I have Twitter notifications on for @Tokullector. They can get annoying sometimes with the posts I don't care about, but I've never missed a pre-order since.

Unless they figure out how to do Ride Watch printing, a Geiz Majesty SHF would look horrible with all the blank faces. And that would be a lot of tiny parts to lose if each watch were to be removeable.

yes, I saw that also, doesn't make sense to ship one item now

Not so long ago, probably one month or so

Always ask for the smallest box. Sometimes they give you one that's bigger than necessary to protect the items. I haven't paid more than 18 USD for DHL in months.

Even with Mandarake? I thought the shipping is shown in the listing and is fixed, isnt it?

Depends on the store. SAHRA shows you up front/at checkout, the others only give an estimate on an item's listing at best.

That's what we are taking about increased shipping cost. The estimate is used to be 1440 yen but now is at 2330 yen for a single figure.

I blame COVID restrictions and inflation in general. They're just been getting worse and worse.

Yes I'm in the US particularly Chicago and my shipping estimates from Mandarake are now 2330 yen for DHL and 2400 for EMS....I recently bought 4 ridewatches off there and shipping ended up being 2800 yen and it was no different size box than what I would get if I was to order 2 figuarts. Also shipping from Sahra will run me around 3300 yen...

The shipping for the Justice Serval preorder I just did from Hobby-Genki was 2450 yen through DHL but was still cheaper overall than ordering from Tokullectibles or BigBadToyStore of course.

The issue with the rise of shipping costs again is the fact that ports are backed up and like you said Coivd restrictions and the fact that people are still catching Covid and just think how that could affect and slow down the shipping docks and ports when you don't have enough people to meet the demand so of course people are gonna take advantage of that and use it as an opportunity to raise costs

Finally got my pre-order of Slash in. Just Calibur and the Shindai siblings left for the SOL line up.

I do hope they make a Calibur-Sophia version with more feminine form.

Ergh. This was supposed to go to the SHF thread. :D :D :D

Moved it for ya :)

I doubt they'd do it. But it'd be neat if they do as a sort of soft reissue on Calibur.

I think they'll get to the super forms first before the Shindais. Probably King Lion up to Elemental, then the Shindais. I'm very excited for the siblings for very different reasons.

Sabela, cuz I always like female rider suits
Durandal, because I would love to see how they do his weapon.

I just love the two's royal guard aesthetic, that which of course they obviously should have. Having Durandal would also be neat to complete a "Council of Logos" display with Calibur and Blades. Only that I'd have Jaou instead :lol

Why would Calibur need a 'different proportions' release? They never do that and we never need it for any other Rider with different users like Faiz and Zangetsu.

If they're gonna do Sabela and Durendal then I really want a Falchion release as well just so that all eleven Seiken are made.

I'm probably in no position to say this as I'm not collecting the figures but to me it just feels wrong for there to only be 10 out of the 11 original Seiken made (aside from the Haouken Xross Saber)

Kyomu was always 'outside' that collection of swords... but I'm certain he'll be made in any case. Even if it was uncertain before, Dezast used it, so there's demand

Yeah it definitely seems like we should get at least all 11 Seiken sword users. All of Saber suits were just too good to not be made into Figuarts!

Welp, I ordered Slash off Hobby-Genki. I really am just trying out sites left and right to see which works better haha. Do they have a duration on their private warehouse? Zenmarket has 45 days, but idk about Genki, could probably use that so I can make good use of the shipping.

I just finished my first order with Hobby-Genki recently. Ordered the re-release of Ohma Zi-O with them and will come in next week. The only small issue I had was I don't think I got a notification it was ready to ship, but their customer service was very quick to reply and send it out

Production sample for MBJR in the Tamashii Nations Blog.

Just like what I think of the movie suit, it looks... Fine.

https://livedoor.blogimg.jp/t_n_blog...f87e5a26-s.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBTDX0AU...pg&name=medium

Damn, that key is a little sad. Otherwise an awesome rendition of an awesome suit, though! The katana really adds to it

Still just want the katana for Horobi lol.

