To break it down completely, here's every major 01 thing not yet announced for release split up into show and movie suits (Azu is there bc she was at last year's Nations):-


Zero-Two
Vulcan Rampage Gatling
Ark-Zero
Ark-One
Ark-Scorpion
Azu


Abaddon
Lucifer
ZAIA
Valkyrie Serval Tiger
Vulcan Dire Wolf

Knowing we have that much left to go for Zero-One has me worried for Saber releases and I figured maybe the Pandemic has caused the release schedule to change and for Bandai to prioritize Zero-One and the fact it's clear as day how popular the series is.

I'm stunned at how they seem committed to doing every form from Zero-One but I would really like to see more Saber releases such as King Lion Senki who I felt should of been confirmed with Dragonic Knight. Makes me wonder if they plan on incorporating his Lion form?

I highly doubt that, considering how SHFs focus more on the suit's details, proportions and articulation instead of gimmicks.

Saber releases have been going strong. Our last one being Buster which was last month. We might see Slash this month, too. Aftermarket releases leads me to believe Saber's line is popular enough, too.

They might prioritizing getting the cast out before other forms, it seems. But I think we might see some upgrade forms for this Tamashii Nations. I doubt we'd see King Lion's lion form, though. It's a 80/20 chance. I mean they did do Geiz Revive's and TankTank's tank form lmao.

11-19-21

Hell Rising Hopper (6,600 yen) and Super Tatoba (7,700 yen) are Tamashii Club exclusive sales as well as lottery sales.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8fdjz4U...jpg&name=large

Not lottery, limited Premium Bandai stock, just like last year.

There's one date for Club Members to buy and then 3 for everyone else. 2 before the event, one after. It's even more for the general audience than last year were they had specific dates for each Club membership, now theres one for all Club Members combined and one extra day for everyone else. Only Ultraman Z gets one additional sale strangely enough, and that one is indeed a lottery sale.

Anyways, It was already easy to get the exclusive I wanted last year, it will be the same this year.

I'm getting Hellrising Hopper, it looks great!

Oh, that makes sense. That's good. At least the exclusives aren't something I really need lol. Like Shining Hopper, Diend, and Hazard.

This is peak comedy. A third party paint company is making specific stretchable paints for Tiga!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8fisaMV...name=4096x4096

That's the thing with Reiwa Rider... it's not like we weren't getting there to begin with, but 01 and Saber pushed the amount of suits into the extreme that SHF is gonna be taking a while on a lot of stuff.


In any case! The product descriptions show us that Super TaToBa and Hell Rising Hopper don't come with anything particularly special; just alternate hands and in OOO's case swappable claws (I fear for his elbows). Hell Rising Hopper might come with strangling hands for Eden like Metal Cluster did for Thouser based on this image? If so that's funny

Alpha Edge on the other hand is done up in metallic colours like Zero last year, but instead of a special stage comes with a Zestium Ray charge effect plus a pedestal for it. This jacks him up to 6,050 Yen though...


https://i.imgur.com/sQV2cpq.png

https://i.imgur.com/OGPX84C.png

https://i.imgur.com/6ndyoLu.png

Very glad to hear about them keeping up with the limited Preban sale rather than Lottery sale too (could have done with that with W's re-issue at Features, bandai...). I think it's part of why Tamashii Combo has ended up being the easiest OOO Combo to get and I'm hoping it'll happen with Super TaToBa too

Pre-ordering Shining Hopper last year was as simple as any other Web-Exclusive for me.

What on earth are stretchable paints? I mean, I get that they're paints that can stretch, but how on earth do these things work? This is some voodo if I've ever seen one.

What can I preorder these conference exclusive?

Generally most middleman services that sell Web-Exclusives, although there is no guarantee that they will carry them.

I used Nippon Yasan last year, but I wouldn't recommend them, their services went downhill fast recently.

I'm going to check Anime-Export and TokuTaku myself, there might be better options for you locally, depending where you're from.

Has anyone even seen any of the kamen rider W seihou reissue pop up for sale on sites like Mandarake or AmiAmi? I've seen plenty of the Zi-O anniversary edition ones pop up but can't tell if W has...

