Thursday, October 18, 2012

Fairyland...



Oh Fairyland, Fairyland Fairyland... Or should that be oh CP?

The darlings have once again released another event for their 10th Anniversary... and this time its F60 bodies...

I immediately thought that it solved my problem about bodies for my two Nanuri As - I can buy them both F60 bodies now and be done with it!

But of course, being Fairyland/CP - that was not the end of the annoucement... they are also releasing a Feeple Juri head... Originally, because they phrased it as the most popular MNF Juri head, I expected it to be the MNF Juri 08, which is arguably the most popular of the MNF heads called "Juri"s.

But then I always forget that any limited head which is released by CP is either a Nanuri or a Juri, whichever sculpt it is.

And on twitter it has been revealed that it is a scarred head - which limits it to two releases: the Scarred Breakaway or the Scarred Shiwoo.

This leaves me in a pretty pickle. If it is a Breakaway, I must have it to complete my collection! If it's a Shiwoo, its not necessarily bad, as such, but its the chance, the possibility.

I have not been particularly amused by some conversations I'm participating in (and may have recently gotten a little short), but I think that people don't see the wider picture.

People have been saying that just because they don't think the Scar BA and Scar Shiwoo were popular, that the head is useless. What can they do with a scar head after all? It wasn't as popular as this head...

A couple of facts:

  1.  The Breakaway has been released the most times of any limited releases (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). He has been released:
    1. Three times as a Limited Delf, each time with 2-3 heads, most of the sleeping heads are vampires. 
    2. Once as a limited F70 - with two versions.
    3. Twice as a limited MNF - and was the only MNF head to be released as both an OE and a sleeping head.
    4. Once as a multihead - CL/LTF.
    5. That is a total of 8 times, in (technically) 4 sizes. He is available, if you can find him, in 60cm/70cm: OE, Sleeping Vampire, Sleeping and Dreaming - most 60cm heads are available in EITHER Sleeping or Dreaming, but not both; MNF - both OE and sleeping Scarred, and in LTF/CL.
  2. The Shiwoo has been released in the most sizes of any CP sculpt and is one of the original (and most popular) of all the CP sculpts released.
    1. He has been released as a limited in 4 sizes - 60cm, MNF, LTF and Multihead.
    2. He was available in 6 basic sizes before the sale of the Delfs stopped - 60cm OE, Dreaming and Dreaming Vampire; MNF; LTF and Pukifee.
    3. There are 8 limited releases of a Shiwoo: 60cm - Elf, Tanning, Cyber Bohemian (limited faceup); MNF - Scar, Elf and Elf Vampire; LTF Elf; Multihead Dreaming Elf Vampire
    4. There are also 3 Delf Art releases of the Shiwoo - the MNF Tanning (5); the Prince of Darkness (4) and the Delf Vampire Shiwoo.
    5. That means, if you can find them, there is a total of 14 different heads (2 of them with different resin) that you are able to get a Shiwoo in.
Obviously there is a reason these sculpts keep getting remade in different versions over and over again. Could it possibly be because they're popular?



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