Recent post by Bluefin:

https://twitter.com/TeamRiderUS/stat...88063332315136\

This might be a sign they are bringing SODO to the US.

A new tiny man arrived today! From a show I haven’t watched yet!

https://challengerscomics.com/images...abersodo1a.jpg

My box of Saber Book 1 showed up today, and I thought I’d post a little bit about the SO-DO body that’s being used. I mean, that’s pretty much the whole reason I bought this set, since I’m a year or two away from watching Saber. I may end up loving the series and decide to grab everything else down the line, but after getting all of Zero-One without actually watching any of Zero-One… I think I’m okay with just getting the main two Riders from Saber, sample the body design, and leave the rest for a possible future.

https://challengerscomics.com/images...abersodo1b.jpg

But here he is! Kamen Rider Saber! It’s a super-easy bit of stickering to get him finished, since so much of the suit is already painted. I mean, look at the body that comes in the second box:

https://challengerscomics.com/images...abersodo1c.jpg

You’re only stickering the driver, both left hands, and both feet. The other box is stickers for the sword, the right hands, four stickers for the right arm, and four stickers for the helmet. (The blade in the helmet is detachable, which is both necessary for applying the stickers to it and also just sort-of neat. I don’t know if it detaches on the show, but I liked that it did on the figure.) Way more of this thing is painted than I’ve ever seen outside of Chronicle sets, and maybe even more than that. This feels like a premium figure at a retail price.

https://challengerscomics.com/images...abersodo1d.jpg
https://challengerscomics.com/images...abersodo1e.jpg
https://challengerscomics.com/images...abersodo1f.jpg

Here’s the finished Saber. The new torso design… there are some Pros and Cons.

The big Pro is that he has a great new range of motion. His arms can flex in and out in very natural-looking ways. There’s a lot more dynamism to his posing, which is very fun.

The two big Cons are the ways the stickering on the sword and dragon pauldron limit those posing options. Basically, with the sword only being stickered on one side, you can’t really have the sword displayed too many different ways. He can’t swing it backwards, or turn it at too much of an angle. If it’s anything other than dead-on, it’s going to look not so good. The dragon pauldron doesn’t help that arm, since it’s tightness to the body (and Saber’s collar on that side) means that the more extreme angles the new torso design offers will cause that pauldron to pop right off. Not all the time, but often enough to be annoying.

But! He’s a great figure for the price. I’m not a huge fan of the suit’s aesthetic (I think that helmet is pretty bad), but it’s a hell of a figure for retail SO-DO. Some huge advances in paint work, and pretty much all the articulation you could ask for in a cheap candy toy. Definitely worth checking out, even if you don’t plan on collecting the line.

I am very jealous, feeling silly for not having pre-ordered this, hoping to find it cheaper later. Also nice review

Saber is a design that has grown on me quite a bit since the original reveal. I love the half dress and dragon pauldron, the colors work great, and the head is pretty alright.

https://cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/image...0917190222.png
Also according to the SODO posts you're suppose to move the dragon shoulder down a bit.

Thanks! I can't imagine Saber'll be too tough to find on the aftermarket. He's double-packed in the case, right?

There's basically no way to do that? The pauldron only has one attachment point, and that point is the part of the shoulder that doesn't move. Looking at the box art (since I don't know what this suit is supposed to look like from the show), that notch needs to be below the dragon's mouth, which means the pauldron has to be on the shoulder attachment. Not sure how else to construct it!

I would assume he's double packed. I'm looking forward to getting him (and the rest of the set)

Okay looking at the images, you need to nestle the center front teeth of the dragon pauldron's "face" onto the small spike on the upper forearm above the elbow joint.

So, basically, that notch on the arm (flames?) passes through the gap on the pauldron's mouth as you move the arm up and down. It can't really nestle or anything. It's designed (smartly!) to push the pauldron up a bit as you move the arm around.

Ooooooh, that makes sense. I'm not 100 percent if that helps, or if you didn't know that, so uh, keep me updated *thumbs up*

Fusion Trinity!
Take flight to the sky for the honor of Valhalla!

https://i.imgur.com/7IUbYbf.jpg
Valkyrie Fusion Trinity form, get on it V-Cinext!

Yo this is really awesome!

Okay so I stumbled across a translation of the latest candy toy blog post from the SODO designer, and it included this part about how to best use the right arm of Dragon Senki Saber.