Yup. Licensing and it being a web exclusive up the price on it.

Can u guys imagine SHF boba Fett? Amiami will break

I'd sure as hell buy that.

I'm surprised that he wasn’t the third release after Vader and the Trooper to be honest... and I'm even more surprised he's still not announced.

Have agree there. Very strange. But I think they have something up their sleeves. It's probably some marketing/publicity strategy, waiting for the right time to attach him to another figure or event...say...Force Awakens....

I would love to see Bandai do TRON figuarts(the classic one). That would be cool. Complete with Lightcycle.

I want to see them do The Matrix. My collection needs an army of Agents to beat up.

New Star Wars-items are up on the Tamashii-homepage: Click

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Battledroid and Clone Trooper will be released in November 2015, the speeder bike with the Scout-Trooper in March 2016.

The clone is nice, but I'd rather have the Phase II/RotS version.

Same, the Phase II armor is awesome. But honestly, this Phase 1 trooper looks better than I thought it would, and I am in LOVE with the finish on SHF Stormtrooper, so I'll be getting the Phase I as well.

The Battle Droid? IDK, I may end up regretting it, but I think I'll pass. I just don't care enough about it to spend the money that month, when there are many other things vying for my attention. Bad enough to get the Clone actually, I was hoping I could skip it. :D

I myself am not interested in blanks – I want characters. If they make a Phase II-armor and do Rex or Cody I might bite.

There are no characters! They were all blanks in the films! Except for Cody. None of that Clone Wars bullshit for me!
(I should watch Clone Wars someday, I hear it turned out pretty good, and it's on Netflix now.)

Well that's your problem. But hey, I have time. I just wait until you watched Clone Wars and come back begging for these figures to happen ;)

Man the Scout Trooper looks amazing. Though the price will determine if I get him. The Battle Droid especially looks cool. I'm really curious to see how all the articulation will work on it considering the design.

The Scout Trooper is 12,900Y.
A tad high, since I don't want the bike, but I'm going to get it anyway, I'm sure.

Youch. I think I'll just get a Black Series then. Easier to army build :lol

I'm with you. I don't want any vanilla troopers at all. Hoping for Rex, Cody, Fives, Wolf, Doom, & maybe one day possibly but probably never, the Republic Commando team; Boss Scorch Fixer & Sev.

I'll get at least one of each of the generic troopers, but I'd probably get the character troopers too, even though the only ones I know right now are the Republic Commando team (not a chance in hell, unfortunately) and the movie ones (who had names but no faces and no lines, except Cody).

I'd be all over specific Clones (that's how I'd probably like to get phase 2 armor as well), but I'm still plenty happy with generic troops here too.

I do find it interesting that they're only now being solicited when they're releasing in November. Not that a short wait is a bad thing heh. Will have to keep both eyes open for preorders at all times.

Been thinking over the Scout Trooper and I just don't think I can do it. I never did buy Hasbro's (even with many insisting it's one of the best things in the Black Series line period), and it's pretty darn cheap now. Can't really justify spending so much on the SHF one, especially given not having access to a middleman that will let you pay later anymore.

Well, technically they all shared Cody's face...

I just wish these Scout Trooper figures all had sniper rifles.

Battlefront has ruined the Scout Troopers for all of us. :(

God damn game making my favorite Trooper design be my favorite class to play as.

Well the game screwed with a lot of things to make the game-design work, but it didn’t ruin anything for me because it was still a great game.

At least it makes sense for the Scout Trooper to be a sniper. Meanwhile, my favorite class (Engineer) was a shiny black target most of the time with a design that was in no way meant to be used on a battlefield, much less on the front lines.

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That's actually the worst incarnation of Obi-Wan they could've picked IMO.

I don't get the Episode I focus, at all... Episode III Obi-Wan would've been perfect, or even better the Alec Guinness Obi-Wan, considering they already have Vader out.

Huh... Yeah, I don't have much interest in that one.

I'm actually totally okay with Episode I Obi. Seeing as we have Darth Maul & the Battle Droids now, why not? And maybe it opens the door for Qui-Gon, which I desperately need.

I just had that thought as well when replying over on TFW. If we get Qui-Gon from this, I'll be ecstatic.

I'll probably even end up getting this Kenobi to fill out that Episode I cast, but it's just not that exciting to me.

Sadly I can't buy fillers at that cost, so I only buy characters I'm interested in and that isn’t including Episode I Obi-Wan.

The question now is: With all the Episode I they are doing, is Tamashii bold/stupid enough to do Jar Jar?

I can dig it. Rather have the Episode III version of the McGregor Obi-Wan, but this works nicely too.

I hope he comes with either alternate parts for the robe or a cloth one.

I find the choices curious. From the way Hasbro is doing SWB6 I'd have expected more of a mix from all 6 films, or even more OT influenced, but so far everything is TPM and ROTJ, except the Phase I Clone (okay, the battle droid is from all 3 prequels).

We saw protos for Tatooine Luke and Han, where are they? Although I'm okay with the ROTJ focus for now.

I'm 90% sure I won't ever get the battle droids, but I probably will pick up Obi-wan to go with Darth Maul.

So I don't know if anyone's noticed, but Amazon's listings for a number of Figuarts that were up for preorder have been marked as "Unavailable".

Listings affected (that I know of):
- Sailor Pluto
- Sailor V
- Imperialdramon Paladin Mode
- Battle Damage Goku
- Gohan
- God Super Saiyan Goku
- Kakashi
- Energy Effects

And Mario Play Set D. So two things I have pre-ordered, great... I remember somewhere somebody said they had ordered ChaosDukemon there, but only a third party seller is there no so he's likely affected as well. They're not even just "Unavailable." That's if you can get to their pages, likely through your order history. If you try searching for them, they just won't come up at all.

As well as just plain not listing any additional pre-orders for what seems like a long ass time.

Off the top of my head:

• Gaim
• Kiva-la
• Piccolo reissue
• Omegamon
• Minato
• Vegeta Premium Color
• Trunks Premium Color (Recent, but nonetheless still absent)

And more I'm sure.

Something is really wrong here methinks. I just wish there were a way for us to find out what. :(

Phantom Stranger and I were talking and he suggested it might have something to do with the recent plant explosions over in China.

Woo, Anime-Export has my Iron Man Mark 45 in stock, shipping out soon!

Oh man, now that I think about it, this could be a highly possible reason.

I know I was lucky and managed to get a few pre-orders in on Amazon.ca for the new SSJ Goku, Chaosdukemon and the PG Banshee when they were up for a few days a while back. Though there hasn't been any new pre-orders up since then which makes me sad. I hope they start to get them in again after whatever issues there might be are resolved.

In the mean while, got some more photos to share of SSJ Gohan:

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Pretty great figure with lots of face options.

I really wish they'd at least post something, anything about why everything got pulled.

But Bluefin won't. Ever. :/

And hey, wasn't that Gohan just reissued this year too? Pretty sure I never saw pre-orders for it, since I was watching for my cousin.

What got pulled?

EDIT:

Odd, but not surprised, it is Amazon. They do this all of the time. Also, they now have Gaim instock.

Anyway, my preorders for blue haired Goku, Golden Shower Freeza, Adult Gohan, and Try Chaser are still there, so no issues on that end. They probably just don't want to over extend their preorders.

Oh, and I didn't even know Pluto was even up for preorder yet.