#prize a

[miku-museum]

Name : Hatsune Miku Furyu Kuji Noodle Stopper

Manufacturer : FuRyu

Illustrator : Nardack (ナルダク) a.k.a Kim Eunhye, Pixiv account : https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/341433

Release date : August 3rd 2025

Dimension : Height 14cm (figure), depth 11cm (figure), width 10.5cm (figure)

Personal note : I've often seen "kuji" or "ichiban kuji" in figurine deniminations and wondered what it is ; Ichiban Kuji (一番くじ, which can be translated to The Best Lottery) is a Lottery system created by BANDAI SPIRITS, similar to every lottery system except you'll always win a prize, and the prizes consist of original goods created in collaboration with popular entertainment franchises. Prizes come into categories, such as Prize A, Prize B, and also "Last One Prize" awarded to the person who draws the very last ticket in a store, which is a special item. In Japan, tickets can be boughts at official IchibanKuji shops, convenience stores, bookstores, hobby shops, among others. You may peel your ticket open instantly to reveal your prize category, and receive the corresponding prize immediately at the store where you drew the ticket. It's possible to check in advance what prizes are still available in which stores, and depending on the franchise, they may sell out fast. This Miku figurine is a Prize A, and a Pearl Ver. of it exists as well and could be won as "Last One Prize". It's designed by Nardack who also designed the Luka, Rin, Len, Kaito and Meiko figurines along with Miku for this precise Furyu Kuji Noodle Stopper series ! They also designed a few other official Miku figurines, and a Sailor Moon Garage kit.

[thetrinketgal-collection]

Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ - Enchanted Rose (Ichiban Kuji, Prize A)

This review is full of crappy photos, but please, bear with them and with my rush to share this review! If someone out there wants to know what this item is like to decide if they want to buy, the sooner the better - Prizes A don’t come easy nor cheap, and the older they are, the more difficult to be found.

It comes in a very big box:

I find it cute that they included a handle - if you win this in situ, of course you need to carry it home, and a handle is comfortable. But do not get scared of the size of the box, it is pretty light, and it is oversized since...

... some assembly is required. It makes the rose accessible for it to be used as atrezzo, and easy to fix in case it fell from its stand or something. You won’t be as reluctant to open the dome as you might if you had never had to.

Overall, this item is not really life-size, but the chosen size is very good. Small enough to be used as decoration in any room (and to be feasible, because honestly, the real thing was huge), but big enough not to scream ‘miniature’.

Yeah, it is quite big. My treasure...

The rose is a little bit, well, little, but it looks perfect under the dome. It is made of a translucent plastic that looks a little like gummies... A weird choice, since it is not illuminated or anything and it could have perfectly been opaque.

I guess they were going for an otherworldly look, but they achieved a toy look instead. No prob, still cute.

Next piece is a see-through stand to make the rose ‘float’ in the dome. It is way too bulky to be completely ignored, but I appreciate that it will probably stand the pass of time. It already wiggles when you carry the dome around, a flimsier stand would probably break:

The rose has a hole, and the stand a peg. The hole of my rose is crooked, so it floats leaning to a side.

Now, about the dome:

It has a brown base and the see-through dome, which can be removed or inserted by twisting it to align two pegs. It deviates from the original design on two details: the fact that it includes a base, and a golden BatB logo:

I think that the dome came in the box with this logo placed on the front. I suppose that when you fit the dome on the base, you can chose whether you want it on the front or on the back.

The base has a hole for the stand, an on-off button on the back and two fallen rose petals. At the bottom there’s the battery compartment, you need a screwdriver to open it and requires two AA-LR6 batteries.

Turning the button on reveals three yellow LEDs to represent the magic glow of the enchanted rose:

It doesn’t play music or anything (I had wondered before I got it). The light is not strong enough to use as a lamp nor to illuminate the floating rose, so it was not really meant to be used in complete darkness. It does look nice in semidarkness. There you are a photo of my rose as-is in its current spot:

And the best picture I was able to take in the dark:

So in a nutshell: I am no expert on BatB merchan, but I think that this is the closest to a full-atrezzo enchanted rose as it gets. As decoration, it is beautiful and gives a magical touch to any library or bedroom.