Not sure but D-Cab comes with the BP Proto-Drive. Sucks if that the only release for it but then I'm getting Proto-Drive anyway

Okay so I have been looking at the drive toys lately, and slowly I've been wanting to buy them. But one of my questions is that how the driver and cars compare in size to the Sengoku Driver and Lock Seeds.

Also I'd like to know if the clicky sounds of the cars are too disturbing in the brace.

HLJ has the December DX items up for preorder.

Thanks for the headsup funkmaster, just preordered myself Type Technique.

Sweet I've got what will likely be a cancelled pre-order for Technique. Knowing my luck it'll either disappear entirely when payments due, or they'll say I ordered 3 of them.

Drive Figuarts is up for pre-order at amiami

Got my Break Gunner from Ami today. It's my first role-play item and I'm not disappointed. Was a little worried that it'd be too small, but it's actually a pretty respectable size for adult collectors as well as kids. Only problem now is that I'm not sure how I'm going to display it.

Do you have Tamashii stands? I use the Trident one as a base, one claw holds the grip so the gun can stand securely. Looks pretty cool with the Viral Cores aligned in front of it. You could probably do the same with a claw holding the muzzle, like the stand that came with MP-05.

And I like mine as well, great toy.

Thanks, Kiwami, that sounds ideal for my needs.

Now having Tire Set First really makes the Drive figures alot more fun. They were incredible on their own but with more Tires to swap around they really show their strenghts.

Only complaint is that its very hard for Drive to get a good grip on the Monsters.

Just a heads up Type Technique just went into my private warehouse at HLK so payment requests should be coming now.

When's Mashine Chaser by the way? My Bumblebee's still waiting in my warehouse for him to show up.

Yeah, the December main DX stuff payment requests went out as well.

Chaser should be in two weeks if I´m not mistaken.

Ahhh crud I missed the DX movie lockseed/shift car set :<

It's odd that his perorder went up before techic but i think thats has to do with his roleplay items being released when they were

Same here. I just opened mine up and I'm loving it. I forgot how much toys like this are. I've been running around like Chase all night haha. It's definitely a display keeper.

December 27th is the release date, I think the movie stuff is also released around then as well.

Yeah, I just got mine too. I'm so glad this series decided to share gimmicks between each other, I would literally lose my mind if the signal bikes worked in the Break Gunner as well.

Aw crap... no Bee for Christmas. Or Chaser for that matter.

I think you meant to post that in Recent purchases man.

bah, so sorry, do you mind deleting it?

I don't know if this image helps, but I saw it on a Japanese Tomica forum:

With the Preorders for TK Proto-Drive going online this month I wanted to ask you guys what the best site would be to use for the preorder?

Havent done that with PB stuff yet so I would apreciate if you guys could help me out :D

Hobbylink Japan or AmiAmi would be my recommendation. I use both, but I prefer HLJ.

If you don't mind paying in advance, Toku Taku is awesome. There's usually no struggle since he seems to fly a bit under the radar and unlike HLJ, he doesn't have a reputation for screwing people on purchases. He also seems to put things up a few hours earlier than other stores, which helps with the sleeping. :D

TK Proto-Drive is an premium bandai exclusive, so AmiAmi or HLJ won't have it. You'll have to use a middle man.

I suggest contacting Nippon-Yasan and seeing if they'll be putting preorders up, they are probably the best middleman service but don't always put preorders up for every premium item unless you ask.

Thanks for the help guys. Yeah I knew that he was a PreBan release and that I couldnt use HLJ or AmiAmi for that :)

I also got a Type Technique on AmiAmi today :D

Just got my confirmation from image anime that TK05 is shipping now. Type technique will soon be here.

Have any Tire releases been confirmed for Rolling Gravity, Burning Solar or Hooking Wrecker yet? Or any other tires I've missed. I guess some may be included with future TK sets but considering how we didn't get any more fruit sets after Gaim's early saga...

Looking at the way they relesed the Dimension Cab Tire I think its safe to say that future Tires will not come in sets anymore and just be included with the Premium Bandai releases.

Oh... Well, I wasn't planning on getting any but Chase and probably Wild, but in case I get hooked, that screw over a whole load of tires. I guess we'll probably be seeing Lupin like this, and maybe... I got nothing else.

Lupin is pretty likely to get made in the TKPB line like Blood Orange Arms.

I can see people going for Lupin. His design's nice and different.

Lets not jump to conclusions here. It could be that Dimension cab won't be featured very much on the show so that's why it's packaged with Proto-Drive. I think thers still one TK that can be put together and then there's the stuff For Drives F-1 upgrade

SHF Drive is up on HLJ again, so if you missed out here's another chance.

Anyone feel like the toys for Drive are not as popular as Gaim? I remember with Gaim, lockseeds, belts and AC figures would sell out fast. With Drive, I haven't seen them sell out fast after the first week or two of the show first starting. I don't see the Shift Cars becoming as popular as the lock seeds where they will go up in prices after the show is over. I think they could be like the Wizard rings where they will still be easy to find and affordable on the secondary market after the show is over.

The problem with Gaims toyline was that they were underproduced.

You couldnt find the toys for months on end becuase there were none to find. bandai didnt make enough thats why retailers like CSToys,HLj or AmiAmi didnt have any. Yes the Toys were popular but thats just half the reason why the merchandise was hard to get a hold off.

With Drive they anticipated Gaim like sales thats why they made enough toys to meet the demand.

Yeah I guess no one was expecting Gaim to do so well since people had mixed feelings for Wizard and I remember people saying Gaim looked stupid before the show came out on 2chan.

And with Gaim it was mostly the first quarter of toys and the arms change line that were actually selling that well in japan. Looking at Bandais fiscal reports they are anticipating the Gaim/Drive year to do less than the Wizard/Gaim year. Drive isnt looking to sell horribly so one can assume that Gaims toyline dropped once the second quarter of toys (Genesis Driver/Sonic Arrow) came along.

Gaim has a life span like this.

Oct - Dec : Selling really well
Jan - Sept: Yokai watch and ToQger both come out sales start to drop

Yokai watch is doing some serious damage to bandais other brands. apparently Drive is selling but not as much as it could and certain toy sellers think its because of Yokai watch (which is set to make double what rider makes)

so yeah this might be the norm until yokai watch finishes