It's Sentai Figuarts all over again.

It sucks because Bandai has given up since they are done with the Heisei era. If they had just came out and said they weren't going to do anything from the Showa era and only do 3 figures from the Millennium series right from the get go, I wouldn't be so disappointed.

Just finished reading. Didn't get a good vibe. If SHMA becomes mostly SHMA-Zero then i wont be supporting this line anymore.

I've been holding out for Showa figures and so now nothing.

Haven't posted in a bit, and the Monsterarts news scene has been slow lately, I decided to grab a couple of figures, and do some experimenting with a photo shoot. I pulled a couple of favorites from my display.

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So I am a noob to S.H. Monsterarts, but it appears that not only am I late, but that changes are coming that I hadn't anticipated. I am mainly a Transformer collector and a member of TFW2005, but I recently got the Godzilla bug and some friends pointed me in the direction of S.H. Monsterarts. So far I have not been disappointed and have acquired 9-10 pieces.

My primary interest was in the "classic" Godzilla monsters, or Showa series, but I guess they are not coming now?? Can someone explain to me what "SHMA zero" would mean exactly? Does this mean no more articulation?

Hopefully we will get more concrete (and better) news at Toy Fair this February. Thanks and please excuse my ignorance :)

Your ignorance is forgiven because we all have to start somewhere :lol

Yeah MonsterArts isn’t doing well right now, sadly. They tried to get into new territories with the Alien vs. Predator stuff and Gamera, and while Gamera did end up selling well from what I’ve heard the AvP hideously clogged the shelfs. No one wanted this. It didn’t help that Neca was already doing tons of Predator-stuff for the US-market and that Tamashii started with the Wolf Predator from AvP2. Like, WTF.

And I don’t know why, but they seem to be really afraid of touching anything Showa. Maybe Japan isn’t into it much, but most stuff they’ve done is Heisei- and Millenium-figures. And these sold rather well from what I’ve heard.

But the line is obviously not doing well enough, Gamera was the last new mold and that’s almost a year ago now.

Tohokingdom.com has an insider in the forum who works with Bandai and he keeps insisting that they merely take a break and that we should look forward to 2016. Whatever that means. I mean, there is the new Godzilla-movie coming out, that could be a release. But there are also other figures rumored, nothing confirmed though.

And what has been going around in the scene is that Tamashii thinks about doing MonsterArtsZero. This comes from the term FiguArtsZero who are just statues. So maybe they do statues and see how well these will be received.

I just don’t know; I only want a new MonsterArts-mold once every quarter of the year or so. I would be okay with 3-4 new figures a year, it doesn’t have to be a new figure every month. There’s still so much cool and weird stuff they could do, I think it would be a huge waste to let this line die.

And also, @Topic: HLJ is selling the SHMA Rebirth Godzilla on the Winter sale for 30 bucks. If I had any money left, I would get one :(

Yeah unfortunately SHMA Zero likely means a statue-type line, a la FiguartsZero. There might be some swappable parts, but that's the best you can hope for in a situation like that.

I can't remember if we've ever gotten MonsterArts news at ToyFair, but nothing MonsterArts-related (even more redecos or the talked-about Zero statues) was shown off at the Tamashii Nations show at the end of October, so I'm not anticipating anything new anytime soon after the Poster Color King Ghidorah.

Considering I've seen a few Garudas start to get listed lower than the previous 18000-20000 yen asking prices, maybe/hopefully some of the more expensive pieces will start coming down in price if the line is dead and people start checking out, so those that still want them can get them for cheaper.

Interesting, I hadn't heard that chatter. Still seems weird to let '15 be such a whimper for the line. Hopefully the line does get going again though (and hopefully this "break" talk is a good sign the Ultra-Act line doesn't die either).

I didn't realize HLJ had that deal on Rebirth either; if I hadn't just shipped the only thing in my PW I might've tossed that in.

Yeah he’s called Naruto over there and also has an account here but I don’t remember the name. He makes awesome stuff with figures, photos and videos and stuff, very professional. I guess that’s why they hired him.

He never leaks anything but he knows stuff and will drop hints. Which is legit, he’s not lying.

Of course plans change and they could put the line on ice for a longer time, but he said on multiple times we should look forward to 2016 and this gives me hope.

Thanks guys! Such a bummer, but maybe there is still a glimmer of hope. It would be really cool to have nice molds from the Showa series. The cheaper vinyl figures do nothing for me. My collection so far consists of...

Destoroyah
Godzilla (Adult Jr.)
Godzilla (2014)
Godzilla 1964 (Emergence of Godzilla)
Godzilla Junior
King Ghidorah
King Ghidorah (Mecha)
King Kong (2005)
Rodan (Fire Rodan)

Unfortunately, MonsterArts aren't selling well because Bandai seems to think that repaints makes a line sell.

The line is pretty much done like Injustice, Sentai, Alien, and Predator.

Injustice was a pretty damn short sighted license in the first place. I don't know who at Bandai decided that would be a profitable license to pick up. But they were wrong. The first figures came out nearly a year after the game was relevant. They got 4 figures out and then clearly realized no one bought them. If they're going to do DC figures they should at least do what they did for Marvel & acquire movie likenesses seeing as comic figuarts will probably never happen.