The Secret Life of our Sailor Moon Dolls

Have you ever wondered what your dolls are up to while you're at work or sometimes just in the next room? Well I can't speak for all dolls, but with some careful investigation we discovered that our dolls, lead active, interesting lives when they're not posing on a shelf for us. These pictures are the result.

I originally did this as a series of picture posts on twitter, they've been recollected here with a bit of additional info. In case you're wondering why there's no Sailor chibimoon and no Sailor Saturn it's because they're secret lives are so secret, even we don't know about them. (or because we don't have 6inch Japanese dolls of those two) So with that out of the way,

 

Sailor Mercury is a world renowned Star Wars Model Builder. This AT-AT model is one of her finest accomplishments.

  Sailor Venus is secretly a biker, we caught her on her way back from Sturgis.

Sailor Pluto is an accomplished equestrian, her horse is name Dusty.

 Sailor Mars is a Trekkie and spends her weekends attending Star Trek conventions, this picture marks her fourth meet and greet with Brent Spiner and Patrick Stewart.

Kino Makoto, AKA Sailor Jupiter, loves the movie Akira and started her own yearly convention.

Sailor Neptune uses intense training sessions with close personal friend Godzilla to keep her fighting edge.

Sailor Uranus Trained to be a Bounty Hunter on Spaceship Beebop in case this whole Sailor Senshi thing doesn't work out.

Usagi, AKA Sailor Moon, is really into the organic movement and grows all her own food.

And there you have it, you never know what your dolls might be up to when you're not looking.

~Stephanie


Don't forget to stop by our shop:

Cyber Monday Discount in Our Shop

So I know that I said I'd avoid all sales related stuff during the remainder of Nablowrimo, but it's Cyber Monday so I can't avoid it, sorry for all the shameless self promotion NaBlo people!

I'm offering a special discount (as I worked into my last post) So if you go shopping in my store
today you'll get $5 OFF any order over $20! We've got several fun items under $5 so it's like getting a free item!

Just use specail code: Cyber to get your discount, it's only good for today though, so don't miss it!

We've added some rare new items in perfect gift/collector condition as well so there's lots of new stuff perfect for spending your discount on!

First up if you're a sailor moon fan (or just shopping for one) there's the hard to find Sailor Pluto Beauty Change Doll:

Beautiful doll straight from our private collection in great collector or gift giving condition! We've got lots of other dolls too, so check out the dolls section for others if pluto's not your cup of tea.

Next for your favorite anime and game fan there's this beautiful cel of Chun-Li from the Street Fighter Alpha/Zero animated film:


This is an absolutely gorgeous hand painted cel. It was actually used in the production of the film! You can own the same frame you see on screen! We've got several one of a kind production cels and sketches available so if you're looking for a unique gift idea and aren't much of a street fighter fan check out our art section.

For the vintage video game fan on your list there's this awesome Mario and Zelda combination Lunch Box:

I use a box like this to get all our postal receipts in. :) I also used one as a purse at geek prom and got a ton of postive comments about it. It would make a really fun gift for a retro gamer and it's currently on sale for $25 so if you buy it today it's only $20! We've got loads of old and new video game memorabilia so if a lunch box isn't your cup of tea you're sure to find something else you'll like.

For your favorite Sci-Fi fan we've got a huge collection of 40 Star Wars miniatures:

These are new and sealed and make a perfect Starwars tabletop RPG starter set as it comes with the books and maps. It's only $25 or $20 ($0.50 cents a figure!) if you buy it today with coupon! Though even if you're not a RPG palyer they make excellent display pieces, we'd know as that's what we do with ours. :)

If none of that stuff tickles your fancy be sure to come take look anyway, we've got 100's of fun items available and some smaller items that would make excellent geeky stocking stuffers that would end up being free today with the purchase of a larger item with coupon!

If you don't see anything you like, but know someone else who might like something please pass the word on to them. We'd like to see as many people as possible benefit from the today's coupon!

~Stephanie

Acklay and Final Fantasy XII Mantis sepearted at birth?

While going through some Star Wars tabletop miniatures we noticed we had quite a number of Acklay figures:

I only vaguely remember seeing this creature in episode 2, I know where and when it appears, but you don't see it for too long. However when examining the figures, I noticed it looks remarkably like the Mantis monsters in Final Fantasy XII. I probably wouldn't have noticed except for that awful mission where you have to fight hordes of them. But other than the color difference they sure do look like siblings:


It really makes me wonder where that intial design came from. Did the FF team copy the Lucas creatures, did they both get it from some other pre-exsisting fantasty creature or is it a coincidence? Just something to ponder on a Saturday night.

~Stephanie

NaBloWriMo 9: Star Wars exhibit

So I was tapped for a good idea for a post today and decided to delve into the annals of history. For the record, the documents folder on my desktop shall now be referred to as that annals of history. Anyway, while poking around I came across our Vacation from '08. Our Primary destination was the house on the rock which was a completely awesome and weird destination. I'd blog about that, but it was quite possibly the worse place in the world for taking pictures.

So instead I'm going to talk about our secondary destination which was the Star Was: where science meets imagination exhibit at the Science Museum of Minnesota. It featured presentations, activities and star wars props and costumes. Unfortunately it was also not great for taking pictures, but we did get some that are appropriate for sharing.

First off my favorite, the star destroyer:

The Star destroyer was always my favorite ship. When I saw that it was there I literally squealed with delight. I don't really have a solid reason as to why it's my favorite, but something about such a massive ship just appealed to me. Who could you engineer something so huge? Where could you build it? How much staffing do you need? The mind, it boggles. Not to mention that it's just so iconic. This is probably the nicest picture I took of any of the props, it's too bad that guy's head is in my shot. Though the exhibit hall was just crammed with people so it's a small miracle I got a shot with only one obvious person.

Next up we have the Millennium Falcon:

There were lots of ship props and we have lots of pictures, but we thought we should share this one because C'mon it's the millennium falcon. I really wish the corner of the glass case wasn't so obvious in this one, but it's otherwise a cool shot. I love how the light trails make it look like it really is flying. They were totally a mistake, but a great one.

Last a Model of Kashykk:

I do not have words for how badly I wanted to play with that model. I mean who could really look at that and NOT think to themselves, gee it would be fun to fill that with action figures. It was really cool and detailed. I was sad they didn't have more models on display. It was a traveling exhibit though and there really was a lot of awesome stuff so I can't really complain.

We took way more pictures than those three, but those came out the nicest. They're pretty old now, but I hope they can still be enjoyed.

The exhibit was really really interesting and I'd love to see it come back. Other than seeing all the cool props I loved the interactive stations for building a droid and a working land speeder maybe if it comes back Jen and I can find a less busy day to go (we went on opening day) and we can race our creations). We got admission into the science museum with our special admissions tickets and spent the whole day playing with exhibits which I'd be all too happy to have an excuse to do that again as well. My only complaint is that we paid for the special millennium falcon "ride", but didn't get our limited edition pins :(

~Stephanie