a head and a body that sits.

And then they have Lenderoid dolls, which I don't own any.

But that's how we're going to segue into the next segment of the episode.

But Macha, you have Lenderoid dolls.

I do actually and it's becoming one of the newest stuff that I've been collecting more

so because, don't get me wrong, I still collect all of the original Lenderoid stuff.

But yeah, I have like a stupid amount of Lenderoid dolls.

Okay, I guess, so what is your, and then so going on that, as I said, since we're in the

next segment, what is your experience outside of, so obviously Lenderoid dolls isn't how

you started because you have, as you were just saying, you have original stuff.

Yeah.

What is your experience with Lenderoids?

Yeah, so when I first originally heard about, technically more about Good Smile and about

Lenderoids was back in 2008, 2009 at Kauaikon in Hawaii.

I was volunteering and I was mostly a logistics officer to facilitate for a lot of the vendors

that are going in and out and I saw them on the table.

I think at the time, nobody really knew what they really were about and because Hawaii

gets everything super late, we're like, what is this?

This is so new and I, to be fair, I did not have a job at the time.

I didn't buy the thing.

So I was like, well, this is really interesting.

Probably it's like one of those new things.

I'm probably not going to think about it, but fast forward a few years later.

I enjoy it, by the way.

I enjoy your multiple, I enjoy your multiple, multiple disclaimers, by the way, on that

one.

Hold on.

It's like, well, to be fair, but also like, once I finally was able to like be able to

support myself, I ended up buying a Nendo and little did I realize on how explosive

it was because it was me, my artist friends and everybody that I knew were all obsessed

with Nendo's to the point that even while I was still studying in university, I will

find a way to save a paycheck to just buy at least a figure every time I followed up

on Twitter and stuff.

So now we have way too many and I need to go and get a new shelf in the next two months

because I have seven pre-orders coming in.

Seven?

How pre-orders?

Is that for the month?

Um, yeah.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah.

What?

What the fuck?

Oh, okay.

Sorry.

I am switching out my guman for Guru-Garu-Guru-Guru-Guru-Guru-Guru-Guru-Guru-Guru-Guru.

Yes!

The shark, the shark girl.

Goomba!

Goomba.

Oh, Goomba.

Goomba shit.

While I'm doing that though, seven, seven pre-orders, I remember when I used to do that.

Those were the days.

I now feel like I'm old.

It was sometimes that I would look at my Good Smile thing and I'm like, ah, man, I guess

I'm not eating this much.

It's okay, the ramen packets are worth it, honestly.

Well, okay, so I strategically planned, I'm like, all right, so I've got like seven of

them coming in this month and then I've got like four coming in next month.

So I do a grocery shopping in between then and there's a couple of other ways I also

kind of worked it out.

But yeah, it was it was bad.

On that note, Elio, what is your experience with with these beautiful, beautiful children,

Gremlin children?

They all look like Gremlin children now that I put Gara Gura there.

I think, jeez, anyway, sorry.

Anyway, I'm just like, great.

Just added to the, it just added to the to the photograph here.

But yeah, go ahead.

Yeah, so I had like this one friend that collected some Nendoroids.

Like, I remember she had like most of the Haruhi Suzumiya's that like came out around

2009 and like Death Note and stuff.

I always wanted to buy like Nendos, but like I only really bought like like one figment

because like a lot of my childhood and even adulthood, I've been very poor.

But I've always kept up with like what is that one like buy yearly or maybe it's not

even maybe it's oh, oh, you're talking.

Oh, my God.

For those that don't know, Elio was speaking of the Wonder Festival that does or as some

of us collectors like to call goodbye to the wallet.

Oh, yeah, the wallet.

Wallet takes a vacation.

So, yeah, I mostly I mostly like keep up with that.

But I also have like my own Benti Nendoroid that my boyfriend bought for me.

And I really want to get the Hibiki Kuze Nendoroid that came out a couple of years ago.

Like, well, not even just a couple of years ago, like I think like 2015.

Hey, there's nothing wrong with that.

I have I have I have I have I have purchased old Nendoroids at conventions.

So totally, totally not not not shameful at all.

So you both of you then would be experienced with the product, obviously much a little

bit more with the physical, actual physical of the of the two.

So and Elio just pointed out, they own one and and and watch it.

So to that one.

Yeah, you wouldn't mind telling the audience how many how many do you roughly so roughly?

So I will say I will say, though, if we're just speaking of the original Nendoroids,

27, if you're not counting the ones coming in soon.

But for a lot of the stuff, like all of the deviations, like the I know that Omni

mentioned, like the sitting figures, I believe that's the Swacho.

Yeah, the Swacho, I couldn't think of a freaking word.

Yeah, it's like it's like the Japanese portmanteau or it's just basically the Japanese

word for swatte or suwaru, which is to sit and cho, which is, you know, cho means it's

like little sitting. So it's just a little sitting figure.

And yeah, if you put that plus the Nendo dolls, plus I have I have started this weird

collection. I don't know why.

I just thought it would be nice to have in my house Nendo boxes, which I that's the

thing. Oh, do you mean?

OK, so hold on. Do you mean the containers?

Yeah, they came out with or do you mean like, yeah, OK, because I was going to be like

container boxes for a second there.

I was going to be like, you collect that's just now that's a whole nother level collecting

just the boxes. Oh, no, I am.

No, I have a grip on that one because it's like there are some people that I can fight

controversial opinions with.

But the other little container boxes where you put all the Nendo parts in, which is what

it's supposed to be.

But no, it's not for me.

I have about 30, 30 something.

Those boxes, to be fair, those boxes are super cute.

And they do add an ambiance.

I am. So I guess I guess I guess now it's my turn to embarrass, embarrass the heck out

of me. I don't remember the number I have, to be perfectly honest.

Let me look up. Let me look up.

Let me let me just do a quick thing.

I'm going to go.

No, my gosh, it's it's it's worse than that because I've been collecting, I've been

collecting, like I said, I've been collecting since at least two

two thousand two thousand ten.

Yeah, your video, your YouTube has a lot of like reviews on Nendo Royals, right?

It does. And those are just the ones that don't that I that didn't have my face.

I used to I used to be a face face cam reviewer.

And so, yeah, I was like, I don't want to do this anymore.

This is awkward. So they go back quite a while.

But let me see, let me see if I can, if I can.

I'm going to my figure collection.

For those that don't know, myfigurecollection.net is a not sponsored, not sponsored by them.

But there is a wonderful website that actually you can keep your keep track of your

collection. And oh, my God, I'm really, I'm really scared.

You know, thank you for reminding me, because I actually have yet to put in like

to actually like register because I forgot.

And I think I've been reminded like seven times already in just two years.

I'm like, oh, yeah, I'll make one.

All right. No worries. I've got.

OK, so let me do the math.

There is three ten rows there.

Three, six, nine, ninety, ninety.

I have 90 and that's the ones and I have and I have not kept up with my figure

collection for at least like three, three years.

So you win on that.

Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

So, you know, it's a thing I like to collect among other things.

I'm like Sothers.

So honestly, I feel you, Elio,

with with the money thing, because I really shouldn't have started the collection.

There were times that I was like

that there was times that I was like, am I am I am I seriously?

Am I like am I like going to forego on like several meals for?

Oh, look at the cute thing.

Look at the cute thing.

It's it. It it it gives me it gives me nourishment of the heart.

Mm hmm.

Oh, yeah, yeah, it was not.

It was definitely, definitely, definitely

is in a hard, hard set collecting.

But yeah, I know I don't mostly don't collect some of the side stuff.

And I also also forgot to mention the the tiny, tiny.

I was going to say elephant, but they're actually smaller than regular genderized.

The the babies in the room that are not the babies that are not in their room,

because they were not invited, apparently, because they don't know.

Yeah. Nendoroid Petits, Nendoroid Petits, which are like half sizes.

They're like this big.

I like the tiny. Yeah.

I have a couple of those, but I don't have a whole ton of those

mainly just because it's like usually like a collection of stuff.

So I'm only mainly mine.

My things are just just the standard.

I really would like to get an Android doll or two.

Sorry, just for just for better possibility for photography.

But I don't own any of the Android dolls.

I don't own the swatch go.

But I own. Yeah, I own so many of these little gremlins.

I love them, though. They're great.

Hmm. So my.

My my. So what is the one?

OK, so what is the Nendoroid?

That you that you that you covet the most.

Oh, man, you can't make me can't make me choose my out of all my children.

I can't I can't choose a favorite child.

I know, I'm like, yeah, there's quite a few.

And I will say it could be it could be owned or not owned, obviously.

OK, yeah, because it could be a it could be a grail Nendoroid, which I

wish I could say that I wish I could say I have one of those.

But as we as we talk, as we mentioned previously,

I have I have quite quite the collection.

Have a stack, that's for sure.

Oh, hmm.

Actually, I think the one that I do own,

which I personally really like, there is a Nendoroid of.

And this is where it's like this is a little bit weird for me,

because usually when I collect Nendoroids, it's usually for series

or characters that I really enjoy.

So usually I'm very selective.

However, there was a time I would believe that

I think it was during the it was during the pandemic that this happened.

OK, there was a festival called Good Smile Fest that happened in my area.

Oh, and where you go, you can you have the option to basically

like buy a couple of things, get, you know, event exclusive, blah, blah, blah.

Like it was kind of like a mini con in the sense of a one day con.

The thing is, is that when you're there,

they had a limited offer where you can for seventy dollars.

Wait, hold on. Yeah.

What's the name of it so I can pull it up?

Smile Fest?

No. Oh, no. I think I guess you didn't you didn't say the name.

No, I didn't mention it. Go ahead.

Yeah, it's OK. It's OK.

No, no. So basically for seventy dollars,

you can get a random mystery pull lot.

The lot had four Nendoroids,

a couple of event exclusive

like memorabilia and a couple of swatches for seventy dollars.

