[Tokumonkey]

What I learned in another thread about the base Kiva suit makes me suspect that the excessive delay on the Figuarts version actually has a lot to do with the suit's design. The Dark Kiva and Emperor Kiva suits are both more flexiThe chest/shoulders appear to be a solid piece. If Figuarts does something with a high level of screen accuracy, it's going to have extremely limited upper-body movement, both in the shoulders and abdominal region.

Of course, they could adjust so that shoulder movement is possible, but at the cost of screen accuracy. I suspect that's not an easy choice for Bandai to make, and it would explain why it's taken so long to finalize a Figuarts Kiva base form design.