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Originally Posted by Kickback

SH Figuarts have almost been exclusively a Japan release line, mostly for their Kamen Rider figures. Back during Sentai Shinkenger (or what the US got as Power Rangers Samurai), they dabbled with Sentai Figuarts, releasing ShinkenRed to much popularity ... the rest of the team followed as online exclusives.

During Sentai Goseiger (or what we got as Megaforce season 1), they released a SH Figuart of Robo Knight, to continue testing the waters. The figure was also exclusive, and did pretty well from what I gather.

About that time, a deal was struck to bring the SH Figuarts ShinkenRed and ShinkenGold to Toys'R'Us as exclusives during the height of the Power Rangers Samurai run. They were $39.99 a pop and did sell out in a lot of locations pretty fast - it was the cheapest those figures had been around.

With the Sentai Gokaiger (the 35th anniversary series for Sentai, and the basis of the upcoming 20th Anniversary series for Super Megaforce), the entire team was released as SH Figuarts and sold out pretty fast. Their after-market prices have continued to rise. With the Sentai parody show Akibaranger blowing up in popularity, Bandai used it to bring other characters from Sentai to the Figuarts realm, including Boukenger Red, Blue, and Black (Operation Overdrive) as well as the Red DaiRanger (MMPR Season 2 footage, but the suit was never used except for zord scenes). It was then revealed that they were going to release the entire line of ZyuRanger (or Mighty Morphin Power Rangers). For the first time, Bluefin Tamashii (the stateside version of Tamashii Nations) was able to get exclusive packaging for the 20th Anniversary of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and thus the entire team (MMPR Red, Black, Blue, Pink, Yellow, Green, and White) will be released with the MMPR logo, "20th Anniversary", and complete English packaging. If you have a business account, you can order them direct from Bluefin, else you can pick them up for cheap ($35 to $40 at major online retailers).

If you have never played with one - you'll love it. 40+ points of articulation, incredible detail, all the accessories you could ask for ... simply great stuff.

But until they make an OhRanger King Ranger aka Zeo Gold Ranger, they will never be the best toys. Once they do, I will buy like 40 of them to pose around my house.

Would you accept a Geki Violet as a substitute?