Wonhobby is happening, which means it's the usual mix of emotions over what's getting made and what seems to have gotten The Axe.

Argh spending too much, and of course stuff I've been looking for for monthd pops up now.

Dang. Missed out on a cheap Nendo 416 and an SHF Thouser.

And people keep lowballing me on an ebay listing.

You really need to start having someone actually run interference for your spending habits.

Yeah, like Talisman said, I think it is time to stop.

On a related note though, I notice my own spending has gotten wildly out of control despite me not actually feeling compelled by anything lately (not keeping up with any series, etc.), so I've challenged myself to go June and July without ordering or buying anything that isn't a current pending preorder.

That last part is mostly because I'm expecting a Choudan Kadou announcement at some point between now and the end of July and I'm committed to that line.

No huge surprises this time around for me, a colored version of the prototype I was happy to see and Lady Maria still has no pre-order date. Apparently it was supposed to be happening in June but is postponed.

I was in a similar situation this week: "Oh this figure is very nice, but 100 bucks? I don’t know if I should..."

Paycheck comes in, surprise bonus

...

*Clicks pre-order button*

..

To my defense, the figure wasn't even half of the bonus and the rest will be spend for actually useful stuff. I'm a good little adult, everyone who doesn’t know what I spend my money for agrees.

It's kind of weird but "light" months, or months were I don’t have to pay for any pre-orders because I didn’t order anything feel ... refreshing?

The more spending power I accumulate the better it feels to say "no" sometimes and don't buy anything. I still fail miserably at it most of the time, but the rare times it does happen are nice.

The only things really catching my eye were two figma, one of which- Lancer Artoria- we've known about for about and I was seriously hoping would be painted by now.

Was let down by the lack of any more Girls Frontline figma so much as getting a placard, but at this point I can't be surprised considering Arknights is doing to it what Azur Lane did to Kancolle.
It's kind of weird but "light" months, or months were I don’t have to pay for any pre-orders because I didn’t order anything feel ... refreshing?

I'm not doing terrible, it's just the June-August run that's a killer as usual- after that I've got nothing until, or past, October. Hopefully I can keep it that way.

I really hope this guy's not gonna get fired.

https://i.redd.it/sjwxabwt39271.jpg

Same for me really. I was happy when they announced a certain figma during their last event, and now I'm equally happy to see it painted, but that's about it.

Shaman King figma are neat though, but we knew about Yō already. So I guess Anna is a nice surprise?

I offer my condolences without knowing what this means, just guessing it plays out with you not seeing more of what you would like to see.

I just realized I'm right there with you actually. I only have unpaid pre-orders for June and July, then it’s nothing until October. And all the companies I care for are already up to October with their pre-orders so - nice.

Of course, this doesn't help when Web-Exclusives or other items that want to be paid in full pop up like crazy :lol

I just kind of feel myself slipping out of the hobby and stuff like this makes it easier to go that route. Honestly at this point figma's in-house Styles line is more interesting than most of the licenses they have, if only because the simplicity means there's less room for serious design flaws, and they can actually get them out in a timely manner.

It certainly satisfies a bit of long-buried nostalgia in me but eh... it doesn't feel particularly compelling to me. If Tiga weren't shaping up to be a disaster I'd absolutely love to work on putting together a Fox Box display.

Extremely long story short, newer, vastly more popular gacha games supplanting their predecessors, to whom they are extremely similar, in such a complete manner that one could question whether or not the originals existed to begin with.

The furthest thing out I have is Choudan Kadou Tenkuu no Touma, only SHFs I have on order are Naki and Orthos Vulcan, and Naki is half paid off. Problem is everything else I have on order is damned expensive. Hence part of the motivation to cut back for a few months...