Hey... if they can make a figure of GokaiChristmas and Eternal Red Flare... I don't see why they won't make a Shielded Mammoth...

My Figuarts Taiga just got in. I was extremely on the fence with this guy mainly because I've started to waver in my pursuit of all 13 (+2...+1...and maybe Abyss)Riders after putting down the order for Genocider.

Once I got him out of the package, I was pleased as hell. Say what you will about the character, the Taiga suit design is awesome and the 2 main accesories gives you all th more reason to love him. The Axe is gravy, a great size and detail on it. The Tiger claws are great but it is scary to insert the ball into the socket (your essentially doing it blind) so be a little careful.

The shoulders are ever slightly hinder by the claw motiff his shoulder pads sport. The top part of his armor is a little more movable (think Ouja) so you could probably work around it.

I like this figure. But I've noticed a glaring trend. After Ouja...Gai,Raia and Taiga sport the same black base suit, a departure from the colored suits Ryuki, Knight and Zolda sport.

And if my memory serves all the future Riders sport the same feature so that's a bit of a bummer. Maybe Abyss has an Aqua blue type color suit but I'm stretching. Anyway, if that doesn't bother you at all and you don' mind Tojo's confused Hero Complex madness, get this figure. Oh and the joints on mine were REALLY tight.

Not just you, I opened Bouken Red before Red Buster, and thought he was unimpressive other than the reimplementation of the upper arm swivel (that I love) but you are right, on the two tone suit it doesn't look good. The gun pegs in loosely, the neck doesn't quite bend forward, the hands are almost see through, the Accellular in detect mode is just a joke, you can't even see it. I'm just happen that it came with the Bouken Shovel because the Inordinate Cannon is flipping awesome!!

Bouken red just suffers from a lot of small problems that really add up, which is very disappointing. He was one of the individual releases I was looking the most forward to this year. I still don't understand why he doesn't come with a fully closed Accelluar too. But those hands are awful. The snap/attack hand looks like he's trying to pick up something really tiny more than anything. It isn't convincing at all. And why on earth would I need 2 Survibusters when one can peg onto the belt and the other can't? I know one is SLIGHTLY more accurate than the other but still.

And the cannon is awesome except that there's almost no way to get it on a Tamashii Stage :lol

Has Bandai shown any protos for the rest of the Ryuki riders?

Why not? Red-Buster's hands are painted, but Bouken Red's hands are not, I wonder why?

Honestly all I'd want would be Alternative...

Can I be honest? I'll wait until, and if, these come over thanks to Bluefin. I don't see getting Akiba-Red so I don't need the extra bits. And for anything else: I don't really play with Figuarts. Gosei Knight is a shelf peice.

Really? Because after looking it up I'm still sure it was Zyu2 footage...

http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/An_Oyster_Stew

Yeah, Black Ranger in the Zyu2 footage used the gold shield. Geki was the only one who used it in ZyuRanger.