That's definitely Slash and Kenzan haha. I'm only doing 1 figuart from Saber, but man those two are going to be hard to resist.

I also think King Lion will look amazing as a figure as well. It's one of the most mecha looking suits in all of Kamen Rider with the visor, mechanical lion head, and freaking shoulder cannons. The red belt looks a little out of place though. The RKF and Sofubi didn't paint the belt and I think it looks better as a result.

Depends for me really, depending on how they'll do his blue. I wasn't too big on Assault/Orthoros Vulcan being matte when the suit was gloss.

Would be neat if King Lion is metallic blue tho.

At first I wanted to get only 1 figure per character, but if it's Blades I'll have to make an exception, I really like all his forms

Seihou Dark Kiva releases on August 28 (next saturday)

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

I completely forgot I pre-ordered him. In no other reason besides "It's Otoya/Kouhei Takeda!"

https://scontent-lcy1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...48&oe=6149B9C7

That's not a bad price.

EDIT

https://scontent-lcy1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...40&oe=61479C42

Thr GUTS Wings are a separate set?

Okay...

Huh, that... IS pretty weird. On the other hand though I guess it's nicer than being forced to buy Golza if you don't want him?

Seems Rising Ultimate is getting released soon too judging by his being next to the wings

After watching the latest episode of KR Saber I'm even more hyped for a SHF of Primitive Dragon and am still baffled he wasn't one of the exclusives for this year's Tamashii Showcase...I mean did Hell Rising Hopper really needed to be the exclusive lol

BBTS has pre-orders up for a restock on Orb Origin and X w/ Gomora armor, somehow. Bit on Orb since I just finished the show.

I'm cool with this. I've always wanted the GUTS Wing sets from the Ultra-Act line but tracking them down is a pain in the rear, and it saves me having to grab figures I don't really want.

I mean I'd still love a Tiga Sky Type, but...

Oh sweet, thanks for the heads up. Been wanting to get Orb Origin again after I foolishly sold mine off a while back.

Where you guys normally get the magazine scans image?

np, happy to help

I think we mostly find them lurking around Twitter. I usually find them on Instagram too

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ah thats nice

https://i.imgur.com/KXHi0RX.jpg

The scans typically originate from Japanese or Chinese blog sites before making their way into forums and then Twitter.

That's a beautiful box for our dear Dark Knight.

I don't see anything, what are we looking at?

You can't see the Dark Kiva box?

Edit: Heads up, if anyone didn't mention, Golza has wired rubber tail.

Looks good

https://youtu.be/7fTOtV9Ugfc

Z Original releases on September 18!

https://i.imgur.com/A5WAFnD.png

My most anticipated figure of the year. My god he looks stunning.

Don't mind me, just hyping myself up for a release I want so much.

Not too sure on the two-tone green tho, since I don't remember that in the suit.

https://static.myfigurecollection.ne...2/2737166.jpeg

It was indeed two-tone in the show and the SO-DO, but not the RKF figure. Though its much more obvious in this picture.

But it is just a prototype so maybe it will improve for release.

If you were wondering why there weren't very much pre-orders for this years Tamashii Nations exclusives (Hellrising Hopper, Super TaToBa usw.) even though yesterday was the first public pre-sale, well, it's over.

Their servers couldn't handle the traffic so the whole thing was cancelled and future sales are now lottery-based. So either expect to pay through your nose for these or miss out entirely.

For fucks sake. Hellrising Hopper was literally the last hoop I needed to jump through for a "complete" Zero-One collection. Screw this, I don't care if it's "complete" or not, I'm not wasting time and money to hunt Hellrising Hopper down.

Thanks again for a job well handled Tamashii Nations. Superb.

https://sp.tamashii.jp/importance/173/

Wow

Bandai Gundam kits are also unprecedently selling out and resorting to lottery systems.

Increasing popularity and a decrease in numbers they are able to produce given the current situation I assume.

THIS IS SO LAME.
Great, now I gotta fight the overpriced greedy Japanese toy scalpers on this shit.
Garbage idea, if I wasn’t so deep in the rabbit hole with these things, I would quit buying them

DH2!

Thanks for the heads up. I was refreshing a page all day yesterday for Super TaToBa NOW I know why it never went back up for preorder. I starting to dislike the whole tamashii nations exclusives they just not worth the stress to buy them. I don’t think I care for future event stuff going forward had enough of this crap like with their retail preorders sells out in seconds it stupid not enough stock.

At the very least, there's no Ultraman design exclusive to this event and it's only two Kamen Riders. It's a big shame for everyone who wanted them; I hope they're easier to get on the aftermarket like last year's

thanc bandai for that

good thing i wasn't horribly interested in either one

if it were a saber character, i would've been real pissed

Christ, Tamashii Nations... Does anyone like Lottery Sales as a system? Anyone?

Literally just put my (far too expensive) pre-order in for those 2 today before reading this. Hope they can fulfil it.

This reminds me of the recent letter Goodsmile put out explaining why some pre-orders are now disappearing faster than usual, like SHF levels of fast. A case of the production numbers not matching the demand, despite factories working in full force.

Not to mention, some scalper bots might be up on the mist.

There's a global shortage of basically any good manufactured in China. A lot companies either stopped producing or slowed down production of goods due to the global pandemic, and now as things are picking up again and people are wanting to spend more, manufacturers are swamped with orders.

On top of that, because of the congestion of freight shipping and this demand, freight companies (who don't abide by any single country's anti-monopoly laws) have begun to charge exorbitant prices for shipping. That upcharge translates to late products and higher MSRP as companies now need to absorb that cost into product's total value.

This was my first thought. Scalping has become something these companies are completely incapable of managing.

If we're talking about the same thing and I'm pretty sure we are, that was only because of one Nendoroid that sold out way too quickly, simply because the character is immensely popular.

None of their other products are affected, as they still operate mostly on an open window "made to order"-basis, but that one Nendo broke the system and sold out too quickly because too many people wanted it. They apologized for that and promised a reissue. Which is a pretty good way to handle that situation honestly.

About the first time I ever saw a Nendoroid sell out as well.

Which character was it? Just out of curiosity

Gawr Gura I'm pretty sure. An English Vtuber.

Also did anyone else get an email from Tokullectibles about their JP SS Dark Kiva stock being allocated?

Yeah it was Gawr Gura, the most famous of the English Hololive Vtubers.

I must admit, besides being a fun personality, her Nendoroid is crazy good looking. The Nendo style fits her image better than all the other Hololive cast members.

Did they get short stocked again? I remember their stock of US release Brave Dragon was cut short right before it was shipped out from Japan. Didn’t have any issues with Lion Senki though

https://t.co/65efluZl61?amp=1

Hacchaka's review of Dark Kiva.

Kinda makes me want Saga all the more.