Anime Expo 2008

I have accomplished absolutely nothing on the modeling front for about a month now. I did however get to go to Los Angeles for Anime Expo over the 4th of July Weekend, and was able to pick up a few items of interest.

Using knowledge dearly paid for from the previous Anime Expo, I was able to get a second vanship from the Last Exile FA4 GrandStream gashapon set.


Cominica Ushiabu keychains were on clearance, so I bought them all.


Finally, I was able to find a Hasegawa VE-1 Elintseeker at a good price.

Ranka-chan says "キラッ☆!!!!!!"

O Totoro

I bought a couple of keychains made by Cominica with Totoro from the Miyazaki film "My Neighbor Totoro" at AX last year because they looked like they were pretty close to 1/72 scale. Chu Totoro is definitely over scale in this set, and there is another set (which I did not get) with an over scale Chibi Totoro as well.

Anyway, I removed the eye screws from the top of the figures and then filled the hole with putty. I then painted the patched area to match the rest of the figure.

It's actually difficult to say how close the figure is to scale since the O Totoro's size seems to fluctuate between two to three meters in height at various times in the film.


I googled around a bit to see if I could determine how high the bus stop sign in the movie poster was, but was not really successful. However, if other bus stop signs are any indication, they would be similar in scale height to the sign in the picture above. This would mean then that this particular O Totoro is probably 1/76 or smaller.