Die-Casting also increases the price point.

I love him. He might be my first Ryuki if I can't find a decently priced Zolda.

It may increase price but literally all the Ryuki releases, even Abyss, include them. Alternative may be in some weird pretend loophole. Like he's not techincally an actual rider so they decided to skimp on the feet :(

Amazon has him for $38. Plus, he has been on sale for $26 several times.

Yeah that was a(n unfortunate) surprise. Mine doesn't have any issues standing, but for consistency's sake it would've been nice if they'd kept it (especially for stability reasons, as you mentioned).

That occurred to me too after opening him, that they used that technicality to justify the switch.

I never quite got why the whole die cast feet VS no die cast feet thing is such an issue.

With Ryuki, it's a problem with consistency sure but it's not like Figuarts can't stand at all on their own power without them…

No, but every single Figuart I have with plastic feet - especially the Sentai ones, are just noticeably harder to balance. The ankles all tend to feel looser too. In fact, that's probably a bigger deal, but for some reason i associate it with having die-cast feet.

I personally think the lack of die cast feet is better. I just always feel like I'm going to snap the die-cast off the plastic whenever I move the feet. With the plastic feet, I never feel that way.

The only figuart without die-cast feet that I have issues standing up is OOO TaToBa, and it's not the plastic feet that's the issue, it's the ankles being hindered. Every other figuart I have stands perfectly fine regardless.

my ground form agito has a insanely loose ankle to the point if you pick him up it flops down instantly, at least i can manage to keep him standing

Got Blade in the post yesterday, which will probably be my last Figuart for 2013.

I think it's a pretty good one to go out on :D

My last one was Knight Survive. Definitely a great way to end the year.

So I just had a weird experience. For months Juuzo has been posed on my shelf, sword out all badass like, I just took how down to pose him with my new Wolverine and he's turned to jelly.

Literally as soon as I took him out of that pose he's been on my shelf, the limbs can no longer hold their own weight, hell his hand doesn't even seem to be the right shape to hold his weapons any more, like what the fuck? Do figuarts come undone over time?

Do you have your shelf anywhere where it can get very hot?

I have a warm house, but im pretty sure its not hot enough to melt plastic. None of my other figures have gone like him, either.

I just paid shipping for my Den-O Gun and Rod 2 pack. I went EMS, since it's getting really close to Christmas, and I don't feel like waiting until the end of the month.

I had the complete opposite happen to a marvel figure, I blame the toy gods.

They're really awesome. Nice to know I'm not the only one who was too excited to get them to wait for SAL shipping. :lol

Opened up ZX today. He's my first Showa Rider (well, outside of Shadow Moon). Lots and lots of hands/accessories is a plus. The scarf piece's ball joint doesn't feel like it pops in very well to the socket in his neck, but it's staying. It's a soft piece of plastic and feels like it could tear if I'm not too careful (I'm not sure if there are slight stress marks already showing near the ball joint). There's also some scuffing on the right side of his head, but it's not too distracting. I appreciate the chain, but I wouldn't have minded it being a little shorter.

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Finally completed my Shinkenger team! I got Shinken Pink a few days ago and today Shinken Green arrived!

http://i1298.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6eb7dcaa.jpg

I really like his Wood Spear, it is such a joy to pose.

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I feel like Shinken Pink and Yellow got the short end of the stick when their weapons were designed.

And a shot of the whole team:

http://i1298.photobucket.com/albums/...ps40876e19.jpg

:lol

I definitely prefer the green on the SDCC one...

I envy you, sadly ive been waiting just looking on Mandarake hoping to see a shinken yellow go up for a few months now and nothing! lol shes the final one i need to finish my team! i also decided to go beyond sentai and already having fourze base states i decided to order cyclone joker and infinity wizard. hoping they dont dissapoint!

Congrats! It took me a bit to complete my Shinkger team myself as Shinken Blue was the one I had difficulty finding on Mandarake for a while. Of course, after I finally got him, he's been popping up there like crazy.

I have Shinknger, Dekaranger (unless they make Break and Master), and Gokaiger complete myself.

Working on Kyoryuger, Boukenger (Where's Silver, Yellow and Pink, Bandai!?), Hurricanger, Zyuranger/Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Jetman (Again, where's the rest Bandai?), and Dairanger (Will we get the rest?)

Always satisfying to complete a team.

I'm working on completeing AKibaranger season 1, but for some reason Akiba Blue is becoming a bit harder to find now.

Here's a Shinken Yellow on JUNGLE...

http://jungle-scs.co.jp/sale_en/?page_id=121&id=727185

Reasonable price really for what she has been going for lately.

