Anyone know how preordering from Nippon Yassan works? I mean is it a pay now thing or a pay when the item comes in thing?

Well it use to be you could pay whenever, but they changed it up recently for web exclusives to where you have to pay up front if I remember correctly. However any retail release still maintains the pay whenever you want aspect.

Ah that must be my problem then. There pre-order price is a lot cheaper than another site I was using.

Not necessarily true. I preordered Chaser last week and could select pay later.

So for now I'm holding onto the theory that you need to pay by Bandai's payment deadline, but won't really be sure until I receive a December items payment request this month or not.

Double was released back in the early days of Figuarts though and his alternate forms weren't all that popular, whereas people are still trying to get Joker and Skull today. If they were to release new versions, I imagine they'd have a better idea of what releases people care about.

No no, that was a very specific issue regarding premium bandai releases for November and December. Releases before and after that should be normal still.

I'd totally buy a Pegasus if the gun retained the function of the original.

True.

Marika's is only my second one but already I am sick of Sonic Arrows. I will never understand why they only let the New Generation Riders have one weapon (it really is so weird, like if all the armored riders only got musou sabers), but I at least wish it had been something with more display options. Bows are tricky.

Fantastic figure otherwise, though. It's weird that despite her smaller feet she has an easier time balancing than just about any other Gaim figuarts I have, but I'm not complaining. She's great.

I really wish I'd preordered Sigurd now...

I hate that all the Energy Riders had Sonic arrows, plus Jinba Gaim had one. Plus Baron got one when he became an Energy Rider. It would've been okay if, maybe, just the first four got them. Or if it was just Baron's weapon and everyone else had different ones. But there should've been more Energy Weapons, like a sonic sword, or a sonic hammer. The minor Riders had more unique weapons.

I wonder if the extended life of the Sonic arrow was unexpected. Like how Lemon Energy was supposed to be a Baron upgrade, before it became Duke, then became and upgrade for him anyway. Or how Gridon and Zangetsu were initially marketted as part of the main cast despite one being seldom seen in armour, and the other barely seen at all.

As far as I understand the Sonic Arrow and Genesis Driver sold rather poorly. So they used them a lot in the show to get kids to buy them. Same why Baron got the Genesis Upgrade. He was very popular with kids and they could use him to market both toys to children that liked him.