Not on Mandarake but I saw it frequently on Mercari Japan

I think the W re-issue has a small 50th sticker, right?

Okay, so, Seihou Tiga. Let's say I was to set him up on display on my shelf, I don't even touch the painted rubber parts and I have him in a very basic pose; and I do leave him there for a week or more. Would that basically do for the leave-alone-for-a-week trick? I don't have AC but well I don't really have that in my house in general, so

You don’t have to understand the language FYI

https://youtu.be/QwT99kfrJv0

The only real difference is that the Bandai logo is done in blue instead of the usual red on the packaging :)

Oh yeah, that switch happened to Figuarts... sometime in 2018? I don’t remember when exactly.

Pretty easy to tell MISB reissues from the originals after that point.

Right. My plan for Tiga.

That whole 6-days-in-an-air-conditioned-room thing... the thing is, I don’t really... have air conditioning? So best I can do is just have Tiga stood still in one pose without that, and leave him at least 8 days; and not open the window or anything like that in that time. That should hopefully be enough time for it to dry or anyone to tell me otherwise, right?

For his Zeperion Ray effect, I assume the 3P company that made replacement elbows for OOO and Decade will make ones for Tiga (and Super Tatoba). I will wait on that happening and just not even think about touching the piece otherwise. If no-one ever does replacement elbows? Well, uh, I guess Tiga just can't do his signature move, then!

The gears? Well... well I just won’t move the arms much, I guess. Thanks Bandai!

So for now, here he is on my shelf (excuse the lighting). And I have to say, despite everything, he does look amazing. Like he looks marvelous, beyond all my expectations. Absolutely spot on, with the headsculpt and eyes in particular being so striking. If it weren’t for Bandai flying too close to the sun and trying to impress with bullshit rubber and gear stuff then I’d go as far as naming him one of my figures of the year already, but... here we are. At least in the long run he’ll look amazing.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...178/image0.jpg

Ok based off what you guys mentioned about the blue vs red bandai logo that distinguishes the reissue Seihou Kamen Rider W from the original Seihou release...there is a listing on Mandarake for the reissue at 15000 yen. I would of hoped the reissues would of brought the overall prices down despite them being an exclusive rerelease.

This probably seems like a super random request, but... does anyone out there have both SHF Vulcan Shooting Wolf; and V3's Hurricane (his Rider Machine)? If so, would they be willing to photo them together? I've lamented Vulcan not having a bike for a while, and the Hurricane seems perfect for him.

What if at the upcoming Tamashii Nations they revealed protos of one of OOO's theoretical combos? Would anybody be interested?

Memory of Heroez made me for sure want a Seihou Mukachiri. Wouldn't mind the Love Combo or Shigazeshi either.

I definitely wouldn't complain!

As a dirty OOO mark (that ran into our bedroom like a toddler to explain to my partner how happy I was that Super TaToBa was getting a release, to which she offered very kind platitudes), I'd pick them all up in a heartbeat

I'd also buy them all as well.

Wonder Almighty isn't the Tamashii Exclusive because it'd be spoilers

Next year? :lol

Last year they done Realizing Hopper as a limited-time Premium Bandai exclusive while the event was going on, which they revealed a little later -- so I imagine it'll be the same this time

Man I will buy literally any OOO SHFs they put out, do not try me

I request Aqua and Poseidon

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EgXAJJ3UEAEbr-9.jpg

Hello, i asked Hobby Genki and they will try to have some, so maybe keep an eye on their website. Its gonna be war to buy one.

If there are dates for general reservations, can’t you hop on a place like Zenmarket and send them the product page?

Let’s say on 8/24 when the orders are up from noon to 6 Japan time ( if that’s how the schedule works )

Eiji's boxers. Just the boxers.

An Aqua/Poseidon two pack would be awesome actually

SS SHF Birth with removable parts to make Prototype!

Aqua... may be the one thing outside of my three main wants that would get me. I love that character a lot and I've yearned for a figure of him for ages

Nah, you can still get last year's Rider exclusives for reasonable prices easily now.

Getting retail releases is harder :lol