Nothing has been said about Sky Type iirc, but it's one of those things that is obviously happening at one point since they did Power. I'd like to see them re-do Tiga but there's not a lot of precedent for Tamashii doing something like that...

To be perfectly honest, the rubber usage for Tiga and Black can be worked around fairly easily. Don't keep them displayed or stored in a humid or hot area and don't keep them displayed in a pose that keeps the material perpetually stretched are usually the two main things. I've had both for a while, my Black longer than my Tiga, and have photographed and posed them around fine without any sudden rips or defects to the overlays. You can even keep Black posed indefinitely in one of his signature henshin poses in a way that doesn't even stretch the shoulder material.

That's not to say I wouldn't be glad if they reissued them with the updated material they seemed to use from ShadowMoon onward instead. Just to eliminate that one hang-up.

Wow the foot design is.. something- I haven't decided yet if its insanity or brilliance. They really re-engineered the whole figure for this release. Sliding waist side parts that take advantage of the Faiz suit design! I'm most excited for the shoulder pad design as that is a thing that still bothers me and why I usually do poses with arms down. In fact, I recently picked up the SIC Faiz figure and the shoulder pads constantly pop off and are hard to make look good.

I agree that soft plastic has many great uses. Kenzan uses a little bit on the feet and its wonderful. Faiz looks perfectly inline with good use of it. Seihous are just getting so good they are making my older Seihous look bad!

SS Faiz looks amazing but I do have one concern…I hope the red lines on his thighs don’t chip like with the SS OOO Yellow combo.

S.H. Figuarts Super Megaforce Red, eh?

Holy shit I see what you mean! They were really hiding the big surprise of this release with the preview image hiding the feet

Lots of interesting engineering on Faiz then. Shoulders being attached to the chest like the actual suit as well, which I'm a huge fan of.

Shame about the Faiz Edge, but I also notice it doesn't look like they can attach the Faiz Pointer to the phone in gun mode as a scope? Not a huge loss but another interesting thing they might do with another release?

Wait did the actual link state soft plastic or rubber? Cause if it's soft plastic then yeah there hasn't been much of a problem on that front.

My translation tool calls it "soft material", however, the exact same term was used to describe Seihou Ultraman in his blog post, I just checked to make sure, and that guy definitely doesn't have rubber pieces on him, he has soft plastic.

So yeah, they mean soft plastic.

When it comes to Seihou Faiz, I get the feeling it might be over-engineered, especially given the recent Seihou V3 has really over-engineered his arms for some reason. And even though it's suit accurate, I don't like the shoulderpads being attached to the torso as that limits the posability of the arms. I imagine he doesn't have a rubber torso like Tiga did though. Ideally his diaphragm joint is just hidden by his upper torso armor.