Volks News 86

The photo should be named (or at least have the caption), "@BeyondTime's Commandos".

Edited February 10, 2020 by growcian

46 minutes ago, growcian said:

The photo should be named (or at least have the caption), "@BeyondTime's Commandos".

They all either came without underwear or have a pair that is useless. Kos-Mos came with a thong, and Luka / Jeanne came with black panties that they will never wear. Technically Altria came with bloomers, but those don't go well with miniskirts.

4 minutes ago, BeyondTime said:

They all either came without underwear or have a pair that is useless.

Oh, this makes the comic even better!

I had thought to myself "why did he choose these specific girls" but that is just perfect.

(I also hadn't paid attention to the fact that Miki has no pantsu since Takane does.)

7 minutes ago, cfx said:

Oh, this makes the comic even better!

I had thought to myself "why did he choose these specific girls" but that is just perfect.

(I also hadn't paid attention to the fact that Miki has no pantsu since Takane does.)

Actually my bad, they all came without underwear except for Rin Tohsaka. That's why I picked Rin to be the pantsu-sensei. Plus, while I know nothing of the character, there is just something about her that makes me think she is the type to always dress properly.

Edited February 10, 2020 by BeyondTime

On 2/7/2020 at 10:53 PM, cfx said:

They say DD, but also say SD16, so I never know.

They are SD16 sized. 

40 minutes ago, BeyondTime said:

They are SD16 sized. 

And doesn't that make them too large to fit DD well?

19 minutes ago, cfx said:

And doesn't that make them too large to fit DD well?

IMO, yes.

Ok, let's summarize:

• Volks Soft Cotton Panties Set (White & Flower Pattern) - fits DD even though also rated for SD16
• Volks Elegant Satin Panties Set (White & Pink) - fits poorly on DD because sized for SD16
• Dollheart pantsu - fits DD but isn't very modest lol
• Nine9Style pantsu - doesn't fit DD well because sized for SD16

Is that right?

9 minutes ago, cfx said:

Ok, let's summarize:

• Volks Soft Cotton Panties Set (White & Flower Pattern) - fits DD even though also rated for SD16
• Volks Elegant Satin Panties Set (White & Pink) - fits poorly on DD because sized for SD16
• Dollheart pantsu - fits DD but isn't very modest lol
• Nine9Style pantsu - doesn't fit DD well because sized for SD16

Is that right?

I think that sums it up.

23 hours ago, BeyondTime said:

Actually my bad, they all came without underwear except for Rin Tohsaka. That's why I picked Rin to be the pantsu-sensei. Plus, while I know nothing of the character, there is just something about her that makes me think she is the type to always dress properly.

She actually has a fixation on always appearing perfect to people who don't know her, but she's secretly not even a morning person (gasp!) so it's a perfect assumption XD

I didn't want to make a thread for this, yet, so I'll ask here: Because there is no March Dolpa, is there also not a Volks News (#87) this month? Checking the old thread here, in 2019 the February issue came out on the 12th, and was announced on the volks_doll twitter a week before that. I haven't seen anything this time so far, though I miss things because I don't know how to search twitter lol.

1 hour ago, cfx said:

I didn't want to make a thread for this, yet, so I'll ask here: Because there is no March Dolpa, is there also not a Volks News (#87) this month? Checking the old thread here, in 2019 the February issue came out on the 12th, and was announced on the volks_doll twitter a week before that. I haven't seen anything this time so far, though I miss things because I don't know how to search twitter lol.

I had to look around twitter for this to see if other people were talking about it because I was about to ask on here if anyone who owned a physical copy of Volks News 86 could check the back cover where the next issue release is listed - I don't have it physically because I cant take advantage of VolksUSA's free shipping thing they do and people never photograph the back cover when they share pics lol.
But apparently its coming out 'early March', which I assume means the 2nd (and hopefully not the 9th). A lot of people didnt realise because people are so used to it coming out mid February that they just assumed it would this time as well - which is how I found people talking about it.

It makes sense considering theres no March Dolpa to cover, so that means its going to be about the one in April. Which means if there -is- a DD besides Sakura Amamiya, we should see a teaser hopefully by the end of the month.

March seems so long to wait after November...

6 hours ago, Monty said:

I was about to ask on here if anyone who owned a physical copy of Volks News 86 could check the back cover where the next issue release is listed

It does list March on the back cover, which you already know by now. 

