Bye, Sandy

NCS Update
 «©NCSX» The datacenter where our ncsx.com server is colocated was knocked out by Hurricane Sandy last Monday night and it took about a week to get generator power restored to the building. The backup generator for the building is located on the roof but the fuel was stored in the basement which got flooded out by torrential rivers of water that sped through lower Manhattan at the height of the storm last week.

   The server's been up since yesterday so we're going to assume that things will be okay from here on out and service will continue uninterrupted. The site is being updated to a new format in December 2012 but the old archives will be kept online for revisiting so when we're in wheelchairs rolling around the office, we can still stare at pages like this one.

TOYS Nendoroid: Virtual Vocalist anim.o.v.e - Lily Action Figure - Import Preorder

From the Manufacturer
The Vocaloid who is rapidly gaining popularity - Lily!

   Lily, the Vocaloid character who is becoming more and more popular by the day, is joining the Nendoroid series!

   She comes with optional parts including a microphone and speaker, which allow you to recreate the pose on the 'VOCALOID2 Lily' packaging! She also comes with a singing expression to pose her singing out loud, as well as an expression from 'Harii' the fan-made bee character based off Lily!

   Preorders ship in March 2013.

Jan Code: 4560308571160

Generator power running in datacenter

The building that our datacenter is located in is currently running on generator power so our site at www.ncsx.com should be back up later today or Tuesday if there are any exigent issues. The lobby of the building doesn't look too bad considering that there was about 8 feet of water coursing through it last Monday night. A site redesign will be implemented in December 2012 for quicker updates that will be posted throughout the day.

Import Outlook for November 8, 2012

3DS	Jewel Pet: Mahou de Oshare ni Dance * Deco	Furyu
3DS	Tobidase Doubutsu no Mori	Nintendo
3DS	Tobidase Doubutsu no Mori Pack 3DS LL	Nintendo
PS3	Shin Sangoku Musou 6 Empires	Tecmo Koei
PS3	Silent Hill: Downpour	Konami
360	Halo 4	Microsoft

Datacenter back up by 7PM today?

Con Edison won't be restoring power to the colocation center in lower Manhattan today but a diesel-powered generator will be functional and online later tonight. This means all of the servers should get power and we should be back online at www.ncsx.com tonight. This is the latest update that we have and in the meantime, we've been working on changing the format of the site for daily updates but we'll keep the old archives from 1995 and thereabouts online for perusal.

New imports in stock, datacenter still down

The datacenter's still down and Con Edison hasn't restored power to the building yet. Looks like Monday at this point but on the brighter side of things, this week's new imports have arrived and will be shipping to preorders and new orders today. Early preorders for Tales of Xillia 2 will ship with the bonus magazine shown below which was given away by the publisher in 50% ratio.

Datacenter should be back up tomorrow

Based on information from the colocation center, power should be restored by tomorrow and the servers in their building should be back up on Friday. This week's import shipments containing PS3 Tales of Xillia 2 and PS3 Okami HD are scheduled to arrive tomorrow and preorders will ship on Friday afternoon.

Datacenter still down, UPS working

The datacenter that colocates our ncsx.com server in Battery Park is still flooded but things appear to slowly be getting back to normal. We anticipate they'll be back online tomorrow. Our shop at www.shopncsx.com is hosted elsewhere so it wasn't affected by the outage. JFK airport has re-opened although Laguardia is still closed because of extensive flooding and damage. This week's import shipments should arrive on time (Thursday/Friday) since the flights are routed through JFK. Photo credit: kaitstalyn