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Originally Posted by Baltan II

No, it was absolutely a SH Figuarts release, logo and all, and not at all a Soul of Chogokin figure. What you probably saw was the fact that it was simultaneously branded as a Chogokin figure. Bandai's had a long history of having entirely unrelated figures both in their own toylines and simultaneous as numbered Chogokin figures, to carry on the legacy from Popy's Chogokin line. Itassha Robo is both a Figuarts release and GE-... uhh, don't actually know what number designation Bandai gave it. As another example, every single Souchaku Henshin release is also a Chogokin figure.

Soul of Chogokin figures are (usually) their own thing and strictly numbered as GX-xx. It used to be that you never saw anything but older mecha designs in that line too, but that's long since been thrown out the window with certain recent releases and even wholly made-up concepts like the Disney and Doraemon combiners.

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Originally Posted by gogglev

SOC releases are also not limited to robots. Bandai puts the chogokin label (not SOC) on pretty much anything that has some metal.

Ah. Ok. Thanks for clearing that up. Makes me wish even more that the Tridoron was getting a retail release. I know Itassha was clearanced everywhere by the end, so maybe that's an indication it didn't do too well? Perhaps that scared Bandai off of high priced Figuarts retail releases.