2021 DD Pre-order Project - FFXIV Y'shtola

1 hour ago, ragnamuffin said:

You could say it was beyond your time… I’ll see myself out…

🤣😂🤣

Dante would spin in his grave. 
 

1 hour ago, di-chan123 said:

limiting the amount people could order.  

For the annual pre-order there is usually no limit. If you read the fine print you can order something like 10 of each doll per order, and place multiple orders. 

18 minutes ago, BeyondTime said:

For the annual pre-order there is usually no limit. If you read the fine print you can order something like 10 of each doll per order, and place multiple orders. 

Whoa! I had no idea! I thought I saw somewhere there was a limit but must have misremembered it. Thanks for pointing that out 😄

Y'shtola didn't win the game, but damn did she play some good cards!

One doll is in the hands of our doll artist. I've seen a little and we're SUPER excited to see the final doll!

For now, our default Cat Mama is covered in a bodysuit and thick socks and stands guard over the livingroom.

 

Edited Friday at 01:11 AM by kranberrijam

On 1/25/2023 at 10:43 PM, finnleo said:

2011 also had the march tsunami, which may, or may not had an effect on things, I seem to faintly recall discussion about one or some of volks' production facility getting damaged. nero and alter were also on DD3 frames which was fairly new so that might have been a thing also.

Just chiming in to say that I remember that rumor about the facility damage. The new DDIII frame issue was also a thing.

I was fairly new to the hobby at the time,  within my first year of collecting, and the Sabers were my first preorder. I had never ordered from Volks International to that point and did my order through Volks USA. The Volks USA delivery was really delayed compared to International- I checked my emails and I got my shipping notice in Sept of 2012.  I believe there was also speculation about there being a slight tweak to the frame before that run to try to stop there from being as many replacement requests. People from the International run were receiving already broken in the box dolls that ate up stock of upper frame parts, but my girls didn't arrive broken, and were still ok later when I added the aluminum reinforcement parts that Coolcat had started producing. I sold my Extra on but I still have my Alter v2 and she's still in good shape with her reinforcements.

21 hours ago, Jezrah said:

I had never ordered from Volks International to that point and did my order through Volks USA.

If im not mistaken it was also the first year you could participate in the preorder from outside japan, but in anycase lots a variables going on that year.

Although probably no preorder has been quite as nuts as Miku's first run was... that twitter post with the packaging boxes in boxes was ... scary.

21 hours ago, Jezrah said:

I sold my Extra on but I still have my Alter v2 and she's still in good shape with her reinforcements.

I got mine second hand, alter had reinforcing bits put on by the previous owner, Nero is still in one piece without reinforcements though not sure what batch that was, actually havent checked is she with the original slim shoulders, and cant recall at what point (or model release) the beefier shoulder joints became a thing.

Just wanted to share this stunning custom Y’shtola I saw.

 

I just noticed that Square Enix pushed the date back to April. I really hope I don’t have to wait that long especially since I’ve seen people saying they are receiving there’s soon from Volks USA. Totally not fair since I believe both Volks USA and the US Square Enix store are in California.