Yeah, Godai had to be this one-shot form called Healing Form where he crushed a cold medicine pill and sprinkled it around him to become that. It was basically Amazing Mighty but all-red and white eyes.

Growing form (Incredibly weak, Pale White with Red eyes) is just me when I have a really bad hay fever attack.

got Horobi in today and . . .

SHF Upgrade REALLY needs to make a "sting dystopia" add on set.

Scorpian tail that wraps around his leg + some effects

Jealous.

I'm in Nippon-Yasan hell right now. Neither the SS Den-O nor Ultraman Tregear which have already been released have been shipped, Tregear is marked as discontinued.

Horobi is at least being prepared for shipment right now. The only other order I have with them is Jin, I have wisely ordered everything after at another place. I hope my stuff gets shipped eventually, because getting money back from these guys is impossible and PayPal won’t cover me for stuff I paid back in December 2019.

General advice: Don’t order from Nippon-Yasan. Ever. They aren’t even the cheapest option available anymore, that’s why I left, what’s happening now is just the cherry on top.

Yeah, I still have a War Machine Mark 6 with them that is stuck waiting for SAL to be available again. Luckily it is the last order I have with them. I have found some other good places to order my Web Exclusives from for future releases.

Yeah, Nippon-Yasan isn't anywhere near as reliable as it used to be.

When I ordered Para-DX I specifically chose a shipping option not tied to JP Post, but it still took over a month to actually ship out even after having to contact them twice to ask about my shipping option and being told it would ship on dates it never did. And when it did ship, it only took about 3 days to arrive. And that's not mentioning people who had ordered stuff from long before the pandemic became a thing and still saw no shipping even after contacting them multiple times.

Dunno why their service as a whole went down the toilet, but they went from a great place to order stuff to avoid at all costs if possible real quick.

To be fair, the orders I have with them now were all "Transi-logistic" shipped, because I foolishly thought "Hey that sounds neat, I should test it!". As I was informed earlier his week, this shipping option doesn't exist anymore. They changed my orders to EMS instead and gave me back the change... in store credit. Useless but okay, better than nothing.

Let's see if my stuff actually gets shipped now. SS Den-O and Tregear I could live without honestly, but I'm going for a complete Zero-One collection so I would have to hunt down Falconboy and Scorpionman on the secondary market if this situation goes south.

Also, it kinda sucks that I have accepted I will never get my money back if they don’t ship. PayPal won’t be of much help and NY straight up closes your account if you want your cash back.

I will say, they can be good when they want to be. lol. I had a Mafex Shazam pre-ordered with them and had SAL as the shipping option too but they upgraded it to UPS for me free of charge. So that was nice of them.

What's a better alternative to Nippon Yassan , especially for Web Exclusives ? Anime Export? Tokullectibles ?

My Shooting Wolf is being processed from NY, whatever that means, not much activity from SS Den-O. Granted I ordered these before the outbreak and with the JP shipping

Are we talking exclusively for P-bandai or for all figuarts?

Edit: I did not read your message in full, please ignore this.

Can personally vouch for both Tokullectibles and Play-Asia. Pre-ordered stuff from them in the past and got them way faster than what I thought I would.

Tokucollectibles has been fan-freaking-tastic. No complaints at all there.

For non Riders I've also started using Okini Land and Nin Nin Game with no issues so far.

Been re-working my Rider shelves little by little over time. Went from Showa, Heisei, Neo-Heisei to all that plus Neo secondaries to now all that on-top of Neo-tertiaries.
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You could technically fashion one yourself with some pla plate and copper wires. A MetsuBouJinRai.net add-on set from SHF_Upgrade would definitely be cool. A Zetsumeriser, Dodo key, Jin's handgun, Horobi's katana, and stinger as one set would be badass.

Amazing! That is an enviable collection, and a gorgeous display. Thanks so much for sharing it!

It’s crazy how quickly SHF Zero One sells out on Mandarake and how infrequently he goes up. Noticed one pop up like five minutes ago and it’s gone already.

Zero-One already got a re-release close to its initial release and it still hasn't got him to show up in Mandarake often. Is this gonna be another SHF Build situation?

On the other hand, Vulcan's going for 500 yen less off retail on Mandarake very often. Expect to see the same result for Thouser, if even possible and THEN I'll grab him as fast as possible.

