Or they could be sold separately with the damn Swan being a TWE. Ugh. No please. Well, Femme would have more accessories as compared to Nadeshiko who comes with just her Rocket Arm and her...I guess you'd call them "Kawaii hands-together pouty" hands. Aside from that she's pretty bare bones.

I dunno. Yellow Buster and Usada are gonna be a two pack, why not Femme and her contract beast?

If you think about it, Femme is essentially a white, female Knight. Knight took up quite a lot of box space mainly because of his Spiral cape bitz for his Final Vent. I don't really know if they'd go the same route with Femme.

Also, if the releases of Zolda, Ouja, Raia and Gai are any indication they seemed to have shelved the Contract Beasts as mainstream releases for the time being. Even Taiga seems to be standalone so I'm not getting my hopes up with Femme.

Well, Magnagiga is the odd man out right now, as the others were put out as Genocider.
As well, Femme's Final Vent didn't involve anything similar to Knight's...

Well, for Ryuki and Knight Survive, it's unlikely that they'll include Dragranzer and Darkraider, but do you think they'll implement their transformations (Like they did for the transforming Ishtar Robo)?

I think they could definitely pull it off with Darkraider. His transformation was only a few steps. But Dragranzer? He might need to do some parts-forming, especially for the front wheel that comes out of his bosom. Hopefully not too much, kinda like the 'flight modes' for SHM Mechagodzilla and Moguera.

You could say the same for a lot of the Figuarts. Why make Gokai Pink and Yellow exclusives, if the rests are regulars? They're unpopular characters, because most of the young kids buying them aren't interested in the girls. Akiba Blue and Yellow got mass releases, because they're aimed at adult collectors.

I don't really follow anime, so I'm not sure if there's a big enough fanbase that would buy Blue Rose and Dragon Kid. They do seem popular on forums and stuff, so hopefully there is, but don't hold your breath.

Genocider and Magnugiga are things that people are going to really be interested in owning, I'm not sure how many people would bother with the swan (did it have a name?) if it's a separate release. Magnugiga and Tiger's contract monster were pretty huge too, they wouldn't have exactly fit into a standard box.

Darkraider definitely does not come with Knight Survive, but I'd bet they release him separately with the bike as an accessory with it (actually transforming would surely cause too many problems with ugly joints and sliding parts, etc.)

Dragon Kid and Blue Rose are female characters in an anime. They're seemingly popular because all female anime characters are.
Femme's Contract Monster is Blancwing, and Tiger's is Destwilder.

And I would be more skeptical of them transforming, they did release a transforming Ishtar Robo under the Figuart line...

Except that in Japan, Tiger and Bunny is actually more geared towards the female audience which is why there is a lot of focus on Kotetsu and Barnaby. It's...a weird fandom in Japan.

O_e

Believe me, you do not want to go down that path. Its very...risque. From a female perspective. The things I've seen I can never unsee.

I don't think I need to see it. I'm pretty sure I know what you're talking about. :lol

So figured I'd share my thoughts/speculation on what Figuarts from Ryuki we may see next and how they may be released:
-I think the next one we see will either be Ryuki Survive or Odin, followed by the other. Ryuki Survive will make it to retail but Odin could go either way IMO.
-Scissors and/or Imperer will come after that and of course be web exclusive.
-Ryuga, Femme, Verde and Abyss will both the last and web/convention exclusives, though I can see Femme, Verde, or Abyss not getting made. Ryuuga will though since he's a black repaint.
-If Bandai is feeling crazy enough they'll make an Ouja Blank Form for Tamashii Festival or something.
-I don't think we'll see any more contract monsters except for maybe Survive versions of Darkwing and Dragredder, but that's just me.

I agree with the most likely next 2 figures being Odin and Ryuki Survive. I'd almost guarantee Odin being exclusive and Ryuki will definitely be retail. Scissors and Imperor will also be exclusive as hell because they were almost non-existent characters and likely won't sell at mass retail. Femma and Verde would be the same since they only appeared in movies. Ryuga being the easy black repaint I would say will probably be retail. I've been clamoring for Ouja Blank Form for a while and much like Ryuki Blank I'd say he'll be a festival/web exclusive.

As for more contract monsters. I think we will definitely see Survives for Dark Wing and Drag Redder, those are almost guaranteed, as web exclusives. Even if/when Scissors Imperor Femme Verde and Ryuga I don't know that we'd see they're monsters unless they are packed in with them since 4 out of th 5 riders will exclusive. Ryuga is an easy repakc of Ryuki so that's all good. Odin I would say has the biggest chance of getting Gold Phoenix.

