Finally! Arrival of the Uris

Well, we never thought the day would come. Bluega and my Uris have arrived. After Custom House finally shipped them, it took forever to sort things out with a stupid German shipping company called GDSK. Apparently when something from China is shipped via EMS, they have the rights to deliver it. They also want to charge you 25€ (~$30) "handling fee". After searching online for a night, I found a way around it. A great German blogger has posted a how-to-deal-with-GDSK-guideline. Thanks for that!! It appears that Google is now ranking it just below the GDSK homepage. :D

Even with the help of that blog, it took two weeks to get the Uris home. The pleasant aspect is, that I made a really great friend in the process. Thanks, Bluega for sticking with me thorugh that ordeal, fighting by my side!

Anyways, on to the pictures. They came the day before yesterday after the sun went down. I was home all day, because I coincidentally didn't have to work that day. I waited all day for the package to come, cause I'd seen that it had they had arrived in the area at 4am in the morning. When tracking updated to "failed delivery attempt" at 5pm I was fuming. I called up the local office of the GDSK shipping company and complained bitterly. They called the delivery guy and made him come back to my house.

I had planned to make a little photostory but after watching the news all day, following what was going on in Japan, I just wasn't in the mood anymore. I took these pictures mainly to share with Bluega, but I find company reviews always helpful so I'll post them anyways. Please excuse the bad quality!

Ok, now really - the pictures:


A picture of one of the inner boxes. You can imagine what the outer box looked like...

When I saw this I was not very happy. I made the delivery guy stay until I was sure that inside everything was ok.

There they are! Not perfect albeit...
We bought the Uris during a special event and where supposed to get a dress. We didn't.
They sent us acrylic eyes instead. We also got two certificates like I asked for. The eye putty they sent along is useless imho. It didn't stick at all and felt slightly oily. A no-go for me.


All dressed, wigged and with the eyes they came with. Rosalie, my Gaby wanted to be in the picture as well. 

The one on the left (my Clementine) has a weirdly shiny and sparkly head that makes her look like a Twilight vampire. o_O I suppose it is mold release stuff that got stuck to her. The one on the right is Bluega's Sputnik.She has a little chip missing from her head close to where the head cap meets it. It could be worse, as it's easily hidden by a wig. 

You might be able to tell from the picture that the Uris arrived with the new hands. Rosalie still has the old ones. They need some careful sanding but are otherwise lovely. Now I want a pair for Rosalie as well!

I took two quick pictures of Shiny aka Clementine with my Rosalie, my Ange Ai Gaby today. So you can see her in daylight.


Clementine is still a little skeptic if she will like it here...


"I'm sure you'll like it just fine."

Sputnik has already been sent off to Sweden. 
I'm still working on removing the shiny from Clementine. I used the Mr Clean Magic Eraser on her last night for two hours. Her forehead is now a nice matte, but I can't seem to get the areas around the eyes, nose and mouth. I guess, I'll try isopropyl next. Anybody got any other tips?