It's fine, he was off by a month, cut him some slack.

Some great reveals recently but, BOOM BOOM BOOM. Here comes Kabuto 2.0!!

Just came across these pics, not sure if it is released early or not.


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I might order this & pre-order Hibiki at the same time from BBTS but not sure still.

What's that black thing?

I'm guessing it was the cover for the hands, also 8 more days till the Kabuto Rider Form renewal release in Japan & I'm guessing that's when Amazon.com will have it available aswell and same with the smaller USA shops like BBTS in April since usually Amazon.com is usually the only shop that gets the bluefin distributions on the correct day & the smaller shops usually get them at the end of the month so it might be how that works for the April tamashii/bluefin distributions

I preorder this Kabuto 2.0 from AmiAmi on their second listing.
Looks great but now I feel kinda short-changed as it is a pretty expensive figure with little accessories.
The main draw will be the kabuto figure itself n will be looking foward to AmiAmi notification soon.

Wow. Looks like they brought back peck articulation on Kabuto, haven't seen that since Amazon :lol

Huh, I thought the part with the art was just a sort of outer half-box and there was a normal Figuart box under it. Regardless, Kabuto looks amazing.

Looks like something for you to store all your hands in. Since the new hands have the pegs I assume they fit in the slots on the black thing. Doesn't Figma or Revoltech figures have something like this? Or at least some other brand of figures does.

Yup Figmas do, looks to be exactly what they're going for here.

Normally all Figuarts boxes look really nice.

In Kabuto 2.0's case, that box is downright sexy.

That's actually a pretty nice way to do the box with the new style they're going for. Curious to know how big it is. Also Kabuto looks amazing.

Kabuto really does look sexy, would love if it came with something like a customised stand - something like metallic black/red coloured would have been nice.

I wouldnt mind SHF increase in price if the quality justifies it and there are less exclusive as an exclusive for us ends up similar to Kabuto's price anyway.


Meanwhile here are some bigger pictures of some the recent reveals
and the blue and red flames effect parts.

So the Gaim riders are gonna come with closed and open lockseeds?

Those'll be fun to lose. At the same time that detailing on them is astounding.

Yeh, i think so, here are 2 pictures of orange and banana lock seeds if you havent seen it before.

The Gaim SHF are gonna be amazing, I would love to buy every single Gaim SHF Bandai releases but, with the amount forms its gonna be EXPENSIVE.

Oooh, yipes. It's going to be Astro Switches all over again.

That picture of all the Blade riders together looks damn awesome. Makes me want to buy them right now, except I can't since they aren't all released. Though I do plan on pre-ordering Chalice at some point soon.

I would. The day S.H. Figuarts MSRP at eBay prices is the day I stop buying Figuarts.

Is there anyway Figuarts Gaim Jimber Arms can have swappable panels? IIRC, the visor doesn't change and the weapon is the same for every form so I wouldn't see the point in buying four separate figures just for a very slight armor modification.

I will be doing my damndest to get as many Gaim Figuarts as possible.

I only own four Figuarts, I've never fallen into the line like so many people say they have. But the Gaim Figuarts are almost spot-on and represent characters I truely like, so I can't not.

I'm also gonna try and get at least a few Hibiki Figuarts. Enough for a jam session display at least. :lol

I think I'm going to get at least Hibiki, Armed Hibiki, and Todoriki/Zanki.

I should watch Hibiki in preparation...

I want Hibiki, Zanki/Todoriki, and Inibuki AT LEAST.

See? I'm the exact opposite. I've been into the Sentai SHFs for awhile now, and care more about them then I do the Rider SHFs. But then again, Super Sentai and Kamen Rider are designed for a different mindset. I mean KR is individual based, where SS is team oriented based on its group nature.

Ok, on that note, MMPR Black is up on Image Anime, and on BBTS on word of a poster on Rangerboard. If someone already posted this, disregard. If not, get to it Tokunites. I'm seriously tempted to get one tomorrow if IA has them in-store, but man don't want to hear it from my old lady. Couldn't wait to post this.

You must get things from Bizarro Amazon then. Everything I preorder ends up being shipped AFTER everyone else has shipped things. I could be the first one to preorder a Figuart and still be the last person in the US to get it.

Lol, poor Dr. Kain. Hell, I'm the last to get a Knight & Darkwing.....and I still don't have them!

So, no new Sentai Figuarts announced? Hmm. But oh man, new Kabuto is sexy - I'm looking forward to him.

I want those flame effect sets, but not for the prices they're asking for them.

I never pre-ordered from ANY North American shop for these before, I only pre-ordered on thing before & that was figuarts ryu ranger from nippon-yasan :lol.

So for those who've dealt with Manderake, what's the usual going rate for like a FiguArts using EMS as the shipping method? Is that the cheapest?

from what people who have used it have said, I've never used it before though, it's fairly decent in both price & time of arrival.

I think I'm down to trying it, though I'm not sure how that'd work for like more than one FiguArts. It'd obviously go up price-wise I imagine, but I don't wanna defeat the purpose of getting something from Mandarake over Amazon and such. I've only used EMS shipping for like a comic and it wasn't too bad at all, so I wondered if it was the same for figures.

Personally I usually only ever use SAL. I can't afford to buy multiple figures in one go most of the time and anything above SAL is usually so expensive that it pretty much nullifies any savings so I may as well buy a bulk set of figures for what it is worth.

But I live in the UK so I dunno how it works out differently for others.

just go to their site & either look for the about us or FAQ to find out how their ordering & shipping system works, that's how I found out if I can order multiple things before I even consider using a shop to purchase something.

Right on, that makes sense. I honestly get those two confused, EMS and SAL. I forget which is the cheap one and which ones the higher-up from the former-type.

Imma go through the FAQ for sure, I think I've heard others on here say they've ordered several items no problem. I just didn't wanna be faced with a hefty shipping cost when I can order stuff individually throughout the months.

But like Loke said the price for EMS depends on the country the item is being shipped to, EMS is actually a good service & not that expensive plus it doesn't take as long as SAL would.

I wonder, does Manderake show you shipping totals before click in' submit so you can see how much the total is with each shipping option??

SAL isn't actually that slow, either. It may be the "budget" option but the predicted shipping times are worst case scenarios. It wont be like shipping on Amazon, but on average it takes a couple of weeks at the very most. And considering SAL is like a fiver for a single figure, shipped in from Japan, a few weeks doesn't seem so bad to me at all. Is it really worth trippling that - or more - for the sake of getting it the same week? For some people I guess it is.

It never is for me either, unless I need it by a certain date for like gift. That was a mainly my question to begin with. I like the 'budget' shipping considering I'm quite patient.

I only ever use DHL.

I don't have the patience to wait for something I order as is, but to then trust methods that do not have tracking or will not get me my item in a few days is unbearable.

No. They can't do that if you haven't placed the order yet. They don't know how many items your buying, what shipping method you're going to use, nor what country you live in until the order is submitted by you. And there's always the chance 1 or more of the things you order is out of stock, so that would throw off any possible total anyway.

I had issues with Manderake in the past. I try to order Ultra Act Ultraman Taro and it was around $20 in US dollar. Before I start to check out, the figure was going to be in total of $50 with shipping.