It’s late July once again folks, and collectors all over the world know what time of year it is, as they painfully say goodbye to some funds, in some cases, a lot of funds, as the summer edition of Wonder Festival once again kicks off in Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. Let the wallet bleeding begin!
Let’s start things off with the group which obviously has the largest area in Makuhari Messe, The Wonderful Hobby Life For You (WHL4U) booth, which comprises of Good Smile Company and their affiliates like Max Factory, Good Smile Racing, Freeing, Wing, Penguin Parade, Phat! Company, and others, who have a wide variety of new figmas, scale figures, and of course, Nendoroids! And as ususal, there were a lot of new Miku figures.
For Kotobukiya and Bandai, please turn to page 2
We move on to Kotobukiya, which presents a fine balance of great Japanese figures, western figures, and plastic model kits from a variety of series from Is it Wrong to Pick-up Girls in a Dungeon to Star Wars, From Marvel Comics and DC Comics to the Monogatari series.
Bandai on the other hand showed off its figures, including a new AGP Kirishima from Kantai Collection, and a new Ranma 1/2 SH FiguArts line! They also featured some nice Avengers figures as well as one featuring the legendary DRAGON himself, Bruce Lee!
For Alter, Megahouse, and Griffon Enterprise, turn to page 3
Meanwhile here are Alter’s offerings which include a mix of male and female figures, as well as a few plastic model kits of their own.
Griffon Enterprises meanwhile has showed off their cure new Ultraman Monster Girls
And Megahouse brought in their latest Excellent Models as well as a few figures from a variety of anime series and video games.
Here are Volks’ new offerings, including a new figure of Ange from Cross Ange!
For Medicom, Dengeki Hobby, AmiAmi, and Alpha Max, turn to Page 4
The Medicom Booth showed plenty of their Real Action Heroes line, however, its highlights include the new Hitagi Senjougahara RAH figure, as well as the new Frozen RAH figures of Ana and Elsa.
The Dengeki Hobby Booth meanwhile displayed some GunPla, as well as some great new Love Live! “Birthday Figures”
Alpha Max meanwhile showed off their new figures from the Shining series, Fate, and Food Wars: Shokugeki no Souma.
While AmiAmi has some merchandise on display along with their usual anime figures
For the independent makers/ garage kits, turn to page 5
The Good Smile Company group may have the largest booth, but the true stars of WonFes are definitely the independent garage kit makers and companies. Here are some of their offerings during the event earlier today:
Whew! That’s definitely enough wallet bleeding for today! Now excuse me, it seems like I really have to take my wallet to the hospital again!
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Sources: Dengeki Hobby, Amiami, Akiba Hobby
Summer Wonder Festival 2015: More new figures, more wallet bleeding
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