You forgot about Tricera Ranger.

Tricera Ranger comes out before Tiger Ranger so the point still stands, we saw nothing sentai past what the next three releases which is kinda odd. When is the next Tamashii features event?

I'm looking forward to Int Toy Fair (here in NYC!, though closed to the public), SDCC, and NYCC. Between these events we should get more info.

Managed to get Deka Pink for 3000 yen on Mandarake yesterday! I don't plan on getting anything else as I'm aiming to get a Gaburevolver this month but that'll only bring her up to 3500 yen before shipping which is how much I got Deka Yellow for. Now all I need is Green and I'll be done with the core Dekarangers!

I decided to preorder Tiger Ranger from that Nippon Yansei (or whatever) site.

just put in the pre order for Gridon. just got to wait for confirmation and payment invoice for figuart. this brings my figuart count to 2. sucks that they are both exclusives and i have to wait for them. DONGURI ARMS!

ok question for those with Alternative Zero...does his head pop off way to easy for you? I mean the ball joint is barely gripped by the rubber in the neck...tempted to hit it with the ole clear nail polish tonight...

Someone from Japan has got their hands on Agito Shining Form already.


http://blogppoi.cocolog-nifty.com/ph...14/02/13/1.jpg


http://blogppoi.cocolog-nifty.com/ph...14/02/13/2.jpg


http://blogppoi.cocolog-nifty.com/ph...2/13/photo.jpg


For more pictures http://blogppoi.cocolog-nifty.com/bl...ito-shini.html


I really like the box art of this especially the back, hopefully it wont have the problems that a lot of people had with their Burning Form.

I'm glad I pre-ordered Shining Form, he looks pretty awesome. I sort of wish I'd ordered Burning Form, too, despite the problems people seem to be having.

Shining's design isn't all that great to me. I like Burning more. But even then, I don't regret trading him away. I didn't even have any of those issues people were talking about.

Really? You got extremely lucky then. These aren't just issues, but widespread Quality Control screw ups. Mine hasn't broken, yet. But the left arm joints are so tight that just bending the arms is difficult, almost sure it's gonna snap.

The shoulder armor, while intelligently designed to recede into the shoulders, is way too close. Brand new in the box mine had pieces of it chipped away from being moved ever so slightly during shipping. They just flaked right off. Not to mention that because of the size of the shoulders you lose a lot of posability.

I love the figure and think it looks gorgeous. But Burning has some serious issues.

Man, I need Burning and Shining Agito, and I've never even seen the show. They're great looks.

Somebody trade them to me, yes?

You've still got time to preorder Shining, methinks. :D

Plan on buying a figuart tomorrow, though I can't decide on which one. It's between 1 (Sakurajima), Abyss, and Cyclone Joker.

Not an easy decision. Based on what I've seen people post around the old internet, Abyss is the better figure but getting any form of Ichigo would be awesome. Cyclone/Joker has the advantage of being pretty inexpensive and it's W, even if the figure isn't perfect.

I might just pick up Shining. Hopefully it has no issues.

But I'm trying to curb my spending, so I don't have money to preorder him right now. :(

SHF CJ is good, though many people nitpick the flaws, but Abyss is one of the best Figuarts ever. So I'd say get that one before the others.

"Nitpick." :rolleyes CycloneJoker is woefully outdated, inaccurate, and has weak accesories. Everytime I pick him up I just feel bad at how poor a representation of W it is. He doesn't even have a pointing hand. The hips are the old Figuarts hips at their worst, with the big cut in the suit that looks awful in anything but a straight legged pose. The Cyclone side joints are black and ugly, the colours aren't right, the forehead crest is easily twice the size it should be, and the ab crunch is non-existant. They didn't even get the size and shape of the eyes right.

I have never understood the inaccurate argument, he looks fine to me.

Outdated? I'm not sure I understand that. It's a different body than say Ryuki, but it has the same joints as every other KR Figuarts I own, and each different series has a different base body. Some are better than others.

Weak accessories? Ehhhh, maybe. He's got plenty of hands, it might have been nice to get a gadget memory or two with it, but those came with the 2 packs. What really would hvae been nice is some cyclone effects, but Bandai wasn't doing effects, either with figures or as standalone sets, when they did the W figures.

Now, I'm not saying I wouldn't buy a version 2.0 of the figure, but I just cannot agree with the 'woefully outdated, inaccurate" comment, though there are those that do.

Bottom line is, get whichever figure you are most interested in. Of the two I have, Abyss is clearly superior to CJ, but CJ is a much more favored character of mine, so I was more excited to get that one than Abyss. Abyss was just a pleasant surprise at how fun he is.

