I saw Tokullectables has Figuarts Jin up for pre-order but that's not really an option outside of the US so does anyone know when it's going to go up for pre-order elsewhere?

I usually go to Nippon-Yasan for Web Exclusives though they haven't listed it yet. I think it should be going up some time in the next couple of days.

WARNING:
Just received Zangetsu Kachidoki Arms and the wrist pegs are VERY tight. Make sure you pull straight out instead of at any angle

I did not break mine but the right side took more effort than normal and the left side split at the balljoint. Had to pry the wrist guard off to reassemble and damaged the paint.

So 001 is almost guarnteed to be a P-Bandai exclusive?

Thanks for the heads-up; I hope this is a lemon and not a wide-spread issue.

001 is almost guaranteed to never be made in the first place :lol

I don’t think they'll do it, although I would buy one, I think it's a great looking suit.

Type 1 deserves a figuarts.

I'd love for there to be SS figures of Kikaider and the Metal Heroes, but it seems more and more unlikely as time goes on. Unless those already exist and I somehow missed those.

No they don't, and sadly there a quite a few Metal Hero prototypes shown which were never released. Considering how many of these releases were available for a long time I'd say they didn't sell all too well. Which sucks because I really wanted Janperson.

Also, I don’t quite remember where it came from, but I think at some point Tamashii mentioned they wanted to introduce other brands into Shinkocchou Seihou other than Kamen Rider? That was quite a while ago though so they probably decided against that.

Isn't Garo part of the SS line? Or am I getting that confused with standard releases?

No, Garo did get some SS releases. Though I'm wondering if they sold as well? I know they were obviously very good releases from what I remember seeing.