A rant about the current state of nendoroids..... again.DiaryPrevNextPrevNext

Added an option to the poll because like,,, I used to be obsessed with Nendos but as time has passed I've become kind of glad that I've remained an extremely lowkey collector/I never got every Nendo I liked as a teen because wow,,,

Granted I still want some Nendos such as ITEM #759218 but as one of the people who got ITEM #1213389 just because Venti's one of my favorites, I have to admit if it wasn't Venti I would never have bought him. Where's the rest of his cape design? Why does he seem so stiff? Why can't they have included at least one more faceplate? I know Genshin has over-complicated designs but the traveler twins were actually p solid compared to him. I'm trying to stay cautious optimistic about ITEM #1552637, ITEM #1552640, ITEM #1618435, and I'm especially concerned about ITEM #1618442 as Xiao's my favorite alongside Lumine and I'm trying to build a collection of him.

Regardless of where Nendos go from here I've decided my ultimate goal is to get some doll bodies and learn to sew so I can make them cute myself regardless. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But yeah my focus going forward will definitely be high quality scales > everything else especially Nendos. They're kind of bottom tier for me now,, ><

i was saving for snow miku 2023 for an awful long time to be so incredibly disappointed by the price and quality of her that i decided not to get her :/ since i don't like the figma either, i'm really sad that i won't have a figure of a design that i love so much.

How I solve this is by only starting really old anime, look if they have nendoroids of characters I liked and if they are available for an alright price (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧

I’m just hoping that ITEM #1781623 prices will be ok compared to ITEM #1585625 and ITEM #1618450 :,)

My friend recently bought a 130 CAD miku nendriod. Yeah.

I haven't seen anyone mention this but what is up with GS selling extra faceplates and accessory packs separately now? I really hope they don't make it a trend to sell barebones nendos and accessories on the side.

i think the root of the issue is that people are still buying them en masse. good smile isn't facing any real repercussions for this notable quality drop. casual collectors don't seem to particularly notice or care about the quality drop. ive noticed amidst all of this complaining that there are plenty of people that don't really notice or care about the quality drop and say they look fine, and there are bounties of people that will still buy them because they don't know any better. market-wise, there is no reason for goodsmile to preserve quality and put effort into nendoroids.

another issue is how mass produced they're becoming. i'd argue nendoroids are becoming over-announced, and it's likely because their production costs are getting lower and lower. how do you think they're offering nendoroid deals to much smaller IPs? while in one hand, it's cool that small IPs are getting something as "official" in the collecting scene as a nendoroid, they're clearly half-assed and low budget production efforts that even cut into the bigger IP's slice of the pie and make the whole quality of the brand by large look much worse. the only nendoroids that seem to have much effort put into them anymore are mikus, and they've certainly realized they can funnel more of that into the price, make out like bandits with the profit margin, and STILL have buyers.

though nendoroids have fallen off for me for a while now, even i was victim to this trend. ITEM #1618486 was a dream item for me, chobits being very significant to me artistically and chi herself a first waifu of sorts. i thought, certainly, a style like clamp's that is already so cutesy can't be fucked up, right? but, no, i was painfully wrong. i almost didn't order her, but i decided to buy her just for her hair sculpt, but the rest of her nendoroid is totally unsalvageable to me. i'm going to commission an artist to make her new faceplates and switch her to a doll body so i can put some pretty dresses on her. it's just generally disheartening, and i was hoping i wouldn't be affected by this trend.

whenever i think of this situation, i reminisce on my first ever grail from my youth, ITEM #117943. not a chance in hell they'd give a character like this such care and intricate design nowadays, and it hurts to even look at that price and think of what used to be. i know inflation has occurred, but certainly not at this 200% increase rate--i'd even argue they'd likely have charged closer to 13000 for her, so itd be more like a 230% price increase. not even inflation justifies that. but it wouldn't matter, because like i said, the most important thing is that a nendoroid like this WOULDN'T be made at all, period. it would've just been chariot standing there, perhaps an extra faceplate and a single accessory. then they'd sell her for 8k yen because she has a unique leg sculpt. the passion, the devotion to the fans, it's all gone. if a series as popular as spy x family can't even get great treatment, what can? aside from miku, of course.

aside from picking them apart for the sake of customization, the nendoroid brand is dead to me. honestly, i'm a bit sick of good smile company in general. i harbor a large dislike of PUPs as well. to me, it just feels like they're charging more and more to be cheaper and cheaper, and getting away with it. it's an unfortunate trend.

I remember a while back I started going for nendos more than figmas even though I liked figmas better because the price for figmas and their lack of accessories just made them stop being worth it for me. And now it's happening to nendos. :/ I've already skipped a few I would have absolutely gotten if they weren't so expensive and lackluster in terms of accessories. It's a bummer. Add their high price to the still incredibly high shipping prices and it's just not worth it anymore. I still have a few preordered because I really like them but I skip on a lot more.

At this point, nendos are starting to cost as much as scales and I'm like, I might as well get a scale figure lmao.