So if there is a DD besides Sakura, and if we are going to get any kind of teaser this month, it will have to be soon now.

Volks twitter usually has the pre-announcement for Volks News about a week ahead of time as well, so if VN87 is going to be March 2 that should be soon too; otherwise I guess the magazine will be later in the month.

Obviously there will be Dolpa 43 coverage. I was thinking that since there isn't a March Dolpa like there usually has been, would there possibly still be a March outfit collection this year, besides the April Dolpa one?

I entered for the mini herbalist outfit and the test tube accessory set on Volks USA.  I think it'll look nice on my DDP Louise.  

This lottery should be interesting, every item I entered for is likely to be really popular. The furisodes, riders jacket, mini test tube set, and Pom Pom skirts. Odds are I will win something, but I’m expecting to lose on a big chunk of that. 
 

I passed on the purse, but I’m betting that one gets a lot of entries too. 

I just entered for the black and white pom-pom skirts; I hope I get at least one of them. I'd rather have the white but I have Ranko has a use for both.

I looked at the riders jacket but from the pictures it looks like a loose fit on DD and I didn't like that.

 

As I haven't entered the Volks USA outfit lotteries that often I can't remember--can you order non-lottery items in the same order, or must it be just the lottery stuff? I want to order two other outfits and if I have to make a separate order anyway I might as well order those now, but if I can combine with the lottery items I'll wait to see if I win anything. I seem to have a vague memory from trying in the past that you can't order both together, but I'm not sure.

Edited February 23, 2020 by cfx

41 minutes ago, cfx said:

I looked at the riders jacket but from the pictures it looks like a loose fit on DD and I didn't like that.

If it doesn’t fit my DD well, then it will fit my SDGr or SD16s. 
 

The photos on the Volks USA site show it on a DDSB, but also on a girl. They don’t list the body type for the girl, so no idea if it’s DD or DDS. Either way the fit doesn’t look bad in the photos. On the other hand, the hoodie the DDSB is wearing is huge, and the jacket lists SD16, which makes it a bit dubious for fit on a DD. 
 

41 minutes ago, cfx said:

As I haven't entered the Volks USA outfit lotteries that often I can't remember--can you order non-lottery items in the same order, or must it be just the lottery stuff?

Pretty sure you can add anything to your cart. There is no printed rule against doing so on the website or the winners email.

The only reason not too imo is that shipment on normal stock items will occur on the lottery shipment schedule and that may make them take longer. 

Edited February 23, 2020 by BeyondTime

47 minutes ago, BeyondTime said:

The photos on the Volks USA site show it on a DDSB, but also on a girl. They don’t list the body type for the girl, so no idea if it’s DD or DDS. Either way the fit doesn’t look bad in the photos.

I didn't notice the description saying it is a DDSB because I didn't scroll past all of the lottery info. If that's a DDSB, the girl is a DDS, because the sleeves are equally too long on both model dolls.

It doesn't look like a bad fit, just a large fit, rather than a trim fit, and the latter is what I would want with this type of jacket. Really, it's hard to judge in those pictures because both dolls are wearing the jacket over a loose or bulky hoodie and I wouldn't be using it like that. Maybe I should dig through the Volks store blogs again and see if they show it on a DD anywhere without it being over a hoodie.

52 minutes ago, BeyondTime said:

Pretty sure you can add anything to your cart. There is no printed rule against doing so on the website or the winners email.

I'll wait then and see if it works. All I could remember is early 2018 when I entered the lottery for the Santa hat, I remember trying to order something else with it, and it emptied my cart of the lottery item when I put something else in the cart. That might have been some kind of error or something else going on; that was two years ago and I can't remember any more than that.

Might be a false memory, but I thought I remembered there used to be a disclaimer that stated you couldn't order other items along with lottery ones.

54 minutes ago, BeyondTime said:

The only reason not too imo is that shipment on normal stock items will occur on the lottery shipment schedule and that may make them take longer. 

I've procrastinated on ordering for months already, so that won't matter to me here. The only issue is I know they only have one of what I want to order so waiting always risks someone else getting it.

When I entered the lottery for the two pom-pom skirts, shipping showed at $12.50 for the two. So I'd really rather make one order than two so as to not pay so much for shipping. I know what they're charging is probably what it costs because shipping rates are just expensive now; I'm just cheap and shipping costs always irritate me. Well I'm not too cheap or I wouldn't be in this hobby.

