I'm sure I could get something off of BBTS for $15 shipping...

...if I didn't mind wiating two months for it to arrive. Then I'd have to pay liek $50 worth of duties and customs which I hardly ever pay from Amazon or any Japanese site.

Well...I live in the US, so maybe that's why. I don't know why there would be this much trouble for anyone outside of the US.

Hopefully Yokatta will do ShaUTa orders. Or CDJapan even. I really don't want to pay what BBTS is charging. Or what ToyArena will charge which only be a little less than BBTS.

Yeah I put in a preorder at BBTS just in case but I'll be looking elsewhere to see if I can snag it for cheaper like I did with Gatakiriba. I got that via eBay for a little over $100, a lot better than the nearly $150 BBTS was asking for it.

How's the quality?

Pretty great. I've had it for a long time now so there's no mysteries and it's fully broken in.

There's two main points of concern, though, both easy fixes and one is just confined to my sample. First are the scarves. They're not the same, in fact they're sculpted opposite, and the one that I believe is the original mould is very thick and heavy. Not cripplingly so, but enough that it doesn't like to be moved around constantly or else it jumps ship. Basically it just needs to be removed before deconstructing the figure or else it will fall off into the pile of form swap parts and send them to the corners of the known univerrse. The other scarf, the new one, is much thinner and lighter and looks awesome. It's the one I now give to CycloneJoker, since it's lighter, has a tighter joint, and make him way more fun to pose and handle. The second point is the crest. The crests are pretty clearly designed for a specific "side." I.e. the one crest I have which has a wash spot on it is menat for Cyclone Joker and the clear one Joker Cyclone, if that makes sense. Trouble is I don't like the spot of wash, and while they can both swap, the "clean" crest doesn't fit quite as well. Both fit fine of the non-swap heads, though. (and I feel bad that I don't keep them as CycloneCyclone and JokerJoker, since CC's regular head is a REALLY good and super symmetrical sculpt)

The hands swap much easier than my other SICs and the posability is aces. For a while I thought I had gummed up the shoulders, but then I realised the bicep is actually a sleeve that goes over a hard plastic skeletal arm. As such it can sometimes get pushed up into the should cover and make you think "oh God what's happening" when really it just moves freely.

I got my first full sized SIC today with OOO TaJaDor. This toy is gorgeous and I love it. I'm starting to consider getting either TaToBa, CycloneJoker or the Skull/FangJoker set. Those medals are tiny though, and what's worse is that the Taka and Condor medals like to fall out of the driver sometimes. They even were out of the driver before I opened to toy and were loose in the tray :/ Anyone else have this issue with any of the SIC OOO?

AFAIK, no issues. As for the driver, maybe some VERY light clear nail polish on the pegs will keep it together and the medals in. (Also, just Taka and Condor? Kijaku stayed in there all by itself with no cover?)

One issue that's only been developing with my TaJaDor recently is that his left wrist peg is showing stress marks, making hand swappage kind of terrifying. I have no idea why the wrist pegs on him were shrunk for the W SICs which swap hands fine. I don't own any other OOO SICs.

CycloneJoker, or at least the combined CycloneCyclone and JokerJoker, is one of the best action figures I own. Granted, the original CJ has a jiggly midsection since it just sits there and doesn't peg in place, but otherwise it's a great figure. When Extreme'd up, he's hardcore. Skull and FangJoker are excellent and well worth-it. Solid like rocks and still readily available. The only downside is Skull's hat just doesn't stay on at all. There's no way for it, it's just supposed to sit there. I guess some sticky-tack could work, but just know before-hand he's deffinitely more display-focused out of the box. FangJoker is, again, basically perfect for what he is, and he has no jiggly midsection. (and no hats to fall off) Swapping his right hand is tricky because the peg removes to swap his wrist cuff. Also, gaia memories are like core medals except smaller and harder to see. Be carefull. Also also, my snail sensor's eye piece won't come out, and when I tug and twist the plastic rips. Then again, turning the eyes over for transformation is kind of a pointless step, and actually less accurate than just leaving them up.

The driver stays together fine, the problem is the medals slip outside of the windows in the driver that you see the medals through. Kujaku stays in just fine, I suspect the window may be smaller. Also, is there any diecast on TaJaDor other than his kneecaps? I don't need a toy to have diecast, but when the word Chogokin is in the name I guess I expect a bit more.

It feels like there's die-cast something in his torso, though I can't pin it down, and bits of the belt maybe. (the medal holder feels very rigid and weight-y for plastic) Frankly I wasn't even aware his kneecaps were metal. SIC's, while sporting metal, don't give it in chunks. I think it's to offset they're quite heavy due to how dense they are. The W SICs, for example, only have bracelets and anklets metal, as well as FangJoker's blades, but make up for it by being basically a bunch of solid plastic pieces all crammed together with little empty space anywhere inside.

That's weird that the medals slip through the holes. That's not even how you get them out, they should be way too small to fit.