New Arrivals!!!

So my orders from Japan have arrived. Thankfully my Tanuki girl arrived and now I can say that I got one of my holy grail items! Her clothes are interesting. It’s to the traditional girl outfit and I’ve recently seen some oddly dressed Sylvanans show up on eBay in older looking Japanese packaging. I’m not sure what to name her yet but I want to do something Japanese since Tanuki are so uniquely Japanese. Or I might make a play off to Tom Nook from Animal Crossing and have her last name be Nook and do something.like Tammy Nook because my brother said Tom Nook is a play off of Tanuki and he’s a Tanuki. But we’ll see. I also got my starry sky cats and pandas.. I was hoping to do a valetntine’s scene I had in my head but I didn’t get to it in time. It involved the vintage tree house from the 80s and I am having trouble locating the roof but I will get to it as soon as I am able.

Almost Tanuki’s

I’ve been pretty quite for a while since I have so many hobbies and interests and I kind of phase through them throughout the year. But I started to get an inkling for Sylvanians recently and it’s perfect timing for the February to April releases as there are many cool new items coming out. I just pre-ordered the Starry Sky Cats and the Pandas on Amazon JP. I usually buy my releases from Amiami.com but I wanted to try out Amazon for that and anything else cool I might be able to find there. It took some coordinating as when my form of payment was authorized it set off a fraud alert. So I switched it to my Paypal debit card and it was fine. I. Am including pictures because some of you might not have seen them. I’m in love with the cats, I love having a family of black cats and the magician theme is interesting. The pandas are great too because they have pastel clothes that will make for a unique Easter scene if I can get that going. I started an Instagram because I thought that would help having followers that maybe would stick with you even if you are hit and miss with posts and I bought a web domain. Probably shouldn’t have but well now I have one LOL. Anyway here are those new families.

Anyway, my biggest reason for posting was to share some super sad news. I thought I had obtained 3 Tanuki Sylvanian. It was a dream come true. It was the mom and dad from one seller and the sister from another selller. But then today the seller sent a message claiming that the parents were missing a tail and that they could not sell them to me. My brother had purchased them for me as a gift and the messages and things about the situation was really suspicious.. Like I would have still wanted them damaged but that wasn’t offered. I’d have taken a discount, one wasn’t offered. So it seems like just a ruse. Someone may have contacted the seller on the side an offered more money. I’ve had similar things happen before when going after rare items the previous time was with some books on a yard sale site on Facebook. I had clearly claimed them first and someone side messaged the seller seeing that I had claimed them and the seller saw the message before she had seen me comment and stake my claim. Anyway you noticed that I said 3 Tanuki well so far nothing weird has happened with the Tanuki sister transaction. So hopefully that will go through without problems and I’ll have at least one Tanuki. I’m pretty devastated though. But hopefully some day I’ll have the whole family.

Happy collecting!