New (Limited) Sailor Moon Gashapon Figurine!

Sakuya · Post by **Sakuya** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 1:16 am

There is a special edition gashapon figurine of the latest manga style Sailor Moon! However, I'm not sure if the fuku design is of PGSM or manga. Here, large images (click on it):

http://www.akadotretail.com/shop/shop_s ... 4840227217

And here you can buy it on Amazon Japan:

http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASI ... 56-5153952

Umino · Post by **Umino** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 7:17 am

Wow! That's really pretty!

Is there a price on that? I'd love to add that to my figure collection.

Chibisteven · Post by **Chibisteven** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 9:14 am

Wow! I got to have the figurine.

2,625 Yen. I believe. Looking at how much Amazon.co.jp charges.

Sailor Europa · Post by **Sailor Europa** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 9:48 am

Awww~! That's so cute! I'd so love to add that to my collection.

2,625 Yen? Does anyone know how much that is in dollars?

Umino · Post by **Umino** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 11:58 am

2,625 Yen?

In'st that around 24 or 30 dollars?

Post by **AnimeGuru0** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 12:20 pm

1 yen = approx 1 cent

so 26.25 would be a good approximation....

Sakuya · Post by **Sakuya** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 2:39 pm

That's just...

I wonder if it comes with anything else? They should give us a height measurement of the figure. I hope they come out with more. If only Sailor Moon Channel would update us with some info on this!

Slrjoecool · Post by **Slrjoecool** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 11:14 pm

Sakuya wrote:...They should give us a height measurement of the figure...

Um... they do.

If you follow the first link that you posted, you'll see that it is 115mm, which is 4.5276 inches.

*EDIT: Calculated out the inches.*

Sakuya · Post by **Sakuya** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 2:50 am

Oh.

It's so short but so detailed! It looks more like a statue from that picture. But $26? I suspect they're including something else with it...besides the box...

Post by **Tiff** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 9:49 am

Sakuya wrote:Oh. It's so short but so detailed! It looks more like a statue from that picture. But $26? I suspect they're including something else with it...besides the box...

Dear, that's pretty standard pricing for something like that. My boyfriend paid about 30 bucks for a Love Hina figurine about the tall. Japanese items, even toys and figurines, are expensive. I'm not the least bit surprised that it's 30 dollars.

RoastedTwinkies · Post by **RoastedTwinkies** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 1:09 pm

Tiff wrote:
Sakuya wrote:Oh. It's so short but so detailed! It looks more like a statue from that picture. But $26? I suspect they're including something else with it...besides the box...
Dear, that's pretty standard pricing for something like that. My boyfriend paid about 30 bucks for a Love Hina figurine about the tall. Japanese items, even toys and figurines, are expensive. I'm not the least bit surprised that it's 30 dollars.

Exactly. I can only buy my Japanese goodies once in a while because they're so expensive. I think everything in Japan is more expensive than here simply because their standard of living is higher. So it only makes sense to raise the prices higher.

Sakuya · Post by **Sakuya** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 6:41 pm

But the old Gashapon figures were around $14 weren't they?

I got one for about $2 though.

Umino · Post by **Umino** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 9:04 pm

Sakuya wrote:But the old Gashapon figures were around $14 weren't they? I got one for about $2 though.

You do realize it's a special edition figure that's most likely limited? Of course it's gonna be more expensive than the normal Gashapon figures..

Marjolein · Post by **Marjolein** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 1:38 pm

It looks very very lovely, but I'm not sure if I'm going to buy it. I'm saving up my money for the upcoming Sailormoon DVD's and I already have way too many Sailormoon figures.

Can anyone who bought it take better pictures of it though? I want to see the details.

Em · Post by Em » Sun Mar 06, 2005 6:42 pm

If it's any help i'm going to a con this weekend comming and I'm going to keep my eye's out for the figure ( and to see how much they want for it over here cough cough) But it does look like a really lovely figure.

P.S

RoastedTwinkies were did your stars go? *blinks*

peachvampiress · Post by **peachvampiress** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 7:08 pm

Em

RoastedTwinkies were did your stars go? *blinks*

Roasted Twinkies never has her stars for some reason.

More on topic though, is this the only figure, or are they going to release all of the senshi?

RoastedTwinkies · Post by **RoastedTwinkies** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 11:28 pm

peachvampiress wrote:More on topic though, is this the only figure, or are they going to release all of the senshi?

That's a really good question. It would be nice to see all of the senshi released.