Plus we've SEEN Femme on display with the other Ryuuki riders before a while back. So she is confirmed and will most likely be shown some time after Imperer comes out as an exclusive.

To be fair, though, we've seen a number of figures that have never been released.

Anyone know how to loosen figuart joints? RyuRanger's forward-and-back shoulder joint's almost completely seized up.

Only gone for a day and thread seems to descended into a slight debate. Like watching C-Span or public access.

Anyhoo, I'll weigh in on the Rider Release issue. Not into Gaim (not yet), and there's no confirmation I know of that Femme or Imperer will be TWE. Most likely Alternative won't be either, as he's like AZ, just final model. In Bandai's eyes, it'll be another cheap sell like AZ. On the Monster front...I dunno. That's in the air.

Now I came to see what the feeling is about Bandai phasing out D-Arts & merging everything into S.H.Figuats line. I guess from a marketing standpoint, it makes a lot more sense. Kinda glad Imperialdramon is coming, but sad to see the D-Arts line go. Helped differentiate from the sentai line, guess that's why they killed it off.

Pretty sure it has already been announced that Alternative is an exclusive.

Plus this doesn't include the Contract Monsters, which totally count in my opinion.

Genocider and Magnugiga were both exclusives, as I recall. And the RideShooter is an exclusive, so there will have been more exclusive Ryuki releases than not.


What's the point of this debate? I don't remember. That Bandai has been awesome and given us almost everything we could ever want from Ryuki? I hope we get a couple more of the Contract Beasts too.

Imperer's release info didn't come until a good number of months after he was shown for the first time.

Plus in this case it wouldn't make sense to literally release every single Rider and form in the series except for the last one.

This times a thousand. Who gives a damn if they were exclusives or not. They've given us nearly everything they possibly can from that show. We've seen prototypes or actual releases of every single rider, form, and monster possible that actually appeared in the series or movies (save Ouja Blank Form :(). And there's only a handful of up in the air releases right now. They WILL happen, they've milked this series for all it's worth and won't give up before finishing it.

The only thing that could make the Ryuki line better would be if they released Figuarts of those Ouja Survive, Zolda Survive and Raia Survive designs that I've seen. I don't care if they're non canon, I'd buy them!

So now that D-Arts and Figuarts merged into D-Figuarts, or Figu-D, or whatever. Anyone think we'll have a good chance at seeing the last remaining Ryuki Riders?

What correlation is there between D-Arts being folded into the line and Ryuki, exactly? :p

The remaining Ryuki Riders will be see at Bandai's pace eventually. I do still wonder about the remaining Mirror Monsters though, Bandai's already covered the easiest ones and the most core characters'.

http://p-bandai.jp/tamashiiwebshouten/item-1000084777/

All...1 of them? There was just a big conversation on the Ryuki figuarts. Femme is the only one missing, and she's been seen on display so she's definitely coming at some point.

So excited to see Bravo on Sunday, that's going to be one fabulous figure. Just gotta cross my fingers that he is a retail release. Wasn't expecting it so soon either, I was trying to take a bit of a break from buying figuarts with only the potential release of Bravo and Hibiki being things I intended to get, and now I have to convince my girlfriend on adding Bravo to my collection so soon after managing Zolda -_-

Akaranger, the other Jetman, Bouken Silver...

has anyone posed ryuki, dragreder, and ryu ranger together in a way where ryu ranger would be, "Hey, you stole my dragon!"?

No, but I used an image similar to that for my profile picture for a long time. Ryuki and Ryu were doing the same pose while Dragreder RyuseiOh were in the background coiled around each other.

Saga.

Hibiki

Well there's never been a prototype of Hibiki on display unlike the other figures mentioned.

when hibiki does come out I hope we get his bike also.

I hope so as well. Hibikis bike is so full of awesome.

^These.

And I'm learning why AkibaBlue S2 came with a tamashii stand... That girl doesn't want to stay standing for anything.

