Rin Tohsaka and Takane Shijou

Rin is coming to me! It's official, I just paid. I'm totally shocked! I'm really looking forward to having Rin, Saber and Sakura all together!

I am really happy for you ^^

Edited December 20, 2015 by Guest

Rin is coming to me! It's official, I just paid. I'm totally shocked! I'm really looking forward to having Rin, Saber and Sakura all together!

Congratulations! I'm really happy fo you too. It's so cool that you'll have all three of them together now!

I am really happy for your ^^

 

Congratulations! I'm really happy fo you too. It's so cool that you'll have all three of them together now!

 

Thanks, both of you!

I was just at Volks's showroom at Akiba. Despite all the "no photo" signs, i manage to ninja a few shots. Overall, Rin is much cuter in person and i'm 100% sure on my Takane entry. They have soo many dolls on display, and whoever sets up the dolls know what they are doing. Some limited girls look even prettier than my own :\ (i don't even want to talk about Sheryl, the display model IS perfect while mine is full of defects..) but i digress :p

 

It was my first time visiting a Volks's store. I enter thinking i would pick up a couple of hands due to online shortage. Somehow i left spending 20k yen and that's excluding Azone's purchase /_\

Oh my! Just look at these http://ameblo.jp/1394-1995/entry-12108865548.html

Takane looks gorgeous. I wish I had the money to enter for both Rin and her

Thanks both of you for posting those images. I am now 100% certain I was right to enter for Takane. I really wanted Rin, but now I'll be super happy if I win either one of them.

 

Of course I'll probably lose and end up hunting YJA for good prices aftermarket....

 

Just as a suggestion try posing your dolls like they are shown in the picture. You can learn a lot by reverse engineering things. I'm going to grab my Rin Shibuya right now and try to figure out if I can match those poses.

 

Edit: This may help a bit too. I believe her feet in Mei's images from the display are posed in what dancers call first position. There is a very famous paining of Louis XIII hanging in I believe Versaille in which he is posed with his feet in first position. (He was apparently quite a dancer.) You could probably get some really good poses by copying paintings of French aristocracy.

Congrats to all the VolksUSA winners!I'm glad everyone had good chances!

Thanks for those who snuck some pics, you rebels. I'm falling hard for Takane but her lips... maybe it's the line on it. Regardless, I'll possibly give a custom face up if I win her...

I'm in the Japan online lottery! Didn't have a chance to try at Dollpa as well, unfortunately. I can barely wait for the results!

Edit: This may help a bit too. I believe her feet in Mei's images from the display are posed in what dancers call first position.

 

sorry, just hadda pop in. Doesnt first position actually involve keeping your heels together and toes as far apart, so your feet kinda form a straight horizontal line? Kinda having those 1st grade ballet flashbacks

 

I think what Takane's legs are doing are just the standard cute model pose, especially when showing off shoes... cutely put one foot in front of other, align toes of back foot to heel of front .... and keep all your weight on the back leg, 'cause balance!

Edit: This may help a bit too. I believe her feet in Mei's images from the display are posed in what dancers call first position.

 

sorry, just hadda pop in. Doesnt first position actually involve keeping your heels together and toes as far apart, so your feet kinda form a straight horizontal line? Kinda having those 1st grade ballet flashbacks

 

I think what Takane's legs are doing are just the standard cute model pose, especially when showing off shoes... cutely put one foot in front of other, align toes of back foot to heel of front .... and keep all your weight on the back leg, 'cause balance!

 

I'm not a dancer (I have two left feet) so I am not at all sure. It was explained to me as first position by an art historian who discussed that particular portrait when I was taking a tour at the palace of Versailles in France. The historian could have been wrong, or it could be a reference to dancing during the 1600s.

Edit: This may help a bit too. I believe her feet in Mei's images from the display are posed in what dancers call first position.

 

sorry, just hadda pop in. Doesnt first position actually involve keeping your heels together and toes as far apart, so your feet kinda form a straight horizontal line? Kinda having those 1st grade ballet flashbacks

 

I think what Takane's legs are doing are just the standard cute model pose, especially when showing off shoes... cutely put one foot in front of other, align toes of back foot to heel of front .... and keep all your weight on the back leg, 'cause balance!

 

Yep! What Takane is doing is a modified third position. :3 Or it could be fourth position, I haven't checked the picture in a while to see how close her feet are.

Merry Christmas everyone

The same blogger got some shots of Rin too

http://ameblo.jp/1394-1995/entry-12109555848.html

When Rin arrives in late March or April, I think I will name her "Enoby" in honor of Enoby Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way from the fanfic My Immortal.

When Rin arrives in late March or April, I think I will name her "Enoby"

 

better start gettin her some black boots, pink fishnets and plenty of blue extensions for her hair!

 

Yep! What Takane is doing is a modified third position. :3 Or it could be fourth position, I haven't checked the picture in a while to see how close her feet are.

 

Ok then I'm going to say that the historian probably said third position, and I miss-remembered it as first.

I just got an email from VolksUSA informing me that I lost the lottery for Rin... When they announced the results two weeks ago. I just thought that was a bit funny so I'd share haha.

I wonder if they were waiting for all payments to come in and to re-lotto any unpaid dolls before they "officially" announced the losing entries.

I just got an email from VolksUSA informing me that I lost the lottery for Rin... When they announced the results two weeks ago. I just thought that was a bit funny so I'd share haha.

 

I got mine too and It freaked me out until I read it twice before I realized it wasn't from the international one.

 

~Sister Kyoya

I got mine too and It freaked me out until I read it twice before I realized it wasn't from the international one.

 

OMG, me too!!

I was looking at it for 10 minutes before my brain finally processed that it wasn't Intl one and not all hope is lost

Now that the holidays are over, the wait for the results are killing me!

Now that the holidays are over, the wait for the results are killing me!

 

don't jinx yourself you might win it, then Vok Dollfie release their next DD and it happens to be the one you truly WANTED

I didn't get Rin. Maybe it's for the best, since I don't know if I'm really in a place where I can necessarily afford her, but she's a really special character to me. I guess I could try to pick one up in the aftermarket, but the longer I save up, the higher her price will get...

I didn't get Rin. Maybe it's for the best, since I don't know if I'm really in a place where I can necessarily afford her, but she's a really special character to me. I guess I could try to pick one up in the aftermarket, but the longer I save up, the higher her price will get...

 

don't worry about it.. i'm sure Volks will release another version of Rin Tohsaka (school uniform ver) .

don't worry about it.. i'm sure Volks will release another version of Rin Tohsaka (school uniform ver)

Nah, they won't, at least not in the short term. The Rin v2 doll is all the Rin-chan that there is going to be for the time being. We know that Volks is indeed selling the Academy Uniform v2 as an optional dress set for Rin v2 - but that is clothes-only. So you would need to get the actual Rin doll at the same time in order to wear it.

don't worry about it.. i'm sure Volks will release another version of Rin Tohsaka (school uniform ver)

Nah, they won't, at least not in the short term. The Rin v2 doll is all the Rin-chan that there is going to be for the time being. We know that Volks is indeed selling the Academy Uniform v2 as an optional dress set for Rin v2 - but that is clothes-only. So you would need to get the actual Rin doll at the same time in order to wear it.

 

Yeah, Rin v1 was May 2009. Rin v2 won't deliver until Feb 2016. That's more than 6 years between the two releases! So maybe we'll see another Rin-chan in... 2022? Granted, Volks has done more re-releases lately (Miku, Alisa, Sasara), but they're still pretty rare.