The ONLY main Blade releases left now are gonna be Wild Chalice & possibly Joker, & if they're nice enough the three riders from Missing Ace. Honestly I think Leangle is gonna be the best of the releases cause POLE-ARM WEAPONS RULE :thumbs:. Also, I'm agreeing with Dr. Kain on most of what he's saying, but it takes a while to finish teams but it makes it easier for people to get their favorite senshi from a sentai, plus most people these days only focus on the red rangers for older teams now unless it's for one that also aired in the USA sadly, I REALLY hope Go-Ranger's Aka Ranger sells well in the USA as a Bluefin release. I really want them to get the rest of the damn Dai-Ranger & Jet-Man figures released .-.

Yeah, it's kinda a self-fulfillng prophecy isn't it?


I'd definitely be willing to collect more Sentai figuarts, but the only ones I've been collecting are the Zyurangers because they're the only ones whom I know for sure will be a complete team.

I honestly wish they'd focus more now on Sentai Figuarts. We're missing a lot of teams and many Sentai. Instead they focus on releasing another Kamen Rider-1 and Kamen Rider-2 instead. By now anyone who wants one has one, and who doesn't can find one for reasonable prices somewhere on the internet. I'm not saying give up on Kamen Rider completely. Because Gosei knows I want every single damn Gaim Figuart they make, screw cost. My wallet can take one for the team. But I would like more Sentai Figuarts.

Liveman, Bioman, Gingaman, Gekiranger. Rio and Mele like you've been teasing us with now for to many months.

But if you're going to continue with the Kamen Riders, how about giving us ones we're missing instead of ones you released ten different versions of? Like Saga, for example. Or re-releasing some Figuarts people might've actually missed. Like Kiva, Agito, Faiz, and on and on. We have enough 1's and 2's. Like the Old Boys retire for a while.

All I'm saying.

I've been pretty much not touching any movie only riders. I'm honestly not a fan of the movies outside of Episode Final, especially when it comes to Blade. The Blade movie was just insulting.

What surprises me is that when they make one ranger, they already have the tooling done for the majority of the team. When they did RyuuRanger, they already have the bodies for Kirin, Tenma, and Shishi made. All they need to do is their helmets. The only one that would need an entirely new sculpt is Houou. Granted, some of the weapons would be individualized, but that is why I think they should have just done the standard Dairenrod instead of the specialized one they gave Ryuu. At least they can use the standard Dairinken with each ranger.

Maybe that is why the other three Jetmen are taking so long...

I'm at this weird point, currently. My plan was to get every single ranger released regardless of my feelings on the series, but the more I think about it, that might not be a good thing. As amazing as it would be to own every ranger in history, I don't have the room or money for it. I think maybe I will just start buying the reds to my least favorite teams, my favorite sixths, and then collect the full teams of my favorite series, especially those in my top 10 (Dai, Kaku, Geki, Aba, Car, GoGoV, Time, Jet, Zyu, Gokai (well, I already own all of these guys)).

Of course, since Sentai is in this rut for Figuarts, I want to support any ranger I can... UGH!!

My idea of what they could do is this. Release a 5 pack of the main team (or 3 depending on the team) every quarter, and then when the next 5 pack comes out, release the red ranger from the previous pack on its own. This way, if someone only wants the red ranger, they just have to wait 3 months to get it. If someone wants the full team, they can get the whole team in one shot without worrying if the entire team is going to come out or not.

I would gladly pay $200 for an entire team pack just like I did with the Shikenger pack Bluefin released last year. In fact, that was the main reason I bought the pack, I got all of the rangers I needed in one go.

BTW, I just realized I am a freaking idiot. I preordered Shadow Chaser and Green Clover from NY and the total after shipping and middleman fees is about $75 for each. BBTS is selling them for $95. For $20 more I could have just gotten them from a US seller.

Ah, thanks for the info. Yeah, HLJ has been uber-crappy lately.

People who keep suggesting full teams - if they can't shift ONE ranger without it having it having to be dropped to below 1000 yen what makes you think teams are going to sell any better? Even the SDCC Samurai set just keeps dropping and dropping in price.

And yes, made-to-order Tamashii exclusives is a possibility. But why go to the effort to produce huge sets like that when they clearly have no idea how many they're going to shift?

I think the problem with that is that not everyone can devote that kind of money to toys in one go. Releasing them spread out means you're just spending 4,000 yen for each release every now and then. Where as a full team pack would be a significant fraction of a lot of peoples paycheck. And that's ignoring the fact most people are also collecting Kamen Riders, Precure, MonsterArts and whatever else Bandai are also releasing each month.

I'd like to at least see a more consistent release pattern. Keep reds as regular release, the next month can be another two rangers from that team in a double pack and the month after that can be the final two members, followed by the sixth if the season has one. That would at least get them out pretty quickly and we'd know right away we're getting the full team.

The problem is that it still doesn't make sense for Bandai. We got a double pack with Bouken Blue and Black and we'd seen the prototypes for Yellow and Pink long before that, but they were never released, most likely due to bad sales of Blue and Black. There's not much incentive for them to release more if no one is buying them.

Others have already said what I feel about the Sentai stuff, but this... This part I'm confused by.

How is paying $20 more each better???

