Watching Drive I'm already sold on a figuarts for him, though I do wonder how they'll handle the tire changes.

Seems a bit much to resell the same figure just because one part changed....unless....every tire change is an exclusive D:

G and Kaiketsu Zubat are probably in my holy grail section for figuarts. here's a thought, what if the new shinkocchou seihou is kamen rider g?

Oh not in a million years :lol

I wish, but the next nice premium release if anything will be Kiva.

which is another I want very much. now for a csm kiva belt.

I would imagine the tire change could be sold in sets similar what they did with Fourze effect parts.

As I've said countless times in the past: Bandai WON'T be doing that again because then that'll be competing with the gimmick based figures.

That's not gonna be an option, not when they can re-release a perfectly good mould.

Aren't the price points of the SHF and gimmick figure different?

SHF Drive is going to be a main release, and a hypothetical tire set could just be a web exclusive. A tire is way less plastic than fruit armor

Don't forget that Bandai tried doing that in the past with the Fourze Moudel sets, and a majority of them can be found on slash and burn clerance all over the place.

I don't think that's going to be an approach we'll ever see from Bandai again at a mass market, and it doesn't make much sense to release Tire Sets when they can just charge full price for a full on figure.

Well guys, good news and bad news. Sentai Tamashii got to talk to one of our contacts from Bluefin while at NYCC.

- B-Fighters will NOT be released in the US. They will not be importing any of them as they are all exclusives. They will not be released in this market.

- Bluefin had no idea the Akaranger body was larger than standard SHF's. They literally said "must have used a new body type" in response. So yeah, that's all on the Japanese end of things.

- Since there's no Akibaranger to market further sentai SHF's through the importation of Sentai SHF's in the US is pretty much done. They won't rule out importing the Gokaigers entirely but that's no longer their focus. Something vague about "fan demand" making it happen but that's it. They are strictly focusing, for the forseeable future, on Injustice, Mario/Video Game, and other miscellaneous figuarts. So yeah, imports of other sentais are pretty much over even if they do come out in Japan.

- Same goes for Kyoryuger. Only a big maybe about them being imported, only if there's demand. But since so many of them are exclusives it's probably not going to happen. Again vague "fan demand".

- The vague and frankly confusing answer they gave about Gaim? No. They can't release them. Because they haven't finished releasing them in Japan. It's a licensing issue.

- And a bonus for non-toku SHF fans, SHF Tuxedo Mask is coming! Tentatively for March 2015 in Japan!! Also the Kinikuman Figuarts cant currently be released because of licensing issues, but for some bizarre reason they CAN release the wresting ring tamashii stages meant to go with the Kinikuman figuarts.

1. Kinda expected that. Still sucks though that it won't happen to save some people a few bucks if they don't/didn't pre-order when they go up.

2. Why the USA would know I have no idea.

3 and 4. Understandable

5. That's...weirdish?

6. Cool that we're getting Tuxedo Mask! Kinda odd though that we'll get the ring and not the figuarts. Wonder how come that is.