Where are you looking? Mandarake? It's usually up to the demand there that adjusts the price. Not Japan entirely. Blades is still $40-$50 on Amiami and Saber is still $30.

It's not uncommon for this to happen, considering Zero-One floats around 5000 yen while Vulcan Shooting can be found for 4000 yen. Maybe 3000.

Didn't most of us anticipate this? Vulcan and Zero-One were the same way. Main Riders are just more popular.

Blades pretty much just came out, though, so I think we know where this is headed.

3000-2000 yen Blades here we go!

Would be great for some customizers, too. Like what if someone wanted to do Fantastic Lion.

Yeah it's just I always felt his retail price was overpriced even if he comes with those small accessories. I know prices dip for certain releases but I don't think I seen something drop so fast.

I was able to score a Blades for 3000 yen on Mandarake but I've seen unopened box listings for 3500 yen.

Blades started out being my favorite Rider from Saber but he's been very boring lately. I'm sure that will change, but my interest in a Blades SHF as completely evaporated, though I still plan to pick up his Converge figure.

Buster on the other hand will never not be great.

Which is why I feel the main riders should be released early on to capitalize on it

I'll go back through my accounts and try to calculate a lead time between PO announcement and actual release dates. I want to say Saber and Blades went up around the same time in Nov/Oct.

In the case of Blades, I think the writing team just sidelined him too long to the point he felt like an afterthought

Yes, both Saber and Blades went up for pre-order around October. So, you were able to get both of them after 4-5 months. If you live in Japan or use a fast shipping service.

In theory that's not a bad turnaround time but for the debut figures of the line I'm not a fan of that when you know so much stuff happens in-show between that time frame such as new forms being introduced.

That's only a real issue to me when a form is quickly replaced by that new form. you will be missed Pink Jin. But when it comes base forms, especially Saber and Blades where Brave Dragon and Lion Senki still show up in the show every now and then, it's really not a big deal.

Much as I agree with Henshinmorph saying that at least the main rider should be available early, this is just reminding me of the one time an SHF main rider was early... and the resulting SHF OOO TaToBa is an infamously bad figure.

Can't even imagine the outrage it would be across the net if the riders do release early the QC is just poof.

Lol the original OOO figuarts was indeed downright bad....I owned it at one and immediately regretted my purchase even if I got it for cheap but figuarts in general have come a long way I mean look at base form zero-one that is one beautiful entry level fig and the only issue with Saber is the obvious missing details and unpainted sword

They did mention time constraints was one of the reasons for Saber's gray Seiken, didn't they?
Yeah, as much as I want my shit ASAP, quality control issues are an absolute fucking nightmare at the price point these figures are. I've seen the kind of issues SH Figuarts have across the lines that aren't Kamen Rider, and I'm glad Kamen Rider really doesn't have it that bad.

Yeah, when it comes to the Marvel stuff they clearly go off concept art which is why they have so many variants of the same characters....glad I haven't went down that rabbit hole. I wonder how early do they or are they allowed to start working on the next series' rider figure.

Seeing as they pushed back Decade Complete Form and I think another release I guess Covid has indeed affected production in a big way.

Neat ! Hopefully though this isn't one of the new reveals from this week's stream

Hopefully not. The Saber stream was a little bit disappointing in that it only revealed Dragonic, but that was more so due to Dragonic being leaked a day early.

And in Kuuga's case here, he was officially put up on the website -- and has now officially been posted by t_features

https://twitter.com/t_features/statu...386483717?s=20

So I would be surprised if it was 'revealed' on the stream beyond a "btw we recently revealed this as well"

EH?! NINNINCOMIC?!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Exw1IHgW...pg&name=medium

Talk about blindsided. The colors and look are extremely tempting...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Exw0x8DW...jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Exw0x8VW...jpg&name=large

Looks like something I'd pick up on a whim in teh aftermarket.

They really holding Genius hostage.

