I hope to own it one day. The places that have it in stock are asking way too much. Having just paid for Baron Lemon, I'm beyond my limit already. Hopefully it deflates in time.

I hope it deflates in time too, I'd really like to have two. 3000 JPY is probably the best it'll be, and I'm thankful to get just one. Sometimes I wonder what I'll do with all the stuff I buy, but I like to get as many of the effects as I can. I still need to buy some of the fire ones.. I'm going to need them to go with the magma stand for some awesome Hibiki pictures. Once I start taking pictures.. lol. >.>

It's pretty decent. As far as I know, there haven't been issues with it like how some experienced with one of the Gavans, but the wrist joints still make me cautious (they seem thinner than the average Figuart's). Aesthetic-wise, the red chrome looks great. Not much accessory-wise though.

awwh whaaaaa, okay now it's totally worth it and now I want it and I can't afford it now and damn mannn.

Thinking about getting Flame Style Wizard just because I'm a bit of a completionist. Are the problems really as bad as people say or is it just disappointment based off of Figuarts standards? I'm not one to nitpick and generally speaking, I can find a lot of enjoyment with even flawed figures, but Wizard does kinda bother me proportion-wise and I'm hoping that in person, at least some of those flaws are not as bad.

Well the pegs on mine are so terrible that he falls apart when you move him. They won't stay on when you swap out the legs because I originally had him in a kick strike pose when I got him last year. Not to mention the belt on mine won't stay on and you can lose it easily too.

Besides those two problems, he is a very nice looking figure since the details on him are great and the red shine on him looks fantastic. He's my least favorite S.H Figuart in my collection and I can't get rid of him because no one would want something broken as him. Flame Dragon and Infinity Style are big improvements luckily enough in my opinion.

I got lucky with my Flame Style. I got him secondhand off Mandarake and I guess the person who had him previously made some improvements because I have never had a single issue with him. I realize that makes me about .01% of the Flame Style owners, but sometimes you do luck out.

Edit: Speaking of lucking out, I finally scored a Machine Tornador at a decent price, though it ties with Baron Lemon for my most expensive SHF purchase that is not Itasha Robo.

The proportion issue may be a personal thing; I honestly didn't notice anything off about it when I got mine. I guess if I stare at it long enough I'll see what other people do, but it's not readily apparent to me.

I'm also one of the few who got a solid Wizard Flame Style. No looseness or floppiness or anything else QC-wise on my end.

Feet and head are too big

I wonder how many Shinkocchou figuarts we will get? This year we got two (Kabuto and Hibiki), so I hope we could get like three next year (Kuuga, Agito and Kiva). I know that the Shinkocchou figuarts cost more to make, but I would like to see the final forms of Kabuto, Hibiki and maybe Kuuga get a Shinkocchou version.