Figure maker Volks updated today with the news that the Hatsune Miku resin kit they presented at Wonder Festival (scoop) is scheduled for reproduction in PVC. According to the kit’s official page preorders will open April 29th for the figure, which is 1/6 scale, with a sculpt from A-BRAND‘s Miruhi Shutoraase (Milchstraße, ミルヒ・シュトラーセ) and a retail price of 7,140 yen. She comes with a second exchangeable arm option, and is scheduled for release in early September.
It’s currently unknown whether she’ll be put up for broad release or limited to order at Volks only, but unbroken precedent indicates that despite their recent forays into the PVC world the brand remains committed to a sickly type of repugnant monopolistic isolationism.
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Oh wow. Kinda glad that i didn’t go for the Resin kit now.
I would have been annoyed if I bought an expensive unpainted kit and then found out that they were going to produce a cheap, completed figure later down the line…
… but it’s Volks so… no baka gaijin.
IF it did make it to the west, I’d be very tempted. Looks a lot better than the Goodsmile (IMO).
I actually like the goodsmile one more…..
Omg!!! I LOVE Volks Miku. Way more than Goodsmile to be honest, but if they’re going to keep it limited I’m not sure if I’ll still get it. I might just use a proxy service. So glad they’re doing this in PVC. I was actually going to buy the kit as well and most likely never get around to doing it lol.
This is quite a nice-looking figure. I’d be tempted to get it if the option were made available to me. Unfortunately (but fortunately for my wallet), it probably won’t be.
If Volks get their rod out of their butt and sell internationally through places like HLJ and Hobby Search (they sold completed Mina Tsukishiro figures through HS), then I’ll buy this. If not, then hopefully (and I mean against my better judgement) GSC make theirs a huge amount available batch – though who’s keeping their fingers crossed for that? ;_;
More money to be saved here for me since I don’t intend to use a proxy service. 8)
Looks very good though. Hopefully, Shingo will have a nice photo spread. 8)