I am still sad we never got Kamen Rider Valkyrie in Converge. I am pretty sure we already got the full metsuboujinrai team.

Also I was really hoping the Converge Motion line would stick to the iconic poses for each character. This Faiz one is okay but we just gotta have the hunched down standing by pose.

Are there any Metal Heroes so-do, etc.?

Unfortunately no, though there is that shodo-sized Gavan that comes with the recent soul of chogokin cyberian (at 16400 yen).

A kind of 'toei hero' shodo line would be a dream for me...

Finished up customizing Shodo-XX 3. Let's start with Kiva. My main goal was to match the customization of my Shodo VS Kiva. Third picture shows XX Kiva before I painted it (there was a lot of red to paint). The Hell's Gate only had red on the wings and shin, no other paint apps.
https://i.imgur.com/VfrimYW.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/atn6jad.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/EJAyPoI.jpg

I did a bit on Kiva Emperor. Just the silver on the wrists and knees and red on the belt eyes. Might do more later, I just don't want to paint the belt again right now because it took a bunch of layers.
https://i.imgur.com/SwMtSmT.jpg

Now onto the good stuff, OOO! Third image is these two before painting. I got some new paints including a chrome silver and light green that was perfect for this. Sadly, my green paint for the crotch doesn't match very well, but surprisingly looks better in pictures.
https://i.imgur.com/G2eumz2.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/AeSfJlD.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ty8LkE5.jpg

Couple of more of Gatakiriba. I might come back and paint the black on the arms later. Just wasn't feeling it. As I mentioned before, I got a new light green and it is perfect for these arms.
https://i.imgur.com/ERiP1Mx.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/NRG11zx.jpg

More pics of Tatoba. Third one is with my custom painted Shodo VS OOO. I didn't paint the fingers because things went well with the yellow paint and I didn't want to tempt faith (hate painting yellow).
https://i.imgur.com/Q7qvNn6.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/frv0GD3.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/6jcPEWb.jpg

G-G-G-Ghost! He was pretty well painted out of the box and there's some things I can't paint, but the new orange paint I picked up turned out to be a great match for his jacket and driver. Also did the silver on the knees and collar.
https://i.imgur.com/xzdfs7n.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/WQeIBrx.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/hygqv5i.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/o94nysS.jpg

And here Ghost is with the old GanGan Action figure. It's night and day how good the Shodo is.
https://i.imgur.com/95gE29A.jpg

Also did knees and driver handle on Toucon Boost. I would paint the rest of the red, but my metallic red isn't right for it.
https://i.imgur.com/VyKvAR4.jpg

Meanwhile, while getting those new paints, I came across a copper paint matches Vail's almost perfectly, so I finally got to finish painting him. It looks so good now.
https://i.imgur.com/7H0JQn2.jpg

Those look really good! Speaks to the molds themself how much just a little extra paint makes them pop!

That would be great. I'd love Jiraiya, B-Fighter, and Winspector figures at that scale. The Figuarts look great, but man...cost and space.

Cost and space is why I've been moving to the candy lines as well! Figuarts will always be the best-looking, of course, but generally speaking I get about as much out of Juuga or Diend at this size as I would at 6' with heavy details.

Which is why I'd so so love to see Kikaider, Robot Detective, Gavan, Metalder, Inazuman... so many others at this scale

Blog this week was just the promised Converge info (the Faiz/Decade/Zi-O wave shown above), but they're now saying there'll be SO-DO CHRONICLE news next week (one hour later than usual for some reason). Since the CHRONICLE "homework" vote was held a fair bit later than mainline SO-DO's, I imagine this won't be news on that; and of course there's nothing else for Faiz to cover unless they do Orphnochs, so this should be a new line.

What's everyone's bets? This is the full list of every series not yet covered by SO-DO:-
- All of Showa
- Agito
- Blade
- Hibiki
- Kiva
- Fourze
- Wizard
- Drive
- Ghost
- The First/The Next
- Amazons
- Black Sun
- Shin


Personally I'm kind of hoping it'll be something Showa. BLACK could make for a short one-wave line, or if it's a series from before then I imagine they could do one entire line for the seven legendary riders. There's also always the possibility it won't be any of these and they might just re-do Decade entirely!

I'm just going to randomly pick Agito, but I want to see Drive.

King-Ohger candy toy line up including our first look at YU-DO.
https://bandaicandy.hateblo.jp/entry/20230122_sentai

https://www.tokunation.com/forums/at...1&d=1674351260
https://www.tokunation.com/forums/at...1&d=1674351260
https://www.tokunation.com/forums/at...1&d=1674351260
https://www.tokunation.com/forums/at...1&d=1674351260
https://www.tokunation.com/forums/at...1&d=1674351260

This time it's two boxes each, but the accessories are included with them now.
https://www.tokunation.com/forums/at...1&d=1674351260
https://www.tokunation.com/forums/at...1&d=1674351260

YU-DO looks way better than Action Hero. The main thing for me is YU-DO has functional shoulder pads and not just shoulder pads sculpted into the arms. Also take another look at Action Hero Red's helmet and then the YU-DO. The sculpt is way better.