[Kiwami]

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Originally Posted by barnstenchfartface

I really don't though. It's cheap and/or just kind of greedy. It's not like it's such a costly thing for them to do; after all, they had no issue releasing most of the Ryuki riders with them.

They also had no issue selling a complete figure with a huge Mirror Monster and tons of accessories for about 4000¥. Obviously things have changed in 4 years, among that is the market itself and the overall strength of the Yen.

Look I don't know what other figure companies do and honestly I don't care. These figures are expensive enough as is and I don't need a stand packed in with everything. If the characters can or do levitate I appreciate a stand so I can display them in that pose, Kamen Riders don't need to fly most of the time so I don't need stands for my display.

If I want to do action poses for pics or something, the stands are available everywhere for 5-10 bucks in different shapes and forms so I got one. Or I just use one that was included with a different figure. Now you ask “If they are 5-10 bucks why not just include them with the figures and raise the price accordingly?”. I don't know, because that's how it turned out. They make more expensive and decorative stands which obviously can't be sold with the figures so they have their own market for stands and just choose to include the smaller ones from time to time if it's necessary.

I can see where you're coming from with this (literally), but I don't require and onslaught of stands which I'll never use.

Now, with this figure they could have included all the hands from Mashine Chaser (don't know how many there are), but after Drive this isn’t bothering me. Maybe just because I don't even bother about the figure itself and won't buy it anyways, but for a movie-exclusive form it's more understandable than for the main character of the show.

Also I don't know about the price, if he really is that expensive than yeah that sucks.