Yup, it was me! This is gonna be a bit of a vent, but I'll try to keep it as either humorous or otherwise fun to read as I can. So, let's begin!
If you're an anime fan, think about the first thing you'd wanna do if YOU heard about an anime shop with reasonable prices and *100% authentic* products within 30 minutes of you. Take as long as you need to think about it...
Do you have your answer? Good, 'cause I bet we're thinking the same thing!
I, being the semi-innocent clown that I am, thought:
"Well, if they've got a physical, real store, there's no waaaaaay they'd lie on the Internet to make money, right? RIIIIIIGHT????"
Boy, was I wrong!
So, I hop in the car with my parents, and we drive to this store, and I've got one goal in mind: Get myself a soft, huggable plushie.
As soon as we reach the mall it's located in and find the place, I make a beeline for the plush shelf, where I find....
THIS SOFT FRIEND! Now, keep in mind, I know very, VERY little about Black Rock Shooter-- I just know she's a really cool gal with a rock-chucking cannon and a Sans eye, so I missed some red flags.
I didn't look too closely at her at first-- I just wanted to get her to the register, into a bag, disinfectant-dipped, into a photoshoot and then thoroughly snuggled as soon as possible....
...Aaaaaand I ended up paying for my poor choices. After her dip and some vigorous sun-drying and careful hairdryer-drying, I took her to make sure she was photo-ready,
'cause transport and all that stuff often causes some slight wrinkling. This was the first time I was able to get up close and personal, as I was intending to adjust teeny-tiny things with tweezers, nail scissors, toothpicks and the like. That's when I started to notice... weird things.
The first thing that really caught my eye was her weird little hands--
-- but I know that some official plushies make some dumb choices with details like that, and I figured as soon as I had access to my sewing supplies (I was, and still am, on vacation), I'd make her some tiny mittens and a scarf so I wouldn't have to look at her goblin hands.
The next thing I noticed was that she was kinda chunky-- not a bad thing, but an odd thing for a plush of Black Rock Shooter, who's noticeably lithe and thin.
I dismissed THIS as a factory defect or other weird detail choice, and actually celebrated it. I mean, who wouldn't want to have a chubby Black Rock Shooter plush???
But then came...
...T H E B E L T.
Yuuuuuuup, that was LIKE THAT! IT WAS ATTACHED WITH HOT GLUE! HOT! GLUE! The stuff I used when I didn't know the basics of sewing! And I say *WAS* BECAUSE IT IS NOT 'IS ATTACTCHED'! FRIIIIICK THIS TICKS ME OFF SO MUCH--
*Deep breath*... Anyway!
A quick bit of research led me to find out that this is, indeed a knockoff of the Nendoroid Plus plush from Good Smile. A legit one looks like this!
As you can see, she's supposed to have some joints, no hands, no X on the stomach, a square belt buckle, a front-facing zip on the cape, an... *scrambling to think of a FR-appropriate word*... undergarment bow made out of thin string, the rock cannon, and a cape that touches the ground when standing.
The edge of the eye flame is also weird and gross and scratchy but that's the least of my worries right now.
The positives are:
If you're an anime fan, think about the first thing you'd wanna do if YOU heard about an anime shop with reasonable prices and *100% authentic* products within 30 minutes of you. Take as long as you need to think about it...
Do you have your answer? Good, 'cause I bet we're thinking the same thing!
I, being the semi-innocent clown that I am, thought:
"Well, if they've got a physical, real store, there's no waaaaaay they'd lie on the Internet to make money, right? RIIIIIIGHT????"
Boy, was I wrong!
So, I hop in the car with my parents, and we drive to this store, and I've got one goal in mind: Get myself a soft, huggable plushie.
As soon as we reach the mall it's located in and find the place, I make a beeline for the plush shelf, where I find....
THIS SOFT FRIEND! Now, keep in mind, I know very, VERY little about Black Rock Shooter-- I just know she's a really cool gal with a rock-chucking cannon and a Sans eye, so I missed some red flags.
I didn't look too closely at her at first-- I just wanted to get her to the register, into a bag, disinfectant-dipped, into a photoshoot and then thoroughly snuggled as soon as possible....
...Aaaaaand I ended up paying for my poor choices. After her dip and some vigorous sun-drying and careful hairdryer-drying, I took her to make sure she was photo-ready,
'cause transport and all that stuff often causes some slight wrinkling. This was the first time I was able to get up close and personal, as I was intending to adjust teeny-tiny things with tweezers, nail scissors, toothpicks and the like. That's when I started to notice... weird things.
The first thing that really caught my eye was her weird little hands--
-- but I know that some official plushies make some dumb choices with details like that, and I figured as soon as I had access to my sewing supplies (I was, and still am, on vacation), I'd make her some tiny mittens and a scarf so I wouldn't have to look at her goblin hands.
The next thing I noticed was that she was kinda chunky-- not a bad thing, but an odd thing for a plush of Black Rock Shooter, who's noticeably lithe and thin.
I dismissed THIS as a factory defect or other weird detail choice, and actually celebrated it. I mean, who wouldn't want to have a chubby Black Rock Shooter plush???
But then came...
...T H E B E L T.
Yuuuuuuup, that was LIKE THAT! IT WAS ATTACHED WITH HOT GLUE! HOT! GLUE! The stuff I used when I didn't know the basics of sewing! And I say *WAS* BECAUSE IT IS NOT 'IS ATTACTCHED'! FRIIIIICK THIS TICKS ME OFF SO MUCH--
*Deep breath*... Anyway!
A quick bit of research led me to find out that this is, indeed a knockoff of the Nendoroid Plus plush from Good Smile. A legit one looks like this!
As you can see, she's supposed to have some joints, no hands, no X on the stomach, a square belt buckle, a front-facing zip on the cape, an... *scrambling to think of a FR-appropriate word*... undergarment bow made out of thin string, the rock cannon, and a cape that touches the ground when standing.
The edge of the eye flame is also weird and gross and scratchy but that's the least of my worries right now.
The positives are:
- The belt is pretty easily fixable with some white thread and a bit of sewing
- The eye flame can be filed down
- I haven't gotten a hideous rash like I have with some bootlegs I've bought on purpose.
- She's still soft and plush and after some fixes, ought to be a pretty alright plushie.
