You know, looking at the pictures of SHF Jeanne, I think my only gripe is that the eyes are a much lighter blue than they should be. At least that's what I think, since sometimes at different angles they seem to be a different shade...

I'm hoping KR Live will have the soft or flexible plastic they used for Zi-O Ohma form and Jaou Dragon's cape

I'm well aware, and I wasn't talking about it being cloth or not.

It will obviously be plastic, but among those some are done better than others. Sculpt and articulation, I will need to see how much it restricts posability.

They're finally up.
checks wallet Crap.
You just wait for me, Titan, I'll go get you soon!

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...02/unknown.png

Seems like Japan airmail to Europe has mostly resumed? My next shipping is at the end of March so I'll wait and see how it goes.

Not to the UK, but I think some countries are getting shipments.

My package that was finally returned to sender yesterday after 2 weeks hanging out at the port of Osaka.

How soft is the plastic for Jaou Dragon's cape?

Softer than Saber's waist coat, that's for sure. It's almost close to Tiga's soft plastic chest, but a lot thicker and probably won't have the same pitfalls as that either.

KR Jeanne is back up on preorder at Tokullibles, just placed my order so I’m happy to have a 3rd Revice figure! Not sure if I’ll get Live or the Dad but depending on Revi and Vice’s final form looks like I might get that as well.

Yessss she's a must buy for me since i collect female riders.

On other hand, may be 10 years later we will see Seihou Live with cloth

I'm still waiting for Tsukuyomi!

"Thank you for using PREMIUM BANDAI USA.

On March 31, 2022, PREMIUM BANDAI sales companies BANDAI NAMCO Collectibles LLC dba BLUEFIN and BANDAI AMERICA INCORPORATED will be merged into a single new company which will begin sales on April 1, 2022.

Due to the merging, there will be changes to the Order Consolidation and Change of Shipping Address functions. Please click this URL for details.
https://p-bandai.com/us/cont/importa...scompanymerger

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation,
PREMIUM BANDAI"

It's way more flexible and feels more natural looking compared to the stiffer plastic used for the skirts on the Saber figuarts, Evol black hole and Cross-Z Evol.

Interesting. Though I don't know if this means we'll be getting P-Bandai exclusive SHFs or not.

Would be fucking stellar to get Kamen Rider SHFs that way, though.

I wouldn't expect much to come out of this that wouldn't have happened otherwise, it's pretty normal business practise. These were all essentially one company to begin with, this is making it official

Tamashii Store got announced and it's getting commemorated with in-person exclusive re-issues of 01 and Z Original. Those aren't very helpful to us but might make the other releases easier to get on the aftermarket, who knows?

But they also revealed a bunch of normal retail re-issues; including 50th Rider 2 and 55th Mefilas. June release; 7700 Yen and 7150 Yen respectively

https://tamashii.jp/store/img/teaser...t/0201/003.jpg

https://tamashii.jp/store/img/teaser...t/0203/004.jpg

I'm kinda gave up on her since they already released Zi O final form

Nigou getting reissued is pretty cool and expected.
But I guess it'll be a truly long while until we get Ichigou in his original colors

Is that what they're calling the merged company?

No, Tamashii Nations is the branch of Bandai that does S.H. Figuarts (and its spinoffs Seihou and Mini). This is them getting their own store because, hey, I guess when you're selling out constantly it makes sense to expand.

The company merger is just Bandai bringing in their American branch (that barely does anything) and Bluefin under one banner, so I expect the company will just continue to be called Bandai. If not, well, we'd find out on April 1st.

Oh, okay.

Honestly the fact that we're going to get new information on April 1st feels untrustworthy because of April Fools Day, even though I know that'd be totally unreasonable to make a fake announcement and all.

Still hoping the merger means we'll get more P-Bandai stuff like Kamen Rider SHFs but I know that's unlikely.

Hopefully we don't lose out on those nice sales the Bluefin website would have during certain holidays and events. Also isn't Bluefin specifically responsible for helping get some Rider merch imported locally in North America as a distributor such as some of the CSM drivers, deluxe drivers, retail Kamen Rider figuarts, etc? I hope the merger doesn't effect those things or how we're able to purchase them on Amazon, Gamestop, and their own website.