It looks like it would fit into the "Everything Else" cool stuff thread. This thread doesn't need to get bogged down by pictures though. This one's really meant for discussion or the occasional picture of a new figure etc.

Really? But I have seen plenty of pictures in here before. Are you trying to streamline the topics?

I have to ask Dr Kain, how tall is that Rose Lady (not including the base)? I've been tempted to get her a few times.

Well no, it's a problem that keeps recurring in this thread. One picture every now in then isn't such a huge deal but recurring multiple pictures of things unrelated to the topic of this thread can bury the discussion posts. We've branched off discussion and cool picture threads so that neither is bogged down by the other.

I see Odin as going either way as he was a pretty big force in Ryuki, pretty much an Avatar Rider for Kanzaki to use. Even if Ryuga is a repaint he'll still be web exclusive given he was a movie character, and I don't think we've seen a movie exclusive rider at retail since the Kabuto ones. He will come packed with Dragblacker though, I mean how can they not? Glad I'm not the only one who wants to see an Ouja Blank Form :lol

Probably 4 inches. She is about as tall as the GI Joe stuff.

Good! I want her lurking in the background of my Joe dios planning, plotting, her revenge on the Linto. :D

Now if only there was an Ichijo...

Gotta get me some of that action. I don't care if it was only on screen for like 30 seconds. I'll buy as many Ouja related figures as I can. Now if they give us the theorized Ouja Survive, I can die happily.

I think I'd actually throw a fit if they make an Ohja survive over Zolda Survive...

Well I will say that Raia and Zolda survive have the highest likelihood of being made (web exclusive of course). Considering Raia Survive actually had an official Art Works Statue made and Zolda Survive actually had a suit made for the show they would be very possible. Well more so than any of the other survives since they were only concepts. And I would kill for Zolda Survive and Tank Magnugiga.

Zolda Survive and Magnugiga Tank would be awesome.

Anyway, my friend and I were talking, and for the Riderman Figuart, do you think they'd include multiple lower portions of his head/face for his mouth or just make multiple heads with different mouths?

were talkin bout bandai here, theyll probly only have face included but have accessory sets with faces -_-

You mean the same Bandai who gave Ichigou an Effect kick and Amazon his Daisetzudan?

It'll probably be like some of the One Piece Figuarts. Pop off the front of the helmet, put in a new face, pop it back on.

Yeah. That's what I was thinking (I'm unfamiliar with anime based Figuarts, so I have no experience with them).
My friend said that Riderman's helmet (Or the lower jaw portion) moves with his mouth because it hugs so tightly, and is telling me that alternate heads are more likely, but I think that's a bit much, personally...

ya i guess they have been treating the showa well

Zolda Survive is probably a real concept somewhere, but you're citing made-up designs from a fake magazine scan. That wasn't real.

Well the Raia Survive design definitely is real because there were two proposed designs and at least an Artworks statue made for one of them.

Which is why I never said anything about Raia Survive. :p I remember when that thing was announced, actually. Shame he's had no figure representation anywhere since but it's easy to understand why.

Not sure what you mean about two designs though, unless you're talking about Brave or whatever the piano player's Rider would have been had he made the contract.

These
http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/1178/1158753507123.jpg

Real or not, it was awesome :lol

if any non-used survive gets a figuart it should be odin. all they have to do is glue gold pheonix on his back

I'd like to see them focus on real characters, before making guys who never even existed. We still don't even have Kiva's base form, Blade or Hibiki!

But maybe it'll be like the Star Wars figure lines, when they run out of characters to make, they'll go back and base them on the concept designs and rough sketches :lol

Man I really miss NewType magazine. It was my favorite anime magazine when it was here in the US.

No, that's when we're probably going to start seeing all the possible OOO combos. Sure, you've got RaToraTa, RaToraZo, and RaToraBa, but you really need RaToraDol. :p

Holy crap! Those are awesome! I'd totally buy those!

Awe crap. I just paid for Raia and AkibaBlue from BBTS and clicked for them to send my loot last night. And now I just got an email saying my Gai preorder has arrived. I'm not sure which is worse. The fact that I don't have teh money right now to pay for him or that he arrives not even a day after I had them process and ship my other two figures.