Doronju Blythe

The final photo of Doronju Blythe is finally out on blythedoll.com. She is not the normally cute pie you expecting. Oh, she is damn sexy and hot, especially in the photo on the left below. Personally I do not really like her mask, the pointed "ears" a bit too big. But my bf likes the mask.

She is hot!!!!

I dun like the "pointed ears" of her mask

Another thing about her is her left pink eye chip has a heart shape.

I love her pink eye chips

She is going to be released in Feb 09. I hope I can get her.

My view on BJD

I joined Volks' "Dolls Party 20 After Event " Lottery on wed this week to try my luck to see whether I can win anything and Iwon all three dolls that I "bid" for - Johanna, Iris and Tohya. Maybe this year is my lucky year. I tried to purchase items from Volks online twice in the past, but did not manage to get anything. The items I try to buy went out of stock when I was trying to load the page.

There are a lot of BJD lovers around the world and do not be surprise that most of them are willing to spend few thousands to buy a new doll. Personally I like to see photos of BJDs, especially those from Japan. The delicate workmanship of the Japanese makes those BJDs look like a piece of art, and they look like they come out from those Japanese comic books. During my trip to Japan last Aug, I visit two volks outlets, and the window displays were truely amazing. Too bad, we were not allow to take photos when in the outlets.

But for me, I would not want to own them. Firstly, the price tag is way over my comfort zone as I am just a lowly paid salary worker. Secondly, I also do not have space for them at home.

Rourou/Lotus

Petwork had a collaboration with Rourou and came up with one of the most expensive momoko doll (based on yahoo japan transacted price). Recently Petwork has another collaboration with Rourou and come up with as "ODECO&NIKKI go to ROUROU" dolls and I heard that it was rather popular among collectors.

This interests me to find out more about this fashion brand - RouRou. The brand "ROUROU" was established by a Japanese designer - Maki Hayazono in 2000 and I also notice that, other than having stores in Japan itself, they have a store in Shanghai.
I also take some time to browse through their catalog and collection. Their clothes remind me of Old China clothing, but with a modern twist added to it. I must say their collection is very nice. But the retail price of their collection is more of the high side and most of them are out of stock. One of the T-shirt (pic below) which I like cost 24,000 yen (i.e. S$384 based on exchange rate of 0.016)

Next time I visit Japan again, I may want to consider adding "visit rourou store" to my itinerary.
Url to Rourou homepage: http://www.rourou.com