Damn I though that was Bandai tease us. Look great def gonna get Saber figuarts when goes up for preorder.

Still not a fan of the head design, but the body is growing on me more. I am now going from skipping to on the fence from looking at this custom.

How hard/likely would it be to get a Jackal Raider SHF? I mean, Bandai didn't just create a fully wearable 1/12 Raidriser for no reason, right?

Jackal Raider is mostly the AIMs suit with a new torso, hip armor, shoulder, and helmet. The rest can just be a remold.

Minor suit for a minor character... don’t like its chances. If Naki doesn’t have much of a chance I don’t think Jackal does.

Nippon Yasan opened up pre orders for Shining Hopper and OOO Tamashii combo
https://www.nippon-yasan.com/figures...ng-hopper.html
https://www.nippon-yasan.com/figures...hii-combo.html
Also Ultraman Zero
https://www.nippon-yasan.com/figures...color-ver.html

Wooo boy that Tamashii Combo markup. That’s a lot of fun to look at.

Yeah... I'm going to stalk mandarake in November to see if I can get for a better price, but if not then oh well. So-Do is good enough for me.

Plenty of Rabbit Dragons dropped to the 5K yen price recently. Personally not interested, but just letting anyone know if they want one.


Wait, that might be the reason why...

https://www.shfiguarts.com/content/a...9080885203.jpg

Imo it’s because of Cross-ZBuild. There’s a big market for a Sento/Banjou fusion form, and as long as both exist; Cross-ZBuild is ultimately the most desirable one for a lot of reasons. For kind of similar reasons I absolutely expect 01 Shining to drive down the aftermarket price of Assault Shining by A LOT, though I doubt it would have been very desirable to begin with.

That said, a lot of Tamashii exclusives tend to go for low prices eventually; even Genm! The highest recent one that comes to mind is Diend, who even so only hovers around 8000 yen.

This pleases me greatly. I'd love to get Shining Assault sometime, have it displayed next to Thouser.

Thanks for the heads-up, ordered Shining Hopper.

But man, I was so happy to make this my last order with them because I have store credit from previous issues with orders there.

Well, turns out I got the credit in 4 different little vouchers and you can't use more than one on a single order... :rolleyes

I remember a lot of exclusives had big markdowns in second-hand shops when I went to Tokyo a couple years ago.

Ahh I still regret not picking up Zangetsu Shin there when I saw it for ~$50, but I was on a mission to get all the Build boys at the time and couldn't remember where that specific shop was.

Super good Ultraman sale on Bluefin rn for SHFs. Rosso, Blu, Blu Ground, and the Netflix Ultraman, Seven and Bemular are all about half price.

https://www.bluefinbrands.com/deal-o...eid=e05ba6c2e2

I'm super-tempted by the Netflix UM but I've only seen the first episode of the anime so I don't wanna impulse buy...

Was it Mandarake?

We’ve at last got official announcements for Ultraman Fuma, Kuuga Dragon and Kuuga Pegasus!

All of them are February Premium Bandai releases with preorders going up tomorrow. The Kuugas we’ve seen before through leaks and are both 6600 yen; Fuma is 7150 yen and comes with an energy shuriken effect piece

Guess I'll be giving Tokullectibles 13200 yen tomorrow. Ow my wallet...

Uhhh does the Tamashii exclusive Zero lacks the accessories? Saw official pictures and it doesn't seem to appear to have him holding his various Sluggers. If he doesn't come with them it might not be worth it and I'll just wait for a reissue.

Sweet. Don't need the Kuuga forms but Fuma is a must-have for me.

It does, only comes with extra hands and the red color timer.

I would wait for a reissue.

With Fuma announced I decided to count up which New Gen suits haven’t been made yet; discounting auxiliary forms like Acro Smasher from the main count. It’s... surprisingly few!

Main:-


Saga
Victory Knight
Ginga Victory
Exceed X (& Beta Spark)
Orb Trinity
Grigio
G/R/B
Photon Earth
That Taiga Movie Form Thing


Auxiliary:-

Burnmite
Hurricane Slash
Emerium Slugger
Lightning Attacker
Solid Burning
Acro Smasher
Rosso Aqua
Blu Flame


Eeevil repaints:-

Tiga Dark
Ultraman Dark
Ultraseven Dark
Kaiser Belial
Zero Darkness
Orb Darkness
Imitation Belial



I feel like Zero Darkness is the only really likely one out of the last list; though if they did Kaiser, it’d be pretty cool if they added Imitation Belial hands and head as option parts. I also feel like if they do Beta Spark it’ll be packaged with Exceed X like Gomora was with base. Either way, yeah, surprisingly few left; and at that generally just one of each character on said list! Shoutout to Geed for reaching completion before everyone else; kid’s popular!

Nah I remember going to Mandarake like three times, it was a smaller individual second hand shop (which are like every 10 feet in Akihabara)

Dang. Spendy, but I gotta get the Kuugas.

https://bbts1.azureedge.net/images/p...7c5e0c9b5c.jpg

Seriously considering getting this 1/12-scale park bench for my SHF Blade...

Do it. Especially if you get an SHF Chalice to stare at it/him from a distance.

I think I'm just going to arrange my upcoming SHODO Chalice so that he's a little in the distance. Now I gotta find a 1/18-scale bouquet of roses!

I know it'll likely never happen, but recent discussion and pictures of Metal Heroes makes me wish SHF or some other high-end company would make a Metalder figure. I've heard the Evolution Toy one is pretty bad.

Despite getting countless other Kamen Rider thing's spoiled for me between forums, social media and looking at things I shouldn't on the wiki, I still have absolutely no idea what the deal with the Blade bench is and why everyone who watches Blade is obsessed with it. Pretty sure it's actually some sort of subliminal mind control. What could be so important about a bench?

There will never be a purer distillation of what empathy means in a world of violence than that bench.

I don't know why but all of a sudden I have a sudden urge to watch Kamen Rider Blade.

More acrylic logos; this time it’s Amazon and Amazons! They really like putting these out together these days...

I think I am having an issue with my preorder with Anime Export for the Kuuga Dragon and Pegasus figuarts. I went to my order page and made a payment for my preorder through Paypal and received my receipt for it in my email. But whenever I go on to my account and look at my order page it still says I haven't paid for the order. Anyone ever ordered from them and encountered this issue before?

How long ago was it? I don’t have experience with this specific site, but often that’s just a sign that your page hasn’t processed and updated yet.

Give it time; I assume they need to process the payment on their end too.

I pre-ordered Fuma yesterday there and looking into my order page immediately after also showed the order as unpaid even though I got the confirmation mail from PayPal already by that point. But today the order is marked as “Paid”.

Yeah I preordered it yesterday as well.

I just remember the last few times I preordered from them it automatically showed it as paid when I went to check right after those payments. But I could be wrong. Fingers crossed it is just taking some time.

Huh, deeper answer than I was expecting

Shfupgrade’s got some pretty nice Hibiki stuff up now! An Ongekibou Rekka sword mode for Hibiki himself, and then differently coloured Ongekibou Rekkas for Ibuki, Todoroki and Diend!

omg yesssss, ogenkibou "flame sword" is such a underrated kamen rider weapon.

It’s SO awesome, right?! Like... like I really don’t think I need to go into detail about how cool “Demon turns his drumstick into a blade of flame” is. It just speaks for itself!

Quick question, where can I order stuff from shfupgrade?

From their own website. https://shfupgrade.boutir.com/

Alternatively, they also sell their stuff through Tokullectibles if you prefer them.