If you're a fan of Kamen Rider W, then I think you need CycloneJoker.

Wether or not you understand it doesn't make much difference, because it's not a matter of opinion if it matches the show costume, it just outright does not.

Just look at the quality of the hand sculpts, or the general softness of the details. The proportions are off, the construction and materials feel less solid. While I don't pretend to fault it for being old, it doesn't change the fact that it is old.

What is, hands down, the most iconic thing W does?

Guess what the Figuart cannot?

Hell, he comes with TWO sets of open hands that don't respresent any sort of specific pose and are barely different from eachother. I never understood that.

I know that's the only reason I bought mine.


W needs an update to bring him up to current Figuarts standards. The old one just doesn't.

Okay, let me rephrase then. I've never seen any sort of side by side comparison highlighting the inaccuracies, and I've never bothered to do it myself. There's nothing so obviously wrong about it that it stands out to me.


I honestly have no idea what you are referring to here.

I did a google image search for 'cyclone joker' and it seems the majority of the images are either the henshin pose, or the pointing for the catchphrase pose, both of which the Figuarts does quite easily (not that they're complicated poses).

If you mean the CJ finishing kick, I've watched 6 episodes in the last couple of days, and they didn't do that kick once, so I wouldn't call it the most iconic thing W does, personally. And of course it's not going to be able to do that without a ton of extra parts, like the SIC comes with.

I'm not trying to fight here, I just don't know what you mean.

I'm not disagreeing that W could use an update, because it could, and I would buy one if there was. BUT, like with Kabuto before him, I don't find the existing figure to be so bad that I want Bandai working on renewals of figures we have, when NONE of Kiva's regular forms exist yet. Or Saga, which got a prototype and is a main enough character (and a great design) that I think he needs a figure. (blah blah blah Hibiki too, I guess, I don't personally care, but the same applies, in that it has NO figures).

I have ALL but two of the Kabuto figures, and I rather like them. They're lanky, they have bowlegged issues, but none of that detracts (to me) how good the figures look, and how easy they are to pose and display.

From my perspective, the existing W Figuarts do cut it, and I'd rather get new figures of characters we don't have yet than remakes of stuff we already have.

But if that's just me, fine, I guess you can all be wrong, and I'll stand over here in my corner by myself crying over the lack of Saga and the Checkmate Four and Kiva, Garulu, Baassha, Dogga and DoGaBaKi while you all enjoy the renewals.

:)

Problem is they put a picture of the show costume on the front of the box, so I noticed it immediately.

The Figuart can't point, because it doesn't have a single finger pointing hand.

The henshin pose is all it can really do, hence why that's what mine is posed doing.

I totally agree, though, that Kabuto didn't need an update. CycloneJoker had sculpting problems and paint/colour problems, and would've been a better renewal example than a Figuart that's inaccuracies were largelt proportion-based, and the design of the suit minimalised any glaring errors. Renewal Kabuto looks amazing, but there's so many figures that deserved updates before, and of course where the fuck are Kiva and Hibiki? :cry

I honestly don't see the problems you do with Figuarts Cyclone Joker.

Looking at it and a picture of the suit itself and I don't see anything inaccurate, accessory-wise he basically comes with everything he needs (Fists since he's a brawler, henshin pose hands, sin-counting hands, etc.), the build and quality of the mold are both solid with the only real issues being the hand-swapping difficulty due to the cuffs and the restricted chest and ab articulation due to the angled design...

I mean if Bandai has plans to slowly update all the main riders with renewal bodies, Cyclone Joker'd be near the bottom of the list.

I personally had no issues with CycloneJoker other sometimes his joints are tight. I doubt he will get a renewal version soon since that they did a re-issue of his figure last year in January (or maybe it was December 2012). If you want a line up of the main riders then he's worth picking up.

I kinda hope he does not get a renewal version soon since I just got Heat/Metal and Luna/Trigger comes in the mail soon. I only need two more W figuarts to complete my W line up.

You guys keep saying he comes with pointing hands when he doesn't. You realise he actually pointed, right, he didn't just stick a splayed hand out?

Also, I don't know how to describe the inaccuracies anymore than I have. The crest is huge, the eyes are undersized and teh wrong shape, and you can't even lie and say the green is the right colour. Or how about the crap finish on the Joker half, or does a reflective glossy foot and matte black helmet not seem kind of glaring?

I will admit of all the renewals so far Black was the one most needed. I saw a comparison of the renewal and original the other day and good lord is the old one hideous looking compared to the new one.

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I guess I never looked at the box? I don't care about boxes, so I rarely pay any attention to them.


