I pre ordered a couple of weapon units so I'm waiting for those to be in stock but it looks like AmiAmi;s on Golden Week so it probably won't be here till May:(
EDIT: Nevermind, I read AmiAmi's notification wrong...

Maybe it was closer to that. :P

Anyone receive their payment request for Drive from HLJ yet?

Drive type speed has officially been agito'd.........

http://i.imgur.com/iE8bBJ8.jpg

My wallet... ;_;

Anyone get a shipping notice from N-Y for Kamen Rider Blade with broken mask yet?

http://i.imgur.com/f1ZBycb.jpg

Come to daddy!

Some teaser packing images of Drive figuarts from the HK Figuart FB group.

https://scontent-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hp...a0&oe=559AC276

I did.

Unfortunately, when I was on the verge of confirming payment, I noticed part of the shipping address was dropped, so now, I'm waiting on their customer service to sort it out. Le sad.

Man, I don't remember them giving Gaim this much attention. Is Drive doing that lackluster that they need to really push it?

Wow, that thing is one of the ugliest Figuarts I have ever seen.

I still don't like how bare bones Drive is. I understand if he was a Showa Rider or someone like Kuuga but I wish he came with more then just a few hands. It remind me how the original SHF Agito was.

I did

Yeah, he absolutely should have come with the Handle Sword and Door Gun. And so many of the tires shouldn't have been first run bonuses. They're really pushing the smarmy marketing too far with this line.

Hold it, what? He is bare bones? That sucks.

Getting some Rider photography practice for the upcoming SHF Drive.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8725/...945af8c9_c.jpgSH Figuarts Ryugen by siningy, on Flickr

Some people in Japan got their copy of Drive and it appears that he only has four set of hands.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...851d6efaec67d0

Been saying all along the marketing with first run bonuses was incredibly sleazy (splitting a single tire and its effects between two releases? Come on now!) and he should have come with Max Flare by default.

As a total package, Drive alone just doesn't seem worth the asking price, no matter how good the paint or articulation may be.

Accessory count is always nonsensical with figuarts.
Look at kuuga...then look at hibiki


Has anyone else noticed shipping prices have gone insane everywhere recently?
I got my payment request from HLJ for three small things and it was $50....

Wtf

The difference is Hibiki has used things in the show Tamashii can use as accessories. The Henshin Onsa, the Ongekiko - Kaentsuzumi & Ongekibō - Rekka, the Disc Animals.

Kuuga? He only uses his fists in Mighty Form, the belt is fused with his body, every weapon is connected to a different form. The only real accessory that makes sense would be his bike and that's sold separately, obviously.

Sure, they could have made something ridiculous like a part of the coffin were the belt came from, a miniature Gouram or parts of his broken form. But nothing of that really makes sense to have with a figure of Kuuga Mighty Form.

Drive though, that's another story. Since the Fourze module-sets were hard failures they limit the tires to pre-order bonuses instead of selling them separately and the weapons are given to Type Wild & Technic. The problem with this is not a lot of tires are going to be made, and the effect-parts that belong with them are also packed into different products, it's awful. And some things like Chaser's E-Circular Weapons are nowhere to be seen.

It's pretty bad and since I don't like Drive enough to put up with this mess I decided to skip the line entirely. Seeing the Drive-figure with it's small box and four hands is kinda pathetic.


Was one of the "small things" SHF Vader? Because the box for his pre-order bonus is huge. And no, I haven't noticed anything, my shipping for the order of Kuuga and a random Transformer were the same price as always.

Hate to be "that guy", but I'm of two minds with Drive. At first when I learned the Handle Sword and Door Gun were coming with his other forms I was a bit annoyed. Even now I still kinda think Type Speed should have come with them.

That said though, with how the show handles the use of the weapons, I can also understand why Type Speed has no weapons. He technically only uses the Handle Sword as Type Wild most of the time. The same goes for the Door Gun mostly being used with Type Technique. Type Speed at its core is a straight brawler, so his figuart counterpart comes with what it needs, really.

