Good news, just heard back from Amiami, shipping for the So-Do backlog won't be as bad as I was worried. Only 6170 yen. Way less than it would've cost to ship them all individually with SAL if covid hadn't happened!

That's exciting, I got my payment request as well. Makes me half tempted to wait till the end of thr month and include AI9 and 10 along with Kuuga 2 in this huge shipment, but I'm impatient

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AI 10 release! Because the Zi-O releases never end, and with a reference to their TV Advert of "Everyone will be released!", we have the final villain - Another Decade! A variety of shots of him and Tsukuyomi are shown off, and I think this brings us up 11 Another Riders, which is pretty good going!

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And from here on in, it's Kuuga time. A variety of promo images for the Golden Power Kuuga set, showing off each form pretty well. As well as the Black Kuuga whose name I forget, coming soon in mass release Wave 2!
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And finally, we have the second bike release! The TryChaser2000! Coming with Gouram!
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There's also Kuuga hanging down from below Gouram, because that's some famous scene.
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And you can also recreate Kuuga's bike with a beetle attached! Basically, it does a lot!
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Orders start Monday, but I'm sure Bluefin will be bringing it to anyone in the US. Assuming people bought the Golden Power set.

I can't believe you would disrespect Amazing Mighty, the greatest form in all of Kamen Rider, in such a way.

Nah but for real, that Gouram makes me really jealous that SHF never got one that worked like that.

There's also a bit of bad news in this update. They're going to stop doing the complete sets after wave 1 of Saber. You'll have to buy her cases instead. It's frustrating, it's taken me a long time to get rid of all my Build spares, I'm not looking forward to acquiring a bunch of Saber duplicates as well

Eeesh. That's a bummer. I'm sorry for any collector who's going to be stuck with more than they wanted.

It's maybe good timing for me, though, because I was planning on maybe skipping Saber's SO-DO? At least for a little while? I'm not super thrilled with the designs, and I'm probably a year away from watching it, so, yeah, felt like one I could pick up on the secondary market if I ended up getting excited about it later. Sounds there'll be plenty of options on Mandarake!

That's unfortunate. I guess I'll just rely on Mandarake for figures I'm interested in since I'm not always interested in every figure in each wave anyways.

This also means that Naki will most likely end up in Saber.

In she comes with the 2-month prediction! Haha! I'm so good at this.




A couple more notes: here's how the full layout looks! Looking at it like this, I find it very fun this whole wave is made up entirely of Kaijin. Is this a first for SODO?

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The end of the blog also states that next week they'll start showing off Saber's first wave -- and while they don't explicitly say this, I think that's as good a confirmation as any that Zero-One's main line is over. Finished!



And GOD I'm happy to see that Kuuga bike set. Looks like this might start becoming a trend for Chronicle; maybe we'll see Den-O and OOO followed up on! And maybe a Beatchaser while we're at it...

He also said that there are still two unknown boxes in AI10. Also, it’s a bummer Saber is back to incomplete sets. Especially as AmiAmi has their full boxes sold out months in advance of the figure’s release.

I am simultaneously very excited for SODO Saber and dreading it because yay new designs and engineering but boo no whole box sets. On the other hand I never pre-order and almost always just buy sets off of the secondary market so it might not be as big a problem
(also box stuff is slowly getting sorted, Die your box will probably be the first to be packed/shipped)