I like the manga a lot and this figure is very, very nice. I'm going to pick this one up.

I'm just glad we're getting another retail Ultra-Act finally; it being this is a plus.

I'm hoping for a retail release but he is likely to be a web exclusive.

No, this is a retail release. Bandai doesn't include exclusives in their monthly "pickup" reveals.

You mean the photoshopped effects in the second and third pictures...?

Nope. Two distinct teams, two slightly different bodystyles that have become more similar over the years, and some difference on the frequency of effects parts until one of the guys recently joined the SHF team and started on the Tamashii Effects line (the guy with that Yoda avatar).

A retail release is nice news. If Bluefin is releasing him in the US then he should be out in the US by August which is around the same time when Viz releases the Ultraman manga in the US.

WHOA, that's awesome! I'm not huge into Ultraman, but I'll break for that armored beast.

No, I mean these things:

http://fs2.directupload.net/images/150220/oogsrps3.jpg
http://fs2.directupload.net/images/150220/efghdbbz.jpg

His weapons that he uses to fire the Ultra-Beam, I don't remember the name. They are not outside the armor on older pictures:

http://fs2.directupload.net/images/150220/ophgdogh.jpg

Which let's me to believe they either slide out, or much more likely they plug in, like the lower half of the arm is removable and you have 2 versions: With the weapons deployed or inside the armor.

What Magna is this guy from?

Ohh, I see now. Didn't notice they weren't deployed on the initial images from last year. You're probably right on the money about there being swap-out pieces unless Bandai chose to simplify things since the prior mockup figure and they'll always be deployed now.

Ultraman. :p


It's the ongoing new manga that started in 2011, to be more precise. Viz is releasing the first volume in English in August.

Whelp. Looks like I'm selling Gaim and or Baron to afford that now.