I totally missed the news about that Aeon bit with the card, interesting.

They made a card for his henshin?
That's awesome, shame it's limited.

I over payed for my Blade and completely blanked out on the Aeon exclusive even existing :(

Knew I should have waited longer. Oh well. Mine will be here by Monday.

I wish I could get all the Blade figuarts but that's very unlikely, at least not right now.

Now I need to choose which one of the 4 Riders I'll get.
Incredibly hard decision.

Am I correct in thinking the only SHF figures with Akibaranger pieces (besides the AR characters themselves, obviously) are the Tyranno Ranger, Dragon Ranger, and Ryu Ranger?

Nope.

Bouken Red, Deka red and Red Hawk come with the inordinate cannon pieces.

Well, heck, I thought I was making progress. Thanks for the info!

No prob.

Good luck. :D

Tyranno, Dragon, Ryu (and Hurricane) do come with Akibaranger pieces, just not their inordinate powers. Tyranno/Dragon come with their "Powerful Ranger" costume, Ryuranger comes with his "ChinaRed" helmet and Hurricanered comes with his "Shurikenger vest".
But to get all 6 inordinate Powers you need Red Hawk, DekaRed, BoukenRed, AkibaYellow Season Tsu and AkibaBlue Season Tsu.

Also, all Bluefin releases omit any Akibaranger pieces, so make sure to get the Japanese releases.

And don't forget that the upcoming Kiba Ranger for this month includes his Akiba Ranger chest plate. Though the US release of course will not.

What's Aeon and what is so special about this card?

And uh... last I checked, Bluefin only released Red Hawk.

2 pages ago.. If that...

And yes bluefin released Black Condor too.

http://www.tokunation.com/showthread.php?t=7935

=D

EDIT: unless your talking about the changed boxes then yes, bluefin only changed the red hawk box not the condor one (as far as I'm aware)

Damn...I seriously want a SHF Blade, but I'm broke as hell...

We are broke just like Kenzaki :lol

Stupid Rider salary...

Perhaps we could all pool our money together so I can purchase a Blade for myself!

Yeah...
I may be as broke as Kenzaki but I'm definetely not as nice as him. :p

You know what they say, nice guys finish first, or something :p

AmiAmi has KR Abyss back up for preorder, just under 3000 yen. I ordered him and some Ryuranger character cuz he looks kinda cool.

Aeon is a store/chain (I think) and the card is a first run bonus only through them. It's the card that comes out of Blade's belt for his transformation (similar to Wizard and Beast's seal).

Yup, Aeon is a chain of stores in Japan/Asia (?), I think they used to be JUSCO. They've offered Transformer exclusives as well, including campaign microns and the Terrorcon Bumblebee during the Prime Arms Micron line.

Got my Blade from AmiAmi today, he's spectacular. As good as the Ryuki figuarts, if not better. So glad I preordered King form.

Just got my Blade in as well and DAMN he is well made. But holy hell in a hand basket the stickers for the Rouzer are tiny. Like I need a magnifying glass and the worlds smallest tweezers to apply these tiny.

That instills me, who has shaky hands, with loads of confidence :lol

I managed to do it with a toothpick and it wasn't as bad as I was expecting. I really hope Garren doesn't have stickers also but I suspect he will so people can choose to have the full deck or blank cards.

So...does anyone have any SHF Decade cards they would be willing to part with? I just bought Violent Emotion Decade (along with CycloneJoker), and I heard that he doesn't have the cards.

There's a printable template with all of the Decade Cards for the SHF.

Let me search it for you.

*Edit: Here it is:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/of...cade+Cards.pdf

Hope it's useful. :D

As much as I love Ryuki to death I think posing them next to each other makes Blade look ridiculously detailed. I missed the two Spade insignias on his neck first time handling him. They really went crazy with the detail on this guy.

And to my surprise the absence of diecast was a plus. Ryuki as a figure was an indication of improvement in Figuarts. Blade is one of its better payoffs.

Incidentally I picked up the re-issue Ryuki which came out around the same time as Ryuga. The Silver on the reissue is much more striking and the overall paint is better. Anyone looking to get Ryuki, try looking for the recent reissue. Slight difference in the head sculpt (the grill details are a little thicker but better applied than the first) but everything else in the package is included.

Anyone who is wanting the Japan release of Blade- His reissue preorder is up on AmiAmi-

http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/det...03439&page=top

Sweet. Hopefully I can get one in.

I wonder if the re issue will be slightly better in terms of quality of figure, as some one pointed out that Ryuki re issue was a little better.

Although, there was quite a gap between the initial release of Ryuki and the re issue.

I'm not sure what could possibly be better quality wise with a Blade reissue versus the current release. The figure is damn near perfect. I seem to be doomed to get poor quality samples of most figures and even mine is as tight and as well painted as it can be.

Man, I was too slow on the trigger. I logged in just fine, but by the time I got to the "place order" button, he sold out. Blah. Guess I'll go with the US release then.

Gah, Hobbysearch keeps erroring on the confirmation screen :(

EDIT: Got one after about 15 attempts

I was you know, sleeping...

I'll get one somewhere else.

Amazon still has preorders open for the Bluefin release of Blade due out for the end of the month.

http://www.amazon.com/Bandai-Tamashi...en+rider+blade

They don't ship here :P

I'll get it at one of the usual places later on.

So I have a Figuarts Gokai Red, Blue, and Green with their Darins that have never been opened coming from JUNGLE in the next few days or so and I'm curious about something.

I remember reading a number of posts about breaking issues on I believe Gokai Red and Green on here before. Should I be worried or has this mainly been just some isolated cases?

I generally don't go crazy posing my stuff, but I do like to switch things up a bit from time to time.

The hips are fragile on the Gokaiger mold, but you don't have to worry straight out of the box. Just be careful with them that's all. I had mine for nearly 2 years before I broke Red's hips.

Here is hoping blue fin reissues the gokaigers with the new megaforce eps

Hey, does the bottom left of your re issued Ryuki's box says 2011 Bandai?

Thanks