its beautiful. giant chest piece and all.

I wonder what is under the chest piece. it looks like it can "twist" open. Next Faiz Axel form?

Thanks for sharing this guy’s videos. I found out about his channel from this forum, and he is great.

Definitely can't wait for 0 to feel "complete" with the Shin Kamen Rider stuff. Still love the suit's butterfly motif so much.

I about had it with hobby genki I so burnt out from them and their bullshit double shipping. My last preorder I paid shipping they demanded I pay again I said no. So went ahead and left a 1 star review on the review page what do they do they flagged it that’s how Fuckin shady that site is. Then they message me and say “fabricating any information or attempting to profit from non-existent fees” and then said we disputed your review was due to its offensive and false nature. Really genki been charging me double shipping with DHL all year long and I’m offensive crazy people. I will never order anything from that crap site ever again. Posting this so everyone knows so it doesn’t happen to them.

Seihou Saga and Exceed X officially revealed!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F89P5kZa...pg&name=medium
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F89Vk2Sa...pg&name=medium

Hm... no Web-Shop logo on the Exceed X image. Interesting.

If he’s retail I have no more excuses to pass on this, damn.

Chinese customers also get access to this.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F89olZra...name=4096x4096

Hmmm ?
“Chinese exclusive” = two regularly boxed figures and a separate baseplate, NO exclusive packaging,NO exclusive box, NO exclusive colors on figures or anything that would make it “special” JUST the Baseplate is all the difference.
LAME AF. Nothing “exclusive” about this

[QUOTE=DH21965;856476]Hmmm ?
?Chinese exclusive? = two regularly boxed figures and a separate baseplate, NO exclusive packaging,NO exclusive box, NO exclusive colors on figures or anything that would make it ?special? JUST the Baseplate is all the difference.
LAME AF. Nothing ?exclusive? about this[/QUOTE

Second

Chinese will also have the same exclusive with Dark Kiva & Saga that come with a base. i'd say this set/ exclusive is target for people who missed the figuart last releases so just a nice bonus for them just like 50th reissues version

Good. So no one needs to hunt down limited regional exclusives for some super special bonuses, its stressful enough getting these from Japan as is.

Will be interesting to see if Dark Kiva gets a solo reissue too. I'd say no, but at the same time - if the factory is running already, might as well make a few more.

Oh my KR Saga looks so good

Saga, like other Kiva releases, looks utterly fantastic

Bit of size comparison between both Zero 2's.

They've been doing these Chinese exclusive bundles for a while now. Likely, as others have mentioned, for people who missed the earlier release. The other I remember was for Agito Ground and Trinity forms.

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

I prefer that they do this over actual exlusives like the Ultraman Zero Wukong version.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhOs-qRVEAAhsV8?format=jpg

I believe they also get a table top effect piece for X to represent his transformation sequence similar to their Agito and Trinity set coming with his logo effect before his kick.

Either way, separate packaging or not, still an alternate release, still comes with a unique item, still an exclusive. Not that it's made for the majority of the market anyway.

EDIT: Yeah basically what everyone else said, missed a page of responses. You don't need it. That's a good thing.

What a strange overreaction.

I do love Ultraman X but I'm not fond of "final forms" or buying figures of characters that I already have. I'm torn. Now where's my Figuarts Cyber Gomora?

Strange overreaction to you is whatever to me. As a Collector, these are considered garbage.
Nothing collectible about them. Sorry I?m not as willing to overlook lameness in action from Bandai as quickly as some of you folks are. I was HOPING for an actual exclusive event box or colors. But instead this. It doesn?t matter anyways, none of this does

I mean it matters to those who may not have had the figures that they're packed with and have a chance to get both with some small bonuses with them.

You really gotta try and remember that "I don't care for this" doesn't equal "Absolutely no one cares for this".

It's not "overlooking lameness", it's literally just common sense. You don't need to go down this route to get any of the figures included? That's a good thing. You've saved money. Do you want both figures and have the option to get these? Awesome, you get both. There's no hierarchy mentality here.

That's a really stupid thing to say.

I'd rather a bonus be something like a simple base, and not some unique accessory. Doing releases like that to me is much more lame, because it's feeding into FOMO, and that's way more frustrating.

