So I should be expecting that AmiAmi payment request soon...

Yikes

Hey, you have it easy this month.

I feel like he was cheaper when he was up for pre-order ?

I really want those Ultraman buildings for my MonsterArts shelf.

That seems to be the way things are at N-Y. I'd expect the price to rise even farther. Heck, the SS Kabuto is up to ¥18,800.

Now here's something cool for people like me who weren’t collecting in 2013: They will re-release the Renewal Version of Kamen Rider Black in July! Sweet, I wanted one but after market prices are rather expensive for this guy. Glad to pick one up for the retail price now.

Oh, and the Impact Effect set also gets a re-release, also in July.

Pre-orders for those go up with the rest on March 1st.

If you're looking for a decade, I'll have one at cost if you need.

I still need to get the explosions, electricity, wind, and wave effects.

BTW, when is Bluefin's estimated release for Decade? I kind of forgot all about him.

He already came out this week in Japan. Why buy from bluefin when you can get it faster from Japan?

Because some people like to buy from a regional dealer, nothing wrong with that. I don’t understand it either but I don’t have Bluefin or a similar service around here to begin with, if I had a local distributor for my plastic drugs I might would want to go with that too.

@ Dr Kain: Their website only says February 2016, so I don't know when they deliver.

Orga's shipped from NY, and paid off SS Decade this morning (with an Acrobatter tagging along).

Which for Bluefin means end of March. Maybe. But no earlier. Because they're still using the wrong damn dates...

I have a second (accidental) Wave effect coming in on my Amiami order, so I can part with it if you need it. Blue version, of course.

Speaking of, finally got the payment request in for it. Probably hurt less if the exchange rate weren't crap right now.

Damned election year...

I had to pass on the wave preorders. I still want to get the blue one, one of these days.

I wonder when the next new Tamashii Effect will get announced? I know it's only been three months since the Aura effects were released, but we have announcements into July now and nothing new so far for '16.

Amiami has it for like 900.

Hmmm.....
I did just get my payment request for Captain Phasma and Decade...

If you have a local comic book shop that has Bluefin as retail, it could be easier to go over there and pick up your self. Not to mention it's always good to support the industry. Bluefin is lucky to import pre-Drive retail Kamen Rider figuarts given how niche the market is for it.

Yeah that's good and all but I used to buy some of my figuarts from them and had problems. When I got kamen rider Odin and gold phoenix the Phoenix was broken right out of the box. It had a big crack on the right leg so I had to return it and wait awhile to get a new one. That's why I don't deal with bluefin I don't trust them and don't want to deal with that ever again. I never had a figuart broken out of the box from Japan only with bluefin.

And if you ever do get a broken one from Japan you're stuck with it. From what I gather Bluefin will replace broken figures.

I can totally relate to people wanting to stay local to get that level of customer service.

And I never gotten a broken one from Japan ever only bluefin. I also read that other people had similar problems as well with bluefin.

Just because you haven't gotten bad figures from Japan doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Plenty of people have gotten broken ones or figures with other QC issues.

"Eh" on both. Already have the impact and not a Black fan, but this is cool news nonetheless. Hopefully we'll see a few pieces hit stateside.

Glad that Black renewal is getting a reissue for the fans that don't own him. I didn't know how bad his after market prices are. Glad to own him in 2013. He is one of my favorite figuarts from 2013.

Oh hell fucking yeah!

6000 and upwards is about the average.

I'm not big on the Black suit either (I like Black RX and Robo/Bio Rider though, go figure I guess), but I'm glad the renewal's finally getting a re-release. I'd noticed its price had gone up too, so good news for those that want one.

HLJ took out payment for Decade. Can't wait to get this guy. I'll have every main Rider from the first ten Heisei era series....except for Kiva :lol

:cry

YES!

Oh I am aware of that it just I don't order figuarts every month like a lot of other members do so that why I said I don't get broken ones. To be more clear about it.

So I've been watching Kamen Rider Wizard, I've been liking it a lot and the designs for the suits are pretty top-tier. I really really want some figuarts but man...based on pictures of at least Wizard's base forms, they just look so goofy. Their heads and feet are so huge and the abdomen is kind of weird too. On Beast too...their proportions are all over the damn place. It's pretty weird to see how funky they came out for Wizard when the figuarts for Gaim and Drive are near-perfect.

Still, really want some Wizards...

Flame Dragon and Infinity Style are pretty good figuarts. Flame Dragon does not have his belt pop off like Flame Style did.

The ones that interest me most are the Hurricane Styles and Infinity. Infinity does look pretty damn solid, but it's also the most expensive one of the bunch. There's Hurricanes going for as low as 1500 yen on Manda, so I guess even if it's not a completely outstanding figure I wouldn't mind shelling out that much at least. Infinity looks the most enticing though.

Flame Style is my most hated Figuart. He does look great on display with the well made detail on him (The feet didn't bother me that much). His belt pops off so many times that I lost count. Taking him apart and putting him back together after doing a kick strike pose is a pain. Mine will fall apart after putting him back together. A renewal of Wizard probably won't happen for a long time since they still have to do the renewal forms and riders of Kuuga, Agito and Decade to do first.

I agree with the designs of Wizard, I like the flame form a lot too, but as Guyver Spawn said it is an incredibly flawed figure. Later ones at least didn’t had QC-issues, but the line is still… meh.

I would love to get a Shinkocchou Seihou Wizard eventually.

They don’t have to. I imagine main Riders were the focus, but if you can make alternate forms or a new Rider from the mold you might as well do so and release them after each other.

As much as I like some of the secondary Riders they’re doing (Gatack looks awesome!) I’d prefer if they stick to main Riders first. Give us W, maybe a new OOO, a new Wizard and maybe even a new Den-O & Ryuki. Den-O and Ryuki don’t really need it (at least not as desperately as W), but I think the market for those would be good enough. Because as awesome as the set is, not everyone needs or wants a Dragreder. I for example would prefer a solo-release Ryuki with all his weapons.

And of course, the big thing, Kiva needs to be done.

SS SHF Gills would be sick. One of my favorite rider designs. Not sure how well his old SHF holds up since I never own him.

Not a bad figure, but not as detailed and well proportioned as it could be.

Sadly I don’t see them making a new Gills anytime soon. It seems like with Shinkocchou Seiho they just make forms or secondary Riders where they can reuse parts. Daguva is actually the only completely new mold out of the ones shown off last year. Kuuga’s forms obviously reuse the Kuuga body, Diend uses Decade’s body with some new parts, Gatack reuses Kabuto’s body with some new parts.

They might continue that and make Agito Flame and Storm, maybe Trinity, but that’s about it. The super forms are already up to speed, no need to re-doe those, and G3 + Gills don’t reuse anything from Agito so they would have to make new molds for those. And I don’t think that’s on the priority list right now. I would like to be proven wrong, more Agito Riders is always good, but I don’t see it.

I think after they release Daguva, Diend and Gatack we might get a new main Rider and then some obvious re-deco’s / retools for that one.

I have a near complete set of Wizard figuarts for sale

You want the lot?

I think i'm missing Medusa only