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Originally Posted by 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.

I don't think there's a big conspiracy here. He was always a low priority release since there was the Souchaku Henshin version just before the switch to the Figuarts line and he's not popular like Den-o to have warranted a new version quickly.

Now it probably just comes down to timing. They're in the middle of updating the older figures which look dated next to the modern releases, so I think it makes more sense to redo those before giving us the final Heisei character, which would eave us with an awkward mix of the new shiny releases and the old dated ones.

This way everything is more uniform and when they do get around to hyping up Kiva, they can show him along with everyone else, without any of them sticking out like sore thumbs.