I don't like the PremiumBandai website compared to Bluefin's and hope they keep them separate...

Are there any chance they will continue Kabuto, Agito Seihou lines ? I really want G3 X Seihou to happen
There're a rumor or tease about Seihou Agito Shining form if i remember correct but nothing happen

I do remember that Shining 'leak', turned out to be completely fake. Shame, though it shows how good people are getting at faking this stuff

I'd love for suits as beautiful as G3-X, Sasword and especially Gills to see a renewal, but at this point I don't hold out much hope. I suppose anything's possible, mind; Sentai SHF just got brought back after all

Actually, the tease was a Burning Agito Seihou, which was fake and was just someone's custom who modified his Burning Agito to look like the Seihou. I remember another leak following up that it was going to be revealed alongside Primitive, 02, Sabela, Durandal, and Falchion.

Which, I mean, it wasn't completely wrong. But, yeah, disappointing that there wasn't a new Agito release. I'll take a reissue of Ground or a Trinity Seihou.

Poor Agito gets NO LOVE from SHF….. we are WAYYYYYYYY overdue for a Shining or Burning form, much less GX-3

Gills slowly crying in the corner.

Looks like even if I wanted Jeanne, I wouldn't have a chance anyway.

She's gone already on our preban shop! :lol

https://i.imgur.com/Zn420jd.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/SCTrN4u.jpg
Image by SHF custom
Jeanne on display & she's look gooodddd, so glad i already grab her. Hope Bandai would do a second run of these shf if it's sold out that quick for everyone who hasnt grab them yet. I dont want another Valkyrie/ Horobi situation to happen again

Just imagine how much this would suck if the display on her belt was empty and the ViStamp was unpainted. I'm so glad proper Driver details are back.

And yes, this figure looks amazing.

Right?? It's nice they finally brought it back though it does make me a bit sad for Saber and Zi-O. Though it works out for me since I'm only getting Brave Dragon and no Zi-O SHFs but I am getting three Revice figures including Jeanne lol

Thats one incredible looking figure. I'm almost certain we'll get some sort of Lovekov, even if its just a vinyl figure.

Funny thing is, she's not listed in the out-of-stock section too. Poof, she just vanished.

Dammit have to go middleman route again, should have gotten her as soon as she came up.

Definitely don't want another situation of those 2 and Jeanne is definitely a strong candidate to be in that situation but I'm surprised Demons was still available at certain sites for a bit

I wonder if Jeanne coming out before Live is because they're still trying to iron out kinks from form changing into Jackal or if it's because he is unpopular.

I'm not sure if it's more fact or speculation, but Seihou Agito sold terribly, to the point that stores were clearancing him out, so Bandai doesn't seem super interested in making more releases.

The fact that they haven't released the other Kabuto Riders is shocking though

yeah i saw Demons pop up here and there, but he's definitely a popular characters of the series, i saw someone took this pic on Tamashii web ranking & he's even more popular than Build Genius.
https://i.imgur.com/Nf5JR2S.jpg

I alway thought he's a high demand item cause his aftermarket price is crazy & he's even got bootleg
Kabuto other hand maybe they waiting for 3.0 releases ? cause his Seihou kinda outdated compair to the newer Seihou & even FRS

Yeah it feels like Bandai is kinda stuck with the Kabuto line. If they make the other riders they have to choose between engineering that matches the other releases, and engineering that is more up to date.

If they go with the former, it's a real waste. If they go with the latter people will expect updates to the older releases. Meanwhile there's plenty of other series waiting on Seihous.

From a logical viewpoint it's probably more that they didn't wanna do another Daiji form so soon after Evil with only one gap in-between. Live's gonna happen, they're just spacing things out.

They used proper ball jointed wrists for the Hoppers and Hyper Kabuto. So that terrible decision on the original Kabuto isn't holding them back from the other Riders at all.