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S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Drive Type Formula Gallery
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12-27-2015, 11:26 AM
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For-For-For-Formula!
Kamen Rider Drive's
penultimate form arrives in our latest gallery before the holidays commence! Today we're showcasing
S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Drive Type Formula!
**
I've basically taken
2 galleries
here. Post #1 has an extensive look at this figure
without decals
applied, [/B] post #2 features the Trailer Cannon, &
post #3
features the full figure
with all decals applied.
Packaging
As with all previous
Kamen Rider Drive
releases, the only new thing to say about this packaging is that it feature a windowless box because it's a
Tamashii Web Exclusive.
So this is totally normal for web exclusives. In this case, just as with
Heart,
we get to see a lot more awesome box art because of it. Everything else is business as usual.
Main Figure
I'll start off by saying I never really understood the distaste that many people had for
Drive Type Formula.
To me it's an incredibly unique and fun design that takes the car theme to it's extreme, in a good way. The figuart down scales that fantastic design perfectly. And of course because it shares molding with the previous Drive releases it's an already excellent figure. So let's break it down.
For starters, aside from minor mold changes and color differences much of
Type Formula's
lower body is indentical to
Type Speed
&
Proto-Drive.
The first significant change is the new Formula readout on the
Drive Driver
As with all previous uses of this part the Driver can be removed and the readout can be swapped out.
The upper body of course features extensive new molding & remolding. Beginning with the arms we get the new
"flipped" Shift Formula
in the Drive Brace. Also new to the forearms are the
Type Formula Tires.
These smaller tires thankfully do no significantly hinder the arms posability. The Tire Koukan Formula figure, as well as the show prop, could exchange these tires in favor of other power ups but much like Proto-Drive this figure has not been designed for these Tires to be removable.
The most interesting new molding on this figure is the entire chest assembly. Basically the entire upper body is new. The chest has a rather large pair of spoiler wings modeled after an F1 car called the
Power Gail Wing.
This assembly can be removed exposing the flat chest beneath and also allows you to plug on one of the below listed accessories, an exposed
Core Driviar-N.
The shoulder pads greatly resemble car fenders and do hinge up, but not quite enough to give the arms quite the forward & back range they require. Don't get me wrong you can plenty of use out of the arms, but the combination of the tires, shoulders, & large breast plate make it difficult to get some poses out of this guy. On the back side Drive has the newly molded in
X-Fan-Boost.
Essentially a booster jet on his back with a spoiler. And finally we have a new remold of the standard Type Speed head. Formula's head features the same basic design of Type Sped with a new vent on top for aerodynamics and an epic pair of shades over his visor. The shades can be removed by the nature of their design but there's no real purpose to it.
As I'm sure everyone is wondering, yes this figure had an extensive
decals sheet
to deal with. I was pretty skeptical of having to apply ALL of the
Shift Car sponsor logos
myself too, I still firmly believe Bandai should have just done these as tampographs. I'd even have been willing to pair even more for that. But that being said, applying the decals was not difficult in the slightest. While the layout of the decal sheet itself and the instructions don't quite match up, it's not too hard to get everything where it goes. There's a certain margin of error I was willing to accept and I'm glad to say I never came close to it. I expected to ruin these decals and I didn't. If you use a fine point curved pair of tweezers as I did then applying these is a piece of cake. Oddly there are several totally unused decals on this sheet, a couple of Drive "R" symbols and the FULL readout that would go on the Trailer Cannon. The directions make no mention of these additional labels.
Accessories
1 - Shift Formula Car.
Standard un-flipped version, the flipped one is in the Drive Brace already.
1 - Core Driviar-N.
A swap out part for the chest. Not much point in it really without a figuarts version of the Pit Crew to do repairs on the suit as the only time this part was exposed in show meant Drive had been damaged.
2 - sets of hands.
Just so Drive can actually hold the
Trailer Cannon
and the 2nd set just for expressive purposes.
1 - Trailer Cannon.
Now this is a pretty great example of how S.H. Figuarts should strike the balance between functionality & accuracy. When not in use by Drive the
Trailer Mode
can be left on it's own as an oversized Shift Car. To become a handheld weapon you just need to pull down on the handle and lock it into place. However the Trailer Cannon can also replicate the Rider
Shooting Full Throttle attack.
To do this you can first remove the
Shutter Gate Panel,
its the sort of sight on top of the Cannon, a small peg for Shift Cars is there. Just plug on the one of you're choosing. This replicates how the real deal would physically load Shift Cars through a slot in the same place. You can also pull on the silver panel on the front of the cannon to full the entire
Shift Container Barrel
out, which itself has 2 Shift Car pegs on it. So you can mix & match Shifts as you please to recreate Drive's attacks.
I can't really think of anything else that
Type Formula
should have come with that it didn't. That's everything relevant to it, and while the hand selection is slim it's all you really need for this figure. It's got the perfect accessory loadout. I do wish the
Pit Crew
Shift Cars & tires (Sparner, Jacky, & Mantan) had been released but I doubt they would have been included with this. As is though I'm more than pleased.
Final Thoughts
Overall I'm ridiculously happy with how this figure turned out. Being what it is many people wrote this design off as goofy, cumbersome, and ultimately pointless as of Type Tridoron's debut in the series. But
S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Drive Type Formula,
labels and all, is an exceptionally nice release that includes everything you could need for this form.
Nice Drive!
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