Yeah lol thats why i asked. The 20th diendriver is just a reshelled and recolored neo diendriver, with all the sounds and molding as the neo version. The original is trash, but i was wondering if it would be worth it to buy from hobbysearch for around $35. Ive nevet dealt with them and have no idea how much something of that size would cost to ship stateside. If its worth it to import at that price+ shipping or buy a bluefin imported copy for $70

Thanks Fish Sandwich. Your the only fast food i ever order anywhere. Always a winner. And i definitely am, you guys are great to hang and chat with. I hope to be a regular here indefinitely.

Edit: Fish beat me to it.

Yup! Having looked through a lot more videos now it turns out it's a pretty extensive reader, too:-

- All secondary riders
- All attack ride cards
- All primary riders
- In fact just, every single rider from Heisei phase 1; movie exclusives and all
- All final form rides
- All final attack rides
- Diend Complete


As far as I can tell it's capable of everything that was achieved on the show (and everything you'd assume it'd be capable of from inference) with the exception of the KaijinRides. Pretty extensive package all in all!

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I'm happy to give it a look! Thanks!

I find it as funny as you do, believe me!

I mean, i have to give credit where credits due. Your disection of Kamen Rider Blade really made me reevaluate my dislike of the series, and i actually came to like it. The designs were great though from the start, but i didnt really get the series the first time around. Your reviews wholly changed my mind.

Yeah, its just a reshell of the Neo- Diendriver as far as i can tell. That alone made it super appealing to me. I can get P-Bandai quality at retail? Sign me up. They either probably didnt sell as many Neo- Diendrivers as they wanted to or they felt it was time to bless us tokunerds with an apology in the form of a diendriver with working reader to make up for that trash in '09. Regardless i wanted to know if anyone has used hobby search and if its worth it to import something as big as the diendriver at $35 before shipping. Also, how much do u guys think shipping would cost?

Wow, that is very kind of you to say. Thank you!

I forgot how much of a rush a round of Among Us with good buds is. Didn't sleep super well last night, but I still feel pretty good.

Well the thing is, that's actually very different to Neo -- 20th doesn't have any post-Decade sounds, and I believe Neo didn't have sounds for Riders that weren't primaries or secondaries like Scissors or G4. It's more comparable to CSM, which I probably shouldn't have to say is extremely impressive.

I would go for it at that price if you really want it. You can check the shipping at the checkout, right? And if it's too much Bluefin always has stock.

Akira Kubodera, who toku fans mostly remember as Kanai/Girafa Undead from Kamen Rider Blade and Kunzite in the live action Sailor Moon TV show passed away. RIP.

RIP. Always sad whenever someone passes away.

Damn. May he rest in peace.

Damn, that's a lot of time :lol

But it's nice that you finally decided to join us, I'm looking forward to read your posts.

Yeah, ive been lurking here since middle school. I would've made an account ages ago, but i was aprehensive joining an online forum and was just too busy for hobbies anyway. Now i have the time and im glad to be here. Thanks for the kind welcome. Also, has anyone had any good experience ordering from hobby search? like are they reputable and is the customer service decent?

Just woke up from this strange dream I had last night where the cast from Gaim is visiting Futo City and Mai is approached by a Foundation X dealer, at which point Baron goes bananas and transforms to attack him and Gaim tries to hold him back while Ryugen goes off and assaults another Foundation X dealer.

While Zangestu is staring at them from a distance.

The funny thing is that I can actually see them doing that.

"Guys, no!"

"Guys, YES!"

Zangestu: "What on earth are they doing this time..."

And then Oren and Lychee Kabuto joins the party.

I found a KR Blade story card in this So-Do box I ordered. Kinda neat, what's even neater is that it's just as old as the person I bought said So-Do for.

Was it from an eBay purchase? I bought a couple SHODO figures from someone on eBay last year, and they included a Blade trading card (that I can no longer locate). It must be the same seller.

A seller on amazon NinjaX+ has a habit of adding rider cards to rider purchases as well, maybe you guys bought from their ebay store.

I just dug through my eBay emails and it looks like back in February of this year (which is absolutely why it felt so long ago that I mistook which year it happened in) I ordered from "nipponhero", a Canadian eBay seller. That's who I got the free Blade card from.

(It was of Garren's old mentor, who becomes Leangle for a story.)

Oh them!!!!, they are awesome to deal with and have lots of great loose stuff, maybe NinjaX+ ripped off their style?

So there's another Toku-like Spider-Man suit in the new game, confirmed to be inspired by Kamen Rider The First / The Next. This one looks pretty cool IMO, works very well as an homage.