Absolute insanity! I... guess this is to represent his dad??? Either that or we're also getting KaizokuRessha and HawkGatling, but, man. This was super left field!

Did Tamashii accidentally drink some of the cans they keep down in the SO-DO department?

So like hey, SHF, y'know, if you're doing auxiliary forms like this again for popular seasons and characters... and you're doing V-Cin forms, hence you'll be doing Valkyrie Serval Tiger, which has certain parts... just sayin'...

wow, just ... wow

Guys, they even printed the little drawings along the sword and chest!

Yes. One of the promo pics is him going against Rogue, Cross-Z Magma, and Grease.

So, I wouldn't surprised if we also see GorillaMond to represent Takumi.

With this release, isn't every weapon from Build now represented in 1/12 scale? That could have something to do with it.

It did cross my mind, yeah; Hazard and Metal came with HawkGatling and KaizokuRessha's weapons. Pretty decent

Never noticed it took this long to actually complete all of Build's weapons. Well, the ones that are hand-held anyway.

Come to think of it, ZI-O completed it relatively quick. And Zero-One is only missing the Dodo Blades.

Quite a good looking figure. And yeah it opens up a lot of questions about what to expect from SHF.

All I can really think is that Build was really popular.

Lol what a completely random release, although I guess since this is meant to represent Takumi's dad, this is technically rounding out the rest of the Build riders from the show?

Also just throwing this out there.....literally EVERYTHING before Genius

Just wow never did I think bandai would go back to other forms that last 2 or 3 episodes but here we are. I will be definitely picking this up nincomic was always a cool form.

If they are going back to releasing these forms we could see HawkGatling, or gorilladiamond. Whoa now Build Genius will really be push back.

Gotta wonder what other rider line will get this treatment Zi-o, Saber, or one of the Seiohu hmm Friday going to be exciting for what Figuarts reveals will be shown off.

Build is very popular, and this can be spun as representing a new Rider. I'm not sure Zi-O or Saber has that kind of hype popularity for any individual form. (Or forms that close to the start of the series, at least.)

Any of Woz' forms besides Ginga could technically double for White Woz, so he could be fair game too

It'd also be an excuse to throw in the books that we didn't get with either Woz release

Popular or prominent alternate forms that come to mind would be Ex-Aid Level 3, Genm Level 3, Valkyrie Lightning Hornet, Saber's Wonder Combos, Buster/Kenzan/Slash's arms, Zi-O Kuuga Armour, any of W's combos, Wizard's elements and Kiva DoGaBaKi. And, of course, Build's KaizokuRessha, HawkGatling and Gorillamond forms. Can't see anything else happening

Buying both Woz base and Woz Ginga would already equal to having both White and Black Woz. Plus, there's also gashapon set that includes the Woz Books, so won't be too hard to give those two their books.

Something tells me what's taking Buster, Kenzan, Slash, and Saikou a bit long is maybe because they're still trying to figure out how to swap the entire arm around without compromising the structure or... something like that if they want to do their form changes at all. Would love to see Dragon Arthur or Dragon Alangina represented somewhere, maybe as the soul exclusive instead of Primitive.

Definitely would love to see Lightning Hornet and Wizard Flame Dragon. It gives ppl a 2nd chance to get Valkyrie and a possible tease for Serval Tiger, and Flame Dragon is, like, my favorite Wizard suit.

Lightning Hornet was also a VERY popular suit, and towards the end of Zero-One got a lot of use and in ways that felt like a final form stand-in -- it's definitely got more going for it than just about any post-Wizard auxiliary form I can think of!

You will have to wait...

https://i.imgur.com/0k3m7To.jpg

NinninComic?!?

WISHES DO COME TRUE!!!

I might actually have to pre-order this sucker knowing how expensive Build Figuarts are on the aftermarket.

Goodbye Primitive Dragon! I hardly knew ye!

Wtf Bandai why you gotta do us Genius fans like that lol...although I do like Ninnin Comic but give us Genius already lol