The value itself was at least one hundred and fifty at at least.

Well, I mean, then you've got to go for it, right?

Oh, yeah. And they were selling out fast.

So my partner went in line for me

because I was not able to go in person at the time because I was staying home

and grabbed it, brought the bag back home for me to open.

And in that box, my personal like,

I'm not going to let this Nendo go is a Nendo Jack Skellington.

Oh, hello. Hold on.

OK, I'm going to pull this up so everyone I don't own this

and I don't I will figure this out for future episodes,

but I don't know how to swap screens.

I can't remember what number or figure it was in their giant catalog.

All I know is that the particular Jack Skellington,

um, they were not reproducing anytime soon

at that time. And so it was.

All right. All right.

I'm going to I'm going to uncover this properly.

No, no, I guess not.

There we go. There we go.

There it is. So there it is.

So this is this is what is Nendoroid?

What number? Nendoroid 1011, 1011.

By the way, they're up to like 2000 right now, which is insane.

I was just looking at potato and I'm like, I know it's not it's

I know it's more than 1600.

But yeah, so this is the wonderful.

No, that's not it. You stupid thing.

These are just brief pictures.

This is the Jack Skellington Nendoroid.

It came with the it came with.

Oh, my God. It came with the fabric beard.

Yeah, that's so good. That's so good.

OK, so wow.

So that's that's a thing.

That's a really good end, right?

Actually, that's it.

That's that I would.

Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one.

Yeah, I was surprised.

I've had people ask me, like, hey, are you planning to sell your Jack

Skellington at some point?

And I said, sorry.

Not for sale.

Yeah, I could totally I could totally get that.

How about for you, Elio?

I like like the one I most want.

Yeah, most most.

This is the most coveted.

So I already mentioned Hibiki Kusei because like, I think like

the main reason for that is because the amount of Devil Survivor

two merch that I can count on my hand is less than one hand.

So the fact that he got a nendoroid in the first place was really surprising to me.

But other than him, probably either like

Pokemon's and that one's a good one.

That one, that one, that one.

He's my favorite Pokemon character.

So I would want his or

I'm a fan of the Atelier game series, and that's another case of like,

oh, I'm surprised they actually made nendoroids for them.

So I would want one of those.

OK, OK.

Now, you did point you did.

You brought up a good point about nendoroids.

I think one of my favorite things about nendoroids and some people could agree,

they make the most random like things you never thought would

would receive a product.

Yeah. Honestly, why?

Because I saw it.

Oh, no, no, no. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead.

OK. Well, like that just reminded me like

they announced like a Saint Tale nendoroid pretty recently.

I think it came out this year or maybe it's coming out soon.

And like Saint Tale is like like an 80s or 90s

like shojo anime manga series.

And like, I hardly ever hear anyone talk about it

unless they're talking about the shojo genre as a whole.

So like that was surprising for me

that they had a Saint Tale nendoroids in like 2023.

Saint Tale.

I think that's not good.

That's not a good that's not that's not what I wanted.

I think, honestly. Oh, my God.

Yeah. OK, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

Let me pull up the number 2060.

Oh, my God.

That's so ridiculous how high these numbers are.

One of these days, I'm going to get to 10,000 and be like,

I remember when there was there was there was only 10.

I think they got to like, what, one thousand or something like in 2020.

And now they're at 2000.

Maybe I'm wrong.

No, I think I'll I'll pull that up in in just a sec as I'm as I am.

I'm so this is the one you're talking about.

This is Saint Tale.

I will cry, cry, cry, so Saint Tale.

I don't even know where that's from now.

That's an old one.

I can tell. I can tell from the art, the art style.

But this is this is Saint Tale.

Dendroid number 2060.

Oh, it's super cute.

It's got a little a little buddy.

It's a baby. Yeah, buddy.

I really like the face paint she's got.

Oh, I'm I'm I'm I'm so shy.

That's that's.

It's like, oh no, it's on you.

OK, OK, so yeah, so that that that's a yeah, that's a really, really good one.

Back to back.

So that I did pull one.

I did pull up something else.

This is one I own.

Don't ask me why.

It came with the stamp and I was like, that's cool.

Um, but I'm just going to I'm going to.

I'm going to rotate the pictures and let you figure out where this might come from.

I don't know if you can see it.

Oh, you can't. Yeah, wait, this looks familiar.

I'm I'm trying to think of a name, though.

It's not the boat girl.

Is it the train?

Primarily, I was going to say, I want you to this might be the most important one.

This comes this trap.

It's got to be. Yes, I know.

Well, what's the name of it?

Because I don't remember the name.

I just know it was about train girls.

And like, that's the only novel one.

Yeah, Tetsudo Tetsudo Muzume.

It was basically it was basically like the other thing was these came.

I think this one came with like the train, like cardboard caught out.

But yeah, I own that.

And I don't know, even I don't think I've ever touched.

I don't think I've ever touched it.

Like not not not the not the Nendoroid.

So I should say not, but I don't think I've ever touched the series at all.

But I was like, that's cool.

I'm going to go back and watch it or something.

Haven't haven't haven't gone back and done that.

So that's the other cool thing about Nendoroids is that they they they have

they they'll they'll make a product of something

for a series that you don't think.

They would do, especially now that they've brought in to like

US and global licenses.

I'm actually looking.

Yeah, like now they're doing like English VTubers and stuff now, too.

Oh, my gosh. Yes. As as as.

As yeah, as this this this little gremlin.

I am actually actually

now that you bring that up, yeah, they've gone they've now gone as far as

Iron Maus has a has a has a Nendoroid.

Yeah, even like Indies like like Shoto.

Yeah, that was I was like, what?

I don't I don't I don't.

I'm not going to say bad things

because I don't have really bad things to say.

I will say I am I am surprised about how that happened.

Because that is there's a lot of there's a lot of

a lot of work

comes to like likenesses and especially.

I don't know how it works with with VTubers, I guess.

And actually, I think about it because it's not it's not

you're not a you're not like you're like like these are obviously characters.

Right. But clearly they are the visage of of I was going to say Steve Rogers.

Chris Evans and Sebastian Shaw.

Right. Like they're not they're they're licensed to the characters, not the person.

So I'm like, how does that

how does that work with VTubers?

Because the person is the character in a sense, I guess.

I guess like at least in the case of Hololive, it would be like

it belongs to Hololive.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Copyright from Hololive.

For sure, for sure.

And I know and I was going to I was going to say the Shoto one surprises me

because, as you mentioned, Shoto is completely independent.

I when I mentioned for those that don't know, we'll go over that

in another episode of collecting other collecting VTuber

member or something further down line.

Just so audience audience members listening, there might be a merchant

VTuber merch collecting episode.

Sorry, going back to what I was saying.

Iron Maus has Visojo.

So they actually do have a group and they have like a thing.

I believe that there's like management and stuff like that involved with that.

Shoto is just a person.

Now, I mean, not that they're good at what they do.

But from what I understand, from what is outwardly viewed,

they're just a guy.

Is that correct? I could be wrong.

I believe so.

Like, I think the only thing he's part of is that that one team

that a lot of even VTubers that are part of companies.

What was it called?

You're talking about Hanamori.

Not Hanamori.

It's like they do like merch for VTubers.

It includes like Shoto members and like Silver Veil and all of them.

Yeah. Mythic, mythic talent.

And I think he might be part of mythic talent.

But again, that's not like that's not like

he's not like that's right.

That'd be for different.

It's just for I believe in this case of Shoto, if he is part of mythic,

maybe mythic, like it's in charge of merch

for their talents that sign for them.

So maybe mythic had a hand in producing that.

That could be. That could be.

So, but yeah, Nendoroids are are so widespread now.

Hold on a second. I'm going to mute

for a second. You can you can you can talk amongst yourselves about Nendoroid.

I'll be back in just a moment.

I need to pick something up.

I need to pick up a Nendoroid to show to show something.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I will say, though, that

along the same lines of what we were talking about, mythic and about talent

and stuff, the funny thing that I learned while getting really super engrossed

into like Nendoroid and the culture around Nendoroid collecting

was that Good Smile itself actually started as a talent agency

way back before they started getting into the figurine

process of everything.

And that's also the reason why Max Factory even is like around

and like the umbrella of Good Smile to begin with, because Max Factory

was basically like born from a former talent

that was part of the agency, because I think I think Good Smile knew

from the get go that like, you know,

they're not they're not great with talent agencies and marketing as much.

So that's why they diverted to trying to like, you know, hand sculpt

basically like figures and then started to develop more of like that,

you know, that chibi deformed style, which is Nendoroids.

So I am back.

I did not actually I was listening, by the way, and I did not know

about the talent agency thing.

So that's a very interesting fact.

Yeah, honestly, I think they do racing as well.

Yeah, they do.

Oh, yeah. So the racing thing, though, got so they have a weird relationship

when it comes to when it comes to Vocaloid.

And this is why I was making a joke or this is why I was making a joke

when you were describing it, Elio, that like literally since the first Miku,

that's like they were like, you need to make sure that it's so high end.

Like, I know that 4K doesn't exist yet.

It needs to be 4K.

Because, um, um, where is that?

Oh, this one's like that.

Like the the the like that one right back there.

That's from the Moon Festival in like 2000.

Oh, my God.

Yeah, I've got. Yeah, I've got.

I've got I've got a lot.

And then and then my so I forgot to mention what my grail was.

But mine that I own,

um, that I love dearingly.

I've even kept the box because of how particular it is.

He is going to be this lovely lady.

This one. Oh, that one specifically.

This is the one that specifically so there's two of them, right?

There's two of them that existed. Right.

The first one was introduced because they kept making the people

making bootleg versions.

This was like this was originally a bootleg.

And we kept getting pissed because we're like, we don't make that.

That's not ours. That's a bootleg.

Oh, my God. Stop buying it.

It's not it is not helping us. It's not helping it.

