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Originally Posted by DrPrime

My primary interest was in the "classic" Godzilla monsters, or Showa series, but I guess they are not coming now?? Can someone explain to me what "SHMA zero" would mean exactly? Does this mean no more articulation?

Hopefully we will get more concrete (and better) news at Toy Fair this February. Thanks and please excuse my ignorance

Your ignorance is forgiven because we all have to start somewhere

Yeah MonsterArts isn’t doing well right now, sadly. They tried to get into new territories with the Alien vs. Predator stuff and Gamera, and while Gamera did end up selling well from what I’ve heard the AvP hideously clogged the shelfs. No one wanted this. It didn’t help that Neca was already doing tons of Predator-stuff for the US-market and that Tamashii started with the Wolf Predator from AvP2. Like, WTF.

And I don’t know why, but they seem to be really afraid of touching anything Showa. Maybe Japan isn’t into it much, but most stuff they’ve done is Heisei- and Millenium-figures. And these sold rather well from what I’ve heard.

But the line is obviously not doing well enough, Gamera was the last new mold and that’s almost a year ago now.

Tohokingdom.com has an insider in the forum who works with Bandai and he keeps insisting that they merely take a break and that we should look forward to 2016. Whatever that means. I mean, there is the new Godzilla-movie coming out, that could be a release. But there are also other figures rumored, nothing confirmed though.

And what has been going around in the scene is that Tamashii thinks about doing MonsterArtsZero. This comes from the term FiguArtsZero who are just statues. So maybe they do statues and see how well these will be received.

I just don’t know; I only want a new MonsterArts-mold once every quarter of the year or so. I would be okay with 3-4 new figures a year, it doesn’t have to be a new figure every month. There’s still so much cool and weird stuff they could do, I think it would be a huge waste to let this line die.

And also, @Topic: HLJ is selling the SHMA Rebirth Godzilla on the Winter sale for 30 bucks. If I had any money left, I would get one