Monday, July 28, 2014

Wonder Festival Summer 2014

Today was Wonder festival's summer edition. I went alone this time (last year I went with a friend who cosplayed)

I streamed the first 1h30 minutes,(until my phone battery died) and you can see it here:

I took a lot of pictures in the first part of the event, until my Camera broke.... I don't exactly know what's strong with it, the lense seems wobby now, and the focus seems to be stuck, I'll have to get it fixed before comiket....
You can see my full gallery here (Google+ version / Picasa version)

I'll go over my favourite figures from the show here, most of it from the artisan halls. One thing you should know is almost all of the figures you see at Wonder Festival are resin kits that you have to assemble and paint by yourself, so even if the figures look awesome, your end result might not be as good (the opposite it also true, sometimes the kit seems good, but the artist may not be a good painter so their result might be bad while yours could be better).
I've never painted one, but my previous tries with D&D characters were pretty bad... so I'm a little scared, so I didn't buy many kits, and I stayed away from any expensive ones.... I bought a couple cheap ones to try, so if I can do it fine, maybe I'll buy getter ones next time.

I'll start with the corporate booths, since I went over there quickly and there's really only two fig that really got my attention:
1- Misaka Mikoto, Maid Bikini 65cm version (that's huge)





This figure was made to celebrate ToAru Majutus no Index's 10th anniversary, Dengeki is releasing this 1/2.5 scale figure made by Griffon Enterprise and TEAM GENESIS. It goes for 400$ though, so even if I love it, I probably won't be getting her.

2 - Unicron Head


Nothing much to say about it, except that it look pretty nice, and bring back terrifying memories.This villain was pretty scary I mean.... if could eat your planet.... what the hell can you do against that? Unless you're lucky and he tries to scare you instead of eating your planet, and they revealing a bunch of weakness that wouldn't have happened if he just ate the damn planet....

Most notable Kits:
1- Neptune




This is the only kit that, even if it was expensive, I would probably have bough anyway.... if it wouldn't have been sold out. I'm not a big fan of Neptune, but this figure is so cute, and nice, and the pose looks so cool. I can't even explain what makes it look so great for me, but it was my top figure at this summer's Wonder Festival

2- Flandre



That twisted crazy look just looks so great.

3 - These 2 Miku (I think)





The colors look amazing, especially on the pink one. The background are also a really nice addition, The sakuras on the first one and the start on the second one make these 2 figures something I could just look at for hours.

4- Asuka with LED

This figure was spinning around on the display, and it looked really good. I took shots from other angles too, but due to the focus on my camera dieing, they are all out of focus.

5- Those cute witches



Of course you'd have to have seen the show to understand why these cute witches are so awesome. The bottom one represent the many ways to kill a witch, as displayed in Witch Craft Works's ending: http://youtu.be/j-3Fgrn7Rls
The top one I think was from an insert between 2 parts of an episode, I'm not sure, I don't remember, but it got pretty popular and a gif was made out of it


That's it for my top figures. I also went to the cosplay area, but since my camera broke, I don't really have any really awesome cosplay pictures, you call see all my cosplay pictures here: (Google+ / Picasa)

Even if I don't think I can build them well, I bought a kit that was cheap, nice and looked easy (looked...) to try, I hope it's gonna turn out well


And I got myself a super awesome umbrella!


That's all for my Wonder Festival post, hope you enjoyed it!

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