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Originally Posted by Tokumonkey

The hand count is bare-minimum. It looks like each gets default fists, splayed hands, and holding-weapon hands. There's no indication that any of them come with holding-gashat hands. No character-appropriate expressive hands.

I think I would agree on this, but, I mean, do the Riders even really have any expressive gestures they do that they could make hands of? Other than maybe a finger gun for Snipe just for funsies I can't think of really anything they would do. This isn't like how they didn't include the little finisher/henshin hand gestures with Ghost or Necrom's jacket tugging hand, which did bug me.

I mean...Snipe does do that one thing when he levels up, but that's more a level 1 thing so far.

I may also have to admit that after type Speed any quantity of hands above 2 seems good to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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None of the pictures indicate that the gashats can be removed, much less slotted into the kimewaza slot holder or their weapons. If the lever on the Gamer Driver can move, the pictures don't make it explicit.

While it's true that they didn't show them being removed and plugged into things, I think the fact that the weapons and the holder are as bulky as they are, with appropriately sized holes, is an indicator that they can do so. The Driver doesn't appear to be able to close though, yeah. :/

Though to be fair, they only showed the Magnum and Breaker in their alternate forms in one picture out of all this, so it doesn't look like they were that worried about showing off everything they could do too much.

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It seems a little expensive per-figure for the price. These are not Shinkocchou Seihou releases.

At 14,600 yen, that's less than 4900 a figure. That's around as much the first few Ghost releases where, and almost 1000 yen cheaper than Boost. They're also cheaper than the Amazons. It's actually a pretty decent deal for how much they cost right now.

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That Brave's Gashacon Blade is reversible like the retail toy is just... UGH. Figuarts should be show-accurate, not beholden to the toys, and this should have been a swappable blade for each mode. The gimmick stuff is what the retail line is for, and I expect better from S.H. Figuarts.

These pictures suggest that Bandai simply didn't come up with a solution to prevent Snipe's cape from hindering articulation. The Snipe pictures appear to be carefully staged so that the cape arm doesn't have to do much more than bend at the elbow, although there might be a bicep swivel. I hope I'm wrong about this. There's one shot that suggests there might be a little back movement to the arm, so maybe there's a hinge? What I'm not seeing, though, are the clever solutions I've seen from so many other Rider Figuarts.

But yeah, these are pretty bad. The Sword is really perplexing honestly. They apparently are including both the stout big hammer Breaker and the thin sword Breaker, and alternate parts for both forms of the Magnum, so I can't even begin to understand why Brave got shafted on this. He apparently comes with one extra pair of hands than the others, but man, that doesn't really make up for anything.

Snipe's cloak I didn't mind much when I first saw it but the more I stare at it the more I don't like it. It neither looks good (particularly the big piece on the shoulder and the super stiff looking part that droops down) nor appears to do that much for the articulation. It doesn't kill the figure for me but I really wish TN would start experimenting with fabric. It'd make things like these so much easier.

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Am I being too harsh?

Nah, I don't agree with all of them, but I think your reservations are fair. These are really expensive toys, and some things are fairly questionable. It's fair to expect a little more from them.