Nier Automata x Dollfie Dream

More pic of my 2B before 9S's arrival 

You got to be serious, USPS. I was here all the time.. 😡😡

5 hours ago, CuteOne said:

He had just arrived in NY yesterday and I suddenly got a knock at the door today. 9s has finally arrived! I cant see him till next week though since he's a Christmas gift. 😢

Edit: hubs was nice enough to let me have pod out after checking his box. 💞

I think the pod needs to be holding some of that tinsel garland!

3 hours ago, toppz1008 said:

You got to be serious, USPS. I was here all the time.. 😡😡

I hate it when they do that. 

I got my 9S today and wow what a punch in the feelings.

 

 

I'll save my feelings for anyone who wants to read my post and share my thoughts instead.

 

-Wig. The worst. Hate it. So much. But that's life aka Volks. No amount of wig wax/oil is gonna make me feel any different.

-Everything is white lined but the socks and shoes, but he comes with a body suit! I wouldn't know this because I don't read descriptions. I just hit the buy button on this guy last year.

-The mask is white lined, but very well white lined. No rogue threads, no chance of it touching. The mask stays on his head through a little piece of elastic in the back so it has a tight fit. 

-The jacket and shorts are not made out of what I thought they'd be made out of, or at least it's not as thick, which is relieving.

-Certain parts of the outfit like the shoes and necklace are going to need careful fingers and careful watch because that is unfortunately definitely going to fall apart some day.

-THANK YOU VOLKS for putting actual metal on his shoes, but why couldn't we get the same treatment for the buttons. Yes, everyone knows by now I am very vocal about my hatred for plastic pieces that are supposed to be metal, but I feel like with how little these are, infrequent and special release this is they maybe should have. But whatever, because....

-That pod stand is made out of metal so heavy I could use it as a weapon. Amazing. Thanks Volks.

-Pod's arms are the most frustrating thing. Why make something that is supposed to move like that hang on by a tiny piece of plastic peg that has no special mechanism to keep it inside the arm? I'm gonna have to put nail polish or something on it, because it just falls off and can't be positioned too much because of it.

-Outfit is breathtaking. The detail is incredible. The amount of thought put into how things will sit is amazing. The gloves are separate black hands and they're soooooooooo nice.

-You can actually put stuff in his bag. I'm going to put my hopes and dreams in there. Or his spare hands.

-In order to get the bag on I recommend taking the head off and slipping it under his arm and over the neck instead of undoing the buckle. This will help preserve the look of the "leather".

-Leather underwear. Thank you lord

 

Sad my Drakengard Caim cosplay doesn't fit him, but it was made for much bigger dolls than him so I'm not surprised. 

Edited December 19, 2019 by littlebirdzoom

2B has arrived in Melbourne!

I had to pick it up at my local post office since the tracking keot saying 'retention' since the 16th so I decided to visit thw post office near me. 

I got her without paying any custom fees.  Thanks EMS.

 

On 12/17/2019 at 10:40 AM, toppz1008 said:

You got to be serious, USPS. I was here all the time.. 😡😡

I'm really sorry they did that to you. I've had that happen before on packages in the past (no DD thankfully) but it just seems like the delivery person was just too lazy to even try.

On 12/17/2019 at 4:32 PM, littlebirdzoom said:

I got my 9S today and wow what a punch in the feelings.

It is so nice to hear that someone is so delighted with 9S. I'm clueless about Nier other than watching Hubby play a demo for it sometime last year and maybe some commentary video on YouTube so I was curious how avid or die hard fans would view him. I also appreciate all the in-depth info you gave too.

~SK

I got my 9s yesterday and trying to styles his wig.. it looked so bad, seem like it is too long. I had to use lot lot of volks hair products. His hair look good with blindfolds, but without them it is look weird.. 

Seems a lot of people hate 9S’s wig in particular. I won’t be able to open mine until tonight, but I think it’d be good if anyone with wig recs can post links in this thread too, as I suspect many of us will want to buy alternatives.

