Anime Figurines

[cesmith]

Not sure how many people collect Anime Figurines, but I'm curious who does, and what series they have.

I have Bleach (both Chibi ones and regular), Hikaru No Go (The cutest Sai one around), Scrapped Princess, Live Action Sailor Moon (just the Sailor Scouts, No Tuxedo Mask, though I do have a chibi one of him), Tsubasa Chronicles, Chobits, Cutie Honey, Rouroni Kenshin, Inu Yasha chibis and Full Metal Alchemist. My husband collects all the Final Fantasy figurines he can find.

So, does anyone else collect them too?

[narrizan]

I would like to collect them but the cost stops me. *sigh* I used to collect Star Wars ones, um A long time ago now, to coin a phrase! My pride and joy are the 12" Darth Vader and Boba Fett, when they were still made by Kenner.

I would not mind a Fai and Kurogane. Then both me and Shahrazad can enjoy them. I would not mind as well the whole set of Samurai 7. These are really awesome 'in action' ones. Very cool...but like I said they cost a lot!. So will have to wait when the children have flown the coop! ^_~ .

Hubby collects WarHammer pewter and he even has some really old ones which he keeps wrapped up because these were from a time when they were made of lead!

They are quite popular and the chibi ones too. The ones I always see in our shops here are Naruto, DragonballZ, bleach and the Gundam series are very popular

What is also popular here are, believe it or not, Anime Tarot cards and playing cards. In fact I have a deck with Saiyuki pics from the first two series. i thought it would be nice to have since they all love a good card game!

[cesmith]

I have Saiyuki playing cards too. My husband found them on line and bought them for me. The pictures are really quite nice but I don't use them, I'm too worried I will damage them.

I got my Fai and Kurogane statues from Kinokuniya. The only problem with getting things there is that the boxes are sealed and unmarked. So we bought two figuring the heaviest would be Kurogane, because of his sword, and the lightest would be Sakura, so we tried for the box that felt a little heavier. We must have looked so silly trying to weigh out the boxes in our hands but when I opened the boxes and saw that we had guessed correctly, I was so happy. The Bleach figurine collection we got from there are playing pieces to a game that we have no idea how to play since they are in Japanese. Normally they are in unmarked boxes too but since we wanted the whole set, they gave us the ones they had already assembled. The larger Ichigo figurine I have we bought at Otakon last year. Like everything else, it came in an unmarked box and I had to pay extra to take the already assembled figure. Most of our figurines are small, between 6 to 8 inches tall and really aren't too expensive, between 4 and 10 dollars each. The Scrapped Princess ones came with the series DVD boxes. Several of them are 12 inches.