Kamen Rider Black and Battle Hopper Renewal Box-Ar
 

Pretty sweet looking Box-Art

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Nice. I was hoping for a re-do of the Black packaging. Now let's hope RX gets the same treatment.

I wish I'd preordered Battle Hopper :(

i hope RX gets renewal... the present one is way way too skinny... or rather... scrawny

I find that problem with a lot of figuarts, sadly. I know toku heroes aren't muscle bound in quite the same way American ones are, but unless they have stuff built onto them like armour plates or coats or whatever, the figuarts take streamlined to its most extreme and leave them looking like a sort of lanky female.

Figuarts are, until more recently, kind of more anime-esque in proportions.

Why do the boxes sometimes say Masked Rider and then Kamen Rider on others?

Anyway, I like the Figuarts just the way they are. I don't need them to be muscle bound toys.

Anything before W is called Masked Rider as that used to be the official translation, after W they adopted Kamen Rider as the official translation.

I'm not saying muscle bound, that'd be one extreme to another, but older figuarts are extremely slender at times compared to their on screen counterparts, and the proportions are usually pretty off. I just think they could do with shortening the limbs down, and bulking out the figures more. My MMPR Figuarts certainly look a lot better, than say my SPD blue who looks anorexic.

Yeah like I said but didn't finish, older Figuarts were less "make an exact replica of the suit" and more making it look like a really good anime figure. For example, the Hana figure from Den-O was anime-style. They weren't really shooting for dead-on accuracy so much as just quality and form with reasonable accuracy. But the recent ones have gone for the replica look, and that's why I really want the older figures to be redone like W and some of the Imagin from Den-O. Kabuto's getting redone and he looks EXCELLENT, and his old figure wasn't even that bad. Bandai has deffinitely shifted goals, and look like they're well aware of the areas of contrast in the line overall now.

And I agree, nobody's asking for "muscle-bound." But then that's about the general rule, ain't it? One gratuitous extreme or the other.

Some of the older Figuarts are okay, minus the lack of accessories my Pegasus Kuuga is wicked, he even has some diecast. But I really do prefer the modern Figuarts who make show accuracy their number one goal, the figures were already well made and all the rest, so it isn't like they've become worse figures out of it, they've become greater ones.

Yeah, the Ryuki ones are amazing. Not only do they match the proportions and accuracy, they match the finish of the suits, too. Shiney where shiney, matte where matte, metallic where metallic. Proportional accuracy is not too much to ask for. Hell, we don't need to ask, Bandai's already doing it with these new versions!

But then again that's progress and evolution of design. Time goes on, figures get better.

Plus, it's amazing how much better some suits look in figure form, I just wish figures like my Flame Styles were better made. He looks amazing but he just falls to pieces every time I move him.

I'm clearly just the luckiest guy ever when it comes to Flame Style :lol