Man, I hope Anime Export is still as reliable as they have been in the past. Had to order Calibur Jaou Dragon and Kiva Emperor from them, hope they pull through. Always scary dropping cash on those lesser-used sites

I started buying all my Web-Exclusives from there after things went south at Nippon-Yasan, no issues so far.

....Went the amazon Japan route for Shadow Moon in the end.

Me want and need...also I remember something about the exclusives for the Tamashii show being switched to Premium Bandai release or some form of online release?

I'm talking about the 50th anniversary packaging Zi-O and W rerelease

That sure is a way to re-issue a popular figure...

SHF Shin Ultraman releases June 26, by the way!

https://i.imgur.com/K3Puwgz.png

The ZI-O one is P-Bandai, I believe. I can't completely understand japanese lol, so I only got the bare minimum of understanding, but Double is still lottery-based. I think he's also P-Bandai, but one thing's certain is that priority goes to Tamashii Club members.

They both have the same method of availability. Here's a chart from the website

https://i.imgur.com/ySqJJ2l.png

There we go. I didn't see that. So, they are still pretty much club-exclusives, still.

The absolute balls...

I actually kinda respect them for choosing and basically acknowledging a hard to find/afford release. I don't gotta like it, but I respect the ballsiness.

Too bad it's Japan only....was interested by that.

BBTS put US Shadow Moon up for preorder so put in a lock on that there since it doesn't require up-front payment. Way too much stuff dropped this week for me to go in immediately.

Thank you but sold out! Price is not bad although I have to pay 10% tax plus $4 shipping

Al stocks are sold very quick. How much is the shipping to Europe?

It depends honestly it can be 10€ more to 50€

Yeah, I once checked them out as an option for Tajador, and... oof, the shipping was Really Not Great! Would not recommend if you live in Europe unless you literally have no other option. Or if things have changed since then and I haven't realised

I didn't have much choice for Shadow Moon though...=/
So...yeah he'll cost roughly 140 with taxes and customs...

Okay yeah, just to grab an example; I ran SHF Leo through their checkout and here's what the cheapest shipping options to the UK are. I really don't understand this given BBTS' lowest shipping options to the UK are far far cheaper; only much bigger packages like Mezco 1:12 Ultraman even approaches this

(obviously you're not asking for the UK but for a different country, but it's a good ballpark idea)

https://i.imgur.com/kklZPRG.png

I feel for you guys in the UK and any other areas in the world where importing stuff is a pain...

It's not the worst thing in the world, but it mostly means that certain options (like Tokullectibles) are cut off, and we're just never ever getting in-country releases here. Oh, and you have to watch out for customs, but I haven't seen those in a while. There is a perk to it right now though, as we currently have cheaper Japan shipping options available to us than America

Pre-orders for Shadowmoon are now opening up for me locally (but with a 3-4 month release delay) for 7500 yen.

But I have no money...!

Also, are there any actual set dates for Jaou and Saikou to release yet? The SHF page for Saber says the two are set to release on November, but Saikou's preban page says October.

I just need to know if I should be able to ship both Jaou and Saikou in one go.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/d3137cdf...rvkpf6_540.jpg

It's strange that there'd be any difference between them, but the preban page will be the most accurate (and it makes sense given the amount of time between each going up for pre-order). Go by what the pre-order page says, every time

Hope the distance between the releases is negligible, then. It won't be ideal to ship both separately after all!

The release schedule and Tamashii item page also list it as October

https://tamashii.jp/item_schedule/202110/#

To those who bought the SS Kamen Rider Black figure, have you experienced wear and tear on your figure particularly the places that use soft materials? I heard it is a problem.

everyone: excited about shadow moon and frustrated about preordering

me: "i want those buster and slash shfs right now so much"

At least those will be somewhat hassle free to get, just find the site that has the best price ( but skip Nippon Yassan of course )

I haven't received mine yet, but the JP toy reviewers I follow on YouTube haven't made any kind of follow up video related to issues on their copies. Kinda hard to get a feel for how exactly these tears happen

I did find this tweet though from someone offering tips

https://twitter.com/Vangelus/status/1392221823970983939

If we're lucky (or unfortunate, depending on who you wanted to see), then the blurred image for the Tamashii reveals is the release announcement of Buster.

Altho, I'm not sure if I want Buster to just come out as the days go by and somehow Falchion (or Gaoh) was the Tamashii reveal, or just have them reveal Buster there.

Honestly Falchion or Gaoh would be a very, very nice surprise. Falchion wouldn't even be that hard to do, I think, since it could just be a remold of the Ghost SHF, right?

Thing with Falchion is that he'd have to be 50-60% new parts. Or Bandai would just pump out a new ghost body mold entirely. Much like 001.

He needs a new torso that doesn't have holes for the parka, and he'd also have to be just as tall as the other Saber SHFs.

I almost forgot that the scale has been slowly increasing.

Also, in general, the quality has been increasing. Even ignoring the size and specifics of the parts, the Ghost SHFs just aren't up to snuff with modern standards.

I heard that some Ghost Figuarts make a rattling sound when you shake them or something? What's that about?

Are you sure that it's Ghost SHF's you heard about? Because some of the Build ones do that, I noticed that with mine.

In this forum we've come to the conclusion that it is a Fullbottle-inspired gimmick.

Ah, I still remember the quick paint.net meme I made for it... memories

I've dissected them to death and I still have no idea why.

It’s the fandom’s broken dreams of a good Rider show, embedded into every single figure.

If the rattle is the same one I'm thinking of, it is the plastic shroud that covers the shoulder joints. It is a floating piece to keep it flexible, but in some positions it's loose enough to rattle.

It isn't(at least not for the Ghost SHFs). They're fairly tight in the Ghost SHFs anyways - I've also removed them and the rattle is still there.