No, that sounds more like DrillBIT is saying Bandai's factories had that plastic on-hand with no other current use for it and it was going to... expire? It's an odd, silly argument that makes no sense due to the amount of time necessary to invest in engineering a brand-new figure, or the easily fixed or ignored problems of a production factory that Bandai would only contract, not actually own.

Renewal Shadowmoon looks alright, but feels like a waste of a renewal slot if you ask me. They could have renewal someone else like Agito, Momotaros or Ichigo from The First/The Next instead.

Yeah, that makes no sense.

Yeah, I highly doubt there's any sort of demand for that.

I think the new shadowmoon looks awesome, the proportion looks better, and the shoes... goddamnit, the shoes, now it looks show accurate to the shoes he used when he's standing stoically..

of course there's the cons...
the shoes bottom could be sculpted like the old one
and please bandai if you going to do a renewal at least give us diecast feet or a movable piston mechanism so this shadowmoon renewal got more value than the old one.

TBH it's not that neccessary to do a renewal for shadowmoon, the old figure looks awesome, and it's not that drastic of a renewal like Black,,

now I gotta look for a Black renewal, damnit

Well they can always try once Tamashii runs out of ideas for figures. I do like the suit designs from those two movies and the original figures from those two are from 2008 and 2009. They look like children toys compare to the new figuarts now.

and it doesn't look like it has boobs.

Except those shoes are only seen like one time. The feet from the first release is more accurate to every other time he is on screen, especially when he is fighting Kotaro in episode 46.

Well if you want to have more accurate shoes, especially the ones that he wears when he fights Kotaro, the shoes should not have any grasshopper legs.

The thing about shadowmoon is, his shoes is a bother to wear, so they got many different shoes, the square tip one with the pistons and for standing stoically, occasionally for walking, which is the renewal version. this version also being used in Decade movie, but without the pistons movement

or the one for fighting which is the rounded tip version sometimes with no grasshopper legs for better movement.

it's not a one time deal, it's not a one time thing, you can see it multiple time especially when he's standing or walking like in his first appearance or walking in the kamen rider black movie (mostly the time when he don't fight).

FYI:

http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/det...=FIGURE-010387

http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/det...=FIGURE-010386

http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/det...=FIGURE-010385