So who here thinks there will be a Thouser 2.0 that includes AI-chan and Thouser the AI dog. :lolol

If anything, I expect Ai-chan to show up in the Rise Hopper (if it happens) or in Aruto's upgrade forms. Thouser/Aibo already exists. I don't know here you can find him, but he's probably a gashapon toy.

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Neat! I did a bit of digging, Takara made them. There are a few listings on eBay but all are 40+ bucks for sets of these and that's a bit too much for a cute accessory I may or may not use.

https://www.takaratomy-arts.co.jp/it...html?n=Y875380

https://i.imgur.com/Md7oU8M.jpg

That looks purely amazing.

Lots of new Ultraman display logos, including I believe a re-issue of the first one!

https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/...406&height=406

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They also have ones for the 54' Godzilla, Ghost, Faiz and Smart Brain that were announced this past week.

I somehow completely missed these, thank you!

https://i.imgur.com/8Ax3UtO.png

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inb4 this how they're stealth announcing seihou faiz

As someone who doesn't like Faiz at all... I need the Smart Brain logo for my desk. You know how like, CEOs in movies and stuff put a professional-looking stand with their name on it, front-center of their desk? Yeah I'm just putting down something that proclaims me as a smart brain



So let's see, for Rider; that puts us up to... 71, Kuuga, Faiz, Hibiki, Den-O, Kiva, Ghost, Build, Zero-One? That's a lot of ground covered! ... with some very surprising choices!

Looks like Valkyrie is out this week, Shishioh already has a review up: https://shishioh.info/SHF_KAMEN_RIDE...HINGCHEETA.php

Huh, I just got Vulcan in the mail, too. She looks fantastic, if really bare bones. Not sure what she could've come with but any time I see a non-Kuuga come with nothing but hand options I wince.

Also, to anyone who owns Kamen Rider Bravo, is his waist weird at all? I got one, along with Vulcan, off Mandarake and for some reason his tummy chunk doesn't want to straighten out, always arching back.

I mean, to be fair, she could've come with her own Attache Shotgun or some running effects.

Totally agree! Do you remember the original Agito figure coming with like 2 hands? Mad. An attache shotgun of her own or maybe some closed Progrise Keys would be decent I suppose?

A Progrise key she could spin would've been swell!

Looks like a bunch of Ultraman re-issues are happening -- the rest of the Ultra Brothers! Aside from the previously-released Ultraman and the upcoming Ace, we're soon to see rereleases of Zoffy, Ultraseven, Jack and Taro!

https://twitter.com/t_features/statu...610404864?s=20

Shishioh also has a gallery up for Zi-O Trinity: https://shishioh.info/SHF_KAMEN_RIDER_ZI-O_TRINITY.php

I wonder what his secondary market prices will be. I may pick it up if he's relatively cheap. Been really tempted by Geiz Genm armor but been able to resist so far.

Did some cleaning and re-arranging of some of my toku boxes. As soon as I can clear up some space in my room, I'll be putting them in glass display shelves.

Would be cool if we could get Best Selections of Zero and other Heisei Ultramen too.

Best Selection just sort of... vanished after Build and Ultraman (and Naruto). It’s a shame, I was very excited for it...

Seihou Shauta is now up for pre-order on both Play-Asia and Tokullectibles!

Oh I forgot:

Iwae! All three are shipped now.

I remember both Vulcan and Den-O went up on pre-order the same day and Ami-Ami crashed horribly that I ended up ordering them on Nippon Yassan

Well, this week N-Y sent me an email stating they couldn't ship due to restrictions so I had to chose another method. I wish they could've just refunded me so I can get it from BlueFin. But, I can afford to wait a couple more months because with the new shipping it's still about the same price anyway

I suspect Den-O is going to be the same case. Problem is I jumped the gun on when BlueFin had some in stock. By the end of the year I'm going to have two Den-Os . Sure I can have Sword and Gun form but since I haven't seen that season I have no attachment to Gun form

You live and you learn with the hobby man

Yup, same here. Wouldn’t have ordered Den-O at NY if AmiAmi wouldn’t have been such a nightmare. Sadly this happens way more than it used to. I never had these problems before but missed out on both OOO and Den-O, while being there the very second orders opened.

And here I thought I would be the last person on Earth to get Den-O :lol

My shipping method also had to be changed; I wonder what's going on at NY. Probably pandemic-related, they don’t offer Transi-logistic at all anymore.

I learned to never order at NY again and thankfully Kamen Rider Jin will be my last order.