No matter. I know it doesn't exist.

And I know you want it.

But you buying this doesn't help us, doesn't help us.

And so they made the first one and I don't have the first one, sadly.

But then the second one came around

and they they redid this one because it was to celebrate

it was to celebrate their

it was to celebrate their their first factory they made in Japan.

That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And it was it was bloomed in Japan.

There we go.

And it was like the boxes made of rice paper, like a rice paper material.

Really super cool.

And this is this is gorgeous.

And this but this one, I don't know how this one is.

It's obviously you can tell it's 500.

So we're on 2000.

But as as Elio did mention, it's a little bit sued

because it was like a million releases between like

like less than like five years.

So but still quite old, even the even though.

But cute, cute, cute, cute, cute, cute.

Um, um, um, I don't know where I was going with that.

Oh, yeah, no, no, sorry, I forgot.

I was talking about Dendroids, talking about the Focaloid Dendroids.

So the Focaloid Dendroids.

Even back then, for whatever reason, I don't know what it is.

They've had this partnership that they're like, all of them need to look good.

And then and then in in that in that vein, they went,

hey, what if we have a racing team?

Like, what if what if I know that's weird?

That doesn't make sense.

It's weird. What if we had a racing team?

And instead of giving like our sponsors, like

they did give out T-shirts eventually and there were other things,

but they're like, instead of like just giving them like a flag

or a little keychain of whatever the car or like whatever.

What if they gave them an enderoid?

And they're like, what?

You can't. I don't know.

I don't think you can do that.

That's there's no way anyone's going to sponsor that.

That's dumb. That's so stupid.

They're not going to sponsor a car.

They're not going to sponsor a car in a race just for an enderoid.

Whoever, whoever, whoever was in the

it was in the marketing team that started that.

I will have to say they're probably they're probably not obviously rich

because this stuff doesn't make you rich.

And I mean, merchandise doesn't really make you rich.

But like they must be like they must like be at a high position

because it worked.

And they've been producing a good smile racing

Hatsune Miku since like 2012.

Hold on. Hold on. Yeah.

Somewhere around then.

And I think they they also did the winter Miku

and then the year as well.

Oh, yeah, that. Oh, for sure.

Yeah, that was that's. Oh, my God. So ridiculous.

That is 2013.

2000. Oh, my God. How old?

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

I'm feeling I'm feeling like this is ridiculous.

We're aging so fast. I know.

It's like I feel like why I feel I can feel my I can feel my

my life, life flashing before my eyes.

And I'm going to get into why I'm talking about this in particular

as far as because Elio also brought up the racing thing.

But I'm also going to explain some other things.

2011, since 2011.

Here, I'm going to I'm going to pull up the picture in 2011.

And 2011, that's Dendroid,

the good smile that's in a Miku Nendoroid in 2011.

Oh, my goodness. Yeah.

So so so so crazy.

And they were they were private sponsors.

Like you had to do the sponsor thing to get the Nendoroid

for a number of years.

And it wasn't until until.

That's the new one.

Hold on. Hold on.

Hold on. Give me a second.

Oh, no. 2010. Oh, my God. I was wrong.

Correction to those that do not are not watching the video.

It was 2010, not 2011 that they started.

But it was it was I want to say.

Two thousand sixteen.

That they made it so you can purchase the Nendoroid itself.

So she so the fact that it even survived

through the the the sponsoring and stuff, I'm like, I'm like,

oh, my God, that's ridiculous.

That like that, like people

and like people collected, they were so enthralled

in one of the Nendoroids, so bad, so bad

that they were like, we'll sponsor a good smile racing.

To be fair, the race, the race car, their race car actually won a few races.

So it was so like, you know, something to be proud of.

But it's like it's like if it's like if it's like if a soccer team.

Oh, my God, I I am I kind I'm kind of scared

to to put this in the either because because this might happen.

Oh, no worries. No worries.

Um, you know what? I'm going to say it anyway.

I'm going to say it anyway.

It's like if the soccer team, if it like the team, Japan's soccer team

was like, sponsor us instead of getting a scarf,

you get a Nendoroid of our top player.

And like a bunch of Nendoroid collectors,

I don't even I don't even really know that much about the guy.

I don't really know much to the soccer team.

I'm just going to go, I'm going to go and I'm going to collect.

I'm going to collect a bunch of these or I'm a Nendoroid collector.

So I'm going to I'm going to sponsor the team.

That's that's what's so crazy.

That's that's like that's the crazy part, right?

That's what it that's that's why the racing thing is so crazy to me.

And like I'm like you.

You took a chance that they might not have wanted it,

wanted the rest of it, because it's like a pretty expensive sponsor package,

but it took a chance and it worked and they're still racing to this day, so.

So I brought out a couple of things to go to our next segment.

So there's a big comparison

between these little little gremlins and the other

little gremlins in the collecting world, which would be

and and and and please refrain from refrain from from your your your disgust

until I put it on frame.

These little gremlins

are as I knocked over Captain America just to make a point.

No, they just got just swished up.

Pop figures, which we will probably have an episode on pop figures

because we had a couple of pop figures and I'm curious more about that collecting.

But I'm not going to go into that right now.

But there is I'm going to go into the segment of comparing pop figures

with Nendoroid because when Nendoroid got big, of course,

it started permeating globally.

And people that were not with the anime crowd were very familiar

with pop figures.

I guess I'm going to start out by saying, do you think that's a fair comparison?

Like, do you think it was or like, I don't think it was.

I think I think it was literally people were like, small thing, small thing.

Small thing, small thing.

I guess like they're both like the biggest,

like small figure of like their origin, I guess, like Nendoroid for Japan

and then pop figures for like, was it America?

Yeah, yeah, it was the US.

Yeah. Fair enough.

I can I can definitely that that's definitely a very simplistic.

That's definitely the simplistic.

Definitely.

It's like it's because, you know, it's it's it's like when someone sees

a color, right, when they first see a color, they go,

oh, that's like that's like a shade of blue or a shade of whatever.

There's always a comparison, right?

So there's always that makes sense.

So it's like if no one knew they came in and they like said,

if they as you were pointing out and pop is as a US origin.

So a US collector was like, oh, these little Nendoroid things,

they're like like my pops, but different.

So I can see that I can see that.

So that's I'll I will I would say that that is fair point on that one.

Yeah, I don't I don't I I'm I think that I but I for me,

I think that's the only comparison.

Would you very different?

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Would with either do either of you have a.

Disagreement on that or or do you agree that that's

it was literally just this is an apple.

This is an apple from Japan.

They're both apples.

They're all part of the apple tree, just ones in a different country.

I feel like it's a general sentiment for the most part, because I think what

because you know how every collector has

pretty much like different definitions of how they want or how they would describe

collections for somebody that's new or outside looking, it's

you can't blame them for the most part, because when you see small things,

you think, oh, it's just the general arc of all the small things.

And so it's yeah.

It's kind of like if someone

were to look at like a Monster High doll and be like, oh, it's like Barbie.

Oh, yeah. OK, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Which which which

I want to have a ball jointed doll episode.

For those listening,

I don't know when that will be episode episodically,

but we will have one in the future.

So just keep that in mind.

Anyway, that makes a lot of sense when you point it that way,

because I've seen that a lot.

And like like parents do it, too, like mostly do that when it comes to those

kind of definitely when it comes to those things, they're like, it's a Barbie.

It's a Monster High doll. It's adult.

They're both all dolls.

And you're like, no, these are like you can clearly see the

very different articulation and stuff.

Yeah. And I'm like, and I'm like, the head is like completely way,

way different than the head on a Barbie.

This is like not even the same.

What's wrong with you?

So that now makes sense.

That makes sense to the to the untrained eye.

It's just easy.

This is this. Yeah, yeah, no, I can I can see it.

That reminds me, though,

while I bring up the one to one, there are and I don't know if you've

if either of you have seen it because you're in the you're in the community,

right, or the fandom, the videos, the incessant videos

that like as soon as like pop collectors learn that Nendoroids exist,

that are like, why would you spend ten dollars on this

when you can spend 50 bucks on this?

It's so much better quality.

You just use the money.

Oh, yeah.

See, in my opinion, I prefer Nendoroid

over pop just because I like how like they come with different face

plates and like different hands and stuff.

And I do generally like like the anime style more than the pop.

Like, there are some pops one that I really like.

Like, I really like divas one and stuff.

But I've got I've got those of those.

I got super obsessed with all the overwatch ones.

So, yeah, OK.

OK, fair enough, fair enough, fair enough.

What is much any any any?

I think it's a little it's a little odd because I do prefer

than those personally.

But at the same time, it's like I won't knock on pops

because I know that it's like it's its own particular thing.

And like my own my own particular preference

doesn't inhibit myself to say, oh, I'm only going to get Nendoroids

because I'm very peculiar about stuff as a collector.

So like if it's a peculiar thing that basically like scratches that itch,

if you know what I mean, then I'm definitely going to buy it

regardless of what type or make or even material it is.

As long as it's that particular thing that I enjoy,

then I'm going to spend money on it.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure.

And I'm going to I'm going to

enable I was bringing that up definitely because I think pop

and I've I've talked with some people that have designed it and stuff like that.

I think pop I think and they make reason of also why it's like

way cheaper than Nendoroid outside of not just outside of the

because obviously pop is literally just this.

This is just the pop.

But with Bucky Barnes here, I'm not going to pull out the accessories,

but he comes with a rocket raccoon.

He comes with guns.

He comes with other arms.

He comes with a this is the most and this is my favorite thing

about some of the Avengers.

Spoiler alert for those who have not watched Infinity War,

which came out like five years ago.

The Infinity War ones are a little messed up

because, like, for instance, Bucky's arm, they gave him an accessory

to where, like, you can reenact the scene where he looks at his arm

and he starts getting dusted.

I'm like, that's OK.

