Hoping we don't get anymore Love Live exclusives, but these were worth it.https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLR83nLWcAAcOwJ.jpg:large

Ok, cool. I was wondering, since the dude has like 15 costumes.

Hooray! It only took one week after I paid for HLJ to ship out Hulk and Cap though me also buying AD-06 Crosshairs from their sale probably had something to do with the delay...as long as I get them before I leave for vacation.

Bruce is up:

http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/det...12849&page=top

Now we play the waiting game.

Darth Vader is up for Pre-Order again on Ami Ami: http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/det...-S001&page=top

For those who don't have money right now but still want him and might have money by December lol. Like me.

I went ahead and pre-order Vader since I never got the chance to bought him when he was first release.

Well, crap, I forgot about pre-orders last night. I missed Bruce Lee at AmiAmi and HobbySearch. Hopefully becomes available again at one or the other later today.

Heads up! Bruce lee back at amiami

You know I stay up pretty late, if anyone wants me to preorder anything for them and just pay me when it comes in I'm willing to do that.

Agreed. KOTOR everything.
Agreed too. What I really want is Dark Troopers from the EU and Darth Nihilis. Dat mask....
I'm still waiting for Angemon & Angewomon, no matter what yall think, the rest of the Tamers crew in Mega forms, including Beelzemon Blast Mode, Grani and Gallantmon Crimson Mode. Let's see some Armor level figures i.e. Flamedramon, some Champions like Stingmon, and some villains. And this is a far cast but......let's see the Sovereign. Ok, I'm done.

So S.H Figuarts Bruce Lee is pretty much selling out on most places. Even BTS has him sold out. However other websites like Image Anime and Anime Island have him up for pre-order. He should also be up on Amazon soon.

While I love Bruce Lee, I think I will pass unless the reviews for him are good.

i should have been more clear with how i talked about digimon figuarts. i was just speculating with what the kids would come with and realize those wouldn't sell too well. as for the thing with the our war game stuff, that was just my imagination going off the rails a bit, besides, that matt and tai on an omnimon stand would work better as a solid statue. Also with beelzemon i meant that his bike would release separately along with the remold/re-release so he could come with all the things he needs, like the shotguns, gun arm, and maybe a fist of the beast king effect, along with whatever else he needs in his own box.

HS just notified me that Luke Skywalker is in stock, and that they're calculating my shipping. I should have payment request in a few days.

And apparently pics on twitter are showing him as having gold hair. Meh, doesn't bother me.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLzvJwWUYAAkxJ3.jpg:large
from https://twitter.com/AXLLOWS/status/629641000000983041

I have to say that after a few days handling Hulk & Captain America, I'm not really in love with them. They just don't seem to click for me the same way that Iron Man Figuarts do. Something about Cap just feels off, Hulk size wise is nice but I can't seem to get to excited about those faces or the odd articulation cuts on the arms. I'm just not feeling these two.

I love Hulks faces. The articulation in the shoulders can look weird, if you raise the arms high, but for nomal poses I don't have any problems with it.

My Cap hasn't arrived yet, but I anticipate enjoying his yelling face a lot.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLSYjmIUwAQdVWT.jpg:large
https://twitter.com/hiiragi1992/stat...93992829366273

I just dont like the alternate faces for either of them. I don't feel the likenesses are particularly good on either face for cap too. The shoulder designs a bit funky on cap and mine has what appear to be weak hips. Hulk is a solid toy but he just isn't working for me. I believe I'll stick to just Iron Man Figuarts from here on.

I don't expect the human figures to be especially close on the likenesses. Including the Star Wars Figuarts. I'm more expecting a recognizable homage, like maybe the winner of a lookalike contest, than any of them to actually match the actor. Like most Hasbro figures are.

Best looking Luke ever!!

You're joking right? His hair is like yellow & gold for gods sake. And that's a terrible likeness.

..and Luke, also with Hulk and Superman, are why Bandai should stick to what they're good at. Hasbro isn't perfect, but at least their sculpts have pretty good likenesses.

Same here, and 1/12 isn't that large of a scale, so you're never gonna get perfect 1-to-1 likenesses here. Heck, in terms of Luke, the only one to have gotten it right so far is Hot Toys.

Still want Hulk. Just so PuToTyra has something to fight >_<

I think Hot toys is the only one who can pull it off because they're bigger in scale to better accommodate more intricate sculpts but also they charge balls more for it.

SHF does a pretty good job of capturing likeness at such a scale, for a much much lower price.

In the photos you linked, the likeness seems pretty strong to me. Very recognisable. The hair isn't great, but it's serviceable enough to me.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Ehh. I don't know. I dont feel it really captures the likeness that well. It's certainly not as terrible as the Hasbro Black 6", but it's far from perfect.

http://www.tokunation.com/attachment...1&d=1439001176

I mean, the gold hair is a problem, for sure. My point was more that at this scale, we're just never going to get perfect sculpts.

I don't know, in that comparison you linked, it stands out as even more accurate for me. :lol I guess it's just my eyes.

I think it looks pretty damn close, and that's coming from someone who is really nitpicky when it comes to human head sculpts.

That comparison actually does make it look much better haha, odd hair paint choice aside the sculpt is incredibly intricate for the size, he even has stuff like moles and his chin dimple clearly defined as well as stupidly striking eyes. It's not 100% accurate but whoo boy.

That black label tho looks like someone tried making a luke figure with their butt.

No. I have never seen a toy ever capture his likeness that closely. No real face will ever be accurate in toy form, that this is as close at it will ever get.

The gold hair is whatever.

I hope Figuarts Jaco will finally be made. He really love his character more after seeing him in action on screen in ROF.

He was pretty great in ROF. Kind of hoped he might have some secret super power or something we hadn't seen, but seeing him just sort of luck into taking all those guys out was still pretty hilarious :lol

The Figuart prototype looked pretty solid and I have to imagine with all the movie fueled hype he'll be out sometime soon.

Aaaaaaaaaaand of course Luke is out of stock everywhere. Knew it was coming, tried to believe otherwise.

Time to start scouring Mandarake and FiginStock...

I haven't exactly been scouring Mandarake for the Stormtrooper, but I do check a couple times a week, and I did set up a FigInStock for it. I have never seen one on Mandarake. I hope it gets reissued so I can buy a second one. :/

Unfortunately, I missed out on the Maul preorders, so I'm probably going to be SOL on him. :( I will not be passing on any others, if I am even vaguely interested in them, in case they become hard to find.

I've got a spare Vader, if anyone wants it now. Cost me $70, but I imagine the price has dropped a little since the reissue went up for preorder.

Preview for the packaging artwork of ChaosGallantmon:

http://bandai-a.akamaihd.net/bc/imag...aosDukemon.jpg

Man I love the artworks they are doing for the Digimon releases. Cool shots of the figure are great, but I would love to see more artwork like this on the packaging of other (Non-Digimon) figures.

Can't wait to see some glorious Omnimon artwork.

Bluefin is releasing the new Ominmon figuart in the US. Not surprising though.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...7808916&type=3

Eeeesh. I'm used to cutting off hunks of flesh to pay for this hobby, but good lord the Digimon are just agonizing in price.

Got Captain America today, and I like him. Especially the soulless look you can give him if you take out the eyes. ^_^

But seriously, he looks fantastic and I'm very glad to have him. I'd totally buy a Winter Soldier repaint of this figure.

Mah boss is looking great. Can't wait for him to get released.