Arrivals and wig dilemmas.

So if you're a follower of my Lished blog, you'd know about the arrival of Aveta, my Delf Art Dear My Lady Lishe. She is a simply stunning girl and I am not stressing at all about having a cabinet baby (as one in 5, she's earnt her right)... not hardly... she went back in her box at the end of her box opening, nicely encased in cushions and a face protector... (I'll be back over there adding photos like mad soon!)

She did raise a problem though - which lead me to heading onto Leekeworld's website. I was there not so long ago, looking for wigs for my two Nanuri As, Mor Mumain and Nic Naomhim... unfortunately Leeke being Leeke, the wigs still haven't shipped!

So Mor Mumain and Nic Naomhim headed off to AngelToast for their faceups, along with my Horrible Three - Hades, Poseidon and Zeus, with me still without a good idea what they are going to look like with these wigs...

However, Leeke has thrown me up a dilemma. (above and beyond the dilemma I have with Aveta). They, as usual, as in the process of having a limited wig event. I love limited Leeke wig events... a large proportion of my doll collection is or has worn Leeke wigs and a large number of those are limited colour or limited designs - for example: Pallus, Arawn, Magnus, Marcheline, Nemain, Bellona Lua (was), Hades, Poseidon, Zeus, Ianthe (used to)....

This is the wig I originally chose for Mor and Nic:

It's an Art wig, and it didn't give me the choice to pick the colours, so I'm not really sure what I'm getting! But I knew I was keeping Mor when I put her head on Morrigan's body and added Morrigan's short wig, so that was why I leant towards a short wig. Plus the chance of being able to see the girl's elf ears through their wigs is a cute proposition!

That was all going well, until I spotted this wig:

It's longer than the other wig, definitely not a bob, and I'd buy it exactly like the photo, in Natural Black and Red Wine which would put it roughly the same sort of colour as many of the darlings I have already (Hades' wig is classified as wine, as is Marcheline's.). The problem I have is as soon as I saw it (and it was plaited into two fat plats for the preview photo) I thought how fantastic the colour would look on my girls.

Darn it Leeke... so do I buy 2 of the new wig for the girls and just get rid of the other two when they arrive... or do I have the problem of buying 2 of this wig and still having the chance that the other wig will look better??

Argh. Any thoughts?

Event head Juri 2012 continued.

It could have been...

Received this response from the FL Twitter rep:
:'-( I'm so sorry. I didn't had time to speak to CP about the event head but I think he went ahead with the change anyway after reading some comments about the scar head. The original head they were sculpting was Scar Breakaway btw, but 'scar' items weren't so popular event gifts at the time when we were giving them out compared to non-scarred items also available at same time. Anyway, the new Juri should resemble the old Juri, but it isn't the same head, coz seems like they lost the original Juri05 master head, so they had to resculpt the whole head from scratch.

What does this tell me? *sighs* If people weren't so annoyed when they didn't get what they want, then CP wouldn't have changed his mind and I would happily be awaiting my brand new BA to help complete my BA collection...

Interestingly, I can't remember a scar event head, either BA or Shiwoo, being released with a non-scarred event head. So I'm not sure where that information came from. The Scar BA was released with... the Scar Shiwoo... and then as the only event head available... 

I'll correct myself. The Scar BA and Scar Shiwoo were released with the LTF Wink Ante... and the Puki Puki Pumpkin head. Then the Scar BA sleeping head was released with the LTF Fox, the PKF Seal and the Puki Bear... I'm sorry, other than perhaps a winking Ante, which wasn't uber popular, as wink heads never really have been, I can't see the argument.

I then got this from the Admin at the 1:1 site:
Thank you for your interest in our FairyLand dolls. The originally planned head was Scar Breakaway head but we cannot be certain about what will happen with it. We may hope to see it perhaps in possible future event but this cannot be guaranteed. Our apologies for the inconveniences. 

Kind Regards,FairyLand

So I might never see a Scar BA in F60. Like I thought, it might be completely canned, destroyed, etc. CP tends to do that I have a feeling - it was after all the fate of the MNF Tanning Shiwoo if they hadn't allowed Luts to sell them, they were going to destroy them.

What I did find interesting was the twitter rep's comment about the Juri 05/12. They lost the master mold, so resculpted the head to match the old one. They didn't update the sculpt... they just remade the old one.

It does answer the niggling thing I had about the lips - I thought it was photography when I thought it was a recast, but the newer one has closed lips, the older one has a slightly open mouth. Only difference I can see. But interesting to note since a lot of people have been complaining (interestingly enough) that the head wasn't updated... but then you didn't ask for it updated. You asked for the old one, so they gave you what you wanted.