And that wasn't it.

That was that was an important scene.

And like, I can see why people want to take a photo of that.

But that is so messed up.

Like, like, yeah.

But there's those accessories that he comes with,

whereas the pop comes with literally nothing.

It's just a pop thing.

But they don't have different stuff like so.

So Nendoroid and the reason why I pulled out this one

and is, for instance, potato here.

It's completely not anything like the ones that I have over here at all.

Like, these are people, right?

These are like people.

And we have a like,

but you can tell between the Disney ones and Gargura,

they're a little bit different.

But like even even like they even have Nendoroids.

And I'm going to bring in a Kirby just for a second.

But that's the next thing that we're going to do.

And please do not do not do not do not shame me.

Just because we'll get into that in the next thing.

But they even have they even have Kirby.

So there's a Kirby.

There's a Kirby one

that's completely also a different style.

So I think I think I think for me, the comparison after,

especially after you both were like explaining that kind of comparison,

I can understand the comparison.

That's really fine.

I think I think I draw the line when it comes to those folks that are like,

Pop sucks.

I don't know why he was collecting pop in every Nendoroid all the way.

Get this trash out of here.

Because I don't.

Yeah, I don't I don't think that I don't think I don't think either.

I don't think I can safely say that.

I don't think all any of us agree with that, that that very hard, hard

pop in the trash.

I mean, at the end of the day, it's all like personal preference.

Yeah. And at the end of the day, it's your money.

So, I mean, if it's the thing that makes you happy,

I mean, you might as well buy it.

But if anyone else tells you like, oh, this is trash.

I'm like, who are you to ask?

Yeah, all right.

So so for the next segment is for people that want to get into Nendoroid,

which, as you can clearly tell from this episode, maybe might not be the greatest idea.

Where do you so where do you

and you being royal, you

decide that you either you can answer it in a in a in a in a to the question

or both of you will be answering to the question.

You have no choice.

Where do you get your Nendoroid?

Huh? I have a gun next to me.

Where do you get? Yeah.

So where do you get your Nendoroid?

And then we'll we'll have a couple of questions on

on like carrying and collecting and stuff like that.

So where do you get your Nendoroid?

So for for my singular one,

I guess it's a bit

of a strange situation for me because it was through Throne,

but also through Amazon.

Like I searched up like a Venti Nendoroid

on Amazon and I put it on my throne

and then my boyfriend got it for me for my birthday.

OK, OK, I I I have seen them on Amazon.

I just know I do not purchase them on Amazon,

but I probably should.

That might be that might be safe and cheaper.

Amazon is a definite like it's more of the secure way

to like basically or basically to like check to see what is

like pretty much like a authentic versus a bootleg sort of thing.

But I think like if you really want to like go get your your Nendoroids,

but you don't know if I have like because I will be honest with you,

there are bootlegs galore.

So that's with like anything you buy.

So be careful about bootlegs.

But what I bought in the beginning of when I bought it was always at cons,

which is not it's like a 50 50 at best.

What I what I do these days now is to try to preorder

if possible, like Ami Ami, Ami Ami.

That's the other one.

I don't know. I love Ami Ami a lot.

There's a couple that I do.

I used to do. I go directly from Good Smile.

That's my answer is I go directly to Good Smile.

But there are a couple that I trusted beforehand before.

I was like, I know that I could be saving a lot of money,

but I feel like this is the best way of doing it.

Ami Ami, Hobby Search, Hobby Link and Hobby Link Japan and Tokyo.

Tokyo, Tokyo. Yeah, I know that for the Good Smile.

So there's differences.

So for those who are actually going to get into figures for like

Mendo's or Figmas or whatever the case know that if you are in North America,

the Good Smile US store is very good

because because when they start to ship out your stuff,

they are going to be right directly in port.

So it's usually where they're either within Washington, California,

Florida or New York or in some cases, Montreal, Canada.

Yeah, that was always a weird one.

But that's the weird one.

But they all come to there and they all handle their own shipping procedures.

So US is nicer in the sense because you don't have the additional fees.

If you order through Japan,

yes, you'll be able to get that in like pretty much at the same time as the US.

But there are hidden.

There are basically overseas shipping fees that accrue on top of that.

So before when US was like still kind of getting their stuff together,

the Japan one, I had to pay so many fees, so many fees for it to get shipped over.

It's not at least for the Good Smile directly because they do most of.

Yeah, there were so you bring up a good point,

which I will also go into

and other episodes that involve overseas shipping.

So for those that that miss this one or they don't understand

what we're talking about, it will still be talked about and other in other

other things and other episodes.

But yeah, so those hidden fees,

what March is pointing out is that a lot of the times

you can get it cheaper.

Oh, that's what like what it looks like.

That it's like, oh, it's it's like it's like ten dollars

in comparison to like the 50 bucks that I pay.

But then there's

originally before as much as I do, because there's there

there's there's now and then there's like way back when it was like really bad.

There is conversion fee, not conversion directly, like you won't see that.

But there is going to be a conversion.

And then you'll notice that weirdly, if you look up the conversion

originally, if you if you looked up the conversion between yen and dollars,

it's like not a one to one because the fees are built in,

depending on who you're using.

I was using PayPal at the time.

There's fees built in.

There is a a shipping

freight fee if you're using depending on which method you're using.

And then there is there's more guaranteed shipping ones.

But then those end up being like expensive

because it goes directly from Japan to like a boat to you.

And it's like you're paying for all of that direct service

versus you could pay for one that comes in two months because then they go,

OK, from Japan or rather

China, because there's a lot of lot more.

There's a lot more factories in China, so it makes more sense.

When when when explaining this,

but basically it comes from the the factories in China

and then that gets shipped put on a shipping yard on a shipping boat

in the shipping yard in the port of China.

And then and then they ship it out once the entire boat is filled,

which could take a few months if you're if you're

if you're not not that fortunate for a product.

And then it then it gets to you.

And then and then so you're only paying for the the travel time

for the the the boat to get to the US.

So so there's there's that.

And then there's a couple of other other different things.

So, yes. So so in conclusion on that one in in in and

Elio and Macha had great, great.

That's actually like great two completely different experiences

because I also I also did get from from from conventions.

So I will say and then and then

I'm just going to I'm going to I'm going to do pros and cons for a second

and then and then have you guys have you guys like

pile on on top of it.

So there's cons, which then, you know,

you can definitely get some stuff, but it is 50 50.

And what that means is that you could be it could be not legit,

but it could be cheap and you don't have to pay for shipping fees.

There is Amazon, which is like pretty legit.

I've never used it.

So I'm going to let Elio talk about that in just a sec.

As soon as I describe the last method, which is going or the two last methods,

which is ship ordering from a website like Hobby Link

or Hobby Search or Amami or Tokyo Takamu that will ship it from Japan to you.

But they are actually a third.

They're a third party seller.

So there's a couple of other hidden fees or directly from Good Smile, which

there are it's a little bit more expensive because

they're shipping it out of port

from the US, but and there's other other things.

So the personal experience is how was it?

I guess we'll start with Elio, with Amazon and Throne and all that jazz.

How was that process?

So it's hard to really explain.

But like, I just went on the Amazon page

and copied it into Throne.

And then I believe it also calculates

like shipping fees as well for whoever buys it

and calculates like sending it to like my address.

And I want to say it was pretty fast because he got it for me

on my birthday in January.

And if I can, I can probably pull up the email saying when it arrived.

Let me see.

For all you builders out there, no, we're not going to show the email.

Yeah, no, it's a joke.

Anyway, sorry to add that disclaimer.

Yeah, let's see.

OK, so I think it took.

See, your gift has been delivered.

That was on January 8th.

And then. OK,

so it did take a little under a month to get

because I guess he he ordered it.

I guess it was more like a Christmas present than my birthday.

I got it January 8th, which was very close to my birthday, which was the 6th.

But it was ordered December 18th.

OK, so it's not it's not terrible.

That makes a lot of sense.

Also, for those that didn't just for those that may have missed it,

Elio's birthday is on the 6th, give him gifts on the 6th.

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense then, because like Amazon, right, it's not

it's not it's it's because they're probably

because they're still having to get it from from overseas.

Yeah, that's actually not too bad, though.

That's not too bad, because I'm going to go on the flip side of that.

I'm going to now now shoot gears to the other other methods

that Masha would be more familiar with.

Yeah, yeah.

Um, because Lord knows, I try to find ways to go and fund my addiction.

So for the most part.

When so for

for the convention stuff, oh, boy.

Um, it's always hard to tell.

And I remembered and I wish I could remember this

round of the spot, but I for the life of me, I do not remember.

I had a what I would like to say, an artist senpai

that was at the convention with me.

They taught me how to spot for certain discrepancies

of like packaging and also like specifically down

to like the small details of the figure to know,

is this bootleg, where is the sticker and all that stuff?

And how much are they actually charging it for?

I do not remember

what were the steps because it's been, oh, Lord, 17 years.

So I do not remember.

But, um, for the most part,

I would say if you are willing to risk to find these things,

the best thing that you can do when trying to look for

specifically Nendo's now would be to always look for.

Basically, there is a not a sticker,

but there is a small print on the newer boxes

where it has just a giant Good Smile Company logo.

Try to always find that if the box does not have that at any capacity

or if it's trying to use the older,

um, the older Good Smile Company logo, which is now obsolete.

That one right there. Yeah.

Yeah. Look for that one.

And then I think I think it's on like every single side of the box.

Basically, Bucky Barnes has also fallen down.

Oh, not too bad. He's sleeping. He's sleeping.

Where is the other? There's also

well, so there's all the other guy.

Yeah. So there is also

this one on the back.

Yeah. Always look for those Good Smile Company logos.

It's pretty much on every single part of the box.

If there's a logo missing, chances are that's a bootleg.

That is definitely a bootleg.

What? Crazy, I know.

