Maybe? He's just the most lack-luster design of the bunch IMO. Certainly doesn't help that he's one of the biggest dicks in the history of Kamen Rider. Almost makes me glad he's dull looking.

Left. Its the hip joint itself. It fits around that post in the center crotch area. It snapped in 2. The leg is fine but now I need an entirely new waste.

I dont know anything about Gai as a character, I know him from Dragon Knight and Thrust was an underused badaas.

Well in Ryuki he's an immature manipulative evil bastard who dies just a horribly as he deserves :D And his design was awfully simplistic too. No neck, giant shoulder and that's about it. Considering how creative the other suits from Ryuki were his is a real disappointment.

his Ryuki counterpart sounds horrible :/ I liked the suit but then I loved the character in DK as well, so I guess that helps.

If you think he sounds horrible by Den-O's brief character description, you should see him in action. It's very rare that I hate a character, but he managed to bring my blood to a boil.

Haha wow, this character seems impressive in how much hatred he can garner.

BRAD BARRETT ALWAYS WINS!

Ahem. I mean... how 'bout dem Figuarts! Right?

Wow DK actually has another fan on this forum?

Btw gonna buy Kamen Rider Meteor as my next Figuart, he goes for about 21 quid, with shipping, on the US ebay.

I need help deciding again, and you guys always give me good advice. I have Figuarts Ryuki on the way, but I have money to spend and am torn between getting Figuarts Zolda who's $30 or SIC Zeronos and Deneb for the same price.

Zolda is an awesome character and a great design and all I ever hear about his toy is how great it is. But I've wanted Zeronos and Deneb for a while, and they're harder to find for that price.

I wish I could just buy both. I mean, I wish I could buy both, and Tiger and Ouja and Knight Survive, but you know what I mean. :p

Man, toy buying gets annoying sometimes, doesn't it? :lol
I really don't know what to tell you, in this case...

Man I feel like I'm the only one that actually likes the Figma Dragon Knight figures.

Though I really wish they released the Xaviax we were promised...

Quite the contrary, I love my Zolda (Torque? Thrust? Shoot? I dunno. The Dragon Knight names were so uninspired) Figma.
But I just think the Ryuki Figuarts are better (It's not a case of being amazingly superior, though. I just prefer one over the other, is all).

I think the Dragon Knight names are a lot better, that isn't just bias, I think they just fit the designs better and sound a lot cooler.

I like the Figmas better for looking closer to the stunt suits used in the show. You can't really tell that they're toys looking at them at first glance.

I might buy the Figuarts one of these days but I'm in no rush.

No kidding. Zolda's so cool, but he's easy to find, unliek Zeronos. If availability was no problem I'd get Zolda, but it is.

Sometimes. "Dragon Knight" is not better than Ryuki and "Wing Knight" is just inspired. "Incisor" and "Thrust" are better then their Ryuki names, though. Torque is a cool name, but I don't think it's better or worse than "Zolda" which is also cool. Axe is dumb but then so is Tiger. (both describing obvious aspects of the character) Odin is deffinitely better than Wrath, but Wrath is also cool. I don't recall the other ones.

I can, just from the joints. But I get what you're saying, the finish better matches the costumes. But overall the Figuarts have better paint, sculpting and design. But it's not like the Figams look awful. I'll be using them to fill holes in the lineup like Gai if I decide to get all the riders.

Verde is Camo.
Ouja is Strike.
Raia is Sting.
Sano is Spear.
Femme is Siren.
Ryuga is Onyx.

Onyx, Siren and Camo deffinitely win out. "Strike" "Sting" and "Spear" are really, really lame comparred to "Ouja" "Raia", though "Sano" ain't much better.

Strike kinda sucks admittedly, I have no problems with the others though.

Eh. In terms of naming:
Ryuki > Dragon Knight
Knight = Wing Knight
Zolda > Torque
Scissors > Incisor
Verde < Camo
Ohja > Strike
Gai < Thrust
Raia > Sting
Tiger < Axe
Imperor > Spear
Femme < Siren
Odin > Wrath
Ryuga < Onyx

Just my opinion on the naming.

I want all the Ryuki Riders.

That has nothing to do with the conversation, I just love the designs.

I do, too.
Shame there's at least 4 exclusives, probably more coming along the way.

Who are/were exclusive and who aren't?

Because so far I want Zolda, Magnugiga, Ouja, Knight, Tiger, Raia, the Survives and Genocider. (T_T) Maybe Figma the rest. As far as who's coming I'd love to get Odin, Tiger's contract monster and the Swan lady if she comes with her monster.

So far, it's Ryuga/DragBlacker, Gai, Verde, and Scissors.
I think it's been confirmed that Odin will include GoldPhoenix. Not sure on Femme and Blancwing, though.
But I'm not sure on who else is or isn't going to be exclusive.

Hell yeah it does! Not a fantastic series by any means, but it gave it a shot and tried doing something more than the current Power Rangers trend of copy-pasting Japanese plots. I didn't mind the BoA toyline either for as shit as it was, have everything but Wing Knight's bike, the wind-up bike two-pack and the unreleased Xaviax and Venosnaker, but that's for another topic.

:eyebrow Imperer is Spear, Sano's the guy's name.

Split Lip, go with the SICs, but come back to Zolda ASAP before he disappears.

*Raises hand* You're looking at one! I watched it on TV while it was still airing.

I was lucky enough to meet the cast at the one SDCC that I was able to go to.

Oh my bad, I know nothing about Ryuki so I just Wiki'd the original names :lol And personally I found the series fantastic for what it was.

Zolda's all over Mandarake, so hopefully he doesn't dissapear fast.

With all of this talk of figma vs figuarts, I found this post if it helps.

You missed out dude, Amazon had Zolda for $26 for a month.

screw Zolda I need Magnugiga, I wish he was readily available

Just got an e-mail from Amiami saying Dragon Ranger is now in stock! Thats earlier than I expected. Haha.

That's weird, I didn't get the email and I preordered like in the first two minutes it was up...

I wouldn't worry about it yet, I'm in the same boat and I've not had an email yet. Mine's in an order with Akiba Red and Beast though, so I don't know if that makes any difference...

Hopefully I'll get the email today or tomorrow! My Minipla Pteraidenoh is due to be paid for then and I'd love to combine the orders.

The release date for all three of them is the 22nd, so we should all be getting emails very soon requesting payment.

Oh I know. I just wondered if all the single Dragonranger payment requests were going out first, with combined orders/payment requests for the others coming out later.

Well I got have not got the email and its in a bundle with cho akiba red decade fury reissue darts blastoise and dragon ranger him self

Well AmiAMi got my DragonRanger preorder in, so I just paid for him. Let's hope they get him out in time and he arrives (EMS) before I go to LA on the 3rd.

Well based on this:

Which appears to be another case of single DragonRanger orders (assuming here; might've been more), you might actually be right. :P