So since no one else has posted, I take it I'm the first to get Baron in.

I wish I could say I was pleased to be such, but alas... this is a bittersweet victory.

Let me clarify: Baron himself is fine. As good a figure as you'd expect from SKC at this point, but my complaints with him are the same as Gaim - which if I didn't elaborate on previously, boils down to the Arms have a very loose
connection and have a tendency to pop off the torso if you so much as nudge them lightly, and the hands just seem ill-suited to holding the weapons for very long or while posing.

My real issue, however, is what should be my victory lap.
https://i.imgur.com/woPgBh1.jpg

The end result is fine. It looks good. It looks like it should. It's still my favorite combo.

The execution is what I found lacking. You will note that, unlike the Arms Change figure, Gaim's upper torso is a proper silver like the suit itself.

https://i.imgur.com/3JQFC0r.png

This is because you can switch out the torsos fairly easily between figures. The issue then becomes... this is what's left of Baron.

https://i.imgur.com/K4Cu1hn.jpg

As there's no spare chest part. Now you COULD just slap Gaim's chest on him, but the colors clash and of course, the look is completely inaccurate - Baron's chestplate only changes for Kiwi (green) and Lemon (black).

Now granted this is mostly just me being a whiny, nitpicky b!tc4 but after all the lengths that SKC has gone to, being left with a figure that's basically just spare parts just to Strongly Encourage you to get a second one...

Yeah, I don't know. I think this is as far as I go with the Gaim SKC line. I'll probably grab Bravo and, Godoka willing, Kamuro, but beyond this I'm... just feeling really disappointed. Part of that is almost certainly on me, but... eh.

https://i.imgur.com/6hCFWqt.jpg

This has been my Annual Contractually Obligated"Tali Is Disappoint" Rant.

Kamen Rider PunkJack Fever Form come out April 2025

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GZdrIH1a...pg&name=medium

At this point? Expect Valen to be exclusive.

Be happy if he turns out to be retail. But definitely expect him to be exclusive.

I did get Baron and Gaim last week but the QC on Gaim was so atrocius that I needed to pretend that I didn't get them for days so that I wouldn't do something stupid out of impulse like throwing the figure straight into the trash where it belongs.

I have it posed in the cabinet now and will never touch it again.

Baron is fine QC-wise but yeah I'm 100% with you now, I don't really care for Seihou Gaim stuff anymore at this point, don't know if I will still buy Zangetsu and Ryugen like I originally intended to.

Thankfully I still have the OG releases, for they are superior after all.

I always thought that the original Gaim SHF looked fine and that this was just for those who wanted the Arms Change gimmick. Glad I didn't preorder the SHF SS.

If they ever actually release Mars and Kamuro though I'll be draining my wallet.

Of course.

I really hope Valen will be retail because Gavv didn't come with the sword, and I think they'd put that on Valen to entice people to buy him.

What would suck is if they put the sword with Valen and make him exclusive anyway.

Yowza, I'm sorry to hear that, but I'm glad it's not just me having issues. My Gaim is Fine, it's just that the compromises made in the name of the gimmick don't sit well for me.

Paraphrasing something I've heard re: Legacy Armada Megatron - This new one is a great representation of the character, but the old one was a better toy.

Half tempted to backtrack for the Arms Change figures, honestly. At least those I generally don't have to worry about breaking something on while changing gear.

Yikes, that would definitely suck.

Personally, the sword wouldn't push me to buy Valen - gummy boot and fist pieces 100% would though

It's sounds, from your comments and the ones below, like there are just flat-out QC problems with this line. This has been my concern ever since... which was the first Shinkocchou Seihou figure to try to replicate a Rider's form-change gimmick? Was it Den-O? OOO? The Seihou line is losing some of the things that made it great in the name of swappable-armor gimmicks.

In my case, the sword on his helmet crest came off immediately after he came out of the box. I was able to pop it back on, but that definitely set a tone. His hip accessories kept popping off when I tried to swap out his hands and get him in a simple, neutral pose, and I was reminded unpleasantly of the things I hadn't been so thrilled with about original Figuarts Gaim.

The figure looks nice so long as I don't touch it, but I'm not looking forward to further posing it, or making use of the Pine/Ichigo set I preordered.

I'd been hoping Shinkocchou Seihou would finally get around to Fourze, but now, I'm significantly less excited, given we can pretty much assume Bandai will return to the limb-swapping.