But I would say that, you know, like when if you don't want to risk

for conventions for like buying figures, I totally understand that.

It is an investment.

Stuff happens at con.

Not probably the safest way to carry like very expensive products

in your hand in a sea of crowded people.

Probably not. How was so so so so that was.

So the audience has it hasn't was not following along.

Matcha recommends that you definitely look for certain things.

If you are, if you do want to do convention shopping

and if you can find someone

that is also potentially a little bit more skilled

than you are in bootlegs so that they can help you.

So what is your website?

What is your what is your Japan site experiences?

Since you talked about beautiful hidden.

Yeah. Yeah.

So I used to I used to buy it on GoodSmile.info, which I mean,

to be fair, it is a nice site, but oh, good Lord.

Good Smile likes to go and hide all those views,

because that's where I bought.

Yeah, that's actually where I bought the good like one of the good

and Nando's, because that was fun.

That was a fun trip to deal with.

OK, so I'm going to interject just for two things.

First off, for those that don't know, GoodSmile.info is the Japanese version

is the is the direct like Japanese website.

And I think that much was going to bring it up.

So I won't talk about the US website for a second.

I'll let you continue with that.

But the Gura thing, I wanted to interject because the Gura thing.

I have a VTuber case study on my YouTube.

You can watch it.

But Gura is a pretty big, pretty big thing with VTubers.

And Gura sold out within like two hours.

Of it being of her being in existence.

And they were like, oh, oh, shoot.

Oh, oh, we, oh, oh, God.

Let's oh, my gosh.

Let's do a re a second printing.

They don't normally do a lot of second printing.

I'm going off tangent here, but they don't go second printing.

They usually will do a rerelease

some point in the future.

But this is this was legit like a second printing.

It was like they haven't even they hadn't even printed.

They haven't even they didn't even manufacture it and printed the the

the mass figures.

And they went, oh, my God, we're going to make more.

We are going to don't worry, folks.

It'll be a second printing.

We already had enough allocated for the first printing.

So now we're making a second.

That's that's the whole Gura.

That's the Gura. That's the Gura.

That's the that's the Gura controversy.

So the funny thing about that is because it was only on two places.

They usually for a lot of the stuff that's on Japanese websites,

because they also buy from AmiAmi.

I buy it from, of course, GoodSmile.info, which is which is a direct site.

And usually Good Smile US,

because at the time that Gura was released was during the pandemic.

Of course, still is the pandemic at that point.

But the thing is, is that when it was announced, everybody was waiting.

And but I mean, everyone, I mean, every single person

and probably their mother was waiting for it, because within two minutes

of the of the release, it was the first time in record history

that GoodSmile.info, the main web page broke.

And by broke, I mean, you could not get past the error

500 part of the errors for 10 minutes.

It was so chaotic that people were end up getting double charged.

I somehow looked out and got Gura

through GoodSmile.info before it said sold out.

GoodSmile.info sold out of the first wave of Gura print.

In 20 minutes.

OK, I wow. Yeah, I was like, OK.

So I said, I said, like, OK, I was I was I was grossly I was grossly underestimating.

Oh, no, no, no, that's totally fine.

Because because the Good Smile US one was totally disconnected,

didn't show back up until 30 minutes after GoodSmile.info was down.

It was simultaneously getting crashed because of too much traffic.

So and that so at that point, here's here's the funny thing.

When you preorder something through the Japanese websites,

you automatically get the confirmation of your pay of your preorder payment,

which, by the way, as a heads up, if you do buy through Japan

and and before you hit those fees, you automatically get that preorder

to confirm your payment.

Once you confirm your preorder payment, you cannot back out.

If you decide to back out saying, oh, I can't afford the preorder anymore.

There is a likelihood that your account on GoodSmile will go goodbye

and will prevent you from buying stuff anymore.

So I will also do that.

I also interject to be more specific

with those because this is the portion that people that want to get into the hobby

or want to know more things of this nature that are just starting.

What macho means in regards to the preorder.

So it's it's your depending on how you get charged.

You will get you'll get a hold.

You'll get a hold for a few few days to a few weeks that will

quietly disappear.

That will just like kind of not not not be on your thing.

So you will be like, OK, I'm like, I have enough on my credit card

to do all these other things.

Then the preorder will come in.

You cannot back out, as Macho was saying, otherwise they will either

you will need to give them like the biggest sob story ever.

Like it better be Oscar Oscar award winning

because they will lock you.

Yeah, they will lock your account out and you'll never be able to order them again.

But the thing is, is that they will they will literally go yoink

taking your money because you made a promissory note

months in advance and you cannot you cannot back out of that.

And and there is only two things that will there only

there was only two things that will stop that one.

If you royally messed up

and your card information doesn't match at all

or to your credit card company really messed up and they went,

this is an international transaction.

I don't believe it's real.

So we didn't we didn't approve it the second time for whatever reason.

So so so yeah, I wanted to I wanted to add add that part.

Well, the funny thing about that is, is that they've actually have

been have becoming more relaxed on those because, you know,

like inflation and pandemic was happening.

So they were more relaxed.

They were more willing to give you a 30 day gap period.

If you do have like your card payment information is messed up.

What happens, though, and this has happened frequently and surprising to say

it's still happening is that people will preorder that preorder will be on hold,

but not even before they get charged.

They decide to pull the preorder out of their card

or at the least take it off their account.

If you do that as a heads up,

your account will be deleted on the Good Smile Info website.

You will not be able to preorder anymore.

And they're becoming stricter with that because people because again,

when you're on preorder, they have to account for how much they have to produce.

If you somehow pull out that messes up their back end,

that messes up their production line effectively in an indirect way.

You are contributing to basically holding up production.

So if you do that, if you really want

to preorder an Android that you really want, go with the intention for full committing.

So that way, it doesn't mess up their production.

And you don't have to be barred from buying Nendoroids from their website.

All right. So, yeah, so there are there are multiple ways to get Nendoroids.

There are, you know, obviously pros and cons and everything.

So it's not the you know, it's not the easiest.

It's not it's it is in some ways, it is easy to get into the hobby

in some ways, as we've discussed, it is it is a little harder.

So it's getting to that time, getting to the towards the time of episode

length that we want to get at, because we don't want to be sitting here

and talking about Nendoroids for like five hours, because that could totally happen.

I can totally talk to you until you wait.

Why are we here?

I'm going to I'm going to make I feel like I'm going to make that little sound

bit like a like a trailer talking about collecting things.

Not for five hours. We don't.

Tune in. Let's see how long the episode is.

Next time on Dragon Ball Z. Right.

But the but the yeah.

But the big thing is, is that is that if is that if you

truly do want to get into the hobby, do a little bit of research,

just slight research, because you can.

It can. There are things that that that that can really

stain the hobby for you if you don't.

And in in in no in no fault of of the good smile

or the websites or anything in.

And I am I am not saying that, you know, some of you would be.

I'm not saying that any of you are stupid or dumb or anything like that.

It's just that these are very common errors, errors

that that that that you can fall into that can that can definitely, you know,

like I said, ordering from the wrong place, ordering bootlegs,

preordering and then going, oh, my God, I don't actually have the money for that.

And then never being able to preorder again.

You know, so there are these things that you just make sure that you are

you are you are catching early on,

because it's very hard to to come back from those things.

But next segment, I wanted to go into and the reason why I was saying,

do not comment on this Kirby at this current time,

because we're going into the segment of care.

Amanda writes, which, as we can see from this Kirby,

this poor, poor boy, it's not it's not the best kid.

I will disclaim this with I have had to do a lot of whirlwind moves

because I do not live in a I live in a rather expensive area of the US.

And moving with a bunch of collections and stuff, it's not always the easiest.

But this this this poor boy, you can see, has a little bit of

weird white spots.

Do any of you know what those are, by the way?

Elio, Macha, you know, is it like

is it like the plastic, like degrading or something?

Yes, yes, it's there is.

It's something called the plasticine that they put on nendoroids.

And I don't I have a couple of other Kirby's that are perfectly fine,

but I don't know where they are right now.

But in most of there's a so most of most of the nendoroids will have that for

during shipping.

Do you know, do either of you, maybe Macha, do you know why they do that?

Why they put that plasticine like layer?

For the most part, it's to.

I remember specifically, like

the reason why they had a lot of the like covering on

on the Nendoroids itself is to protect from like

mostly scratch resistance.

It's mostly the scratch resistance, but it also is to protect in like

most of the coating for a lot of the paint job,

because a lot of the a lot of the Nendoroids models

generally have like they paint on the like PVC for the most part.

And in some cases for like how they make the faces,

they do basically printing or print screening

and you need to have something to protect it.

And otherwise, it just goes straight, straight.

And you're left with basically the under shell of the Nendoroids.

Right, right. And then and then you get and then you get nightmare fuel.

Pretty much.

Oh, I think Elio was talking about the the blink face.

It might have been might have been a pre pre recording.

We were talking about it.

But there are Blink Nendoroids faces that you can get

and and and those by themselves.

Like they're for people to custom stuff.

But those I always look at those and go, that is I don't. So.

But Nendoroids plates without faces, it's very jarring.

But yeah, so it's to protect the paint and stuff like that.

So the plasticine is there for good reason.

However, however, there are some such as Kirby

that also has an extra coating of it a little bit to give it another

another type of texture.

Like a matte finish?

Yeah, yeah, because the Kirby's in particular have a lot of it.

And it's it's because they're like, I don't know.

It feels right

that they have that extra layer, but I'm not 100% sure

what they were where they're going, what they were going for.

But they have like an extra layer of it and it feels softer,

almost almost want to say.

Close to being flocked,

for those that don't know what flocked is, we'll also go over that

in case that ever happens and it ever comes up in future episodes.

But flocked is basically when it feels like velvety

or feels like feels like fur on plastic.

Yeah, it's it's it's the Kirby's especially have that extra layer.