I always wanted it in the Henshin pose anyway, so I guess I never noticed it didn't have a finger pointing hand? Are you sure? It really seems to me like it does, because I have Skull pointing, and it's the same hands, just painted black.

You do realize that if you look at one of the sets of hands he comes with, one set is sculpted with the pointer fingers extended while the other fingers are slightly curled up. That's how CJ has always pointed. So yes, he does come with pointing hands. Otherwise Skull and Joker wouldn't have had them.

Seeing as all of these are issues that you need to look really hard at the figure while also comparing it to a picture of the suit to actually find, that's more nitpicky than a list of outright issues.

I don't remember him pointing, so much as doing an almost gun hand pose.

Kinda like this.

http://i565.photobucket.com/albums/s...n97/Double.jpg

Yeah that's it. Thumb up, other three figures pointing to the side. Which the figure still doesn't come with a hand like that.

BTW, quick Yahoo Image raid yeilded me this:

http://www.tokunation.com/attachment...1&d=1392331911

:lol Dude not even close. If that's really supposed to be it, that's even worse.

The SIC set of JokerJoker and CycloneCyclone came with the perfect one. I'd go fish them out and post a pic comparing them, but I don't think it's necesary because seriously I can't believe you guys are even trying to say the W Figuart isn't totally off in every important way.

Even if you like it, you should at least be able to tell it's woefully inaccurate. You cna't just keep saying "I think" and "I feel" in the face of facts and pretend like nobody ever should ever want a better version of their favourite rider.

This is true. Black really got it good with the renewal, unlike Kabuto.

Wow the face on the SHF is so squashed, and the logo looks HUGE. The SHF almost looks like a Chinese knock off. I just ordered SHF Trial, and now I'm terrified.

The Figuarts W mold does have some issues I'd liked fixed and brought up to current engineering but there's other, older Figuarts that could use a renewal more IMO. Like Kuuga and Agito.

I wouldn't be. Trial is not AMAZINGLY accurate, but easily captures the important features. I've always kind of wanted him, but always had other priorities.

http://www.cooksux.com/2010/12/19/shf_kracceltrial/

The biggest issue sculpt-wise is the shoulder pads jut out a bit too much, and maybe the mouth area is oversized, but I can't go searching for the sake of a comparrison right now.

I only have one Kuuga figuart (Mighty) and I think it's pretty good. Mine has a loose waist and left leg but that happens with buying secondhand items.

Can't comment on Agito though.

Glad Trial isn't completely shit.

I have the Pegasus Form Kuuga and I actually think he's pretty good. The paint is weird and the proportions are off but he's a wonderfully solid figure of one of the only forms I liked in that terrible show. Got him posed between my RPM Dinosaur Rangers :lol

Well THANKS a lot!

Now CJ looks kinda bad. :(

I'm okay with the crest being somewhat thicker (it does look too thick to me now though), because if I have any complaints about Accel and Accel Trial, it's that I'm terrified the crest will break off.

Hasn't happened yet, but then again, I just broke the tip off Kaixa's fin, and it's lots thicker than I remember Accel's being. :(

I like the Kuuga body as well. It's a little odd looking to me, in places, but like the W figure, nothing that really bothers me. I my Mighty is loose-ish in the upper torso joint, but not enough that it causes problems often.

Kuuga isn't as bad as W because it still looks good. The colours are right, the finishes are largely correct, the detail is crisp, and the head is only slightly thinner than it should be. Ditto Agito.

W, with the miscoloured joints, soft detail (like on the W Driver) severly off head and different finishes on the Joker side ends up looking REALLY cheap. Seriosuly, I never thought I'd ever have to PAINT a Figuart, let alone half it's body. And it still looks bad.

Luckily this is where the other forms triumph, since the paint is largely consistent over them, and while joints are still miscoloured, they're at least ALL miscoloured.

I never seen people had issues with the W and OOO figuarts until I join this site. I go on Youtube for toy reviewers like ShukuenShinobi, DosmRider, Vangelus and Peaugh for Figuarts reviews. They and other people on Youtube seem to like those two figuarts and never had issues with them.

In OOO's case the figure's quality does feel noticeably lower than other Figuarts. Paint apps on some can be a bit sloppy, too. Though he's not a bad figure in the end.

In W's case, yeah this is like the only place I've seen so many complaints about him. He's not the best rendition of the character (something like the model kits or large-scale medicom-type figures would take that title) but it's not the terrible figure I keep hearing about here.

I think you need to clock down your hyperbole. I never said the W Figuart is terrible. It's a terrible rendition, outdated, and I've said mine has several quality issues that (AFAIK) are not widespread.