Man I wanted 5 Shocker Riders, I still have yet to get 1 :(

Yeah I'm going for all Six I have four plus one on the way from a yahoo Japan auction and the one I'm dealing with Yokatta on. I just Love the Shin Ichi-go/Ni-go design and love evil versions of heroes so I had to get them.

Has anyone gotten Chalice yet? If so, does he have stickers?

I've had him a couple weeks. No stickers on him though. He doesn't really have a rouzer that splays out like the others to apply anything to. He just comes with a stack of his cards in individual forms.

M-Blaziken. Hot damn. :D

Got my Chalice and Zangetsu in today, both are gorgeous but I have some difficulty with their weaponry. It's very difficult to get Chalice's bow into a hand and Zangetsu's shield clashes with his shoulder armor when I use the alternate handle to have a resting pose. The holster for the saber also pops off the belt too often so I may glue that in.

Semi off topic, but I think Bandai purposely packed Dragonzord & Tiger/Yellow Ranger in the same month retail wise. Just seems like a long wait. It's as if you don't preorder, you don't get anything. I'm waiting for the day that brick and mortar stores don't even exist. Ugh.

Here is news that came out of AX (yes, not all of it deals with Toku):

Not feeling the idea of a Zedd sitting in his chair Zero.

Timeranger and Megaranger would be freakin kick ass.

Sad face on AvP stuff...

In Space ones possibly finally happening? Hell yes. Gamera possibly happening? Hell yes.

Wait throne lord zedd. That's going to be closes I get to a figuart right

All I am hearing is ZEO! In Space! TIME FORCE! Oh and Sasuke! Sweet!

Everyone, we need to go for Zeo. Then we can all get Time Force.

But,but...I need my Mega Blue figuart! :lol

Yeah. In fact, it just threw a wrench in my plans to keep Big Chap. I might as well just go to NECA's Alien line since they have more options, including the just announced Queen, along with human figures. In fact, I just ordered a NECA Big Chap off Amazon for $23 and am going to compare the two myself. Even if this isn't accurate, I don't want to risk not having the choice to get other characters.

I wouldn't mind Space but I'd prefer Time first. Actually, I'll take anything from the 90s that isn't Oh/Zeo.

Yeah, I'm disappointed in that. I don't care if they make a Zero, but at least have him in a great pose.

Sadly though, there is a serious lack of Grifforzer/Goldar going on.

Fuck Ohranger/Zeo. Megaranger god flapjacks dammit!

Megaranger w/ Nejirangers please.

Don't forget Yugande.

Zeo and Gamera need to happen soon. V/OhRed is possibly the only Figuart I'll happily buy twice (Ohranger version to open, and Zeo to keep on display MISB).

Completely unsurprised at Zedd being a ZERO (its probably the only compromise that allowed him to even be made), but him sitting down is a bit disappointing.

You guys are forgetting about Gold! Forget the other five, once we have him, we can all go for Space! Or Time Force, Id rather get Quantum as well :lol

Banned :p

I dont care about King Ranger though :lol

Fine. Red for you. :lol

We can go for Space next, think about it. We all spam Tamashii and Bandai for one season, it gets made, then we do the same for the next. Plus, Zeo has a higher chance because of its relation to MMPR, well so does Space anyway. :lol

They could almost do both In Space and Zeo, as there is very little difference between the Space rangers. They could even just release them in two 3-packs: Red/Blue/Back as a retail release and then Silver/Yellow/Pink as a web exclusive. Then they could release the individual Zeo SHFs of V and VI at retail and the others as web exclusives (probably in two-packs).

If they do either In Space or Time Force, it might be my first time collecting Sentai Figuarts since Gokaiger!

I see this happening, the same formula theyve done... well with kyoryuger, hurricanger, and boukenger so far.

Red- Retail.
Blue and Green/Black- TWE.
Yellow and Pink- TWE.
Sixth- Retail or TWE, half of the sixths we have gotten are retail and the other TWE.

So I see that happening, but when we get an american release for these, they will all be retail through Bluefin. I might not even mind getting them in US packagin anyway. We wont have the MMPR/Zyu yellow situation to worry about again and I see those three being any of the most likely to get made before the season I want the most cough*Jungle Fury* getting made.

I do not however see a retail three pack of Mega/Space Red, Blue, and Black. Reds go into discount on their own.

My thinking for that is because Red/Blue/Black are almost identical (I didn't even notice they had slightly different visors until recently), the only people who would buy more than one or two would be people getting the whole team, so releasing them in as few releases as possible made sense to me.

I see what you mean. Until I looked at a close up of the helmets, I myself had no idea they were different.

I just wouldnt want that because I know I will buy the Red, I might not get the others until later.

Its not just that they all have unique visors but they also all have different symbols in the dome of their helmets.

A three pack with Red/Black/Blue would be a really odd choice for tamashii nations and is extremely unlikely to happen. The Reds were always sold on their own and ther is no reason to stop doing it.

In that case, better release method would be Red and Silver as individual releases, then the rest all in one big 4-pack. That way people who just like Reds and Sixths are happy, then people who want the full team can get the other set. Heck, that wouldn't be a bad method for releasing any of the sentai teams.

I hope for Time Force/Timeranger figuarts. It won't surprise me if Ohranger, Megaranger and Timeranger will be thrown into Akibaranger Season 3.

Timeranger, that's all I need. The full team.

"Full" team packs have been suggested before, but will never happen because it would just be too expensive for most people. Most figure collectors have enough disposable income to buy a few things each month, but spending a significant amount on a single release would put most of them right off, even if they're spending the same in the long run. It'd be suicide from a marketing stand point, we won't ever see anything more than double-packs (except for maybe special releases like the SDCC exclusive Samurai set).

As for Bluefin asking people to show demand... Yeah, I don't see it happening. Even if we all get together to spam their facebook page, opinions of what should be next are going to be hugely divided like always and the fact they've had to call on the fans to do this only shows that there probably isn't enough support for it to be worth Bandai listening to.

Personally, while I wouldn't mind what the next release is, I wouldn't be that excited for either of those teams anyway. How about we finish some of the already released teams first? Adding more to the "will never be completed" pile won't help things.

I'll take any of those three potential teams, though if I had to choose just one it'd be Ohranger/Zeo. Besides the fact that it would likely mean finally getting King Ranger/Zeo Gold, the suits just have a little more variety in the helmet designs than the other two teams. As for Zedd as a Zero, it's better than nothing but a fully poseable figure would still be preferable. I'd have to wait and see the pose before considering it though.

What about releasing a 5 pack exclusive release with bonus accessories then releasing the individual rangers later?

If the first bombs then from Bandai's point of view there probably wouldn't be any incentive to release the latter.

No. Because then you'd have people complain about the individual releases not have those accessories. I say just do whats been done and have each ranger come with whats necessary.

And then maybe, MAYBE, do the Psychos as a five pack with Psycho Red getting a TWE release.

I don't know, I quite like the thought of it, admittedly, it would be cool to have him able to square off against the Zyuranger figuarts, but I feel that him sitting on his phone is pretty iconic.