But unfortunately,

and I'm going to throw it to one of you to see if you know,

because I know audience might not know, but I know.

And I want to see if either one of you know.

Why does the plasticine do this?

Do this to our poor boy?

With the the white spots and stuff, do either of you know?

I don't remember.

I want to guess either like.

Like aging or being left in light, like like sunlight or something, maybe.

So some sort of that is one way of that.

That is one way of it to do that for that to happen.

But those that also don't know about collecting,

collecting anything that you'll put in the sun.

The sun destroys stuff.

It does it.

It's not a friendly person when it comes to when it comes to preserving things.

So the sun damage does a lot of damage to paint and other things.

But yes, it can be if you leave it out,

it will melt some of that plasticine and it will get all goopy and weird.

But this is why I need to probably open these soon.

It's not too bad for me because I'm not in a crazy,

humid or hot or overly, overly

crazy temperature, like extremes.

But if you leave and this is why I this is one of the reasons

why I'm a proponent of open your boxes.

And I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to

throw that question to you, to to to to both of you in just a sec.

But open your boxes

after after a set amount of time, because what can happen

is that plasticine actually gets starts, starts eroding

because it's just sitting in one spot and it's like not moving

and things and it's just like that that fraction thing

happens where it's it's just it's there's ever so slightly being rubbed

in the box, like when you're when you're moving it and stuff and when it moves

and in extreme temperatures and changes and things like that,

that plasticine reacts weird.

And if you ever pull up, pull out the nendoroid out of the box,

if it feels sticky and goopy, that's just the plasticine.

There's a couple of ways you can do it.

You can that you can remove that.

You can you can use just basic soap and water.

And then there's other other ways.

Or you could also just make sure that you're, you know,

you're you're what's the word, rotating out your nendoroids

if you're actually collecting them and not not collecting them yourself,

but just actually collecting them because you like to collect nendoroids.

All right. With that, there's also always the very real danger

of potentially getting like yellow.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. As a result as well.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Make sure

and you that's the that's the leaving it in the sun, right?

That's what you're talking about.

What were you talking about?

Yeah, that's one of the ways.

And a lot of it is from staying in the box.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

OK, OK, yeah, yeah.

If anyone does get like yellow face, I think a way you can fix it is,

I think with acne cream can help.

I do, but don't quote me on that.

OK, actually, I could see that.

I could definitely see that because I know that sometimes

and chime in any time.

But I think sometimes you can also use

nail polish remover carefully.

Yes, yes, you can.

Yeah, a lot of people use nail polish remover for like

like cleaning, like if they want to repaint their dolls,

they'll use that to get rid of like the face paint if they want to like

do it themselves.

OK, OK.

So, yeah, so there's there's a couple of things you can do

to make sure that you're caring for them.

And again, these are these are these are products that these are toys

or models or figures or whatever you want to call them

that you do want to kind of air out and make sure that they're not

they're not in the sun.

They're not they don't they don't want to get a tan.

They don't they're not that's not the thing.

So but I will I've got a couple of questions.

I've got a couple of final questions that are not really related to any segments.

Um, um, the first one being, of course.

So what is your take on those that are like,

keep them in the box, keep the nendoroids in the box,

keep them, keep them in the box because you can preserve it.

And then they're not they won't lose their value.

And all that other stupid stuff that people say about it.

What is your what is your take on that?

Are you are you meant to inbox, as they would say, or are you not inbox?

Uh, I personally, uh, take mine out of the box because I like I like posing them.

And just like with anything in general, I tend to take it out of the box.

Unless like unless you go by like the rule of threes,

like the when to display, when to play.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

Don't say, yeah, I thought that was I wasn't going.

I was, I, oh, I'm glad that you brought it up, Elio.

But I was hoping that that wouldn't be brought up because if you if there is,

I have three, so the Overwatch ones, right?

In particular, because they were some of the possible ones.

I have like three of them for like for like a couple.

Yeah. So so so yes, I understand the rule of three.

But anyway, back to what you're back to, you're back to you

responding to that question.

So you you do take them out of the box.

Yeah, I do hold on to the box like I still have my venti box,

but my venti is out and the only thing I have in the box

currently is like the extra face plates and arms and like

like his weapon was one of the items.

And I keep those in the box, but I have him out

and I'll like switch out the face plates and the arms and like different

the different things that came with him on occasion

and then like kind of switch in and out of the box.

OK, but I try to avoid putting it anywhere that is in the sun,

especially because I am a Californian.

Oh, that sun is not friendly to you then at all.

Oh, it's not. It's very much not.

But another thing that should be kept in mind also, like if you

I know some people will put like dolls in like

like bags, which is not a good idea, like

I've seen some people like put them in totes

and like separate them into bags and then put them in totes.

And there there's the very real reality of like molding happening.

I've also done that.

Not the molding part, but the other things. Yeah.

A lot of people think that that is safe, but I've seen a lot of people

like take out stuff that they thought was very

well packaged with the bag separation and then they get mold.

OK, so I guess we're so much.

Are you are you mint in box or are you not in box?

Unless it's like the ones that I know that like

I want to keep mostly intact and it's most and it's very rare.

It's just very rare.

There's only maybe a couple that I have that I keep in box,

but the plastic is off for the most part.

So I will get the box.

So it breaks the rule of basically keeping it mint in box,

because let's be honest with ourselves.

No, I don't want the things to be ruined at all.

But I move a lot.

So what I end up doing is taking the main plastic away from the Nendos,

but putting it back in the plastic holding that way,

unless I can't get to my storage.

Everything has to be together, because reminder, these things are very small.

You're going to lose stuff.

You need to keep track of the things.

But those that don't know what much is talking about.

So I think you can see it if I zoom in.

Yeah, you zoom in.

But like there is a film, like you can see it on potato.

I think you can see it much better on Jowl.

But there's a film that also kind of protects it for scratches

of all during travel, during shipment.

But as much as much, don't leave those on there.

Yeah, don't tend to leave them on there if you can.

But then afterwards, like I basically keep it where it is

in the main, like, you know, holding plastic and just put it back in the box.

But those boxes, they they they stay in the closet.

They don't they don't think they can't go.

They can't see the sunlight at all.

But the Nendoroid Dungeon, so to speak, they're in the dungeon.

They're in prison for their crimes.

But the ones I do keep out, I keep out like consistently.

And they're on my own shelf.

So, OK, fair, fair, fair.

I am definitely as I was as I as I as I was saying,

I am definitely a not in box person.

Actually, funny story about that is that I had a friend that was like

the next former friend.

And they were like, they said something stupid.

We were doing a video on something.

And then they were like, oh, you took it out of the box.

It's not worth anything now.

Those lost all value.

And I literally turned and I was like.

Do you think that's why I buy these?

I. It's coming out of the box.

Yeah, that's one of the things that I

don't like from the collector scene is like labeling things as things as rare.

OK, OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, like things will be rare and then people will like

run to purchase them because they're rare.

And it like it's like a lot of people will buy things

because they're rare and not because they personally want them to.

Like, it's not something that means something to them.

They're just buying it because of the perceived value of it.

But that also ruins it for the people that are getting it

because they care about it, like I know, and like

like the Barbie scene and stuff or like like Bratz dolls and stuff.

Like a lot of like African-American Barbie dolls are considered rare.

And you'll see a bunch of people that like want African-American

dolls that are set because like people buy them in bulk because they're rare.

And then they do nothing with them.

And then the people that want them can't have them.

And they'll only hold on to it to like sell it or whatever.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I just I like hate that scene of like collecting, like you should collect

what it means to you and not like the perceived like monetary value of it.

Like you should collect what you want, not just because, oh,

if I hold on to this, I'll make like a grant or whatever.

I think we can all I think we I think we can all agree on that.

Yeah, yeah. Like there's that weird fine line between collecting

and then like becoming as the kind term.

We're going to not use the dirty S word, but the kind term,

the fine line teen collecting and investing.

Because we all know what the dirty S word is, so I don't need to say it.

I don't need to bring that.

But, you know, because I know because, yeah, I definitely have seen that before.

Like what you're describing where they're like, like, oh, like, for instance,

like I think there was a there was a way that they stopped the girl from doing that.

I believe it was because normally Good Smile has a household

limit set because of that kind of kind of garbage.

So I believe that that's somewhat stopped it.

But before before, not necessarily with like

with like the racing one or like the like one that was like an Android

that was celebrating that was made for a celebration or something.

But like normal ones say like.

Anna, which, by the way, Anna, Anna does not.

I just want to point this out.

This is another thing that we're getting.

Oh, I'll touch upon in a second.

But but Anna doesn't this is not Anna's outfit.

This is not this is different.

But as an example, Anna is from Disney,

though, or Rapunzel, for instance, from Disney.

So a lot of people have ordered like a bunch of them.

And then they're like, oh, my God, they're out.

And then suddenly there's a weird rush of them.

And then and then, yeah, people want to buy it.

Right. Because they were like, OK, I missed it.

I missed I missed it.

And oh, my gosh, why is it now like three times as much

because of people that were like they bought a bunch of them for investments.

So, yes, you also have to be careful of that.

When you're when you're looking at when you're looking at

going back to what we were talking about before that with the with with buying them.

You have to be careful because sometimes sometimes there are people that are investors.

And the nice way of saying it.

And they wait until like everything all the other all the normal outlets

no longer selling them.

So yeah, the best thing to do in that case is honestly just wait like.

For the most part, I feel like things stabilize after a while with with most stuff.

I mean, obviously, there's going to be like really rare ones.

But I hate saying the word rare because that makes people act unwise.

But like the anniversary ones or whatever, like

it makes sense why those would cost a lot.

But like for the most part, if there's like something you're collecting

that you really want, like just check in on it occasionally.

And I feel like for the most part, it stabilizes in price.

As long as you wait, you know, for sure, for sure.

Oh, my God. Well, I lost my train of thought.

