Here’s another post about expensive purchases while I was in Akihabara. Saber as most readers know is from Fate/stay night. For those readers that don’t know much about Saber’s background, here’s a quick review. She is the main character in Fate Stay Night, a Japanese visual novel with interactive elements and Fate hollow ataraxia is the second installment to the series.
Personally, I have never actually read any of the visual novels and wasn’t really into the series. However, during my 2005 trip to Hong Kong I saw a Saber statue with a really dynamic pose and I thought the armor dress design was just awesome! Even though Saber’s armor dress is really cool looking I have never bought any Saber merchandise…. until now! When I went into Volks’ Akihabara branch (at least I think it was) I saw a giant Saber doll on display and I said to myself “I must have that no matter the cost”.
I tried asking the staff if that doll was for sale but the staff instead showed me doll parts. Actaully, I didn’t understand a word she said since I don’t understand Japanese at all. As she was showing me the doll parts I suddenly remember watching a video years ago about a company that would make custom dolls and have a fancy ceramony when the doll was built and pickedup by the cusotmer. I remember the whole process was complicated so I went back to my hotel and did some research first. After my research it turns out that Saber was part of the Dollfie Dream series and not one of those Super Dollfie that you can have built at Volks’ Tenshi no Sato museum. I was quite sad to find out Saber was only sold at a doll convention held at Tokyo’s Big Sight and Volks USA had a lottery system for purchasing on their website both of which I missed. Luckily, I was able to find a Saber at Mandrake’s Akihabara branch and unluckily I had to pay a crazy premium on it since I couldn’t get it anywhere else at the time.
When I got back home from Tokyo I ordered a doll stand and today I finally recieved that doll stand so it’s time to put Saber together! The doll box measures about 29 x 9 x 6 inchs. Saber comes with twelve pieces of armor, five pieces of clothing, a sword, a wig, and two sets of hands. It took me well over thirty minutes just to put her clothes on and to gear her up took another 20 minutes since I have no experience dressing up a Dollfie doll or any doll for that matter ^_^”.
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