Who's the duplicate figure in Chronicle Gaim 2? Apparently it's easier to just buy the whole box instead of a set so I wanted to know who the dupe is. If it's Jimber then cool.

Just found this unboxing video -- it's Kachidoki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAe4HG4I-GQ

CHODO lives!! Its 9th wave is to be here in July for 5500 Yen at retail and features a renewed Ultraseven, Alien Metron, Nexus Junis Blue (to complement last wave's Red), and Cosmos Luna Mode; celebrating his 20th anniversary. Lots of anniversaries this year! The accessory set features the usual beam effects, but also has a slugger hand for Seven; a stand; an alternate arm for Nexus and a table for Metron, because Metron!

https://bandai-a.akamaihd.net/bc/img...00155915_1.jpg

https://bandai-a.akamaihd.net/bc/img...00155915_6.jpg

While looking for other stuff I found this image of Fourze's old candy toy line in wave 1 and felt it was pretty relevant to post here with the discussion a couple pages back. The way they did it was by having three figures with one module weapon each, and then a box that contained seven other modules -- so a total of 10 per wave. I imagine SO-DO would probably be able to fit more in there, especially between two boxes.

https://syokugan-ohkoku.com/shohin/7223/s_7223_1.png

We've had some great accessory packs recently, so I could definitely see a good amount of modules per wave. All show Rider forms is seven figures, so maybe three waves could probably accommodate that and all the modules. Nadeshiko and Fourze's many weird extra forms could be P-Bandai.

I completely forgot about accounting for the 2 box split in my calculations for how a wave might work! This makes a lot of sense actually, I could defo see around 15+ modules in a wave.

Right?? We just don't naturally think about it because in the reveals we just see "4 figures", but it's 8 boxes so when it comes to accessory packs they can be bigger!

It's also worth noting that we have had slightly larger waves before to accommodate for a gimmick -- OOO Combo Change 1 had 10 boxes instead of 8, due to the gimmick working in such a way that you need 2 boxes for a complete combo but 2 + a special extra box for Tatoba.

So if they feel Fourze would do well enough and that it'd need the extra space, we could see a 10 box wave. Same goes for stuff like Ghost and Drive too.

We got a two-fer tonight -- Book 7 starts with Primitive Dragon and Elemental Dragon! There's not much more to it than that, so I'll get these two notes out the way -- Book 7 reveals continue next week, and Primitive Dragon comes with alternate Fantastic Lion stickers!

Funnily enough, the blog says they straight up didn't know how Elemental Dragon's fighting style would be; so enjoy the guesswork!

http://bandaicandy.hateblo.jp/entry/20210321_rider

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Primitive Dragon looks great! Elemental Dragon is accurate to the suit, but unfortunately I really don't like the look of the suit

So much paint on both of them! But, why can't they include the hilts?! Is it that much effort to include a tiny piece of black plastic with every figure?