I was going to I was going to say.

Um. Um.

Shit. Uh, uh, moving, moving on.

I guess I guess I'll just I'll I'll I'll move on to the next thing, which

this was reminding me.

What is one of your favorite

weird things about nendoroids that you can do with them?

That is like like something that you're like, oh, I

I really love nendoroids because of this thing.

I'll start to make it to make it a little make a make.

So that way, it'll it'll make that way.

You can formulate what I what I'm what I'm actually asking.

My favorite thing is that with nendoroids randomly is that

if you have a lot of them,

which you already established, I have I have too many.

You can you can swap a lot of the parts.

A lot of the parts are very, very compatible with each other.

So this is actually this is actually Mami's

Mami Tomoe from Madoka Magica's body.

But I thought it looked really cute with with Anna just sitting with tea.

And it works like like, unless you know the parts,

you would not know the difference that like this is not her outfit.

She didn't come with like some alternate outfit.

That's just me being like silly.

So, yeah, that's one of my favorite things. So.

Yeah, I like the whole like swapping

like the face plates, especially like it's like the same color of eyes,

but like they have like a different expression for one nendoroid

and you can use it with the other and like

unless the person really knew like the nendoroid,

they could be under the impression that like

that is part of the nendoroid or like using different

arms from other nendoroids if you wanted to use it for like a scene

with your nendoroid.

Cool, cool.

Now, that's that the swap ability is really, really fun.

I'm actually doing that now.

On the topic of swap ability,

there is also a fun thing that at least from what I've learned

from a few of my art senpais, there is a whole lot of it,

like even beyond like customizing that you can do,

because, you know, those those blank faceplates,

some people are some people are making their own custom nendoroid,

their own one of a kind thing.

And oh, boy, that's that's a whole lot of the garage kits, right?

Yeah, like, yeah, like with the garage kits and

and in some cases,

take because there is a wholesale.

I'm not going to I'm not outing.

I'm not I'm not outing this company by any means,

but you can buy parts by itself, if you so wish.

And make your own custom nendoroids from there if you would like to.

Granted, shipping is varied, but you can buy parts.

I want to know anything about that at all.

And when you say parts, and when you say parts,

can you give a can you give a a snippet or a or a oh, yeah.

What do you mean by parts?

It could be anything from hands,

from hands to faceplates, to even different parts of the hair.

You could also buy different legs.

You could also buy different legs and body pieces.

Oh, yeah, there there's a lot.

All right. So I just want that.

Wow, that makes that makes that makes girl look like she just

had something horrible.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. It's funny.

This is actually funny. This is actually funny.

So I saw Rapunzel and Guru's face.

This is so funny.

This looks like so this scene looks like looks

like looks like it was like, hey, Rapunzel, so I'm tangled.

Do you want to cosplay as me?

And they just and Rapunzel's like, do I?

And Rapunzel's like, oh, my God, I, I, I think I made a big mistake.

And Gura's just like, oh, you know, I'm a pretty princess.

No, don't worry. I think this was intentional.

I think it was intentional.

That's so cute. That's actually funny.

Yeah, I love the swap ability of that because you can definitely also,

you know, make scenes, for instance, like they've never met.

I mean, granted, Gura is an actual, actual

idol performer, but like a real person, Rapunzel is a fictional character.

But you can set up things like this

because the way that they're

they're built and everything and and and and stuff like that,

that like you can make these ridiculous scenes like

like like and they work sometimes and more better than you'd think.

So I think, yeah, I think that is definitely I think that's one of the

one of the really cool things about Nendoroids that I would say

everyone should collect them just, you know, in your own way.

Of course, we don't want you.

We are not promoting.

We are not promoting

forgoing, forgoing basic needs like food and water

and shelter.

Just as a heads up, we are definitely not supporting that.

We are making we've made jokes that we have done that in the past

that are semi jokes in some cases.

But no, we're not promoting to do the things that we've done.

So, yeah, I think I think

I think that's that's I think that was a good

explanation of why why you all love the hobby or love

the love Nendoroid and why you collect them

and what makes them so fun to collect.

All right. So as we're finishing out, I will ask,

is there anything you would like to plug?

This is the shameless plug section, I guess.

I'm just going to do anything you want to plug.

Oh, gosh.

This is really anything.

Actually, so I haven't gotten

the images for it, like the art for it done yet.

I am planning to do it

with my next paycheck.

But you hear that, everyone?

This is this is a this is a this is a collecting opinions exclusive.

Yeah, I think I heard you earlier mentioning like VTuber merch.

And get out of here.

Oh, yeah. OK, sorry. Keep going.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah, I've been I've been wanting to do

when I reach one K followers on on Twitch.

I wanted to make my own merch.

And I am like 46 followers away from it.

So I have plans to make standees

and open preorders for it.

It's going to be like a it's only going to be like a preorder thing.

Like, I only am going to produce the amount that gets preordered

since this will be my first time making my own merch.

But I am planning to make standees.

Insert obnoxious hype noise.

Elio, Elio, standees, yo, yo, yo, yo.

Yeah, no, that's super cool.

I and for those that are wondering as well,

we will include those links as soon as we get those links.

If you're watching the YouTube, I don't know how to do it on

the podcast stuff yet, but definitely on the YouTube

side of things when when you're watching this and you're like,

I want to be updated.

It will be updated in the description when you have that information.

So keep watching the episodes multiple times.

OK, cool, cool, cool. That's actually really, really cool.

Well, congratulations almost to a thousand.

And I think I think that'd be really awesome.

I think definitely we will definitely try to.

We'll see what the timing is.

And we might even include that much on the VTuber

merchandise collecting episode, because there's definitely

I definitely have a bunch of I have too many.

I have like too much random

YouTuber pins and docky docky markers and stand and shit.

I've got a lot.

So there will be an episode about that.

And yeah, maybe if with the timing works,

we might have an Elio stand on a little thing.

But yeah, OK, cool, cool, cool.

Was there anything anything else you wanted to share?

Oh, like when's the next time you stream?

Oh, tomorrow.

Oh, yeah, I stream pretty much every day.

And I I'm actually like, it feels bad to say this,

but I am I'm about to like have no food in my house.

So I'm going to be doing like a subathon starting like Wednesday night.

Well, like this, it won't.

No worries.

Unfortunately, this probably won't be up before then if it's Wednesday

because this is need to be edited and stuff.

But hopefully that hopefully if you hear this

and you were like, oh, I missed the subathon.

Remember, you can still sub.

You can still sub even though they are not live in nature.

And and you can still feel like you are kind of part of the subathon.

You just relate.

Me, I like every little bit always matters.

But Wednesday, Wednesday subathon, I'll do I'll do it.

I'll have to stop by.

I'm sure you should be fun.

All right. Any any any other little fun things?

You can promote whatever you want at this point, but

anything else you want to promote?

I think that's it for me.

OK, much, much, much.

So so I'm technically on the hiatus right now.

But but I do try to be online as much as I can.

There are projects in the works that, unfortunately, due to non-disclosure

reasons, I cannot I cannot say at all.

So in the meantime, what I can promote to to be part of the topic is that

before whenever this episode is out.

July 29th, 2023 or I need to.

I mean, yeah, that means I've got a debt.

I've got a countdown.

You have a countdown.

It's either July 29th, 2023 in

in the Western Hemisphere.

But in the Eastern Hemisphere, that's July 30th, 2023.

One fest is happy.

One hobby fest is happening.

And you know what it means?

Goodbye, wallet.

So if you're going to follow me on Twitter, you're going to see a lot of very,

very obnoxious posts of me screaming into the void

about how much I desperately want to preorder.

So I really wanted to not make this episode.

But now you brought up a thing that I want to talk about.

So so strap in audience.

It's a bit longer than normally these episodes are geared to be two hours.

But that sometimes doesn't work out that way, because that's how podcasts work.

But since you OK, so but I'll let you continue.

There's anything else you can put about something stupid.

I don't really care.

But is there anything else you'd like to jovially promote anything?

Um, you can also find me.

You can also find me on the Ko-fi, if you would like to.

I'm planning to basically promote more of my art

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There is a lot.

There will be a lot of things.

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So both of you are so mischievous.

I will have another.

There will be another there.

There is expected to be other Nendoroid episodes.

So we'll probably go into this little thing that I wanted to go into

for a short, brief, brief, brief segment.

We'll go into a little more detail on those secondary episodes.

Along with all the stuff that we did not did not

go over in this episode, because obviously, as I said,

we don't want to make it like five hours.

But Masha brought up a good point

and we've talked about it in the past.

But coming up is going to be

one hobby fest,

which is a big festival for Good Smile

and their affiliates where you where they reveal a new stuff.

And that is from unpainted things that literally

you never thought was happening.

Like, I remember when the Undertale ones were teased

and everyone lost their models

to ones that you knew were up were coming

because there were art pieces that they released,

but now are fully painted and you can see the prototype.

That is what one fest is.

It is also we mentioned before is is the is the Walnut

going on vacation or while it goes by by times.

So the thing I wanted to leave off on in discussing this was

what is your experiences, both of you, with

with the one like what was your first one?

What is what was one of the one things that they released

that was like memorable, they were like

they were like, there goes all of my money.

And what was the most weirdest announcement on that

that that you that you encountered?

Not any you don't have to answer it in any particular order.

But yeah, I would like to hear your

your experiences.

Gosh, I don't remember the first wonder fest

that I was around to see.

It's always just been like, I'll be looking on Twitter

and then see people talking about it.

I guess the one that surprised me, I think they announced

like a life sized soapy

when you were like a statue.

And it was like a thousand or so dollars.

And like they were only like

between like three to twenty five of them made.

And like they they were going to hold like an auction and stuff.

And I was like, damn, that's crazy.

Yeah, I think that was the most surprising one for me

that stuck out and like a part of me was like, dang, I really want that.

But obviously, you can't afford that.

