Love Dolls in Japan

Just when you think 1:6 dolls are too much (financially and storage-wise), you have people collecting the 1:1 version. This is not news to me and I know their bust is squeezable but I’m just intrigued about their body articulation. Just how posable are they?

Asajj Ventress at the Career Fair

I was at the NUS Career Fair to score goodie bags and free gifts when I chanced upon this booth. Wah, Lucasfilm Animation Singapore. Banner shows Ahsoka Tano from the Clone Wars movie. Clone commander in the background banner.

They had those animated character badges in a bowl as gifts. I had no intention to join Lucasfilm Animation but proceeded to pick one. The thicker your skin, the better.

I already knew which one to pick. There was only one most desirable character.

Asajj Ventress.

Serving as Count Dooku's most-trusted assassin, Asajj Ventress was a lithe beauty possessing both serpentine grace and lethality.

Power-hungry and cunning, Ventress took great delight in toying with her victims before she killed them. Using her exotic allure, Ventress often distracted her opponent before dispatching him.

Asajj has perfected a lightsaber combat form that uses paired blades to strike and parry. She carried twin weapons given to her by Count Dooku, and each bears a similar archaic curved handle design favored by the former Jedi Master. Ventress' lightsaber handles are especially modified so that they can connect into a joined, S-shaped handle, becoming a double-bladed lightsaber.

I have a 1:6 Asajj Ventress from Sideshow. The serpentine grace and lethality ….

Blowing Her Hot - Uncasing My Triad Toys Otaku Body

I blogged about my purchase of Triad Toys’ Otaku Body. After lying in state for a week, I decided to release her from the plastic mausoleum.

Initial impression:

• Her body is one solid mass and she feels like a brick in your hand. My other doll bodies are never this heavy.
  


• The matt skin is fantastic. It does not have the plasticky feel typical of other sixth scale dolls. It feels good when caressed. It looks good when photographed.
  


• True to general consensus, the joints are legendary stiff. Mine especially at the shoulder.
  


• The hair is top quality – Japanese saran from product description.



• The bikini is tight. It is immovable. I own other stock bikini figures and they are never this tight. The string strap is the reason, other figures use stretchable material for the strap.

Following general advice, I blew her hot with the hairdryer. I’m not sure of the correct technique, so I aimed the nozzle and blasted her joints with hot air.

Her joints must be pretty stiff because there was no significant improvement after some time. Maybe she should get a hot water bath?



The first round of hair drying is over. Vincent’s advice was to blow her across three different days. Frankly she did not loosen up significantly on my first attempt. I had broken the elbow of my Pivotal™ body Barbie before and she was more expensive than the Otaku (close to a hundred dollars). Now I handle the Otaku with trepidation.

1:6 Scarlett Johansson as Silken Floss

Saw this on Shaun’s blog.

It began with a silhouette from Hot Toys’ January newsletter. Again, I got wind of it from Shaun’s entry (check out his sexy Scarlett photo).



Silken Floss is Scarlett’s character in The Spirit. The silhouette is that of Silken.



I’ve not watched the movie, but I’ve loved Scarlett and her boobs from The Island.





The silhouette’s finally revealed. Hot Toys is releasing her as a Movie Masterpiece Series, in Q2 2009.

Here is what she has to boast:

• 1/6 scale with over 30 points of articulation. (means she is very playable)


• Highly detailed implanted hair and head sculpt with authentic likeness of Scarlett Johansson. (authentic or not .. look at the next picture and the next few and tell me)


• Dressed in her movie-accurate costume of military suit, shirt, jodhpurs and boots. (doesn’t matter if you’re not a The Spirit fan)


• A removable hat, pair of glasses, belt, necklace, armband and syringe are some of the accessories included. (syringe .. poke who?)

I thought the head sculpt is outstanding. The rest, so so. I’m not into female Nazi uniform (SS?) and neither are her gears attractive.

Below are photos of Scarlett Johansson. Ooooooh..



Second image is a wallpaper from The-TrukstoP.com

Triad Toys Otaku Pale Body

Went for the much-anticipated Otaku Body this morning. First heard Vincent’s gonna stock her when I bought my Triad sailor uniform from him. Been a long wait since then; according to Vincent shipping had been a pain and expensive.

On Triad Toys website, the Otaku bodies retail for $29.99. Bought the pale version from Vincent at SGD50. Wonder how much I would be paying if order from Triad direct.





Mine is Otaku 1.0 Pale Body version, featuring:

• 25+ points of articulation


• 1 female anime head (yeah, her eyes are big) with Japanese saran hair.


• 1 pair of pistol grip hands


• 1 pair of fist hands


• 1 pair of relaxed hands


• 1 bikini top and bottom

Otaku bodies may have broken the record for the most expensive fragile body by a 1/6 manufacturer. From what I’ve read, the joints are rather brittle and she has broken the hearts of many who tried posing her or change her clothes. In fact, Vincent advised (cautioned) me to blow her three times over a few days to play safe. Let’s see how, I’m rather impatient when posing my sixth scale.



So this is Otaku Pale Body from Triad Toys. For official pictures, check out the product page.