I haven’t bought Sodo in a while, but that is definitely worrying. Hopefully Sodo doesn’t go the way of the dodo.

I mean...King-Ohger had just come out and I didn't see any toys for it until my last couple of days there, I don't think any of the candy toys had even released yet. Maybe Geats was just between waves?

Still, I thought it was weird, because I saw a bunch of Ex-Aid and Kyuranger toys
at various stores when I studied abroad 6 years ago. I bought a minipla piece at a 7-11.

These bike fellas look awesome!

Yeah, Candy Toy was thriving for the last few years, with sodo in particular constantly evolving until they were even better than that year's mainline figures, and now they've just... slowed down. Hopefully it doesn't mean the end, but it's hard not to see the cracks forming.

Well thriving yes, but Bandai candy toys division ruined it, the RATIO are so bad... we can see 2 weeks ago that seeker or geats powered are the extras instead of twin command!!!!!!!!
Those Feat sodo are thrown away on sale for like 100 yen as soon as possible, as we can usually see on twitter posted by Japanese collectors.

My friend visit japan last month when i ask picture of candy toys on shelf well there are lots of eva frame,g-frame also sodo and shodo but they are the unwanted one .... there are like 5 pairs of revolve on punk jack .... and couple nago fever form

I also seen somewhere someone posted about the asia distribution ver of ID 3 have the extra of revolve on version(armor on legs) of nago or punk jack instead of their body armo one(will posted here once i can find the picture again)
edit : found the one with extra nago revolve on

https://i.ibb.co/tLgRjFG/326560900-1...16586988-n.jpg


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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...bb0accb13d.jpg
took me 3 months to find this DX

Man, yeah, the exclusive does not look good. I figured something was wrong when the frequency of Geats blog posts dropped so dramatically. That and no more SODO Geats preorders got solicited.

If the line resumes, I'm guessing they'll be doing drastically fewer same-character-slightly-different releases.

Yeah the Geats SODO seem like bad planning or something. All the stores I see SODO at are flooded with PunkJacks and Na-Go forms.

So basically, the line has been greatly scaled back by prior waves shelf-warming. They may not feel that they can get enough orders from stores to produce another wave, at least so soon. I suspect this has to do with them trying to honor the "Revolve On" gimmick, which creates a lot of duplicates.

I'm guessing the Ziin stuff is going to be exclusives because we may well have seen the last of Ziin's Rider form in the show, and Boost II/Laser is about to be replaced by the final form for Geats. They may just skip straight to final forms/things they have good reason to believe might sell.

I wonder if the shelf-warming PunkJacks might sell if they bring him - or at least the bear helmets - back to the show. I also wonder if the blank-eyed versions of figures are less appealing to kids.

Is this your own conjecture or is there a source on this?

Conjecture only. I just find it super-weird that it looks like it's just this year's Rider show that's getting scaled back. All the other SODO/Shodo stuff seems like it's doing fine, at least from the degree they're promoting it on the blog. I'm just trying to make sense of it. They went so hard on Revice we're STILL getting Revice figures in the Geats waves.