Nuts! I missed out on Saber's pre-order.

Odd my experience was way smoother. Saber also went up for longer than I expected and Blades even longer compared to Zero-One and Vulcan.

This some sign?

I'd say something that's helping with that is how we've got more distributors here carrying these two now. Bluefin confirmed that they're gonna be selling both, Tokullectibles put up their preorder windows days before amiami, etc.

More avenues means less people piling onto the same source, meaning the preorder windows stay open longer.

Decided not to pre-order any Saber SHFs yet. Gonna try the waiting game for this series. Haha.

If anyone's looking for Saber and Blades preorders still, BBTS put both up for pretty cheap since they're the bluefin releases. Plus no worries about paying them off right this second if that'sa factor for you.

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S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Zero-One: Metal Cluster Hopper! 7180 yen. Beautiful looking thing and we're one step closer to Zero-Two!

7180 yen?!? That's...a lot more than I thought it would go for. But if I don't pre-order it would most likely become more expensive in the aftermarket...

I'm at a loss mentally and financially.

In terms of important suits, that’s us down to...

Zero-Two
Ark-One
Rampage Gatling
Orthoros Vulcan
Ark-Scorpion
Ark-Zero
Naki
Ikazuchi

Also Hell and Eden I suppose. I think Ark-Scorpion, Naki and Ikazuchi are a bit up in the air but the other five are basically guaranteed.

MCH and Ichigata both going up on the 16th?
RIP wallet

Aw....Metal Cluster Hopper....the most boring Form in the Zero-One series because this form are getting overused...

In my opinion, Shining Hopper is still best upgraded Form design in Zero-One series...

I have to agree with this. It also has the best looking progrise key.

Forms after this are okay but the color additions come out of nowhere. What is the in-world explanation why Shining Assault Hopper is Blue? Why Zero Two is Red?

In general, I like when suit upgrades follow the design of the prior suit. Or at least when new colors have explanations.

SAH is blue since the "assault armor" originally came from Assault wolf. SAH is technically Zero-One and Vulcan's combo form like Rabbit Dragon.

Zero Two has red because it's a reference to Nigou and, along with the silver, is built up from the presence of the reds and silvers found in the original Rising Hopper suit.

Anyway, the 7K yen price tag is still weird. Thouser was around 6K Yen and had more stuff than MCH and was more "complex" in his paint scheme.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkTxUQKX...jpg&name=large

Also, SHF_Upgrade is doing a upgrade set to turn Rising Hopper into Flying Falcon. Would be cool to see the rest and a possible set for Ark-One/Zero. Maybe Punching Kong Vulcan too?

MCH and Shining Hopper are Aruto's best forms IMO. Shining was a perfect upgrade to Zero-One with the great computing-effects, Metal Cluster has the amazing nanobot grasshoppers.

It's just a shame they clipped its wings with that boring sword, after that thing came around it was just another form that swings a sword around.

That is AMAZING, holy shit — well beyond anything they’ve done so far. I wonder how this is even going to work; it’s a lot of parts to swap!

it's practically a brand new figure at that point! the legs, chest, shoulder and head are replaced. I will hold off on this form though. Now if they release the Tiger or ice bear form...

It’s tempting me to get a Rising Hopper even though I wasn’t going to bother just because Flying Falcon is that cool a form. But I doubt I’d actually be able to put it together...

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You get another chance to buy Zero-One! This time a little bit different. Realizing Hopper version with new stand, progrise key, and blue gradients.

3,300 Yen, exclusive to the Tamashii Nations 2020 event.

Neat-!

Oh, tamashii nations. Okay

Meh, easy pass for me. Unless it becomes cheaper on the aftermarket but Tamashii exclusives don't often do that.

I’ve been trying to work this out for a bit now; does anyone know what SHF upgrade’s Build stickers are supposed to be for? They don’t give any details and it’s hard to tell just looking at them. The one that looks like Sparkling’s “mouth” especially confuses me.

