Yeah, that's right. My Zoffy shipped from AmiAmi this morning.

It's not a stage. It's a sticker that you can apply to a Tamashii Stage.

The reason it's not on the frontpage right now is that it's not 100% clear it's definitely a reissue. It looks like it's taken from the SHF book or a magazine showing off all ten Showa Riders and there's no date next to it, or Skyrider.

amazon needs reissued, he's the only showa rider figuart that is really hard to get ahold of

Ah no one had ever clarified the stage bit, but still I vastly prefer personalized stages, decals or otherwise, to blank ones.

And also the only Showa rider figuart that I want.

I got in my dragon ranger today

this is the most fun i've had with a figuart in a long time, and i have over 30, its just so much fun and posing it with the dragon dagger just makes me smile

Is Birth Proto just Birth with the different paint job? Like same accessories and everything? Just wondering, because as much as it'd be cool to have Brotou and Date stood side by side, I'm not sure it's worth, to all extensive purposes, buying the same figure twice....

Birth prototype comes with a second head with a different eye color than the original Birth, and comes with the Crane Arm and the Breast Cannon, which the original Birth didn't come with

Oh wow really? That sounds like a good deal actually, especially as I can't seem to find the CLAWs set.

If CLAWs is your thing, check out the OOO combo change Birth. It's less detailed and more toy like, but comes with all of CLAWs. Plus as a toy it feels better than the Figuarts version of CLAWs which is unpainted, silver plastic like the actual toy one that looks REALLY cheap.

I didn't really care for CLAWs to be fair, it looked ridiculously shitty when all of them were used at once in the show. I just wanted a Figuart of Birth which I have now (yay!) but considering the CLAWs business were his powers, I was kinda bummed to find they were sold in a separate set I can't seem to find anywhere.

But I guess if I get Proto I at least have the breast cannon. And since he goes for like 2000 yen on Mandrake it's probably the cheaper option as well.