The first run bonus tires are a different story, but I can understand why Drive only comes with a few hands.

Oooooo, yes please!

Wow, that is absolutely horrifying. I am regretting getting him even more now.

For $40 he should not be that bare bones. It doesn't even look like he comes with any hands to hold weapons or ride a bike. There better not be a drop of bad quality control on him.

But then, I guess I should have expected garbage toys from a garbage show.

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he doesnt have a bike to ride and im sure the figure itself will be cracking in hand. The tyres should have been included as standard IMHO instead of a first release insentive, oh well

It being a "first release bonus" doesn't make any difference until the figure gets a reissue though. Right now it may as well just be a normal accessory in a different box.

You really can't blame the figure itself for that or the show at all, you knew what he looked like and came with when the first official pictures came out.

Is he pretty bare bones? Yea no argument there, but I'm pretty sure the listing tells you that it's just the figure it self with a couple of hands.

So it's your fault for pre-ordering when already knowing what he looks like and come with at that price point.

Now, that I understand how first release bonuses work, Dive doesn't seem as bare now. Max Flare is a pretty good accessory that makes Drive seem more worthwhile, and the fact that I won't have to go scrambling around to find it makes me not dislike as much as I did initially.

Yeah I don't agree with the whole barebones thing. If you get the first release bonus (which almost everyone who ordered him by now should have) then you get an entire tire accessory and I believe the flame effects. That's not barebones at all. And you don't think calling the figure "garbage" before even owning it is a bit of an overreaction?

He tends to lean towards overreaction in almost everything. This is no different.

The official order pages for Drive has been live for MONTHS Kain. Using google translate would have shown you exactly what he comes with well, and I mean well before you put a pre-order in. Calling a figure garbage because you didn't bother to check what it actually came with is kind of ridiculous. And as others have said the first run bonus, which you can get anywhere at all right now, more than makes up for it.

Speed Type is a brawler, so it's not like he needs all of those extra hands anyways. it would've been nice to have gotten the Door Gun and Handle Sword with this guy though at least.

But we already know those come with Wild & Technic. So again, it's not like the accessories with Speed were unexpected.

It wasn't until those forms that he got the weapons, so I totally get why they're bundled with those two figures.

Plus the tk type speed Didn't come with the weapons either. It might be annoying but I don't see how it warrants trashing the figure and show constantly.

Good point.

Handle-Ken: Episode 4. Type Wild: Episode 6.

Door-Ju: Episode 8. Type Technic: Episode 9.

;>

Still, the weapons lead into the new forms. And ever since he's mostly only used those weapons with those forms.

You don't even need to do that, the product listing on Amiami (and most other sites) give you all the information too.

There's really no excuse to be complaining about accessory count AFTER you've already bought something. I agree that the first release bonuses probably should have just been standard accessories, but that's not something that's going to affect most people (or anyone if he never gets a re-release). He comes with enough to recreate all of his signature poses and since his weapons were only introduced later in the series, I don't see why you'd have ever expected them with Speed.

I'm actually not too sure about that. He wielded the weapons frequently in Type Speed even back when Type Wild & Technic were still relevant. And now that they're almost completely gone in favor of stronger forms you only see the sword and the gun with Type Speed.

Not that it has anything to do with the figures, it makes perfect sense to pack the weapons with them, it's just that I don't remember much about them and I do picture the weapons mostly with Type Speed.

I can see why people are upset with bare bone figures seeing that other Tamashii lines like the S.H MonsterArts line will have figures with beam effect aparts. I do feel like Drive should have came with more but I'm willing to make it up for if the paint job and articulation is good enough. For example, S.H Figuarts Kinnikuman was kinda bare bones, but the paint job and articulation was solid enough for me to like the figure.

Like how the blue effect part with the first SHMA Godzilla was also a first release bonus part?