Because special new sculpt renewal?

I want to say it's because of the new style he's being done in. The super proportional more human look. I'm not sure that Black and RX were done in this manner. He's also the first and only figuart so far to use the peg wrists. Given that Hibiki was advertised in the style, I can only assume he will have peg wrists and fancy box also. That is, unless those peg wrists were complained about enough.

The Gaim riders still have the ball jointed wrists, so I'll say they're not in the new style.

Umm... No they don't.

I just now realized we're up to 1,011 pages on this discussion :lol.

My mistake. It's early and I was looking at the official photos and swear I saw the seams that were on the ball jointed wrists.

Even better, because I really wanted fancy boxes for Gaim figuarts.

Edit: Hmm....the pics for Gridon and Bravo most definitely have the old wrists. While Ryugen very clearly has peg wrists. What's the deal with that? All the other riders I can't tell exactly as they weren't photographed with exposed enough wrists. Unless of course they're somehow making a hybrid of the two styles with the ball hinge joint, but that part pegs into the arm. I'd like that.

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Oh that's right, the others do... I remember that being brought up before now. I was using Ryugen, Gaim, and Baron as a reference before replying. But I didn't think of looking at the exclusives.

Yeah I really want to know what's going on with these. Maybe Bandai really put a lot into the development of the wrist system change and wants to ensure making their money back by only placing it in the retail releases until it becomes worthwhile to have them in the exclusives. Of course, after saying it out loud, it does sound unlikely to me.

I'm debating getting Figma Siren to go along with my S.H.Figuarts Ryuki riders, at least as a placeholder. Because I don't know when the hell she's getting released in S.H. form and it's weird having every Rider but her.

Same here. I mean I know they have a tendency to fall apart, but as a static display piece, how bad can it be?

It's a sad day for me, I sadly had to cancel my Hibiki pre-order just cause my grandfather said that would be the only way he would even consider letting me get another model railway locomotive. :cry

Hmm, I'm willing to believe that Ryugen has the old wrists but it's just the angle, I mean he does still have that kinda bulgy part...