Yeah after getting SS Den-O I dread taking Zerenos out of his box. I know he'll automatically look just as bad as OG Den-O did standing anywhere near him. Which really is too bad considering yeah, he does come with a lot.

I definitely knew that a Seihou would blow him out the water; he was a highly requested one after all. But, like... I guess to me he looked like one of the "well it's not great but it's still okay and usable" ones, a bit like Birth and Fourze are for me? So I had this expectation of him being just fine unlike W or Kuuga or Kabuto going into it and I was so let down. I actually kinda dislike him more than my two old W SHFs!

Yeah having the old and new Den-O side by side...it' not even close. And I thought the old Den-O still stacked fairly well against some of the newer stuff.

I'm just scared to think about how the inevitable SS Ryuki is going to make my older Ryuki figuarts look, because I doubt the SS line is going to go as deep as the old Ryuki line did....I wouldn't even feel confident about Knight coming out of that line, let alone Zolda and Ouja, who were key to that show for me.

But I'm hoping Faiz is next because he's the one that stands out to me as being way too outdated for the newer Rider figures. Blade is still "alright" and Fourze has some odd proportions, but I can live with it since he's a teen character.

Ryuki has enough staying power that it got a follow-up in both Ex-Aid and Zi-O so... I'd say that Knight, Zolda, and Ouja are at worst "somewhat unlikely". Beyond the core four though, I'm a lot less optimistic. Particularly with Contract Monsters.

Ryuga is guaranteed, right? I mean, a head, belt, and color swap is all he needs, right?

Man too bad SS Ichigo is sold out everywhere. I wanna get him to pose with an OG Ultraman.

Hoping for them to make an original blue colored pink eye Ichigo though, I love that color scheme so much.

Anybody have SHF Power Up Ichigo? Is he good?

Tamashii Festival exclusive guaranteed yo.

^My friend described that figure as "horrible" for what it's worth.

Also Ankh reviews are out and he looks rough IMO. He's like the recent Endgame Figuarts, the likeness is there, but it's so soft it just loses it.

The core 4 Ryuki riders plus Ryuga are more than guaranteed imo

I don't take pics of Figuarts with faceprint at face value anymore personally. Mainly cause the result is always the same: The faces look off in-pictures but totally fine in-hand. I've even seen the same being said with the Endgame heads; They look off in photos but then people with them also say they look fine in-person.

That argument would be fair...if Figuarts Old Man Han Solo, and BOTH TLJ Luke Skywalkers didn't look phenomenal in both photos, and in person.

Same goes for the first Tony Stark Figuarts, and so many others.