S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Wizard Flame Style Review
 

It's Showtime! Courtesy of the Refreshments blog we bring you an extensive gallery and review of S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Wizard Flame Style! Wizard includes his trademark Wizarswordgun in in both gun and sword forms, a personalized tamashii stage, cape effect parts and a plethora of other goodies!

Check out a selection of the images attached here and head on over to the original blog post to check out the full 42 image gallery! Flame Style is priced at 3675 yen and is available and shipping from retailers NOW!

Credit: Refreshments Toy Blog

Is the cloak still a first run exclusive? Cayse.. if so that freaking sucks.

That is a GORGEOUS toy. Nice to see it comes with a stand, too! This is available at Japanese retail now, so we should be hearing of any major issues soon. That's the only thing keeping me from biting the bullet on this guy.

Bluefin is saying it's a first run bonus but they'll be including it with their release.
I know man. This thing is way nicer than I thought it was going to be. I'm a sucker for nearly any figure that includes it's own tamashii stage as well. But they seem to have nailed this figure too.

And I guess no one can complain about black elbow joints on this one :lol

I know i'm being picky, but man his arms just look way too long. He looks nice though, the ruby red stand he comes with is a nice, unexpected bonus.

Go Bluefin!

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And of course my favorite pose of all for this fig...

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Also love that he comes with a hand specifically so he can fit his finger in the trigger hole on both gun and sword form.

CRAP...might have to get this one soon then...dug the design ever since the 1st trailers..

it saddens me that he only has one magic ring

He has a removable belt?

It's about time!

He comes with a stand? YES!!!!!!

As soon as my tax money gets in my bank account, I am buying an Amazon gift card so I can preorder Wizard off of there.

I'm a little disappointed that the rings are not intercheagable like the switches on Fourze, but I guess that would be a lot harder to pull off in those sizes.

All of the figures that uses the W body had removable belt pieces:lol

I've had plenty that have parts pop off belts, but not the entire belt itself.

And I have W CJX and Skull, and it never seemed to me like their belts could come off...

So. Really? o_O

I know the Meteor Driver can come off on both Meteor and Storm.

Aye, and the one on my Storm falls off all the time. I meant the entire belt and everything is seemingly meant to come off here since it's part of the cloaks... Not just come off because you took your figure apart.

I thought it was cool, that's all. No need to be belittling me with other examples just because I didn't think of them at first.

Oh man I wasn't trying to belittle you :( I was just giving another example. I didn't realize you were talking about the whole belt, and I didn't see the individual belt in the pictures either.

How fitting, mine shipped out earlier today :lol gonna be a week or so before he actually arrives though.

Him coming with a tamashii stage is a really nice surprise. Apart from the Akibarangers' he's the first figure I've bought that's had one included :D

This.

Also this, but between Axe Form and Ryuki. I don't think I'll be able to get those cloak parts. :(

Waiting for Water...

I don't think so. The reviewer probably just put Wizard on one of the stands he already had.

Picture 7 is a Wizard-specific stand.

Must have missed that. I only saw a stage arm in picture 15.

god...... am i the only one who thinks it looks really bad. first, why is he short! i mean he was shorter than fourze who was really short. and i just dont like the look of the helmet, but thats a preference thing, i like the way they did the wap head more.

I think it's because Fourze's Helmet is a cone.

Fourze's head is taller though.

Kind of a bummer that he's shorter than Fourze, and the head looks a bit too big, but beyond that, he looks great.

Definetly plan on getting this and the Machine Winger.it'll be my first shf.

I was never one for Wizards design. I only bought this guy for my brothers birthday. But he looks amazing! I cant wait!

if you look closely his shoulders are lower too

The height thing does bother me. Especially since I like to display my figures in Super Hero Time pairings or crossover movie pairings when and where possible.

Again, that's part of the design. Fourze has flat shoulder pads, and Wizard's are round.

I stopped caring about scale years ago. I mean, Galvatron was huge compared to Rodimus Prime, but they were the same size in the cartoon.

I dont mind the scale at all,its not like wizard is 4 inches shorter.And by the time you're posing him and Fourze in whatever pose you put them in,you're not even going to notice the difference.

Wizard looks great, certainly with that parts-count, but in terms of proportion and detail he could've used some improvements. He might not be Accel levels of deformed in the head, but it's enough to hold off an instantaneous purchase. It already looks like Flame Dragon might be fixing those little things.

In some ways, the WAP version of Flame Style actually turned out better than the Figuart, and that feels wrong. Someone showed off a parts-swap between the two, giving the WAP the SHF belt, hands and head... it made a world of difference.

Yeah, but maybe Haruto is shorter than Gentarou (though, I think that the suit actor is the same). I don't think it'll be that noticeable, since I probably won't have him posed next to Fourze anyway.

Like I said, Wizard's shoulder pads aren't as flat as Fourze's. They start at the same place coming from the torso, but Wizard's curve down instead of continuing and then going down at an angle like Fourze's.

I am so damn happy I have this guy preordered on Amazon. Cannot wait for mine to get here next month. He is a thing of beauty, and I love the stand.

Also happy to see the parts count on him, counting the fists he comes packaged with attached he has a total of 6 pairs of hands, plus his Swordgun in both modes, an extra belt, an alternate front for the driver, an extra robe piece, and that beautiful stand.

The proportions don't really look that off to me either, I think he looks great.

I looked at the photo again of Fourze and Wizard side by side,the only difference is Wizard's forearms are a little longer.If you trace the separation of the torso/stomach,the shoulders,neck,knee joints,all that,they are exactly the same.I think the rings on his fists give the illusion of him being disproportional.

Yeah I had a few problems when I saw the proto months ago... nobody else here seemed to care though. The torso is too small for the head and body. It seems to be another torso peg problem like SIC KT Kuuga. Unfortunately you can't just swap out the peg like with Kuuga. Also the neck is too short.

At least it seems like there's an easy fix for the chest, someone on 2chan did this(original on the left, fixed on right)...

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...with just a little tissue paper.

I bought a sheet of thin black foam at Michael's tonight for when my Wizard arrives, to use instead of the tissue paper, since I don't know exactly what they did with that.

Whoa. That fix of course does nothing about the chest design or the way the cloak looks far more like a dress, but that's a huge improvement regardless. Who knew adding something to make the sockets more shallow would make such a difference!