I thought the Tamashi web shop was always made to order?

Because it is only $20.

By doing the same thing we always do, save up. It is pretty easy to save $200 over three months, especially if you are told there is going to be a new set every three months. It's not like they are just going to say, "Tomorrow the KakuRangers are coming out, good luck."

I really don't see the problem is though. You pay $200 for the entire team regardless, night as well make it easy and get them all in one set.

That's exactly why they need to just do the entire team in one set.

If Tamashii did made-to-order figures, they would get a ton of my money. I only collect the red and black rangers, so every red and black ranger would be bought by me. Could get dangerous. I would also consider getting the blue rangers if this happened.

Maybe this is the way to boost sales?

I'm sorry, but I just do not understand your reasoning. Why just willingly pay a lot more than you should? What you call "just $20" isn't just that to a lot...

You have to wonder if Sentai sells badly because of incomplete teams, or if there are incomplete teams because it sells badly? It all seems like a very cycular motion.

"Catch-22" is the term you're looking for.

Thank you! The word escaped me.

Got my MMPR Blue Ranger in today and for some reason the left lower forearm was assembled backwards. It was an easy fix but weird. I really wish the lance was longer and that he came with the other versions of the Blade Blaster but otherwise I can't complain.

Because paying $20 more from a US seller is worth it to me than paying some Japanese company I don't even know, who also probably does not offer exchanges if something is broken.

It makes me think of this:

http://www.beheadingboredom.com/wp-c...d-be-great.jpg


My Tricera was mailed out today from Amazon. Now I'm just waiting for NY to ship out Tiger.

They are I believe. I was more getting at surely there's an estimated quota TWE releases are expecting to fill to be deemed a success. It's a pretty big stab in the dark to do it for an expensive set of figures that haven't shown promising sales elsewhere.

So yeah...this will happen

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Does it come in blue?

Considering Billy never wore the Dragon Shield...

I'm thinking no.:lol

I can dream!

No blue for you good sir :p

Pass.

I'm still waiting for Big Bad Toy Store to get their stock of Gaim and Baron, it's getting a bit ridiculous, and since it's taking so long, I'm a bit worried I'm going to be stiffed out of the screen and stage bonuses. :(

Tempted to just ebay the figures now,

Edit; Which is exactly what I just did.

ummm...they did get their first stock...Had mine for a week with stage and back ground....hate to say it, you may be on the re-order....

Did Zeronos Zero form release already? For some reason I thought he was releasing this weekend, but Mandarake has one already. Crazy.

Ahh, in that case, they lied to me, having said they'd not received any stock, well, I've learned a valuable lesson, and that's not to use BBTS again.

Okay, this does not make any freaking sense. Amazon shipped out my Tricera on Saturday via Fed Ex. It is now about 10 minutes away from me and FedEx has given it to USPS to deliver it on Wed. WTF??!!

It is TEN MINUTES AWAY!!! I can drive there right now and pick it up, but they won't let me.

Fedex Smart post delivers uses USPS for the final delivery. I complain about it everytime Amazon ships a Prime order with it and they throw in an extra month of Amazon prime.

What the world is built on. If up to me, I'd take a MMPR boxed set from SDCC, or in a better world, a release of those limboed/Shadowzoned SWAT Dekarangers. And the Magirangers in Legend Mode. Or just MagiLegend Red.

Where do you go to complain?

Damn Burai...dat ass.


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I'm going back and forth on whether to preorder Den-O Wing with the other new TWS figures. It'll be an expensive November already (Femme, SIC Burakawani, Ultra-Act King is already $200ish before shipping) and that's right before Christmas time too. I do like the look of Wing form though...but wish he came with, well, wings. I'll have some hemming and hawing to do before I submit the order.

I have no prior experience with Air Small Packet, and chose that as my shipping option for Zangetsu.


So it made it to North America...just not the United States. It's apparently in customs in Toronto now. Should I be worried? Usually my packages just come straight to the U.S.

Where is Locke when I need him? This is prime Tommy content. It's comedy gold!!!

don't know how many of you know this but premium Bandai has put out a downloadable pdf for Bravo's speech bubbles that you can print out for him so now the posing will be even cooler for him when he comes out.
http://p-bandai.jp/bc/images/shop_to...im_b_serif.pdf

See, it's the small things like this that make me love Bandai.

CHECKLIST has been updated with Femme, Den-O Wing Form, and Broly. The new Rider 1, bike, and Blaziken solicitations haven't been put out yet, so they are indeed still missing.

Decided to open my ZX I got in the Hobbysearch sale last month and snap a few pics before I pack everything away to move, but I have to ask - is everyone's as awful as mine is? I didn't really pay much attention to his release so hadn't seen anything, but this is easily a contender for the worst of the 50 odd Figuarts I own.

The grey plastic used looks really cheap and nasty, the scarf won't peg in very well (and the plastic already looked stressed getting it out the box, so I'm hesitant to force it), the hand joints keep falling apart and the some of the hands have holes that are too big to fit neatly over the joints. I can't believe that this is a figure that only came out November last year. At least OOO has the excuse of being older.

I'm not TOO disappointed since I paid about 1000 yen for him, but if I'd got him on release I'd feel majorly disappointed.