Damn, that's a major disappointment if that's the case :(

dang....as an Adult I've built up a sizable collection of Transformers and Megazords that they parents couldn't afford back in the day....never occurred to me to grab these guys......BLAST YOU! LOL

im getting this and gridman because i just love grdiman/SHSSS that much

Translations of the page, and from some of the images shown like the magazine scan, indicate that Thunder Gridman comes with a dummy base body underneath the armor. You'll be able to display him on his own, but the body underneath isn't fully-painted, maybe not painted at all, and what articulation it has if any is unknown. You can see the dummy body by looking at the unpainted red knees in the Thunder Gridman magazine scan.

Basically, this is a lot like a separate, expensive version of the Souchaku Henshin Kuuga or Kabuto figures.

Wow, this is pretty cool! And I'm already planning to get the standalone Gridman, so it'll be nice to have this guy! And it's nice to know if Baltan II is correct, then I'm glad that they're including a way to display the armor so that you can play with Gridman without it! : D

I wonder if we'll be able to make Zenon then? I had the toy when I was little, and I vaguely remember that they combined in a very similar manner

Course this means we'll need to buy ANOTHER Thunder Armor and another Gridman to have a full Gridman display…*Sigh* I hate Bandai marketing...

Or... you can just use the dummy body... just saying :lol

dummy body?

Baltan II explained earlier in the thread

ahhhh, got ya...sorry...long day...