Has anyone seen an actual date for the re-release of G3-X? I can't seem to find anywhere that narrows it down beyond December.

@MST3KFan omg thank you!! =] is jungle reliable? ive never ordered from them before. i used to be on the fence about mandarake too but now im hooked!

Most of my Region 2 DVDs came from Anime Jungle.

Jungle is awesome. I've never had an issue with them. I pretty much split my ordering between them and Mandarake.

Edit: Rarely, but it does happen, sometimes Jungle has better deals than Mandarake.

Thanks! It took some patience but eventually I found them for what I thought were pretty decent prices given that they are exclusives. The next team I'd like to complete is gokaiger because I just need the girls but they are a quite over what I'd like to pay for a figuart right now. Dekarangers are probably they team I'll complete since o already got 2 of them.and their prices seem to have lowered a bit. Definitely can't wait to complete MMPR once they all get announced. Although I am contemplating whether or not I want to complete the Hurricanger or Boukenger teams, maybe I will eventially. Haha.

Akiba blue season 1 is the only one I'm missing as well although I don't have any big reason to get her other than for completion sake. I also really want itasha robo bit space is a big factor.

I've ordered from JUNGLE a couple times and I'd say they are reliable. Although I think their shipping rates might be a little more than mandarake.

I'm glad I got my Gokaigers earlier this year as yeah, Pink and Yellow seem to have gone up 3000Yen from what I paid for them.

I'm dreading finally shelling out for Gokai Yellow. I've sadly watched both of their prices go up on Mandarake recently. But I managed to get super lucky and snag a Pink off Jungle the week of Thanksgiving for ¥4750.

I paid like 5500Y for Yellow and 6000Y for Pink. I now see them at like 9000-10,000Y.

Yeah, I'm kind of bummed I didn't snag a Yellow when they were averaging around 6000. I'm planning on holding off on getting her until tax return time. 9000 is a lot to shell out at once for a single figure, otherwise.

Happy to help others complete their Figuarts Sentai teams. As everyone is saying, JUNGLE is reliable. Basically the biggest difference between them and Mandarake is that Mandarake won't charge you the 500 yen extra fee that import stores do if you buy over 5000 yen worth of merchandise. Jungle doesn't have that deal.

I'm a sucker for all these Sentai teams. I was planning on only getting the ones Power Rangers featured since I was more familiar with them, but Dairanger and Jetman were too cool to pass up the few of them we've gotten. Kyoryuger will be converted to Power Rangers probably a few years from now (at the rate Nickelodeon is going), so I jumped on them now, and well...I'm a sucker for dinosaur themed sentai.

I'll get Akiba Blue S1 eventually, I'm just lazy.

I got Itasha Robo for a great deal off Mandarake this last week. Itasha Robo is crazy heavy. O_o I've transformed it once so far from car to robot and back again. There are some steps you really worry you might break something, but it's like transforming a large Transformer, quite satisfying when you do it.

Good God, no kidding. What happened? Less and less of them on the market? An influx of people importing them for the upcoming Super Megaforce despite being shown they're being brought to the U.S.?

I just picked up a Shinken Yellow on ebay for $44.00 new from someone in the United States just last week. It was an auction with no "Buy It Now" option so I had to bid for it. I figured I didn't stand a chance in winning it at any price but I did.

According to Tamashii's site, the 14th, so next week.

http://www.tamashii.jp/item_schedule/

Delta and Burning Agito pre-orders are back up on AmiAmi

Ah! Thank you very much!

i SERIOUSLY dread to think where you people are buying from, secondary prices like that are insane for what youre getting. I can get Gokai Yellow, right now, today, for 5775 Yen. I wont, as i already have one, but i could. Seriously, buying from scalpers is just exacerbating the problem, search about, theres plenty of opportunity to pick up female sentai shf's for not much more than standard RRP. I saw the shinken girls for £50 the other day (thats about $75) and that was the total for both.

thats exactly where i saw Gokai Yellow. For a few £/$ dealing with their charges, its not a bad deal, and theyre UTTERLY reliable based on my experiences. And as much as Mandarake is good, being able to browse a site in english really speeds up browsing.

So are the Go-Busters Figuarts bad? I swear I heard someone say they were, but they are so cheap and I love that show so much.

Speaking from my experience with Red and Blue Buster, they aren't bad...just mediocre which coming from someone that likes the show is a major bummer.

For a Figuarts, he really isn't all that posable you can't even do his roll call poses and for a Sentai figuarts, that's a HUGE problem.

Still, the sculpt is great and looks dead on to the show and you can find him for cheap at most places.