How are the shoulders doing on your SHODO figures? I'm curious as to how they hold up over long term, even with constant playing around and posing. I'd check myself since I have a few figures, but I won't be home for a little while.

The Saber ones are much improved over the Zero-One releases. The shoulder armor from my Zero-One base and Shining Hopper pop off all the time.

Sorry, I meant SHODO(the smaller figures), not SO-DO.

I just checked the shoulders on one of my Shodos. One is a bit loose at a certain angle, but otherwise fine. I don't see any problems other than some standard ball joint wear.

Which one? The reason I ask is because most SHODO figures that I'm aware of use the soft plastic shoulder hinges - the ones you have to bend a little if you want to do certain poses with the arms. I'm really curious about how hard it is to get them back in place if you have them in a certain pose for too long.

I love that this style of shoulder pads is show-accurate, but the way they've done it kind of makes me worry since I haven't been able to check in on my figures in a super long time.

I've been thinking for the past few weeks or so... I know we're going on about what SO-DO CHRONICLE line could be next, and there's certainly some of those that could be interesting (Fourze and Ghost in particular), but I find myself realising I wouldn't be as interested in a new SO-DO CHRONICLE line as I would YU-DO CHRONICLE.

Sentai infamously just does not get figures anymore outside the candy toy lines, and certainly not for anything past the current series. And with the way YU-DO lines are set up, with the exception of Kyuranger and Kyoryuger any past team including their sixths would fit in an entire wave on their own. That would exclude super forms, but I think most would be willing to accept that or there'd be a niche enough audience for PB waves of super forms. Anyone else kinda feeling this way? It also seems flexible enough to allow extra heroes like Princess Shinken Red, and then other extra heroes that would require two boxes are on teams like Gingaman which would allow for that. The only one aside from Kyuranger and Kyoryuger that seems problematic is Dekaranger due to having 8 rangers which wouldn't allow for an accessory box.

Actually, there *are* 10 Dekarangers. Besides that core 6, DekaMaster and Dekaswan, there's DekaBright, who appears in a single episode, and Dekagold, who appears only in the movie, is knocked out of her transformation almost immediately, and doesn't have a fight scene... Ya know, they could just go with Fire Squad DekaRed.

Oh, I knew that; but they're a bit more... obscure, I guess? Compared to how prominent and well-remembered Master and Swan are. The sort of thing I could easily see being Premium Bandai.

I mean, they both got ranger keys so...

Yup! In a later special set with the likes of X1 Mask, Hurricanedark and Gosei Green. So pretty obscure indeed