They look like stickers for various henshin devices from Build.

There are two stickers there for Rabbit Tank Sparkling "soda can". The Figuarts can is blank where there should be graphics. https://news.tokunation.com/2018/09/...-gallery-55556

First two goes on the Build Driver. The other three are for the Drill crusher, I think with the dials.

The last four stickers on the bottom seems to be for Sparkling while the last sticker is for the Full bottle buster, I think. It was missing the gold on the top.

I got that same set. The two on the top left are for the Build Driver, the three top right are for the Hazard Trigger.

Four bottom left are for the RabbitTank Sparkling Can, and I honestly have no idea what the final bottom right ones are for??

Little while rectangles are to put behind the full bottles I think.

Thank you! I had no idea the Sparkling can was so blank, oof. Guess they started cheaping out earlier than the Ridewatches...

I thought the others could have been for the build driver but I thought they’d be too big and couldn’t think of a single thing wrong with the build driver. Looking closer at my RabbitRabbit I’m now realising it’s without the logo! You learn something new every day.

With all the love Sevenger’s been getting, I’m surprised I didn’t see this coming!

whewww just as I was close to ordering the Minipla

Is this P-Bandai ?

Edit: How do the Minipla scale with SHF ?

We don’t know yet (but I would bet on it). All that’s said is that it’ll be fully revealed at Tamashii nations

It's pictures like these that make me wish MCH stayed as a Berserk form. Preview pics up on Tamashii Nations blog.

http://tamashiinations.blog.jp/archives/7559947.html

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It's going to be P-Bandai. Bandai wants everything to be P-Bandai if it's possible.

I haven't been checking this site very often so I apologize if this has been asked 10 times already, but is there any difference in QC with the new Kamen Rider OOO's figure? I know the arms broke for quite a few people and I was considering taking the plunge on the 2nd run version.

That's a good question actually. I don’t know the answer but would appreciate if someone cold clear this up.

I have a reissue OOO coming up and would like to know if I can try to swap the claws on or not.

"Quite a few" is really overstating it. I myself and a few other users on here have had zero issues swapping the claws. I've also heard nothing about the reissues having issues. For what it's worth, when it came to past figures Tamashii did typically fix QC issues when it came to second runs. I remember the original release of Kabuto was knock-knee'd, while the reissue wasn't, for example.

I have the first release and I've been constantly swapping the arms out and I haven't gotten a slightest bit of crack, but I guess that can be attributed to me widening the hole in both arms to make the swapping much easier.

We can probably say this to be a widespread issue if people start reporting the same arm crack on SS Den-O and Ixa. Also, I completely forgot SS Ixa was a thing.

I don't understand why Den-O has the same arm design.

So more Agito Renewals have got to be coming next year, right? It's going to be its 20th Anniversary and Agito is the only Renewal line so far to not have multiple releases (even Den-O, which just started this year, has Plat Form on the way and its almost guaranteed that Zeronos and Ax/Rod form are coming soon).


Agito needs more love from the Shinkocchou Seihou line lol

I would love it, but... let's face it, the only people who like Agito are on this board :(

I don’t disagree with you, but: We've got some Kiva on the way, more Den-O to be done, Kuuga's in there too, OOO of course - and they’re probably announcing the next new Rider in November I guess so that one and its forms/secondary Riders take some spots.

Don’t see anything Agito happening, same with Kabuto, even though both have quite a few forms and Riders still to be done. Although just G-3 for the anniversary would be neat.

What I need is more Showa, that train definitely stopped way too early.

The fun thing for Kabuto is that in terms of in-series stuff, there's only 3 suits it hasn't done (not counting masked forms, because c'mon).

There's also the three movie riders but since Caucasus and Hercus are nobodies no-one cares about; that just leaves TheBee, Drake, and of course the best characters Sasword and Ketaros.

You seem to have confused Caucasus with Ketaros.

Nah, Ketaros is the best rider in all of Kabuto. He was in Decade!

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