Knifehead is on Amazon US for like thirty dollars, I am contemplating buying it. (the mecha are on there as well slightly cheaper)

For UK folk Ebay sellers are taking preorders on the figures for like 15 quid.

I heard Knifehead isn't that great. Like, sculpt-wise and paint-wise he's excellent, but he's not very posable. He's basically just there to stand and get punched by the much more posable Jaegers. I won't pay $30 for him, I'd wait for a sale or deal, personally.

I only really want him because my figure shelf is pretty boring as it's made almost completely with heroes, as it seems pretty much all figure lines are reluctant to release villains (unless they are iconic ones like super villains) so it'd be nice to mix it up and have a monster on there.

It's an old chestnut that villains do not sell well in Japan, which is why there is a dearth of baddies in Japanese toylines aimed at kids. In the collector's market we get more of them. (Same idea that female toys do not sell to kids in the US hence we get much fewer of them.)

Daikaiju properties like Godzilla and Ultraman are the exception here, as in the end they're all monsters, and monsters sell, so that's why we get vinyls of so many different monsters. I'll have to see Knifehead in person, I suppose, but to be displayed with Bandai vinyls, not being super poseable is alright.

The Jaegers, hmmm, I'll have to put them with my MAF Raideen (which I always want to pronounce as "Raideeeeeeeeeen!") and other Super Robots.

Here's a really cool, but spoilery, featurette.

http://youtu.be/bRbOPy5644M

I've seen it in person and was terribly disappointed since it had cut joints instead of ball joints/universal rotation joints.

The Crimson Typhoon looks nice in person, shame about the front right arm only being able to move forward or something. The Gypsy Danger paint apps did not look good. That's the thing about predominantly PVC-based figures; if you have bad paint apps, they look even worse on PVC.

Man, these recently released clips do way better at selling the movie. The fight scenes look incredible and are so easy to follow compared to other CGI movie spectacles!

New clip!

http://ca.ign.com/videos/2013/06/28/...ow-rocket-clip

That was fantastic, wasn't it? It really feels like a traditional Kaiju movie with huge production values!