Very interested to see how many extra heads join the current 6 unmodded and 2 modded Juri 05s on the MP... so many for such a popular event head.

F60 Juri 2012 :(

Someone mentioned that they had released the photo for the F60 Juri 2012 release on DoA today... Their photo didn’t load, so I eagerly went to the site to check the photo, although the description of “cute” didn’t inspire me.

I waited for the photo to load, wondering if it was the Shiwoo or the BA... Excited. Then it loaded.

Not excited anymore. It’s a recast of the Juri 05. So disappointed that the complainers won.

Why am I so disappointed? Well, other than the fact it is clearly just a recast of the original Juri 05 - clearly evident by the small, original elf ears still on the head, rather than the newer, longer elf ears they have been creating lately - it shows that Fairyland and CP are willing to be bossed around by those who are the loudest simply because they think they are entitled to what they want, rather than those who actually appreciate the other sculpts. And because it shows that this WASN’T the original choice for the Juri head. Otherwise, those ears would have been updated in keeping with the current styling.

Well. I hope they’re happy - the complainers that is, although all those who argued that the MNF Juri 08 and the Juri 05 are two COMPLETELY different sculpts - even though the changes are exactly the same as what you’d find between a 60cm and MNF version of any other sculpt...

Already have people questioning it. *sigh*

Reasons why I think its the old Juri 05:

1. CP have been sculpting longer Elf ears in all sizes possible - Minifee, F60, F70 and F65 since at least 2008...
2. The last two Elf releases in the F60 size have long ears: the Nanuri A and the Nanuri B.
3. The complainers were all going nuts about apparently the MNF Juri 08 being the most popular event head... But then we’re not their biggest customer base and their largest customer base probably wouldn’t complain
4. Was the MNF Juri 08 REALLY the most popular? I wasn’t in the hobby in 08, but I have a feeling she’s much more popular on the secondhand market than she was when she was released as an event head, especially since they wouldn’t have limited the number of heads. Plus, if she had been the more popular you’d think there would be more of them around rather than less.
5. The English speaking community would be a small fraction of their market.
6. The fact that complaints were loudest from a small number of people (I personally dislike this particular set of Juris. Ick.) does not mean they immediately changed their mind.
7. It does not take that much to change the ears on an old sculpt, and knowing CP, they would have spent as much time designing and sculpting the F60 Juri 2012 as they would anything else and therefore NOT updating the ears points to a rush job.
8. And just to hammer it down... If the Juri 05 had been the original head... Why doesn’t the cutout teaser have elf ears??

Nanuri A & B teaser with the Elf-ear-less Juri 2012 teaser

Final Nanuri A & B releases, with Elf Ears... and the F60 Juri 2012, now with Elf ears.

In some ways this reminds me of the LTF Pong - they made it for people... But they didn’t buy it. It will be interesting to see if the MP gets flooded with F60 Juri 12s. I know I’ll be selling mine. 

What will be interesting however. Currently there are very few unmodded Juri 05s around and there were two on the MP for MONTHS, unbought, just sitting there.They are very rare in the unmodded form, and yet no one bought these two. 

Plus, the new release just devalues any other Juri 05s that anyone else has, especially since there is no difference between this F60 Juri 12 and the old Juri 05. I’m sure by the time I’ve got mine I still won’t have sold my modded Juri 05 (who’s been on sale for probably about 6 months but more realistically for probably over a year) so I’ll be able to compare them and show once and for all that this new one is just a recast.

Overall, I’m annoyed that the complainers have spoilt this event for me. It doesn’t matter that there’s always a possibility for another event, that means there’s always another possibility for some idiot to complain and wreck yet another event for me.

I’m sick of this particular Juri face to be honest. There’s the 05, the 08, the kissy faced 10, the Multihead version... I’m sick of it in the same way I’m sick of Chiwoos. There are so many Chiwoo releases. I’m also starting to get a bit sick of the Chloe, even though she is a nice sculpt.

I want to have a new BA or even a new Shiwoo, even though I doubt I’d keep it. I’d like an updated Elf version of a Lishe or a El... Or an Elf BA would be nice. I’d like to see my favourite sculpts getting some time.

And I’d LOVE to see those complainers realising that perhaps what they like ISN’T what everyone else does.

Thanks guys for throughly wreaking an event I was looking forward to. Cheers.

BTW - for such a rare and wanted sculpt, I have just counted 6 unmodded Juri 05s for sale on DoA as well as 2 modded ones... For a popular sculpt I would expect maybe one... if you were lucky. Not six. Where are all the eager collectors?