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The collar really brings it together!

Yeah, it was them.

Still don't get why this or the other one that Peter has don't have belts. Kinda looks naked without them.

Hi everyone! I'm doing pretty alright. I started working with a new tutor today and we gelled really well.

Looking at transformers online is probably not a smart thing to do right now tbh, but I'm doing it. There's a lot of really awesome transformers figures I want for my collection. I recently bought Fasttrack, Sunstreaker, and Runamuck. The first two are really good, but Runamuck has a problem when he transforms to alt mode. His hips won't line up straight and it causes the hood to be misaligned.

I'm gonna set up my autobot closet shelf soon I'm hoping, I might move some of the decepticons out of the closet shelf because that shelf is getting really full. I've discovered I own a lot more generation decepticons then autobots.

I also need to figure out how to display the Geed and Z Risers. I probably should've mentioned this when I posted in the Recent Purchases thread, but the gashapon Z Medals come with little stands and that's really cool to me!

How are all of you doing?

That's awesome news! Glad to hear things are good. (Not as glad to hear that that Runamuck mold is dodgy, since I think I'll be receiving the Target-exclusive Runabout in a few days.)

I've mostly just been taking it easy lately, keeping my non-work activities fairly limited and sedate. On the toku front, I'm slowly (but less slowly than usual) making my way through my SO-DO backlog. Spent the last few days stickering up Build Wave 2, which mostly meant laying adhesive-less paper onto plastic and then coating it in enough top coat polish to keep the decorative paper adhered. Seriously, the lifespan for SO-DO sticker sheets is definitely under two years. Something to keep in mind if you're buying old figures!

Very much a meh. Glad to hear your organization is going good, though.

I should probably do that sometime huh

Im glad all of you guys are doing well. Im not doing so hot these last 2 weeks, really fatigued and stressed for no real reason. Don't really know what to do next with the blog, wracked my brain like crazy over it. Anyway,I have photography stuff coming soonish to try something, and im about to start building Figurise Den-O.

On that front, thanks to Jello mentioning Sure Thing Toys, I found the next Figure rise standard release after Decade lol. Posted about it in the Figure-rise standard thread. Hope all of you are doing well and continue to be well!

Hang in there, people!

Thanks for the support.:thumb:

Thanks! and I'm going to post pics of the problem in the transformers thread because for the life of me I can't figure out why it's happening.

Great to hear you're getting through that mountain of SO-DO! Also I should note that the early ex-aid stickers have a tendency to flake and reveal the silver reflective parts underneath, so make sure to topcoat if you get them!


Well I hope things get better for you, but I'm glad things are meh and not actively bad.


You should, it's pretty relaxing and I'd feel less awful for encouraging you to buy more of the tiny mans.

Oh that's a mood, I hope the feelings pass soon, and that you can feel at least neutral again soon!

I'll probably try it in December on one of 'em. I'm done with this semester by the 10th, but for now it's major papers overlapping so I haven't had much time to myself.

Gonna hang out with two buds of mine later today. Figured we should do something nice before busy season at my job kicks in and I die for a month straight.

Oh, and my state is probably gonna go into total lockdown again soon. So there's that.

Good luck on those papers! I believe in you!

Have fun! Enjoy the time you can with friends.


Update on my room: I'm working on cleaning it again. I haven't got to the autobot shelf yet, but!

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I have done this! which looks great if you ask me. The problem I face is how I get them down since I used this sticky/velcro strips to hang them up, so unsure how to remove the strips without having to replace them.

Edit: I added the Z medal holder next to the Z Riser

You used command strips right? Did you apply one directly to the Geed riser and z-riser?

A good alternative is buying like a hanger clip and command stripping it to the wall and then putting your riser on the hanger. The orientation would look the same and they wouldn't be bolted to the command strips and wall. Then i guess weight would be an issue, but maybe there's a way to alleviate it.

Would anyone here be interested in my SO-DO collection? I don't really know where else to post this. All I ask for in return is pay for shipping(sadly, I can still only use Venmo) or send me a SHODO figure or an RKF. Sorry if this is the wrong place, but I honestly am just trying to do something nice here.

I really need to make room for Saber stuff, future SHODO stuff, and possibly RKF stuff. I love the fuck out of SO-DO but I just have too many right now.

Send me a PM if you're interested or have questions, only so that I don't contaminate this thread any more. All of the stickers are sealed. Accessories are complete. No boxes, though. You don't have to take the whole thing as a lot.
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