Hurricane Red doesn't come with the mace, Akiba Blue does.

oh awesome so she comes with both the buckler and the mace

Yep. The Akibaranger accessory HurricaneRed has is the Shurikenger vest that AkibaYellow made for him.

Sweet then I be hunting down season one powers

Amiami and HLJ have Dragon Ranger in stock, so I went ahead and snagged him from HLJ and dropped my Big Bad Backup Store preorder. Score.

I thought it was Blue and Yellow that both had one Power each?

I'm gonna cave and get Red and Green as the OOO Figuarts are too pricey for me and too hard to come by, a question though, I know registered sal is like twice the price of regular sal but is it that worth it? Will AmiAmi not compensate me on SAL like at all if it gets lost?

RSAL will only seem "twice as expensive" on the smallest orders because of the additional cost of tracking, which is like 980 yen, and isn't felt as hard on bigger packages.

And no, AmiAmi isn't going to compensate you for a lost package if it's not registered. It's unlikely to get lost anyway, but if it does, maybe they'll give you a token discount if you complain enough.

If that was the case, a weapon would be unaccounted for as Akiba Red doesn't include one.

Yellow comes with two, Blue comes with one.

So is my best option to do a split order on unregistered sal or a joint order on unregistered sal?

Joint order but be soured I had t pay customs for 4 figures joint in registered sal

Alright I'll combine it on unregistered, it's only two figures.

Unregistered sal. Is still the cheapest but what i found out is the more items you have the more chance you need to pay customs due to wight

Nah, it's more to do with the fact the price is printed quite clearly on the box. Size might make them choose to read it since its random, but pretty much any parcel over something like £25 can get customs.

What?! Splitting an order of two Figuarts is a terrible idea! Especially from AmiAmi, it will offer you absolutely no savings over a combined order.

Splitting orders makes most sense when you're either in a rush for a particular item and don't want to wait on later items to come in, or when you're bumped into SAL Parcel, a far more expensive and less efficient method compared to SAL Small Packet (what you'd pay for 1-2 Figuarts).

I've not been victim to customs yet, that seems to - oddly enough - usually just be on imported band merch. But this is my first combined order so who knows, what am I looking at being slammed with? I remember once the post office slip basically said 'customs was three quid but we added eight quid to that because we can'.

Total fyi...but if you want glowing Faiz, you will have to get that exclusive... normal Faiz (or any other figuarts presently) doesn't do anything under a black light...

Yeah it's the handling fee that's the kick in the teeth. Should you get hit I'd guess around £13? Give or take a bit but that's how it usually goes for me.

Yeah handling ends up practically doubling the shipping, which is normally why a seemingly cheap deal on Amazon US suddenly seems less so when shipping, handling and tax have all been calculated.

BTW, I forgot to mention that the guy at the Bluefin booth last weekend said they are in talks with Bandai about getting US exclusive accessories similar to how Japan gets exclusive AkibaRanger ones.

I really really hope I can score on of those Faiz sets. I'd rather get that one at this point since I never picked up standard Faiz :p

I read that, and the only thing that comes to mind is...

Ferbus.

The mind reels.

if they packed in a ferbus i'd be laughing nonstop for an entire week

I'm looking for a little advice/second opinion. Is the SH Figuarts Wild Tiger worth $40-45? I've been considering getting him for a while now and he's become pretty hard to find. The only versions I see often are the 1-minute version and the Katsura Masakazu Original Color Ver. with the every so often Movie edition. Although I see them go for ~1000+ yen often, the thing that is missing from them is the Good Luck Mode fist.

Wait, Ive heard of this, but not really sure, what is Ferbus?

So a platypus and an Ewok had a kid? Is it that bad? :lol

It could happen! Bluefin could just do it to troll everyone!:lol

what the fuck

And people wonder why I still hate Saban to this day.

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Why am I not suprised Saban created that thing? Is there much he hasnt ruined? :lol Wait, wasnt Ferbus in Masked Rider? I know want to find this show just to see the reason behind the hate :lol

Saban. SMH. Every time. Just.. SMH. Sigh. It's not even cute or cool. It's just ugly.

As somebody that watched Masked Rider religiously when it aired as a kid i still had a massive indifference to Ferbus.

Outside of the "glowing" paint, what differences with vanilla Faiz does the exclusive have? Accessories and whatnot?

It really depends on if you love the property enough to get the merchandise. The figures themselves are actually quite solid figuarts.

He includes the stand.

What was up with ugly-ass sidekicks in the 80s and 90s?

I used to wonder the same thing. I guess American companies just felt like children's shows needed to be very simple and watered down. Slap stick and silly sidekicks. I never liked Alpha as a kid for example. Just seemed pointless..

Stuff like Alpha I get. You know, appeal to as wide an audience as possible. At least he looks kinda cool and retro. It's literally the UGLY sidekicks that baffle me. Sidekicks that are visually revolting.

Like, why does Snarf have to look like a stuffed animal that got beat with an ugly stick?

I will admit that I don't always think of how things appeal to a wide audience. Meh, the whole Alpha/Zordon thing was always odd to me. It seemed like they just took the venerable elder/leader and split him in half. I guess.

Yeah.. Snarf was pretty odd. I know if I was a Thundercat I would be like "What are you? Dinner?". lol.

Oh. I'm getting OT, I deeply apologize. Sorry! Um.. I do not want an Alpha Figuarts. I'd take one of Torin though, definitely.

Paid for Red and Green this morning, came to about forty quid for both and that includes postage so I was really impressed, I was expecting to have to end paying closer to sixty.