I was also happy to not have been hit by customs, so I guess (for the time being at least) EMS from Japan avoiding (Australian) customs is true.

Sorry to double post but...add me to the people who hate his default wig lol.

Anyway, putting him together was easy - seems way simpler than what 2B must be...until the final part, his blindfold/goggles. Did anyone else find this ridiculously difficult? I've literally now spent half an hour trying to get this thing on because no matter what it slips right off again and down around his neck... its extremely frustrating! I've yet to hear this mentioned anywhere, so I'm probably just doing it wrong, but I really dont see how I could be - theres only so many ways to position it. I've never had this much issue with a DD accessory before.
Edit: It genuinely feels like its too big for his head, at least the way I'm trying to get it on.

Edited December 20, 2019 by Monty

41 minutes ago, Monty said:

Sorry to double post but...add me to the people who hate his default wig lol.

Anyway, putting him together was easy - seems way simpler than what 2B must be...until the final part, his blindfold/goggles. Did anyone else find this ridiculously difficult? I've literally now spent half an hour trying to get this thing on because no matter what it slips right off again and down around his neck... its extremely frustrating! I've yet to hear this mentioned anywhere, so I'm probably just doing it wrong, but I really dont see how I could be - theres only so many ways to position it. I've never had this much issue with a DD accessory before.
Edit: It genuinely feels like its too big for his head, at least the way I'm trying to get it on.

hey Monty please post a picture so I can see the blindfold on him.

On 12/17/2019 at 4:32 PM, littlebirdzoom said:

THANK YOU VOLKS for putting actual metal on his shoes, but why couldn't we get the same treatment for the buttons.

I can understand not using metal for things that would be too heavy if they were metal, but it’s harder to understand with buttons. 
 

As I understand it Japan does not have very good quality iron, so they have to import. That may drive up costs too much. 
 

1 hour ago, Monty said:

Edit: It genuinely feels like its too big for his head, at least the way I'm trying to get it on.

Given how long you’ve been at this hobby, I find it hard to believe you could be doing it wrong. The only thing I can think of is that how his wig is styled might affect it. Looking at littlebirdzoom’s photos, it looks like his wig is part of what creates enough bulk to keep the blindfold in place on his head. The blindfold could be too big, or the wig might not be bulky enough. 

14 hours ago, Monty said:

I won’t be able to open mine until tonight, but I think it’d be good if anyone with wig recs can post links in this thread too, as I suspect many of us will want to buy alternatives.

Cotin Doll has a short shaggy bob style wig in gray and also white, which is the closest thing I can recall seeing to his wig style; the gray is probably darker than the Volks wig and the white lighter but I think they could work:

https://www.cotindoll.co/products/adw071s36

https://www.cotindoll.co/products/adw071s03

 

They are both more amazing than I expected them to be! Now I definitely need to start watching for a 2B to pop up for sale somewhere - I thought I'd be able to resist but some of these owner pics...

7 hours ago, BeyondTime said:

Given how long you’ve been at this hobby, I find it hard to believe you could be doing it wrong. The only thing I can think of is that how his wig is styled might affect it. Looking at littlebirdzoom’s photos, it looks like his wig is part of what creates enough bulk to keep the blindfold in place on his head. The blindfold could be too big, or the wig might not be bulky enough. 

Has it really been that long? 2016 sometimes feels like a few weeks ago to me.

I did manage to get it on last night and you’re correct - I’m pretty sure my issue was how the wig was sitting on him. Because his bangs were in his eyes to that extent, I wanted to slide it backwards a bit, but that affected the fit of the blindfold. 

I had a look inside his head too and his eyes have those knobs on the back like I often see with acrylic bjd eyes (although these are resin) which hopefully means repositioning them won’t be too difficult once I take out the glue. I think his default eye positioning is a bit too blank and starey, so they’ll look a lot better looking slightly upwards (I’m surprised he doesn’t come like that as a lot of volks resin dolls do). But I’d like to try a few others on him too.

He gets to go to a meetup today, so I’ll have nicer photos later.