6 hours ago, cfx said:

So if there is a DD besides Sakura, and if we are going to get any kind of teaser this month, it will have to be soon now.

Volks twitter usually has the pre-announcement for Volks News about a week ahead of time as well, so if VN87 is going to be March 2 that should be soon too; otherwise I guess the magazine will be later in the month.

Obviously there will be Dolpa 43 coverage. I was thinking that since there isn't a March Dolpa like there usually has been, would there possibly still be a March outfit collection this year, besides the April Dolpa one?

The way it usually goes is the twitter announcement for ‘next volks news!’ with Komame (The Disconcerting Volks Cat) happens some time during the Wednesday before the Monday it releases, and teasers for new dolls will go up the Friday before that Monday (usually late afternoon or early evening). Note there have been times where this differs and that’s usually because of the license-holder wanting to do reveal things their own way through their own channels. 

Basically if we see the Next News Koname on Wednesday it’s likely we’ll see a new doll on Friday, whether SD or DD (or both - SD doesn’t seem to always get the teaser treatment though)

Edited February 23, 2020 by Monty

2 hours ago, cfx said:

Might be a false memory, but I thought I remembered there used to be a disclaimer that stated you couldn't order other items along with lottery ones.

I think I vaguely recall that, but I also think I have combined orders before. I could be thinking of a Volks Japan event release though.

 

2 hours ago, cfx said:

It doesn't look like a bad fit, just a large fit, rather than a trim fit, and the latter is what I would want with this type of jacket.

It's worth noting that the hoodie the boy is wearing is sleeveless, but I am pretty sure the girl is wearing one that has sleeves.

It's always really hard to truly judge fits from photo's just because you can't see how it looks from all sides.

For example, in my webcomic on the girls visit with Rin the pantsu-sensei, the t-shirt Mars is wearing is MDD sized and fits into those overalls perfectly. When I had her in the 'If You Work You Lose' iM@S t-shirt I had to do some creative folding in the back to make that shirt fit into those overalls.

We have no way of knowing what Volks did in order to fit that jacket over that hoodie in a way that looked stylish. It could be pinned in the back, or they may even have removed the sleeves from the girl's hoodie.

Another example would be the shoes that the model is wearing are those gigantic shoes, but they seem to have her posed in a way that minimizes the oversized look.

To be fair, a doll is at it's core a model of a person, so creating the ideal outfit display takes some creativity and isn't really going to be quite like dressing a person. 

There’s a Rider Jacket in my household but it hasn’t been used yet. At the store they had it over the black turtleneck sweater. It’s definitely a large fit on DD. Would be nice if they made one in this style specifically tailored for DD in future, but this one looks pretty ok still. 

Thanks for the pic.

The extra-long sleeves are what bugs me the most and are the single thing that makes it obvious it's too big to me.

Sleeve length is just a chronic problem with Volks though; the SD girl sitting there wearing the brown coat has sleeves that are way too long as well, and SD is presumably what that is sized for.

I can tolerate it when it just covers part of the back of the hand; I can't accept it when it goes almost to the knuckles like it's doing on both of the girls in your picture.

Yeah the sleeves are a bit crazy. I believe the Nylon jacket had the same issue as these with the sleeves but from memory the longer pink coat looked ok (they only had it on a smaller doll though). 
 

I bought the long green jacket and the sleeves are a perfect length  (though my girl is wearing a thick jumper under it which is likely helping) so they can get it right sometimes. I’m really happy with the fit for the green coat and yet Volks didn’t even have that on a doll at the event. It was just on a stand..

Reading the page on that brown one the SD girl is wearing now, I see that it's rated to fit SD17B and SDGOU as well as SD16 girls. So it's really sized for the large guy dolls and that's why the sleeves are so long on an SD16 girl.

22 minutes ago, Beani said:

I bought the long green jacket and the sleeves are a perfect length  (though my girl is wearing a thick jumper under it which is likely helping) so they can get it right sometimes. I’m really happy with the fit for the green coat and yet Volks didn’t even have that on a doll at the event. It was just on a stand..

I think that's the one Shiburin is wearing here? The sleeves do look fine on it; look closely and you can see her hand in back. This jacket looks really nice here; from Volks official pictures I didn't like the way it looked at all.

The pink coat is definitely not my style, too much fluffy furry stuff, and from Volks pics it's a style that's meant to be big in the sense it flares out. Plus it's one of those bland shades of pink that I dislike.

Edited February 24, 2020 by cfx