Congrats to you on getting Legacy. Meanwhile I'll be here facepalming Bandai Japan's decision to make so few of them.

Random question but is it possible to trigger Hyper Muteki's henshin jingle without Maximum Mighty X? Like with a certain button press..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e88QHgKEXEQ
The other sounds are from the Muteki Gashat
EDIT: I misunderstood you. You should be able to trigger the pins for the docking sound effect, so yeah

it seems like the longer the Ex-Aid toyline has gone on, the harder it's become to actually buy the toys.
so far I've missed out on Shakariki Sports, Tokimeki Crisis, Buggle Driver II, Hurricane Ninja, Mighty Creator VRX
I thankfully managed to get Muteki from HLJ when they started accepting pre-orders for it. but no matter how often I checked Tokimeki or the Buggle Driver they never opened up again.
I started collecting after Shakariki was long gone, so I knew that was a long shot.
I never even got to see a listing for Taddle Legacy.

Really annoying when earlier on in the toyline I was able to pre-order things with no trouble. or even just buy them in stock.

looking on ebay the prices for things like Tokimeki Crisis are insane.

what's happened? are they producing the toys in lower quantaties now? or has the show (and by extension toyline) just become WAY more popular now so there's more demand?

I remember a similar thing happened with Gaim the last time I was in japan. any shop I went to their assortment of Gaim merch was barren and then in collectable stores in Akiba and places like that they were charging almost4 times the original price for them. (like 8000 yen for a Budou Lockseed)

I guess getting a full collection of DX Gashats is going to be virtually impossible. (or at least very expensive)

On the subject of hard to get Gashats. sorry if this is the wrong place to ask. but how do people outside of japan go about getting Premium Bandai products. kinda tempted by that Ride Player Kamen Rider Chronicle Gashat, but no idea how to obtain one short of looking for it next time I'm in japan (whenever that is)

Definitely popularity - Kamen Rider's profits have grown by several million yen in the past year, according to Bandai's fiscal reports.
As for buying Premium Bandai stuff, you couldn't find it even if you were in Japan because those products are sold exclusively through Bandai's online toyline. Your only chance is to use a middleman - my recommendation would be Toku Taku Toys.

This is why, despite my love for the show and the Gashats, I've decided to not even bother trying to collect them save for a couple that I like. I wasn't collecting toys when Ex-Aid started so by the time I wanted to get stuff from the show, I was already so far behind that I just didn't want to bother. To make matters worse, they're actually producing lower numbers of the newer stuff like the Buggle Driver II, Tokemeki Crisis, and Taddle Legacy.

well, I guess I'm glad it is at least due to popularity.

and when I said buying the premium stuff in japan I meant from second hand collectable places like Mandarake and stuff which is where I got my Donguri, Matsubokkuri, Durian, Kurumi and Yomotsuheguri lockseeds.

And thanks for the tip, I'll look into Toku Taku Toys :)

Managed to catch HLJ's Taddle Legacy restock yesterday and got it! Also got PMAX Origin off Mandarake, it's on its way now!

so we've got a picture of the full set of stage 9 of ex-aid sodo
https://cdn-ak2.f.st-hatena.com/imag...0629145210.jpg
I'm guessing the box will be muteki body x2, muteki armor x2, origin genm mighty body x1, origin gemn zombie body x1, origin gemm armor x1 (which will have both dangerous zombie and proto mighty action armor in it), poppy body x2, poppy armor x2, and taddle legacy x1.

Also here's proof the origin genm armors will be backed like the mighty brothers xx armor set
https://cdn-ak2.f.st-hatena.com/imag...0629153345.png

Also the first figure of stage 10 was revealed: Lazer Turbo
https://cdn-ak2.f.st-hatena.com/imag...0706203525.jpg

edit: here's the link to the bandai candy toy blog post revealing these
http://bandaicandy.hateblo.jp/entry/weeklyex-aid46
http://bandaicandy.hateblo.jp/entry/weeklyex-aid47

Lol so you're the guy that snagged that origin gashat, good job man. I didn't obsessively refresh the page for one day and it happens to be the day it goes up.