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11-09-2015, 05:37 AM | #181 |
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Egh. Finally paid for my Hand and Tut, checking out shipping for my Private Warehouse stuff, and...It's just as I feared. On account of the Hand's box being obscenely long (i'm assuming it's the length, since it's lighter than the Saber) it's adding well over 1000 yen to the shipping cost. Oh, and it means it can only be shipped out by EMS. So that's pretty great. Pretty...great.
The shipping is going to cost me like 300 yen less than the Driver did. That's...nice. Really starting to wish the Hand could break down into some component parts right about now... Thankfully the SunglasSlasher (gotta love them removable blades) and the Megauruoda look like they should be reasonably sized...don't need any more boxes with extreme dimensions... |
11-09-2015, 11:34 AM | #182 |
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I'm new to the boards, but I just got my first Kamen Rider figure, and wanted to show that the Ghost figures seem to be purposely designed to achieve the hood-less look by detetching the back of the jacket, while all the other pieces can directly attach to the base figure.
As long as you don't show the back, you can't tell anything is missing. P.S., I also posted this info. in a gallery thread, but I wasn't sure what people read more. Sorry if this isn't new information. I discovered this on my own. |
11-12-2015, 10:25 AM | #183 |
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I told myself I wouldn't buy into the GC line but seeing them in the Kamen Rider Diner made me splurge a but, bought both Ghost and spectre with tut's eyecon and snake phone thing.
Also just checked gan gun hand is on backorder urgh I preordered that the moment it went up as well with, was hoping I could get it to arrive by the time I got back from Japan
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11-13-2015, 02:29 AM | #184 |
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11-13-2015, 02:39 AM | #185 |
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They both look pretty sweet. Though I gotta say, what with Beethoven being such a neutral color, his face is looking way more rainbow than gray. Guess it's cool though. Also, the packaging for the Eyecons continues to be totally sweet.
The deadline for the oldest item in my Private Warehouse on HLJ is coming up in less than a week, so I hope this thing continues the trend of not being backordered so I can ship it out along with everything else. I got Tut, so...probably. I should be getting all my stuff in a couple of weeks at most. Can't wait to have Newton not be all alone anymore... |
11-13-2015, 02:43 AM | #186 |
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So this set comes out this week, and the Billy stuff comes out next week, right?
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11-13-2015, 02:51 AM | #187 |
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That's right buddy
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11-13-2015, 02:51 AM | #188 |
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Yeah, Billy, Clock and GC04 all out in one week.
HLJ is saying GC05 is also out in November as opposed to December like I thought so I'm guessing that's coming out the week after next. Which, I still don't get why they didn't just release it last week with all the other Specter stuff? But whatevs. |
11-13-2015, 03:16 AM | #189 |
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Wall of text incoming, but can I just say that I think they really dropped the ball on the belt when it comes to Specter? First, the orange belt and grip on the lever. Doesn’t really affect the toy in any way but it looks ass. Specter’s costume is black and blue, the orange parts look really random. Why couldn’t these be blue? You could literally release a second belt which is the same one as Ghost’s but with blue elements and call it Specter Driver. And to don’t be an ass to customers who already have the belt, release a Specter Kit with the blue parts which they can swap on their old Driver.
Next: The sounds. Some Eyecons just play Specter’s jingle instead of Ghost’s, permanently. Which makes no sense considering they steal Eyecons at this point in the show and if Specter uses Edison’s Eyecon it will play his jingle and not Ghost’s, but the toy won’t be able to do that. Would a switch somewhere on the toy which permanently sets the jingle for every Eyecon to either Ghost or Specter really be that hard to do? I think not. And it’s not like that won’t give away something to early or something like that, Specter’s silhouette was shown before the show even began so you can just make a page in the instruction booklet or the a picture on the box telling kids there is a "mystery switch" which will come in handy once a new character appears on the show. Yes, there might be more Riders later in the show and giving all of them away might suck, but hackers are through this thing anyways, and it only has these two jingles, right? Shouldn’t be a problem then. I mean yeah, one belt for several characters is hardly anything new in Kamen Rider, Ryuki Riders all had the same belts, so did Gaim, Drive had 2 Mach Drivers and so on and so forth. But the thing is: The belt on the Ryuki Riders was neutral in color and it was personalized through the card deck which made the buckle. Gaim had the Lockseeds which were colored appropriately and had images of the weapons and stuff, and they had the faceplates. The Energy Rider’s are another story, but I don’t really mind them since they all have the same weapon and stuff. And I don’t think the designs crash that hard anyways. Same with the Mach Driver. But the orange parts on Specter look completely out of place. Yes, his weapon has orange parts too, but that is the ugliest weapon I’ve seen in a long time anyways so I don’t even want to think about seeing that thing. But the Driver is a part of Specters costume, and the toy lacks the needed function of switching jingles when it comes to the Eyecons. |
11-13-2015, 03:22 AM | #190 |
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I can forgive the orange on Specter's base form for the simple fact that it's a decent contrast with his blue. I don't mind it. It definitely becomes too much color with his other forms though, and the Hand only worsens things in that respect. Why it couldn't just be black is beyond me.
I think it would have been cool to have a faceplate-like system to handle the standby jingles, but like, with the handles, somehow? Just give Specter a silver one or something and have it come with the Hand. The orange belt doesn't bother me much at all, though, since it's usually hidden by the hoodies. But yeah, I'll agree that the Driver situation at least sound-wise is unfortunate at best. Last edited by barnstenchfartface; 11-13-2015 at 03:24 AM.. |
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