Do you guys think Bluefin will release the Go-Busters figuarts next year when Go-Busters get adapted into a Power Rangers show? I would like to buy Blue Buster and Yellow Buster without paying so much for them.

She came with a stand?! Pretty sure mine didn't. :( Also, my Akiba girls can stand pretty well without falling unless you shook the display pretty hard.

Mine stand okay, though they do fall if the shelf is bumped. I think metal feet would have improved the Akibagirls a lot, since they have such tiny feet.

Still, they're cool figures, and I have the stand set (twice) and I'm fine using stands. Plus I can have them in jumping poses or whatnot.

Oh no...now KRX is going to come in with that gif of his...:lol

I dont' think i know what gif you're referring to. I hope it's a good one.

As Baltan pointed out, it's been known for a couple months, I think, that Imperer's going to be an exclusive. He'd been put up for order previously.

Additionally, Alternative has also gone up for order, and as a Tamashii exclusive. Some of the various retailers are putting him preorders of their own now.

Yes, I'd love that too.

No, she didn't come with a stand. None of the Akibarangers did outside the season 1 first release bonus. I think the only other Akiba figure that did was the corporate drone.

I'm just saying that showing a figure in no way guarantees that it will see release. It makes little sense to cook up any prototypes for no reason and I'm still waiting for Malshina to be released.

So I am going to be getting Bravo..basically no matter what haha. Now then, I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to get a preorder in or miss out for who knows how long on this one. I know I've seen you guys during other preorder periods but I honestly have no idea where to go, or what to do since the site(s) you use are not any I'm familiar with. I know he's only being revealed on Sunday and preorders are likely some time away, but what exactly do I need to do to make sure I get a preorder in. And when is payment due on said preorder?

This one:

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/20...th-d6j0zji.gif

Oh...guess I stand corrected. Thought I'd be pretty on the Mark about Alternative though.

Also, just a bit of info, for those that don't know.

Search YouTube for D Amazing's review of Hurrikenger Blue & Yellow pack. Surprised he got it so early, but then again he mentions Image Anime sent it to him for review. So......

For an awesome collection, again YouTube search "Figuarts collections" and look for ModX Tv. Man, the extent people will go for a great display. Pretty sure he has some vintage out of print figures.

Check it out people.

Why are you counting characters? It's figures released. In the realm of toys, releases count, not characters. You can't just discount Ryuki Survive and Knight Survive, and Alternative, because it suits your wrong argument. If you count Abyss, it's 11 v. 8. Which is damn close to half.

And as pointed out later, I didn't even count Contract Beasts or the Ride Shooter. So it's 11 v. 11.

It's not a "small" anything, it's half the Ryuki releases. Stop trying to say you were anywhere close to right.

http://www.nippon-yasan.com/

Payment isn't due until they actually get it in their hands. They send you a reminder a couple of weeks before it's actually released, but you can pay anywhere from when you preorder to when it is released.

or you can use http://yokattaweb.jp/, another middleman or http://biginjap.com/ and pay 100% up front. And pay more. Up to you.

Oh com on, we're not going to start this again are we?

No, we're not going to start it over. It's incredibly petty and unnecessary to continue in this thread, however one wants to interpret the facts. Doesn't matter if it's half exactly or a little less than half or whatever, it's been more than clarified which Ryuki Figuarts are retail and which are exclusive and should be left at that.

They have the same problems as the Gokai Yellow and Pink and Gosei Knight. They were released before Bluefin worked out US distribution rights, so they can't be rereleased. It's possible we could get metallic repaints of them or something similar, like they did with the Shinkengers, but they can't be released as they were.

I did not know that. I might give them a try for Tiger Ranger then.

With Kyoryuger getting adapted next year, I think Bluefin could release the other team members now. At least I don't have to pay $80 for Kyoryu Gold now.

$80? Jeeze, I can PO right now for $56.

Image Anime has him around $75 or $80 from what I can remember.

I rarely order anything from US stores, it costs more and you wait longer. To each their own though, it's just my personal preference. :)