My Hibiki came off perfect as well and I got mine last week. Hibiki is my favorite Rider figuart that I bought this year so far. I think that will changed once Christmas is done and over with. Last year Black renewal was my favorite rider figuart.

No thanks to amiami. They wouldn't refund me, price adjust him, and in the end wouldn't even allow me to exchange him without paying for "their trouble" to ship it to them and back to me. I had to just buy a new one. Wound up being cheaper than jumping through their hoops for an exchange.
Ehh I'd disagree. While Black was certainly an improvement over the 1.0 it was far from the best figuart of last year. If anything that honor belonged to Odin or even Blade.

I never own those two, so I can't comment on them. I was really happy when I got Black renewal last year since I felt like everything about him was spot on.

Speaking of Shinkocchou Seihou figuarts like Kabuto and Hibiki, I wonder how many Shinkocchou Seihou figures that Tamashii will make? This year we got two, I guess we will see a similar release pattern next year. I think after Kuuga, we could get SS Kiva similar how we got Hibiki after Kabuto.

Well I still have my fingers crossed for W, but I would assault a SS Kiva. Especially if they did his bike down the line.

What are the chances of seeing the other Hibiki riders? I'd at least want Zanki/Todoroki and Ibuki, just to have a little "team" of musical riders with varied instruments. I mean, Hibiki turned out so great, I can only imagine how they'd turn out.

I've been wondering about them too, or even something like Hibiki Kurenai.

Hibiki Kurenai?

*googles*

Oh, that's just a Hibiki repaint except not as original.

Sounds more like Masou Kurenai's son and wielder of Kivat-bat V. :lol

Yeah it's more a straight redeco, but the red is pretty to me so I'm down for something that could be relatively simple to pull off.

I wonder if they will do the other forms of Kuuga, Kabuto and Hibiki for the SS line? I never own the Hyper Kabuto figuart, I have no idea how well he holds up now.

I hope next year we get three SS (SSs???). Kuuga, Agito and Kiva. That would be fantastic. Agito would be easy enough since they'd basically have to rinse-and-repeat what they did for Kuuga with some minor retooling.