Well, you mean you mean you don't want to pay.

You mean you are, you know, you mean you can't tell your landlord.

You're not going to pay you.

You can't tell your every, every one of your bill obligations

that you're just not going to pay them for this.

And just hold up.

I need to get that life sized soapy.

Fair enough, fair enough.

What's the what was the that does that?

So then is that like the same?

Is that technically this also your most like excited announcement?

Huh? I'm not sure.

There are like a bunch of ones that like I I saw that I was like,

oh, I really want that.

But like at the top of my head,

I can't like remember, like,

especially the specific ones other than the life size one.

Mm hmm.

I think that's not even available through like Good Smile.

I think it's just through like Kowei Tecmo or something.

Probably what we are looking at right now is the one fast.

That was not that was just a normal website.

I was I goofed up there.

But this is the the the web page for it for this year.

I don't know if there are pictures of.

They've made it a little bit different over the years,

so it's very, very confusing.

I'm trying to figure out I'm trying to figure out how.

Oh, there we go.

There's well, look at these exclusive things.

Oh, I don't know what this is.

I don't know them either.

I don't know.

Oh, there's and of course, of course, Haikyuu.

Haikyuu has got like, I don't know what it is with Haikyuu,

but Good Smile has a has a has a fondness for them.

And it looks like we're going to get an exclusive for that.

And then these two boys in the nendoroid side of things.

We actually got Haikyuu, more Haikyuu.

I don't understand.

I don't I don't know much about that anime either, though, to be fair.

So. All right.

So that's Elliot's experiences.

Macha, you you how was.

Go ahead, tell your tale.

I don't I also don't remember when was the first time

I've experienced one, although I did hear about it through Twitter.

And that was back in like 2019.

That would be like the first.

I think it's like the spring time of one fest.

That's when it was happening, like around March or so.

So that's when I first heard about it.

And I actually do have a couple of connections that do go to these

like shows, like in person for mostly the cataloging of what they have

for displays before their big announcement stuff happens.

So they usually keep me up to date as well.

But I think the one the one Nendo,

I would say that more or less shocked me in a good way was that

the moment that I believe it was

Iron Maus was being announced at the same time frame.

I think it's during the summer one.

That's what I knew.

It was like it was a cool thing to see.

But also that just set the precedent that we're going to be getting more

VTuber Nendo's, and that's going to be a thing now.

And I was like, oh, boy, this is great.

Because number one, I would like an Iron Maus Nendo.

But number two, it's oh, no, this is going to be the start of

a whole bunch of stuff for the foreseeable future.

Yeah, that's the one thing.

I think that's one of the things that as collectors,

would we that's one of the things we dread when we watch a one fest.

We're like, oh, it's because sometimes sometimes you'll get lucky

and they're like a one off, right?

They're like a one off character for a series.

You're like, OK, whatever. It's fine.

I'll just get like the one sometimes.

Oh, is is is the Yu Yu Hakusho ones on?

Can I pull those up? No, those are not the ones.

Hold on. Give me a second.

Oh, yeah. But basically, basically,

what will happen is that they'll be like, oh, there's one.

And then you're like, oh, cool.

That's that's so cool.

Don't release more, please.

Do not do that. That's the thing you should do.

And then they're like, well,

we're going to ignore that fact.

And give me one second.

Let me actually ten Saber figures.

Oh, don't even go.

Don't get me started on that.

That's just that's just a whole other.

That's a whole nother.

They stay fans have a whole horrible like they

they they they have to have like 15 mortgages.

Oh, I swear they have to have some kind of

some kind of black market like funding.

There's too many of those.

Um, where is the one I wanted to bring up, though?

That was like that was like, oh, oh, oh, for instance.

Oh, for instance, he'll take us.

I mean, like, oh, cool.

OK, so he'll take a Nendoroid that

a a a hell take a hey, yeah, a hell take a look at the related.

Now there's more.

Look at the related products.

There's like five.

OK, this is this is a pop of three.

So technically four.

But there's four Nendoroids.

Yeah. Hell take it.

Now you had to collect the four.

So sometimes sometimes I like how they did that with Cerberus.

Oh, is it?

I haven't actually seen the Cerberus one.

You got to look at the singular, the tripler.

Oh, my God. That's hilarious.

That's actually so I'm at your rule of three.

I also think it's really I also.

So I also really think what's super cool about this that I because I didn't know

about this, but sometimes in back in the olden days of Nendoroid,

they would if it was like a character with multiple things,

the other character would get like not as much attention

because they're like, well, it's not really I don't want to make a whole Nendoroid for it.

As an example, I'm going to pull up, I'm going to pull up

and if it'll let me do it, let me do it.

Winter Soldier.

Because I mentioned this when we're talking about stuff

that there's a rocket raccoon, but if there's a there's a anyway.

Sorry, I got distracted because I didn't know this.

I forgot that this one was the thing.

There we go.

But this is rocket raccoon, and they don't mention like they don't they don't

have like that, like like just like it's not even literally.

That's all the pose that rocket raccoon has like you can.

Recreate that scene and recreate.

That's it.

Like, you can't pose the the rocket.

You can't pose rocket at all, really.

And his head moves, I think, and his tail.

But like the body's in the thing, but like not like its own thing.

So it's really nice to see that they're like the character

of Cerberus's three characters, technically.

So you can either get one or a set of three.

And we treat them as like different like

entities, as different figure sets.

But not, yeah, they used to not do that.

They used to be like, oh,

that's not the one they used to.

I think for like, for instance, for like Detective Conan.

I think I think that they had like the criminal,

but the criminal was just like a stand.

It's like it was like it was like like an acrylic stand that you'd be like,

oh, it's a criminal.

So that's really cool that they started to do that.

Um, but my first, I think I'm just I'm just

the same as same as same as both of you.

I don't actually remember my first Wonder Wonderfest a while ago.

Many, many, many moons ago.

But the one thing for me that was

that was like the weird thing for me was was was when they started announcing

when they started showing like

artwork for like Marvel stuff,

I was like, huh?

That's not that's not an enemy.

That's not really, you know,

there's a video game based on a property, but the initial property is not a video game.

What?

And that was that was my that was my like confused that surprise thing.

I think my my my my my favorite announcement, though,

that I saw was was Undertale.

I also which is funny because I don't own them of my large collection.

I don't own Undertale things.

But

but

that was really cool because I was like, OK, because like Undertale is like an indie game.

Right. So

yeah. When you say that, like obviously the one I mentioned,

I can't presumably in the future own it.

But I guess the other one would kind of be similar to Undertale is the Amorey

the Amorey figures. Oh, oh, OK.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I definitely want the the sunny or Amorey or the basil ones, definitely.

OK, yeah, like it's like it's just so cool that they've gotten to like that.

They've gone that they've gotten to like that scale that they can do,

that they'll they'll like go, what's cool and stuff.

And it's it's it doesn't matter if it's if it's

property, really no one that's like that's like super duper indie

because they have such like it's not it's not like they're giving back, right?

They're giving back to the to the community that built them in a way

because for those that don't know, this is one of the Amorey Nendoroids.

It's actually oh, is this a spoiler?

Is this one a spoiler? Yes.

Yes, that one is a spoiler.

I don't know anything about this, but they look very pretty.

I don't know anything about Amorey.

I think it comes with I think it comes with the

the camera and I think maybe a flower pot, if I remember correctly.

OK, camera.

Yes, flower pot. Yes.

And then I think the next the next picture.

Yeah, don't don't scroll down.

Don't scroll down and won't mess that up.

But yeah, like that's they did really well, actually, too.

I'm surprised they didn't try to make it sketchy, though.

Yeah. Yeah.

I would imagine maybe I think I think they announced Amorey,

but I don't know if I've seen any pictures of the figure,

but Amorey is like just like black and white.

It's not it's not Amorey. What is this?

That's all that's my favorite.

That's Sodaru. Sodaru is a popular utaite singer and producer.

And this one's one of my favorite.

Yeah, with After the Rain.

I know too much about that, too.

So it's already on this page.

What was the other one you said you really liked that you were really wanting to get?

Eliel. What was that?

Sophie Noonmuller.

I can never spell her last name, but like Atelier Sophie, I guess.

Oh, this one.

Well, that's yeah, there's that the Nendoroid.

I would really like that Nendoroid. She's very cute.

Oh, that is a weird last name. Yeah.

And then, yeah, this last name.

You have this one.

Oh, this is also.

Is it like this one?

This one's like this is expensive.

This is expensive. Yeah.

OK. OK, this is expensive.

This is in the range of getting expensive.

They almost. Yeah, no, that's expensive.

But neat. Oh, I didn't even go.

We'll go over the as I said, we're going to be there's going to be

other episodes, another episode on Android in the podcast.

But there's other stuff that he looks like.

And now I'm now I'm kind of seeing that we're missing.

But yeah, so that is Wonderfest that is happening on.

If you if this comes up, if this comes before them.

Happening on July 29th, 30th weekend.

And you can start getting in the hobby right away and say, start

start making your eulogy for your wallet, because it's definitely going to die.

Oh, yeah. But yeah.

All right. So we are going to what happened there.

We are going to wrap up the episode.

But everyone, thank you so much.

Again, if you want to get into the hobby,

just make sure that you are, you know, you're you're

if you don't listen to any of the tips that we do, that we've gone over

because it's stuff that you don't want to remember.

Just just, you know,

be careful out there and, you know, know that that that it is not a

that this that Nendoroid the Nendoroid collecting hobby

does have its dark side.

So, you know, the most important thing is really have fun.

Yes, that's the roundabout way.

Yes, have fun.

For sure, for sure.

I'm going to leave it off with the the closing.

And that is, of course, for those listening, you are loved.

You are you are worthy.

You belong and you can do wonderful things.

Keep your star shining

and we will always be looking for you in the night sky.

And together, we can make the sky shine bright.

Going off air.