New Ultra Act Thunder Gridman Photos
 

From the latest round of magazine scans, we have a new photo of the up coming Ultra Act Thunder Gridman figure.

The new scan confirms that Thunder Gridman will include a dummy Gridman body but can still be combined with the stand-alone Ultra Act Gridman figure a side-by-side photo is shown comparing the dummy body to Gridman. This is great news for those that want to display both figures together!

Thunder Gridman is due out later this month.

That does look pretty cool.

Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad.

Damn, it's been too long. Are they ever gonna release it on DVD?

Really? When?

Click the link dude.

All I want is Drago. Come on Drago!

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Thunder Gridman is looking pretty wicked!

I wonder if we will get a Virus Monster for him to fight? Shinolba/Skorn, perhaps?

Ultra-Act DynaDragon, SHMA Mechagodzilla, SRC Dragon Caesar.

Complete the triumvirate of robosaurs, Bandai. You know you want to.

Will probably depend on how well Gridman and Thunder Gridman do and even then I expect a Tamashii Web release, but a virus, ANY virus, would do!

I don't read Japanese, so I'm a little confused by the ad. Does this figure come with a new inner body so we can use either that or the original Gridman, or are we looking at one figure that goes with the original and another with the new inner body? And two different heads? Why?

EDIT: Actually... the two different heads has left me confused on second glance. Now I'm not so certain what's going on there.

Thunder Gridman, as I speculated ages ago, does not come with a complete Gridman figure. Instead you get the red figure pictured, a mostly unpainted red body in the style of the separate Gridman figure, without hands or a head of its own. It allows you to display Thunder Gridman without having to own and use a Gridman figure, but you need to own both figures if you want the full package. It's a very smart system, reminds me exactly of the Souchaku Henshin Kabuto figures, except in this case the dummy body is fully-articulated and it's not packaged neatly in one set.

+3. I never saw the show, but I loved that design.

Maybe the bigger head is designed to fit around Gridman's head? For people that want to display it combining or something.

Looks like it might be fully transformable. Tell me I'm not the only one seeing this.

That's what I said initially, but the transformation sequence shows Gridman with his necessary parts removed, and curiously that includes his head. Now it might be that Bandai's instructions are to remove the head to make the helmet easier to put on without resulting in any damage, which could make sense... especially with all the other issues Gridman's wrist joints have compared to other Ultra-Act figures.

That's the difference between "Cool" and "MUST BUY" for me right now. :D

Maybe the two heads are for the different joint connections? Just looking at the picture, it looks to me like the dummy Gridman has a socket in his neck, while the regular Gridman has a ball joint peg on his neck.

So, my thought is that the Thunder Gridman head for use with the dummy body has a peg for plugging into the dummy socket -- and then the one for use with the regular Gridman has a socket to be plugged into by the ball joint peg.

Does that make sense?

Also, I am trying to remember without having to look this up, but this armor was made up of three vehicles -- two tanks and a jet. One of the tanks is in the picture (the one which forms the leg armor), but the jet formed the helmet and the other tank the drill missiles. So unless they are not showing us all of the parts, it looks like one of the tanks is fully transformable, but the other two components are not.

The components also combined together to make a robot on their own, if I remember right. It was definitely a "combiner Godbomber" to mix metaphors.

I'm thinking that that one head is an actual head for the "dummy" body, since it is smaller than the other head, which serves as more of a helmet that goes over your actual Gridman (not dummy) figure.

No, youre right. It was a Drill Tank, some kind of double barrel tank, and a jet.