Weren't you the guy who argued vehemently against reissues of previous figures because it detracted from their value for those who got the original releases?

Seems like Azu will be going up for pre-order later this week. Not very excited for this one honestly, but will get her for the Zero-One collection, hopefully she has useful / good accessories.

https://i.imgur.com/WmEdK7G.jpg

Saga and Exceed X go up on November 1st. Both are Web-Shop exclusives.

https://tamashiiweb.com/item/14705/
https://tamashiiweb.com/item/14702/

https://i.imgur.com/ZbCGla5.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/wlyDeZD.jpg

Exceed X is beautiful. Loving all the details they got on him.

I’m always interested in the “human” kamen Rider figures, so the Azu one will be a fun release. I just ordered a Kuroto Dan off of Mandarake, so now I know he will have a friend!

Azu's an easy release since it's mainly the Izu SHF with a new head and accessories.

Honestly it's nice to see her being done, I figured that window passed long ago. Now Ark and Aruto will have their assistants with them. Won't happen, but would love if they also did a red recolor of Ark-One in the future to represent Azu's rider form from the Zero-One Final Stage. Would snap that up in a heartbeat.

Saga is up on Tokullectibles.

Now that you mention it, I remembered that they released a Takeshi Hongo figure a while back. Anyone remember it or own one still?

https://www.tokunation.com/forums/at...1&d=1698200815

He?s pretty cool actually. It?s a bit of a bummer he only comes with one facial expression, and you really could never capture the absolute majesty of his hair with a figure, but I like him.

He comes with one pointing hand and then eight pairs of hands, and he has a little effect piece which I have behind him in the photo.

I say it again, Saga looks freaking beautiful!

Indeed I would too because that Red Ark-One repaint went hard. I hope this Azu release comes with some Ark related accessories or even the red Ark progrise key used in the stageshow. I just hope it's not just a bare bones release with just the Azu head because in that case they could of just done it with the Izu release imo but I know Azu was a last minute choice in the show so she wouldn't had been planned by Bandai already

So exceed x and Saga are both going to be listed on US PBandai. This will be the first Ultraman US PBandai release if I’m not mistaken.

Pretty cool!

Here’s some links to the (currently) inactive preorder pages:
X
https://p-bandai.com/us/item/N2711843001001

Saga
https://p-bandai.com/us/item/N2611067001001

And what’s really beautiful is Anniversary form Faiz releasing in August, X releasing in June and Saga releasing in July. You can’t combine shipping on any of em! lol

Yeah, that's the one. :rock:

Wh-what on earth?! I come back to toku after a while and I see this? As the world ended?!

This is awesome. Someone slap me, I think I'm dreaming.

Since I'm getting the Cyclone soon, I thought about trying a certain "upgrade" of the "shf"-kind on one of my favorite figures this year.

While the coat is the most obvious difference, the muffler is what makes this for me. It really was criminal of Tamashii to make it all plastic on the first release. I get why, but still.

https://i.imgur.com/YVP5kge.jpg

Damn he looks much better and more real looking with those shfupgrade parts especially the scarf

Seconding this, the scarf and coat make a huge difference!
https://i.imgur.com/YFH2gDI.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/ZlpwAkI.jpg

I also gave it a shot at mimicking his hair.

Damn, that's nice

Huh, good news for the people who missed out on Izu, because Azu straight up comes with Izu parts, too.

https://tamashiiweb.com/item/14716/?wovn=en

The bike looks so good, damn, I want it now :lol

You did a great job with the hair. I'm debating about getting the shfupgrade head that also has "real" hair, but the main draw with that one is LEDs which I will never use so I don't think that's worth the money for me.

Makes perfect sense. Don't know how Izu is doing on the aftermarket but this is good regardless.

I ordered Azu, if I remember correctly that only leaves Ark Scorpion for unreleased prototypes. Honestly, at this point the biggest hole in this lineup left to be filled is RampageVulcan, so I hope they show him at Tamashii Nations in - about 3 weeks I think.

I would buy everything they put out regardless but Arc Scorpion and RampageVulcan are the biggest wants remaining, and if we only get those two before it's done then that's okay.