I think the warehouse option is free of charge during pandemic and they plan to make it always free of charge.

Looks great! Surprised there’s no teaser at the end, but we just got Justice Serval last week so I guess I shouldn’t expect too much.

Still waiting for Revice though, hope they both get revealed soon.

A couple new things from SHFUpgrade -- spare hand plates for Dragonic Knight, and a very fun stage for Z Original

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZB...m-OTaA=s1000-c

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/27...16Twwg=s1000-c

That just kinda makes me want a SHF of Haruki...

Tamashii Nations is right around the corner, I'm wondering who should we be realistically expecting.

I'm guessing: Revi/Vice and maybe Evil, Shin Rider and Black Sun SHFs, King Lion and and Primitive, Lone Wolf, Rampage, and Zero Two maybe? Might be getting a little too generous here with Zero Two and Primitive I Feel :lol

And then they'll just show Ark-Zero, Azu, Complete 21, Kuuga Titan, Mugen, and Genius again.

I think we'll see Sabela, Durandal and Falchion for sure. Perhaps Storious too. Expecting quite a few things for Den-O, and at this rate I think we'll see a new Seihou too.

Ultra will, inevitably, show Grigio and Ribut once again. On the more positive side I'm sure we'll see Tartarus and the Dark Giants; perhaps Glitter Trigger Eternity? Come to think of it I wouldn't be surprised to see a bunch of Tiga forms either. Perhaaaaps 80?

I'm expecting (and hoping) to see a Renewal for at least ONE of Ryuki, Faiz or Fourze, with Faiz being in the most dire need of one out of the 3. Or perhaps we'll see another Showa Rider. My money would be on V3 if that were the case.

Though it is also the 20th anniversary of Agito so it'd be nice to see some updates of characters/forms from that show. So far we really only got Ground Form Agito.

Baseless prediction: Primitive Dragon will be a Tamashii exclusive. They usually do two riders, so I'll also say Zaia since it's mostly a quick and easy repaint

Revice is a no brainer, but I wonder if we'll go back to figures of the form changes to pad out the line

Please Tamashii, SS Ryuki

This year's Tamashii Exclusives for Riders are OOO Tamashii Combo and Zero-One Hell Rising Hopper

I thought that was just the online thing

It was made online because, ya know, restriction and what not. But they were the same as last year's Realizing and Shining Hopper.

Last year's was actually OOO Tamashii Combo rather than Realizing; Realizing was just a normal PB exclusive whose pre-order window was during the event.

(I also made a mistake; this year's Tamashii exclusive OOO is Super Tatoba)

The only reveal I'm looking forward to seeing at Tamashii Nations this year is an actual confirmation release for Build Genius already....I am worried about Ghost Mugen since we haven't seen him since Tamashii Nations 2019...

Is an Ohinbuster. Clearly not perfect, but ya kno I kinda just want both Vice and Revi to hold both somehow. Plus, it didn't cost me a lot.

oooooh neat

Okay this post made me lol in reality, thinking about how flakey Bandai is…
Worries about Ghost Mugen AND the Build Genius confirmation….
that will probably not happen?
Man, do you have a most-likely drink of disappointment waiting for ya this November….
Like, I’m STILL waiting on the over 75 unreleased Figuarts myself…
Looking at you, Decade Jumbo Formation that they showed off almost 10 years ago…. I have absolutely no faith in Bandai releasing these figures, BUT they have
Surprised us over the years…let’s cross those fingers!

You're better off no hoping for those. I can see them going back to SHFs that are post-Wizard, things like Decade Jumbo Formation? The Taros wearing some bear suits, nah, never.

And nah, there won't be no drink of disappointment for me this november. November 'gon be a good month for me. Lots of pre-orders waiting for me in there~

Huh, had never seen this before. Very outdated body mold though

https://i.redd.it/61a5a50h3z971.jpg

SHF Decade Jumbo is one of the funniest things ever. Like were they ever EVER going to actually make that?? It's gotta be almost the size of a transformers titan class

Maybe they always wanted to make big SHFs. I mean, years later we got the Dyna-Actions line.