Ayupan Collectors
 

Hello! I recently decided that I want to collect Ayupans. Can anyone recommend any good sites that are regularly updated with information and pictures as well as a numbered list of all of the figures that are out and are coming out? Also, I recently became aware that there are fake Ayupans being sold. Does anyone know any good websites to buy Ayupans without having to fear that I may get a fake? I know YesAsia is good but are there any other trustworthy sites out there? Are there certain websites I should avoid as well? Also, what's the price range I can expect to have to pay for these figures? Sorry to bombard you all with so many questions but my main goal for this thread is to learn anything I can about Ayupans. Any information you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

I can't tell you much except for that YesAsia sells them, but you already knew that.
Since I am a newbie ayupan collector too I thank you for this thread and am interested in what the others will say! :yes

http://eneabba.net/ayu/ayupan/ + http://completeayupan.blogspot.com/

Thank you for the wonderful websites. I've bookmarked them both. Now I'll be able to keep up with what the ayupans I need as well as what I have. :)

Ayupans are around 5cm tall. Some may be taller due to their props, but the body height is 5cm. Their original price is USD5, but resellers tend to sell them at a higher price, USD10-30. Some rare ayupans are sold at a higher price, the most recent one being the rollin' ayupan. tokyoxjapanxfan sold it for USD200, lol.

i'm a ayupan collector! u can pm me if u have any questions! :D

Thanks for the links, angel*ayumi. :)

I'd recommend ebay for just about anything, lol. But, there isn't a lot of Ayupan sellers (that I trust) up there and I want to start collecting too.

I don't think I could ever spend $200 on an Ayupan but that's a seller's dream, especially if they didn't pay nearly that much for it. tokyoxjapanxfan deserves a high five and a pat on the back for that one, lol. But anyways, at this point, I'm focusing on the newer ayupans but I'll pick up an older one if I find it pretty cheap. For the new collectors, are you all starting from the beginning or only focusing on what's out and upcoming? For older collectors, how long have you been collecting?

Thank you very much for the info! This is a really big help for me in the future when I'll be able to start collecting them..

Thanks you very much.

Oh wow, never saw the Secret tour ayupans before, they are soo cute!! :D
And the ASIA tour 2008 ayupans are so good-looking, I saw them before but totally forgot about them..
wanna have them.. :cry Why didn't I discover my love for ayupans earlier? :laugh

Btw, were there ayupans made for the NEXT LEVEL album? I mean, like for the booklet outfits? I don't remember ever seeing them on YA or here.

yes!NEXT LEVEL Album has an ayupan.
this: http://eneabba.net/ayu/ayupan/120ayupan.htm

Yeah, unfortunately that's the only one they had. I wish they made the one with her in that cop hat too, I'd rather buy that one. GUILTY didn't have any booklet ayupans too right?

gosh ayupans are soo cute!! xD


I'm like obsessed with them since I got the secret one *o*

Ah thank you! Well, sadly I don't like that one much.. :/

Omg!! I would die for GUILTY ayupans!! :laugh Ok, no, I wouldn't but I would want to have them so bad!

if you're serious about collecting ayupans you need dedication and a rather large bank balance. And some will cost you upwards of $100 or more, they're just that rare.

I got my first two AT09 Next Level Ayupans today. I got Ayupans 122 and 129 (almost thought it was the Secret Ayupan when I first opened it). I can't wait to order more!

If you wanna collect ALL the ayupans. It's gonna cost you perhaps 700USD or more. Because there are 2 sets that are rare and very expensive. They are the m(u) sets with cards and the TA sets. Really expensive. Those are the 2 sets i can't bear to buy it! They cost like, 200USD a set.

Collecting something is a good hobby but it could set u back a lot of money. Do consider before venturing into it. Because i started and i couldn't stop. haha. :)

For those of you who have been collecting the AT09 Ayupans (especially from YesAsia), what do you find is the most common figures you get?

the rollin ayupan. i received 4 of that. But really, it is random, so it's hard to say.

When I received my Ayupans today, I kind of liked not knowing which ones they were until I opened the packaging. It would be awesome if we could pick which ones we wanted to buy so we wouldn't have to worry about getting duplicates. But at the same time, it's great that we can sell and trade our extras here with other members.

I second this, not knowing which one you're going to get is sort of fun but when you have duplicates (or not the one you want) it's frustrating =(

I used to collect ayupans. I began when she released them in Family Marts around the country back in 2002. My most prized are the T.A. Live Tour ones.
I've stopped collecting them mainly because I'm unable to log into Mu-mo when they're put on sale. They get sold-out in a matter of minutes!! I'm tempted to buy some this year though... we'll see.
And my advice for collectors is to be patient. Wait a few years (yes, that's right) and the ayupans you want might be on sale for a reasonable price on Yahoo Auctions JP.

I'll definetely have to check out Yahoo Auctions JP because I've heard quite a few people talk about getting their Ayupans there. Do the sellers ship outside of Japan?

most of them do not send to outside japan .you need to use middleman services like celga,japan auction agency etc

^^I use Shopping Mall Japan. Their rate is pretty fair.

But otherwise yeah, you're probably gonig to need a middle man to bid off there. Great deals though so it's worth it most of the time.

Do most of you collect by sets or just buy the ones you like?

I started with the ones I liked first, like A MUSEUM and (miss)understood CD ones, then started collecting others I didn't even like. Now I have all the numbered Ayupans I collect them as they're released.

I think that's a wonderful idea to collect that way. At one point, I was just collecting them as I saw them but I realized that I needed to have some kind of structure as to how I'm going to collect them since there are so many.

yeah, its overwhelming at first, there's so many out there, but some will appeal to you more than others, so I suggest starting with those, then working your way down to any you may not be so fond of.

Some of the ayupans I really do not like at all are:

#8, #19, #22 (mainly because it always falls off my shelf, so I call it my Kamikaze Ayupan), 47 (cos it cost me an arm and a leg and it's not even a real costume from anything!), #87 (jailbird Ayu?)

I have a question about those Ayupans~
Do they have 2 designs, like one smiles and one doesn't cause there are always 2 pictures~

No most of them have sad faces, there are only a few (since AT06 I think) that are smiling.
The reason you always see a smile version on eneabba is that nick made them all smile^^

I wonder why they decided to give the Ayupans more sad faces than happy faces. I don't know if they were supposed to come across as serious expressions and ended up looking sad. It's not very fitting of Ayu as she is always smiling when I see her, lol.

I want to collect 1 entire set (m)u ones, but for the others I just buy the ones I like ^_^