Unlike the last summer edition Wonder Festival I have attended which was held on the West wing, this year's WF was held on the Central exhibition halls and they are as big, if not bigger than those on the West. The entire festival took up 4 blocks (A-D) and A to C were joined side by side while one needed to arm himself with the ticket booklet if he was to transit between the 3 and D. D Block consist of exhibitions by Kaiyodo and other respectable companies which the bulk of photographs here were derived from.
It was simply disappointing from Kaiyodo this time round as basically they have no gashapon, shokugan or trading figurines set that interest me. The only new shokugan-based mini figurines previewed was "Hakusho Daimouou" under the K-T shokugan series and to date is one of Kagawa sensei's most appalling work. The other being "Resuce 119" Part 3 which I didn't even bothered to take picture of. You can see Kaiyodo's focus has diverted to more complete, pre-painted PVC figurines and action figures this time round.
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The mini Kaiyodo exhibition booth and gosh the guy in grey has a tummy that can rivaled mine! |
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Harry Potter's Lewis Chessman set (releasing in October) & Virtual Mummy Miniature set (Unscheduled), distributed by Organic |
Hakusho Daimouou, by K-T candy toys, releasing on 17th October 2005 |
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"Rescue 911" Part 2, released by Horico, coming in January 2006 |
Royal Science Museum Exhibition Hall 3, by D.C.T co., unscheduled |
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Alphonse Mucha Museum II, by D.C.T co., releasing on 28th August 2005, advance sale available in the exhibition itself |
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A series of superbly sculpted Devilman vignette statue by the masterful Kagawa Masahiko, releasing from mid September; really wished there would be a miniature PVC version of this set, but never say never |
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Inrtoduction of Yamaguchi's new "Revolver" joint to be used in his future creations but visitors got a preview with some of the characters he had so famously sculpted before, including Eva 01, Dante from "Devil May Cry" as well as Gunbuster. |
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New series of "Mon-sieur Bome Collection", starting from October 2005, covering characters from Magical Canan, Kiddy Grade & Kos-Mos |
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The "Eye-water" sculpting team which consist of such talents like Ooshima Yuuki & Naoki Tomohide will be coming out pre-painted complete figurine of 2 of their famous original resin kit creations, Win-chan & Hime Kuri Magical |
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Horico's booth which previewed only "Rescue 119" Part 2 & 3 (unscheduled) and selling display box for "Moonin's Lunch" Part 2, seriously lack the appeal evident by this photo |
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Never been interested with what Wonder Showcase has to offer, usually original resin kits. However this time round, managed to get an exclusive T-shirt , one each for me and my girlfriend. Vincent from La Tendo still sores over the fact that he could not get even 1 of the "Frog Flag" figurines, a onder Festival exclusive.
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The Wonder Show Case booth, take note of the red T-shirt which my girlfriend had purchased one |
Cammy from "Street Fighter Zero3", Authentic White Version |
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Vincent's desperately wanted item, the "Frog Flags" |
Not sure what is the name of this figure |
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Not sure the name of this either |
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© Copyright KK Heng 2005