My Otaku room evolution
I was browsing through old pictures (non-digital) and found 2 old pictures of my room. I thought it would be fun to compare it to my room today, to see how my otaku room evolved over the years ^^
I think it would be interesting to see how everyone's collection has evolved over time!
That was my plushies and figure collection in late 2000! hehe!! That was before I had a credit card and before paypal became popular with ebay, so everytime I bought something online I had to go to the post office to make a money order, or go to the bank to exchange some money in US dollars to send through mail. It was quite a pain haha...
Before that, I had been buying french translated manga from the local bookstores (started with Sailormoon ^^) for about 4 years. Manga was the only anime-related thing I could buy locally (besides Pokemon toys). There was few rare US import anime VHS tapes in very few stores (you really had to look hard for them), and they were super overpriced, about 40-50$ canadian for a 60 min video!!!!
I got a credit card sometime in 2001 and soon became an ebay and paypal addict! This is how the same shelve became about 9 years later. Mostly old figures and a lot of gashapon.
That was part of my room in 2005. My ufo catcher plushies was already pretty big at that time. This is also around the time when I started being very interested in volks 1/6 dollfies, ball jointed dolls and dollfie dream. I bought my first dollfie dream that year ^^
In 2009, same view of my room. My room is now filled to maximum capacity due to a dollfie dream invasionl! I need to move to a bigger space soon ^^
cool! crazy difference. i wish i had some pics of my old rooms too so i can see how much i've acquired and how my tastes have changed these past years.
btw, is that a Lafiel figure i see on one of your shelfs? awesome! where did you get that?
Yup it's a Lafiel figure, the only one made to my knowledge! It's by Yujin made in 2002. I'm pretty sure I bought her from HLJ a few years ago. She's quite small but still very pretty, she's a tiny bit taller than figma Reika (which is my tallest figma). HLJ still has the page up even if she's sold out, you can see a better pic : http://www.hlj.com/product/YUJ92433
Thank you! I think it will probably be impossible for me to find her now but I will keep a look out. Definitely will add her to my want list. They should make for stuff for that series. Actually I think Lafiel would make a great dollfie ^^
I'm sure you could find this Lafiel on the second hand market, just might need to keep looking for a while. Yahoo jp auction maybe? ^^
Lafiel Dollfie! I would want that hehe.
SUGGOII!! seem's nothing happen to change your room but still same huh...i see some rared figures too..reserve it to became a rared or priceless...my childhood days loving sailormoon stuff until now..
Wow that is a big change throughout the years. I should do that too but I don't always stay in one place for long XD
Oh yes, I forgot I'm one of the rare person that never moved in my life haha.
Well, you could do an Otacool room relocation & evolution over the years? You could call it : Otacool room "relo-lution"!! XD
Wowzers, quite a difference over 9 yrs. Hope the evolution of my room will be that large too ^^
Good Lord >_< Sailor Moon Plushies all around
haha yes, there's much more but you can't see them in these pics, they are on the other walls... ^^"
That's a lot of development of your collection. You have a really nice collection of dollfies. Btw who's that dollfie sitting in the middle on the right cabinet (the one with brown hair). She looks adorable so I'm quite curious.
Thanks ^^. I'm not 100% sure who u r pointing to, here's a better pic of them : http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2639/4077587796_2220f3a912_b.jpg
Let me know which one u r curious about (u can describe what she's wearing) and I'll tell u who she is ^^
From the closer picture: She's the third doll from the bottom left side. The one with blue shirt and yellow ribbon. Now that I look at the closer picture she's even more adorable :).
That's a re-dressed MDD Mayu, a really sweet girl!
http://www.volks.co.jp/JP/event/dolpa17/mayu.html
I agree she's really sweet, thanks for the info :). I personally like your re-dressed version more than the original. She's just simply adorable (can't find any better word to describe her).
Wow, I remember getting that back in the day, I still have it. The Pikachu one too.
Mew 2! Forgot about him... haha. I think he's still somewhere in my room too ^^
I remember buying that and the blue one (Maril) at Wal-Mart, pokemon was pretty much the only anime stuff you could buy at local toy stores. I wasn't a big pokemon fan, but though these ones were cute... I had 2 mini pikachus 2! hehehe.
Certainly your room has suffered a huge revolution since 2000 but, knowing you, that's not a surprise at all but what I like more is the combination of your Sailor stuff and your dollfies (you're gonna need another room soon, you know?).
Lovely nostalgic pictures.
Oh!... and the dollfie laying on your bed looks exactly like you! ^^
Sailor goods & Dollfies combo! I guess this describe my room well. Hehe thank you ^^
I'm guessing you swapped their bodies and faces. I have mutsumi, Shinobu and Naru too..
Oh yes I swapped their faces, I noticed I could do that one day and thought it was cool! It's like I can re-dress them sort of. These figures are pretty well articulated and comes with such fun accessories hehe. You could swap Mutsumi and Naru for variety! ^^
i have this Skuld too. Definitely one of the best old generation figures.
Yurika~ <3
Sega real model 1998! These figures are soo old and sort of simple (they are hollow lol) but still very lovely imo. I got the Ruri one too, but she's kind of hidden in the 2009 pic cuz she's pretty short ^^".
All these Di Gi Charat trading figures = so much awesome. :P
I hunted all over ebay to find them! Completed the first series which was the best imo, never got around to completing the second series though I got my favorite ones. ^^
http://www.hlj.com/product/YUJ91773
https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10015002a/20/1
Inspired!
I love the progression, I particularly like your Miyu and Larva dolls. I wish there were figures of them.