47 minutes ago, Monty said:

Because his bangs were in his eyes to that extent, I wanted to slide it backwards a bit, but that affected the fit of the blindfold. 

I guess the blindfold makes bangs in your eyes a moot point. 

2 hours ago, Monty said:

Because his bangs were in his eyes to that extent, I wanted to slide it backwards a bit, but that affected the fit of the blindfold. 

Sorry double post. I was wondering if maybe you were positioning it so that the blindfold was around the wig fibers, but not the cap? Or half-on half-off the cap? I could totally see how those wouldn’t work. 

10 hours ago, cfx said:

Cotin Doll has a short shaggy bob style wig in gray and also white, which is the closest thing I can recall seeing to his wig style; the gray is probably darker than the Volks wig and the white lighter but I think they could work:

https://www.cotindoll.co/products/adw071s36

https://www.cotindoll.co/products/adw071s03

 

I actually really like the colour of the default wig and would if possible want as close to that as possible - these two are (for me) too light and dark as you said. The style is good though.

Its a bit of a bummer to dislike a wig so much - I know volks wigs are apparently hit or miss but I’ve never really been disappointed with any of mine until now. I don’t particularly like Luka’s, but that’s more because it’s far too long and messes up easy. It’s tolerable to the extent that I can deal with it until I find one I like better and I’m not really in a hurry.

I guess 9S’s is also ‘tolerable’, but to a lesser extent. I’m going to try pouring boiling water on it which might help with the bits that stick up oddly.

Edited December 21, 2019 by Monty

customized nines!

On 12/20/2019 at 12:48 PM, Monty said:

Sorry to double post but...add me to the people who hate his default wig lol.

Anyway, putting him together was easy - seems way simpler than what 2B must be...until the final part, his blindfold/goggles. Did anyone else find this ridiculously difficult? I've literally now spent half an hour trying to get this thing on because no matter what it slips right off again and down around his neck... its extremely frustrating! I've yet to hear this mentioned anywhere, so I'm probably just doing it wrong, but I really dont see how I could be - theres only so many ways to position it. I've never had this much issue with a DD accessory before.
Edit: It genuinely feels like its too big for his head, at least the way I'm trying to get it on.

I didn't even try, as I like them without it xD I may put it later though  I hope I will be ok, I'm glad to read you manage to put it. Your pic of 9S with his pod is SO CUTE!

Here I made an instagram story of my 2B unboxing, if anyone is interested:

https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18036017641226215/

13 minutes ago, Nyx Whitestar said:

Here I made an instagram story of my 2B unboxing, if anyone is interested:

https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18036017641226215/

It requires an Instagram account to view it. 

9 minutes ago, BeyondTime said:

It requires an Instagram account to view it. 

So far as I can ever tell viewing instagram, this is true for all of the stories; I think without an account we can only view picture posts. And recently they changed it where I can only view a limited amount of those before it puts up a login screen that you can't do anything further without logging in.

Oh I didn't know, it sucks, my account is public so I thought everyone could see it  There is a lot of photos and some videos, I'll try to upload it on the forum in the right section.

 

Look what I found, I was thinking, it would be cool if 2B and 9S had the same stands as the Pod, and guess what Volks just did? They just released it! I need it, the stands are perfect, but I'm out of money right now 😭

https://www.volks.co.jp/blog_nest/akiba/2019/12/21/010050.html

Edited December 21, 2019 by Nyx Whitestar

53 minutes ago, Nyx Whitestar said:

Look what I found, I was thinking, it would be cool if 2B and 9S had the same stands as the Pod, and guess what Volks just did? They just released it! I need it, the stands are perfect, but I'm out of money right now 😭

Unless I am missing something, those are the standard Volks stands. They have always restocked those. 
 

looking over that blog, it occurs to me that the dollfie head cap L might help with the blindfolds a bit by adding bulk. The silicon cap might be even better. 

Edited December 21, 2019 by BeyondTime

Oh I only knew the wooden ones! While I dislike the wooden ones, I really like the metal ones, plus they are perfect for 2B & 9S and matches the Pods 💕