Rehearsal Zhe
Here we have Zhehan rehearsing for the Word of Honor concert!
The inspiration for this fig is Zhehan's casually relaxed Lanvin rehearsal outfit look:
While I tend to like the fancier outfits than the more casual ones, anything associated with the concert is very special to me. I'm happy to have this fig!
Zhehan is of course wearing his glasses in the rehearsal, so this fig came with some frames. And I do mean frames. Unlike the very well crafted and beautiful glasses from Junjun's Cool Boy Mujosh fig, this is bendy PVC. There isn't any plastic in them to simulate glass, and when I got them they were twisted up.
I don't know if you can really see here, but after a lot of warming under hot water and re-bending them back into shape, they were still pretty badly bent. I could not get them to stay on this fig for anything. I'd get one end hooked over one ear and the other would fall right off. I think stiffer frames work better - metal or the hard plastic of Junjun's fig. Incidentally, this is one of the best angles to see the Lanvin logo on his hoodie - it's in shadow in a lot of my pics, but it's pretty visible here.
I ended up laying him down and just draping the glasses over them so you could at least see how it looked:
Not my favorite, to be honest! I don't know if they're just not the right shape, or they're too big - or if it's just me and they look fine to everyone else!
I really like my figs that are based on something to look like that something, including all the details, but as you can see I abandoned the look and just went for the bare-faced look. Sorry Zhehan! Sorry me!
Here's our beautiful Zhehan, starry eyed and getting ready to sing to over 7,000 people live, and far more than that online! Including this one little intrepid American falling headlong into fandom for the first time.
His question mark baseball cap actually goes up pretty high! Some of this is the angle, and some of this is just that figs have pretty big heads.
You can definitely see it here. It's a big hat for a small fig!
And yet, this fig balances just fine. No problem at all.
We have Zhehan's normal curvy proportions, covered up a bit by the slouchy yet fashionable blue Lanvin hoodie. I always find it funny that the hood on these are so small when the heads are so big. Obviously they can't make them actual head size, or it would take up the whole back of the fig!
His little tennis shoes look so small here! They don't look anywhere near enough like they'd be able to balance him, but they do a good job. It must be all that core strength Zhehan's developed over time.
Like all the figs in this series, the maker does a really nice job on the details. This outfit is simple, but she dresses it up with his jewelry, and the little touches on his hoodie and on his shoes. Very nicely done.
And we're back around! I love the pose she picked out for him - very reminiscent of the rehearsal indeed.
This is actually a nice angle to see the hand tucked into his pocket.
This angle made me laugh - it's just one giant question mark!
This is the obligatory moment in this entire 4-fig series where I regret that I did not peel off the protective film from the optional-purchase keychain. It's so dull and drab instead of being bright and vibrant! Sorry all. You can see how cute it is though.
The back of the box card with the name of the fig...
...and as you can tell, we've come to the last of the figs in this series! But there are plenty of more figs to go (and more on order!)
Material: PVC
Fig Count: 300! Wow!
Scene Count: 23
Rating: Happy to hit 300 with this sweet singing fig!
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I Have Caught You (Kiss of the Century)
The fig maker's original listing for this fig set was so wonderful I saved it (poorly machine translated, as usual):
I Have Caught You - mystery figures, wearing red and blue concert robes. The 5.3 concert was the beginning of all fate. I played the rps of the two of them, met a group of excellent and lovely friends, and did some interesting things. Occasionally, when I feel that I can't persevere, thanks to their encouragement, I can persevere all the way. It was not easy for them to catch each other.
The fig maker didn't make it easy to catch this set either - it was a small run limited to 500, and required proof of purchase of at least 164 yuan (each) of endorsements to prove support for each actor, and Gong Jun's endorsement purchase had to be after 5/4. While I had come late to the party and unfortunately never bought any of Zhehan's endorsements, I had made a donation in his honor for his birthday, which counted. For Gong Jun it was much easier since I had already bought some of his 361 products (which I really like btw, all very nice).
This is such a beautiful set - I love it so much. Of course because it's from the SHL concert, which is always an instant shot to the heart, but also it's just a delightfully done pair.
But first, a few pictures to go back down memory lane, on that first day of the concert on 5/3/2021...
HELP I'm feeling emotional! What a great night. Or you know, early morning Pacific Standard Time, it was 2000% worth getting up at 4am for.
I was going to keep going with the concert pics but I have to stop myself because Tumblr's 30 photo post limit has no remorse, and I need to save some bandwidth for these figs!
These arrived safely, thank goodness, tucked away in their polystyrene cases. I found (to my horror) that this, my most recent sea shipment, had a ton of resin figs I had forgotten to get bubble wrapped before I shipped. AND I shipped these with a literal ton (ok not that literal, but close!) of acrylic fig stands, which sure don't weigh much individually but add up when you buy 300 at a time. And when the warehouse puts the pounds and pounds of them right on top of all these figs in the box. The look on my face when I opened the box and came face to face with the sins of my youth. And I would have only have myself to blame, which is always the worst. But miracle of miracles, all these figs escaped unscathed.
Now I know I've said in the past that I can't stand to see figs cry, and I can't! But I will make an exception for this set, because tears of joy at the end of that concert was entirely acceptable and very welcome.
Their little hands! So cute.
Yes my husband just looked over at my screen where I had the enormous photo of two figs kissing up on my photo editor, and he just shook his head. I just started laughing and laughing! Yeah, I don't know how I became this person either (at my age!), but I have NO regrets! NONE.
[Side note - actually, I know exactly how I became this person. And it's this concert, together with the joint Happy Camp episode, that started launched my hyperspeed journey down the Couple Fan Junzhe road. Before this concert, I would have told you definitively, like I would have bet cold hard cash that there was no way I would ever be so crazy or this delusional. Like I've been around, you have to be pretty tough and cynical to survive in today's business world, and I'm not in the habit of believing in much of anything these days. And yet fast forward and here I am (at my age!), watching Gong Jun post vacation photos from Yunnan and swearing up and down these two are in love and married. I am the tinnest of tin hats and I have NO regrets! NONE!]
I think the hair is beautifully done - look at Lao Wen's beautiful guan (which should be gold instead of silver, but not quibbling here!).
The costumes are just beautiful here. I know fig makers despair over Wen Kexing's gorgeous red costume because it's so incredibly ornate that it's hard to replicate, but this looks wonderful.
I like the motion on the robes too, the sweep of it out behind them.
You can just barely see Zhehan's boots here, which is pretty accurate since his outfit is shorter, and given that WKX's red robes are really, really long.
Coming back around - I love the fig maker's choice to have Zhehan's eyes open and Gong Jun's closed, it's a beautiful call out to the Century Hug in the following day's concert.
Here's an extreme close ups of the beautiful costumes.
And from the top...
...and the bottom! These figs are decently stable on their white booted feet, and their interlocking hands actually holds them together really nicely.
One last close up of the Kiss of the Century!
Material: Resin, and a whole lotta love
Fig Count: 262
Scene Count: 19
Rating: Pure romance
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